{"id":14826,"date":"2023-03-20T09:13:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T13:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/?p=14826"},"modified":"2023-04-03T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T19:09:06","slug":"key-takeaways-from-ipcc-lead-author-benjamin-sovacool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/2023\/03\/20\/key-takeaways-from-ipcc-lead-author-benjamin-sovacool\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Now: Key Takeaways from IPCC Lead Author Benjamin Sovacool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every 6 to 7 years, the UN&#8217;s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) calls on experts from around the world to evaluate cutting-edge scientific thinking about climate change, providing critical guidance on climate risks and how we can adapt to or prevent them. The IPCC\u2019s latest \u201cSixth Assessment Report\u201d (AR6) wrapped up in March with the release of its much-anticipated Synthesis Report\u2014integrating the findings of all six IPCC climate reports.<\/p>\n<p>IGS Director Benjamin Sovacool speaks about his contributions to the report series as a Lead Author for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change<\/em><\/a>. He discusses key findings from this report related to equity and justice, energy systems, and transportation. These insights into opportunities for just transitions to a low-carbon economy touch on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The importance of cities, civil society groups, and voluntary partnerships among industry to cut emissions<\/li>\n<li>How past decisions about energy systems influence the future<\/li>\n<li>Policy\u2019s role in shaping the behavioral dynamics of smart transportation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>WATCH NOW<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Research for People &amp; Planet\u00a0 | Justice, Energy &amp; Transport: Key Climate Mitigation Insights from the IPCC Report (March 31, 2023)<\/h4>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"responsive-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OyiFkQFywPY?start=35\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Dr. Sovacool's Key Takeaways | Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<h5>Technical Summary:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Cross-chapter text box on Just Transitions: &#8220;A Just Transition isn\u2019t just about coal, and isn\u2019t just about training and capacity building. Instead, a Just Transition is more broadly a set of principles, processes, and practices that aim to ensure that no people, workers, places, sectors, countries, or regions are left behind in the transition from a high-carbon to a low-carbon economy.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Chapter 4: Mitigation and development pathways in the near- to mid-term:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Section on sub-national actors and accelerated decarbonization: &#8220;The level of ambition among these sub-national actors\u2014cities, civil society groups, and voluntary partnerships among industry\u2014is higher (in terms of emissions reductions) than nation states! That is, sub-national actors are pledging to cut emissions in an amount greater than all nations currently implementing NDCs under the Paris Accord.&#8221;<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Section on equity and Just Transitions: &#8220;Equity and justice issues are as important as climate mitigation issues and sustainability issues.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Chapter 6: Energy Systems:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Section on path dependence: &#8220;Path dependence isn\u2019t only technological, it can also be political, institutional, and behavioral.&#8221;<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Section on institutions and behavioral change: &#8220;Institutions are vital accelerators and enabling conditions for cutting emissions and responding to climate change.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Chapter 10: Transport:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Section on electric vehicles (EVs): &#8220;EV deployment can be a good but also a bad\u2014it can in some cases lead to greater emissions, more driving, more roads, and more environmental and social impacts. It thus needs to be strongly governed by policy.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Additional commentary:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>COP27, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/2022\/12\/09\/watch-now-cop27-ipcc-session-on-managing-just-transitions\">Managing a Just Transition<\/a> (November 15, 2022)<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Cities as Solutions to Climate Change: Perspectives from IPCC Authors | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/2022\/10\/28\/watch-now-cities-as-solutions-to-climate-change-perspectives-from-ipcc-authors\">Net-Zero Carbon Cities and Electrification: The Next Global Agenda<\/a> (September 23, 2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice, Energy &#038; Transport: Key Climate Mitigation Insights from the IPCC Report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15764,"featured_media":14863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[353],"tags":[721,601],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14826"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14919,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions\/14919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}