Key Technical Reports on Urban Climate

  • RENEWABLES 2017 GLOBAL STATUS REPORT
    • This global status report on the transition to renewable energy includes a global overview, market, and industry trends, distributed renewable energy for energy access, investment flows, policy landscape, enabling technologies and energy system integration, energy efficiency and a feature on deconstructing baseload
    • http://www.ren21.net/gsr-2017/
  • PERSPECTIVES FOR THE ENERGY TRANSITION
    • Produced by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA) this report analyses the scale and scope of investments in low-carbon technologies in power generation, transport, buildings and industry (including heating and cooling) that are needed to facilitate a transition in the energy sector that is consistent with keeping global temperature rise to below 2°C in a cost-effective manner, while also working towards other policy goals.
    • https://www.iea.org/publications/insights/insightpublications/perspectives-for-the-energy-transition.html
  • AMERICA’S PLEDGE – Phase I Report
    • The Phase I Report of America’s Pledge provides a snapshot of the scope and scale of non-federal action already underway including by the more 2,300 signatories to the We Are Still In (https://www.wearestillin.com/us-action-climate-change-irreversible) campaign. It also examines trends affecting the low-carbon transformation of the US economy.  The Phase II Report to be published in 2018 will aggregate and quantify non-federal commitments and project how these and other potential factors will shape future US greenhouse gas emissions.
    • https://www.americaspledgeonclimate.com/
  • CHINA RENEWABLE ENERGY OUTLOOK 2016
  • CHINA RENEWABLE ENERGY OUTLOOK 2017 – “Boosting Renewable Energy in China”
  • UNEP EMISSIONS GAP REPORT 2016 – A UNEP Synthesis Report
    • The United Nations Environment (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report 2016 provides an authoritative assessment of the extent to which the current and planned national emissions reductions, as specified in the submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, will contribute towards the Paris Agreement goals. It does so by providing an estimate of the additional reductions – the Gap – required by 2030 to be on a least-cost path that is likely to ensure the global temperature goals. The assessment focuses on the 2°C goal, as well as on the implications for limiting the temperature increase to 1.5°C.
    • http://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/10016/emission_gap_report_2016.pdf