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Analytical Briefs on Climate Ambition and Sustainability Action
The analytical briefs series titled—Climate Ambition and Sustainability Action (CASA)—seeks to drive ‘ambition’ and ‘action’ to address the global issue of climate change and to realize the sustainable development goals. CASA is the Spanish word for ‘home’ symbolic of the only home we have: Planet Earth. CASA series is brought out jointly by World Sustainable Development Forum and Protect our Planet Movement. The briefs analyse topical issues related to climate and sustainability ambitions and actions and is targeted at policy makers, politicians, thought leaders, business leaders and the development community. The briefs below can be accessed in HTML and PDF formats.
(English) Planetary Health: COVID-19’s Warning to the World
(English) The rapid spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is having profound social and economic impacts across developed and developing countries. On March 11, 2020,...
(English) Youthquake and the POP Movement: Tapping into the Potential of Youth for a Sustainable Future
(English) One grounded solution that is universally agreed upon by activists and reformers who combat the teeming problems of today, is the championing of youth...
(English) Subnational Initiatives and Actions: Commitments and Actions by Sub-national Actors Key Towards the 1.5°C Goal
(English) 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,...
(English) The Perils of Sea Level Rise and Ocean Pollution: Are Current Responses Sufficient to Address this Local, Transboundary and Global Problem?
(English) Goal 14 of the sustainable development goals focuses on ‘Life Below Water’. The oceans of the world are facing a serious threat not only...
(English) Visionary Leadership in Developing Countries and Economies in Transition: Will only National Policies Suffice?
(English) Science has established that due to implications of scale, magnitude, and irreversibility, global climate change constitutes a critical development and security issue. There is...
(English) Visionary Leadership in Industrialized Countries: Are Responses Sufficient to Address a ‘Global Commons’ Issue?
(English) 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,...
(English) Values and Lifestyles for Sustainability: Role of States, Businesses and the Individual
(English) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change identified lifestyle and behavioral changes as important mitigation options, including dietary changes (IPCC 2007). The United Nations Environment...
(English) Energiewende and Innovation: Are we Transitioning Fast Enough?
(English) 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...
(English) Low Carbon Options for Business and Industry: Encouraging Signs. But are Responses Holistic?
(English) 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...
(English) Future Risks from 1.5oC Plus: What responses and reforms are urgently needed?
(English) 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...