The Inflation Reduction Act, often called IRA, is the main political policy for the climate issue in the United States. This reports answers questions about the its effects based on analysis and facts.
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CCS, Carbon capture and storage, is needed to complement other climate measures. With the right policy, Sweden can become a leader in developing this technology. So, write researchers within Mistra Carbon Exit in a new SNS report.
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Mistra Carbon Exit´s fifth programme conference 18-19 September 2023 gave important takeaways on subjects such as the development in north Sweden, transport, building and infrastructure and the changing policies in the EU and the US.
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Read the English translation of the article on the recent workshop in Vienna. The article was first published in the Wohnen plus magazine.
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Ida Karlsson is a PhD student within the research program Mistra Carbon Exit at Chalmers University of Technology. Listen to her in Sweden's largest podcast in civil engineering.
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How does Russia's war in Ukraine affect climate change in Sweden and within the EU? The Mistra Carbon Exit research programme has studied this in a new report that focuses on the energy, critical minerals and climate policy.
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Mistra Carbon exit genomförde i juni den första programkonferensen sedan pandemin. Nu visas forskningsprogrammets vidd när det gäller en omställning till fossilfrihet.
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Denna rapport identifierar möjligheter och barriärer, både tekniska och icke-tekniska, i byggprocessen av byggnader i Uppsala kommun. Målet har varit att rapporten ska ge lokala intressenter vetenskapligt baserade råd för att implementera lösningar för deras prioriterade åtgärdsområden.
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How can we reduce harmful anthropogenic impact on the climate without negatively affecting the prospects for Earth’s ecosystems and human well-being?
As described in this Mistra Carbon Exit publication, identifying impacts on the SDGs preferably starts as an open process of ‘turning every stone’, characterized by reflective and collaborative learning that iteratively reduces complexity and pinpoints specific impacts on SDGs.
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A growing number of companies claim to follow the UN's global sustainability goals. A new Mistra Carbon Exit study shows that there is a risk that companies rather greenwash their activities by focusing only on goals where they are already performing well.
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The Covid-19 crisis has caused an economic downturn that may reverberate throughout the European carbon market. This makes a review of the EU ETS supply mechanisms imperative.
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In this policy brief, we offer an introduction to the family of policy instruments known as “flexible performance standards.”
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During COP25 the Climate Friendly Materials Platform (CFM) hosted an event on innovative policy instruments to transform the basic material sector to net climate neutrality.
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This paper discusses what role trade policy can play in EU climate policy. It does so by reviewing how low-carbon investment can be boosted while addressing carbon leakage risk. It is part of an ongoing series of the Mistra Carbon Exit policy briefs exploring how the Von der Leyen Commission can best approach the multiple challenges facing the EU.
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This paper assesses the potential for reducing the climate impact of road construction. The results indicate that it is technically possible to cut in half road construction CO2 emissions with today's best available technologies and practices, to abate more than three quarters of the emissions by 2030 and achieve close to net zero emissions by 2045.
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The new EU Commission is taking office and at the same time Mistra Carbon Exit is publishing a policy brief concerning the EU emissions trading system, the EU ETS.
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