Overcoming barriers to integrated planning

The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) highlights the need for integrated planning to manage synergies and trade-offs between the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The briefing presents the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) as a unique open-access, quantitative, and prospective tool capable of analyzing both Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and SDGs. SEI's Initiative on Integrated Climate and Development Planning has expanded LEAP with extensions for macroeconomic impacts, health, agriculture, and land use, which have been applied in 16 countries to quantify the co-benefits of climate action.

• Integrated planning is necessary because aggressive pursuit of a single climate or development goal can negatively impact other priorities, and limited resources require the optimization of synergies.
• While climate mitigation shows positive synergies with health (SDG 3), energy (SDG 7), responsible consumption and production (SDG 12), and oceans (SDG 14), stringent actions to limit warming to 1.5°C pose risks of trade-offs for poverty (SDG 1), hunger (SDG 2), water (SDG 6), and energy (SDG 7).
• An evaluation of eight available tools for assessing SDG-NDC interlinkages found that the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) is the only open-access tool that is prospective, quantitative, comparative, and covers both SDGs and NDCs.
• The SEI Initiative on Integrated Climate and Development Planning has added four major extensions to LEAP to quantify impacts on specific SDGs: LEAP-Macro for employment and GDP (SDG 8), the Integrated Benefits Calculator for air pollution and health (SDG 3), the AgHealth tool for agriculture and diet (SDG 3), and a forestry and other land-use (FOLU)-tool for emissions.
• The LEAP toolkit has been used in 16 countries to develop NDCs or assess decarbonization, including Bangladesh, Benin, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Eswatini, Ghana, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Nigeria, Togo, Zimbabwe, and Morocco.
• Quantified health impact assessments for the NDCs of Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana indicate that implementing updated plans could prevent 30,000, 7,000, and 2,900 premature deaths per year, respectively.
• In Morocco, the application of LEAP-Macro to the low-carbon energy transition showed that investments in the power sector could increase long-run GDP by 0.2%.

APA

Wagner, C. C., Veysey, J., Nolan, S. T., & Malley, C. (2022). Overcoming barriers to integrated planning. Stockholm Environment Institute. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/overcoming-barriers-to-integrated-planning.pdf

Chicago

Wagner, Charlotte C, Jason Veysey, Sharna Terase Nolan, and Chris Malley. Overcoming barriers to integrated planning. Stockholm Environment Institute, 2022. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/overcoming-barriers-to-integrated-planning.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{wagner2022overcoming, author = {Wagner, Charlotte C and Veysey, Jason and Nolan, Sharna Terase and Malley, Chris}, title = {{Overcoming barriers to integrated planning}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2022}, month = jul, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/overcoming-barriers-to-integrated-planning.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }