These videos are from the SDG Academy course Climate Action: Solutions for a Changing Planet, filmed in 2016 at COP 22 in Marrakesh, Morocco, and first launched in 2017. The course is taught by experts leading the battle against climate change, hailing from institutions including Columbia University, the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development.
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The three pillars of Deep Decarbonization are: efficiency, decarbonisation of electricity, and the switching of end uses (such as cooking and driving) away from direct…
The Three Pillars of Decarbonization
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How does emission of greenhouse gases lead to global warming? This chapter depicts and analyzes significant factors and illuminates anomalies contributing to the drastic…
The Goal of Less Than 2ºC, Part I
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In this chapter, Peter Bakker talks about the role of business in fighting climate change. He declares the Paris Climate Agreement as a success and outlines the three…
Business Solutions for Climate Change
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What should governments do using taxation, regulation, public financing, or other public policy tools to achieve the low-emissions solutions that are necessary to…
Principles of Public Policy
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This is a case study of Canada's efforts towards deep decarbonization. Chris Bataille focuses on the Canadian target of approximately 90 percent emissions reduction…
Case Study: Canada Deep Decarbonization
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This is a case study of Russia's efforts towards deep decarbonization. It is a country that has huge reserves of fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal, shale gas and oil)…
Case Study: Russia Deep Decarbonization
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In this chapter, Professor Stephanie McClellan discusses wind power as a low-carbon solution for climate change. She discusses the wind power profiles and capacity of…
Renewables: Wind
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This chapter explains the concept of the carbon budget, or the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that can be emitted without raising the global temperature above…
The Carbon Budget, Part I
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An introduction to the course Climate Action: Solutions for a Changing Planet. This chapter introduces the Sustainable Development Goals and explains the context of…
The Goal of Less Than 2ºC, Part II
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What are some of the challenges for achieving deep decarbonization? These include the lifetimes of energy equipment; driving rapid consumer adoption; coordinating among…
Challenges in the Decarbonization Transition
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This chapter profiles the science and potential impact of solar power. Its history is briefly profiled; notably, that it's not a new technology and has gone through…
Renewables: Solar
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How can we maintain the carbon dioxide emission equilibrium through sources and sinks, and achieve the long-term temperature goal as laid out in the Paris Climate…
Sources and Sinks: Energy, Land Use, CCS, Part I
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In this chapter, Michael Obersteiner discusses mitigation on land in the wider framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. He proposes some ways to convert…
Mitigation on Land and the SDGs, Part I
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The Role of Public Private Partnerships (PPP)
In this chapter, William Sisson discusses the role of public-private partnerships in addressing the key challenges of the building sector for sustainable development and…The Role of Public Private Partnerships (PPP)
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In this chapter, Ryan Jones discusses transmission, energy storage, and grid integration of renewables. We expect that our energy services are reliable, or that supply…
Transmission, energy storage and grid integration
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In this chapter, Mariana Heinrich talks about how businesses are working collectively to reduce barriers to renewable deployment of renewable energy. She talks about the…
Business Action in Practice: Renewables
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