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Climate
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Welcome
to the first edition of our monthly
newsletter focused on mid-century, long-term
low-GHG emission development strategies or long-term strategies under the Paris
Agreement.
Learn more about our resources for
decision-makers to re-think development pathways toward
zero-carbon emissions and climate resiliency. And watch our standing-room only launch event at
the Bonn climate talks in May with representatives from
Canada, Lebanon, Mexico, South Africa and UK as well as our
advisory committee: UN Climate Change (UNFCCC), United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), NDC Partnership, 2050 Pathways
Platform and the German Federal Ministry for Economic
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Expert
Perspectives: In Climate Action, as in Chess, Forethought
Wins
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To
gain deeper understanding on the purpose and elements of
long-term strategies, we asked the experts below to respond to
this writing prompt with key questions in
designing long-term climate plans. You can find more
than 40 Expert Perspectives on our new website
covering themes such as the integration of adaptation in LTS,
linkages to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and
Financing. Look for more to be posted over the coming
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At
the annual meeting of the 2050 Pathways Platform,
ministers from Finland, France, Germany,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden
called on the European Commission to prepare an
ambitious long-term 2050 strategy by early 2019
and commit to a just and integrated transition for
all. You can read a summary of the April
meeting proceedings and view the presentations here.
From
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, to
Slovakia, Montenegro and Estonia, to New Zealand,
Greece and the Marshall Islands, countries
highlighted their plans to formulate 2050
strategies during May’s Talanoa Dialogue in answer to
the questions: Where are we? Where do we
want to go? And how do we get there?
The Maldives asked
for a political outcome at COP24 to include a
reaffirmation of the importance of LTS. And
as head of this year’s G20, Argentina emphasized
its leadership role in putting LTS firmly on the agenda while also
embarking on formulating its own 2050 plan. Could
the momentum for pre-2020 submissions of Long-term
Strategies be growing?
And in case you
missed it, the United Kingdom formally
communicated its Clean Growth Strategy to the
UNFCCC in April. Listen to long-time UK
climate planner Tony Ripley talk about how it was
developed at our official side event in
Bonn. With the Czech Republic’s Climate Protection Policy
submitted earlier this year, the number of
countries that have submitted LTS to the UNFCCC
comes to eight.
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