Carrying out the Paris Agreement: Role of research communities in supporting scientific climate policy

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The knowledge required to promote low-carbon growth policies covers an extremely wide range. Formulation of LCS policies is a step-by-step process from “target setting,” “policy formulation,” “policy evaluation,” “implementation on the ground,” and “monitoring,” followed by “feedback” actions to make necessary modifications to the initial policies. For this process, it is necessary to accumulate scientific knowledge, such as data on greenhouse gas emissions as well as knowledge from a broad range of areas, including scientific approaches, engineering, economics, and sociology. It is also important to facilitate ways of thinking to integrate this multidisciplinary knowledge and to make use of integrated assessment models (IAM) as necessary.

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. “The 5th Assessment Report (AR5)” (IPCC, 2013–2014). In terms of significant impacts in Asia, the IPCC AR5 pointed out (1) increased flood damage to infrastructure, livelihood and settlement, (2) heat related human mortality, and (3) increased draught related food and water shortage.

, “Ten Actions toward Low Carbon Asia” (), reports ten sets of actions to achieve LCS in Asia and recommends actions at a practical level. Two of these—“Low carbon energy system using local resources” and “Local production and local consumption of biomass”—provide good coverage of energy supply transition, the former contributing up to 37% and the latter up to 4.7% of the total GHG reduction needed for a low carbon Asia.

, see http://www.ren21.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/GSR_2016_Full_Report.pdf for “Renewables 2016 Global Status Report,” Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21^st Century (2016), p. 25.

() mentions “Asian wisdom for sustainable development potentially underpins the success of any international and regional climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. Asian wisdom's holistic and extra-long term world view; espousal of harmony and balance; and emphasis on ‘mottainai’ (frugality), ‘gotong-royong’ (collective actions), sufficiency economy philosophy (SEP) and mutual benefits for all offer effective frameworks for international consensus, advancement, and operationalisation of climate stabilisation goals and actions,” see Ref. 18.

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