In cooperation with the Norwegian Embassy in Denmark, CONCITO took the initiative to gather the strongest Nordic think tanks and knowledge institutions within the climate field in a two-day informal seminar. We gathered to share experiences and perspectives on the green transition and to see how our cooperation could be strengthened.
Despite the war in Ukraine, inflation, and rising energy prices, Danes support the green transition and want stronger climate action. This is shown in the new edition of CONCITO's Climate Barometer.
Today we are facing a critical situation with regard to transport decarbonization. Whereas other sectors have reduced their greenhouse gas emissions, transport has increased not only its share of the total but its absolute CO2 emissions per year compared to 1990.
In the EU, negotiations on new rules for free allowances in the Emissions Trading System are entering into their decisive phase. The allocation of free allowances overrides the ‘polluter pays principle and slows down decarbonization. Free allowances should therefore be phased out more quickly, and the allocation of free allowances should be better targeted.
CONCITO brief
By Martin Birk Rasmussen, International klimaanalytiker
A new EU regulation aims to curb EU-driven deforestation and forest degradation, reduce biodiversity loss, and halt greenhouse gas emissions. However, the proposal itself is likely to just shift import of high-risk products to countries with less strict deforestation regulation.
Climate change is increasingly seen as a conflict driver in the most vulnerable and fragile countries of the Global South. Indeed, the Syrian conflict has been assessed as conceivably the first conflict where it has been demonstrated with relative certainty that repeated and prolonged droughts over a short period of years laid the ground for economic collapse in - and internal migration from - rural areas towards the major cities, and that this migration subsequently contributed to internal social unrest and conflict in Syria.
Blog
By Jarl Krausing, vicedirektør og international direktør, CONCITO
The Danish Green Think Tank CONCITO has, as part of its new increased international engagement, signed a collaboration agreement with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
It is unsustainable for the EU to use large farmland areas to grow crops for energy when the world is facing a growing food crisis. Denmark should work for the EU to suspend the EU biofuels blending requirement and stop meeting the CO2e displacement requirement with crop-based biofuels.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published the third part of its sixth main report. It focuses on the opportunities and needs to mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The first interim report, published in August last year, dealt with climate science itself. The second interim report on climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability was published in early March this year.
The world's climate is about to cross the critical line for a 1.5-degree temperature rise. If we are to avoid the devastating consequences, all the world's nations must raise their game now. That includes Denmark.
To avoid further disasters, we must choose the right solutions to the looming global food crisis. The EU and Denmark should accelerate the shift to land-efficient food production and consumption and reduce the use of crops for energy
