Goal 13: Climate Action

Governments, households, and firms across Europe are grappling with the energy and cost-of-living crisis. The recent decline in natural gas prices has, however, fuelled hopes that massive gas shortages, rationing, and industrial shutdowns can be avoided.

EAPD will present recent research explaining how the current series of crises—individually and in combination—are likely to affect the ability to deliver the promises included in the 2030 Agenda. The research analyzes the transmission of these crises through seven channels and discusses policy implications.

The war in Ukraine will significantly impact global efforts to deal with the climate emergency by driving up energy prices and placing energy security at the heart of policy making in many countries.

Global growth prospects have weakened significantly amid the war in Ukraine, rising energy, food and commodity prices, soaring inflation and tightening monetary policy stances by major central banks.

Policies that aim at facilitating the uptake of the lithium-ion battery without compromising environmental impacts should create incentives at various stages of the battery value chain, including the closed-loop recycling system.

The pandemic reached every corner of the world, infecting more than 90 million and, so far, has killed close to 2 million people worldwide. The crisis responses, however, entailed difficult choices between saving lives and saving livelihoods, between speed of delivery and efficiency, and between short-term costs and long-term impacts.

The world registered a record reduction of energy-related CO2 emissions in the first half of 2020. However, this year’s reduction is projected to be a one-time dip, and only has an infinitesimal impact on the buildup of atmospheric CO2

While a decade of rapid expansion of the sharing economy increasingly enable better utilization of assets, it shows little signs of delivering fair and equitable welfare gains for all participants in the sharing economy. Instead it has generated unchecked externalities and unintended consequences.

According to the WESP 2020, sluggish global growth threatens sustainable development; 1 in 5 countries will see per capita incomes stagnate or decline this year, notably in Africa, Latin America and parts of Western Asia; across the world, many policies continue to encourage the use of fossil fuels