25 November 2015<\/p>\n
IEA Director of Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology Kamel Ben Naceur today presented the IEA\u2019s four key messages for the upcoming UN climate negotiations. Building on extensive IEA analysis leading up to the Paris talks, he explained how the four messages could help COP21 shift the energy sector onto a low-carbon path while supporting economic growth and providing energy to more people.<\/p>\n
The four messages are:<\/p>\n
The first message builds on the climate pledges\u00a0countries have submitted: while they are a leap forward in the breadth and depth of climate response, more is needed. An essential next step towards the 2\u00b0C target is a peak, then decline, in global greenhouse gas emissions. The IEA has identified a set of five actions (the \u201cBridge Strategy<\/a>\u201d) that use today\u2019s technologies to reduce emissions while maintaining economic growth.<\/p>\n In the second message, to drive short-term actions forward, the IEA calls for locking the vision of the 2\u00b0C target\u00a0into a clear and understandable long-term goal, with five-year revisions to track the transition.<\/p>\n In terms of accelerating innovation, reducing the cost and improving the performance of low-carbon technologies is essential to making the transformation of energy systems affordable and feasible.<\/p>\n Finally, the energy sector faces multiple threats from climate change, in particular from extreme weather events and increasing water stress. By becoming more resilient to climate change impacts, the sector will maintain and improve its technical viability and economic cost-effectiveness in providing energy to meet mounting demand.<\/p>\n The introduction of the IEA’s four key messages set the stage for the many IEA actions and activities<\/a> during the two weeks of negotiations on limiting global warming that start next week. The IEA is also assisting both member and non-member countries by providing data, modelling, and policy and technology analysis for COP21.<\/p>\n The energy sector is critical to resolving the climate change challenge because it accounts for at least two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions. IEA input for COP21 already includes a detailed World Energy Outlook<\/em>\u00a0Special Report on Energy and Climate Change<\/a> that listed four key pillars to a successful COP21, including the five key policy measures that could achieve an early peak in global energy-related emissions. The\u00a0IEA has also\u00a0assessed<\/a>\u00a0the impact of countries\u2019 climate pledges ahead of the talks.\u00a0This month, the 29 member countries issued astatement<\/a> at the IEA Ministerial meeting<\/a> that called for a successful COP21 as part of the essential transformation of the world\u2019s energy system.<\/p>\n A new IEA brochure, Energy Matters: How COP21 can shift the energy sector onto a low-carbon path that supports economic growth and energy access<\/a>, details the four key messages. Also, the IEA this month published the 2015 edition of its annual CO2<\/sub> Emissions from Fuel Consumption<\/em><\/a>, offering for free highlights<\/a> of the data as well as an excerpt<\/a> that summarises recent trends.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How climate talks can enable a low-carbon energy sector \u2013 plus aid economic growth and energy access<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,12,73,74,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}