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Research and Analysis
The weekly analysis series, brought out jointly by the World Sustainable Development Forum and the Protect our Planet Movement, seeks to highlight a topical issue relevant to the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals and ambitious climate actions. The briefs below can be accessed in HTML and PDF formats.
Youthquake and the POP Movement: Tapping into the Potential of Youth for a Sustainable Future
One grounded solution that is universally agreed upon by activists and reformers who combat the teeming problems of today, is the championing of youth leadership....
Subnational Initiatives and Actions: Commitments and Actions by Sub-national Actors Key Towards the 1.5°C Goal
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2018 special report on warming of 1.5°C stressed on the need for all actors including state, sub-national, and...
The Perils of Sea Level Rise and Ocean Pollution: Are Current Responses Sufficient to Address this Local, Transboundary and Global Problem?
Goal 14 of the sustainable development goals focuses on ‘Life Below Water’. The oceans of the world are facing a serious threat not only from...
Visionary Leadership in Developing Countries and Economies in Transition: Will only National Policies Suffice?
Science has established that due to implications of scale, magnitude, and irreversibility, global climate change constitutes a critical development and security issue. There is a...
Visionary Leadership in Industrialized Countries: Are Responses Sufficient to Address a ‘Global Commons’ Issue?
Under government real-world action based on current policies, the global temperature is projected to rise by 3˚C and under the most optimistic policy scenario, the...
Values and Lifestyles for Sustainability: Role of States, Businesses and the Individual
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change identified lifestyle and behavioral changes as important mitigation options, including dietary changes (IPCC 2007). The United Nations Environment Programme...
Energiewende and Innovation: Are we Transitioning Fast Enough?
In 2000, the Energiewende, a term that literally means the energy transition or revolution, began in Germany as a bottom-up movement when legislators were persuaded...
Low Carbon Options for Business and Industry: Encouraging Signs. But are Responses Holistic?
At COP25 in Madrid, 177 companies—collectively representing over 5.8 million employees, spanning 36 sectors, with headquarters in 36 countries, having a combined market capitalization of...
Future Risks from 1.5oC Plus: What responses and reforms are urgently needed?
It is now quite clear that we have to limit average warming of the earth’s temperature to below 1.5oC by 2100 relative to preindustrial periods....