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Harnessing long-term strategies for low-carbon climate-resilient LDC development
Gabrielle SA Swaby, Gebru Jember Endalew, Achala Abeysinghe
IIED Briefing, 4 pages
To put the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement into practice, countries are expected to prepare ‘long-term, low greenhouse gas emission development strategies’ by 2020. These will be visionary plans for achieving low-carbon climate-resilient societies by 2050. While there is general understanding of why countries should formulate these long-term plans, the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have peculiar hurdles to overcome — and exclusive rewards worth pursuing — in preparing their strategies. While highlighting common challenges and concerns, this briefing makes the case for why LDCs in particular should prepare their long-term strategies early. It also discusses incentives to support and rationalise doing so ahead of 2020.
Publication information
- IIED code: 17480IIED
- Published: Oct 2018 - IIED
- Area: Benin, Mexico
- Themes: Policy and planning, Climate change
- Series: IIED Briefing Papers
- ISBN: 978-1-78431-629-7
- Language:
English
Project information
We help LDCs to strengthen their institutional, policy and legislative environments for enabling long-term national climate action, and thus drive global ambition to implement the Paris Agreement.
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Supporting LDCs to strengthen national legislative and policy responses in line with international climate commitments