Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD) CCAC Partner since 2012 Breadcrumb Home Our partners Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD) About The Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development’s (IGSD) mission is to promote just and sustainable societies and to protect the environment by advancing the understanding, development, and implementation of effective, accountable and democratic systems of governance for sustainable development. Beginning in 2005, the Institute embarked on a “fast-action” climate mitigation campaign to promote strategies that will result in significant reductions of emissions, temperature, and impacts in the near-term, focusing primarily on strategies to reduce non-CO2 climate pollutants, to complement cuts in CO2. IGSD’s over-arching, multi-venue approach to fast-action climate mitigation is presented in a 2009 article by Molina, Zaelke, Sarma, Andersen, Ramanathan & Kaniaru, Reducing abrupt climate change risk using the Montreal Protocol and other regulatory actions to complement cuts in CO2 emissions in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The HFC part of this approach was further elaborated in a November 2012 article by Zaelke, Andersen & Borgford-Parnell, Strengthening Ambition for Climate Mitigation: The Role of the Montreal Protocol in Reducing Short-lived Climate Pollutants, in the Review of European Community & International Environmental Law. IGSD’s fast-action strategies can be started in two to three years, substantially implemented in five years in developed countries, and ten years in developing countries, and can produce a response in the climate system on a timescale of decades, to complement cuts in CO2, which operate on a longer timescale. They also include measures to capture, reuse, and / or store CO2 after it is emitted, including biosequestration and strategies to turn biomass into more stable forms of carbon for long-term storage. In 2012, IGSD was elected to serve as the NGO representative on the Coalition's Steering Committee. Address 2300 Wisconsin Ave. NW Suite 300BWashington DC 20007,United StatesWebsite CCAC projects Previous Next Cambodia - Deliver National Methane Roadmap National policy and planning Cambodia - Deliver National Methane Roadmap COVID-19 response: building back better with efficient and climate-friendly cooling Cooling COVID-19 response: building back better with efficient and climate-friendly cooling Delivering sustainable life-cycle management of HFCs Cooling Delivering sustainable life-cycle management of HFCs Supporting access to efficient cold chains Cooling Supporting access to efficient cold chains Catalyzing climate-friendly and efficient cooling Cooling Catalyzing climate-friendly and efficient cooling Bangladesh - National Planning on short-lived climate pollutants National policy and planning Bangladesh - National Planning on short-lived climate pollutants Togo - National planning on short-lived climate pollutants National policy and planning Togo - National planning on short-lived climate pollutants National planning regional workshops National policy and planning National planning regional workshops Institutional strengthening support and training National policy and planning Institutional strengthening support and training Technology demonstration of low-global warming potential (GWP), high-efficiency mobile air-conditioning Cooling Technology demonstration of low-global warming potential (GWP), high-efficiency mobile air-conditioning See all Related resources Guidelines & Tools 2021 Guidance Document: National Planning for reducing short-lived climate pollutants (SNAP) Reports, Case Studies & Assessments 2020 Debt-for-Climate Swaps: Background Note Event Documents 2020 Efficient Cooling During and After the Global Pandemic - OEWG-42 Event Documents 2019 Webinar Presentation of the Project Results of the CCAC SL-MAC Tech Demo, India See all Related news and updates It's Time to Broaden the Strategy to Avert Catastrophic Climate Change News 25 Aug 2022 It's Time to Broaden the Strategy to Avert Catastrophic Climate Change Leading International Environmental NGOs Press Biden Administration for Immediate Action on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants in First 100 Days News 05 Feb 2021 Leading International Environmental NGOs Press Biden Administration for Immediate Action on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants in First 100 Days Latest U.S. Pandemic Relief Bill Includes HFC Phasedown News 22 Dec 2020 Latest U.S. Pandemic Relief Bill Includes HFC Phasedown Efficient, Climate-friendly Cooling Would Avoid up to 0.4˚C of Warming by 2100 and Save Trillions of Dollars News 17 Jul 2020 Efficient, Climate-friendly Cooling Would Avoid up to 0.4˚C of Warming by 2100 and Save Trillions of Dollars See all
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