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Seizing the Global Opportunity: Partnerships for Better Growth and a Better Climate

Seizing the Global Opportunity: Partnerships for Better Growth and a Better Climate

Full Title: Seizing the Global Opportunity: Partnerships for Better Growth and a Better Climate
Author(s): The New Climate Economy
Publisher(s): The New Climate Economy
Publication Date: July 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):

2015 is a year of unprecedented opportunity. This year’s landmark intergovernmental conferences – the International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa in July, the United Nations Summit to adopt the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals in New York in September, the G20 Summit in Antalya in November, and the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in December – have the potential to advance a new era of international cooperation which can help countries at all income levels build lasting development and economic growth while reducing climate risk. A goal once seen as distant – to end extreme poverty, achieve broad-based prosperity and secure a safe climate, all together – is increasingly within reach. As the Commission’s 2014 report Better Growth, Better Climate argued, crucial investments will be made over the next 15 years in the world’s cities, land use and energy systems. They have the potential to generate multiple benefits for economic growth, human development and the environment; or they could lock countries into highcarbon pathways, with severe economic and climatic consequences. Through credible, consistent policies to drive resource efficiency, infrastructure investment and innovation, both developed and developing countries can achieve stronger economic performance and climate goals at the same time. This report shows how such actions can be scaled up through cooperative, multi-stakeholder partnerships – not just between governments, but among businesses, investors, states and regions, cities and communities.

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