Reducing climate risk: Climate change mitigation and bioenergy

The document details SEI's multi-scale approach to climate mitigation, focusing on sub-national policy for cities, the necessity of limiting fossil-fuel infrastructure to meet the 2°C target, and the strategic use of modern bioenergy in developing countries. It highlights the use of the LEAP system for low-carbon planning and describes ongoing efforts to integrate social variables into technical climate analysis.

• Sub-national climate policies are most effective when targeting sectors with the highest abatement potential and local influence, specifically transport and buildings in urban environments.
• To maintain global warming below 2°C, a significant portion of the world's coal and unconventional oil and gas must remain undeveloped, yet current infrastructure investments risk locking in the remaining carbon budget.
• Standard greenhouse gas inventories often focus on the point of combustion or distribution, which can allow countries to expand fossil-fuel infrastructure without reflecting the resulting future emissions in their own accounts; therefore, extraction-based accounting is necessary.
• Modern bioenergy can improve energy access and reduce the use of traditional biomass in poor countries, which helps mitigate deforestation and black-carbon emissions.
• The Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP) system is a primary tool used by SEI and thousands of others for low-carbon development planning, including the creation of National Communications to the UNFCCC and Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS).
• In Estonia, research indicated that electric cars produce more greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline vehicles because the national power supply is derived from shale oil.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2014). Reducing climate risk: Climate change mitigation and bioenergy. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Climate/SEI-RSB-2014-Climate-mitigation-bioenergy.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Reducing climate risk: Climate change mitigation and bioenergy. 2014. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Climate/SEI-RSB-2014-Climate-mitigation-bioenergy.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2014reducing, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Reducing climate risk: Climate change mitigation and bioenergy}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2014}, url = {https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Climate/SEI-RSB-2014-Climate-mitigation-bioenergy.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }