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.
This report provides a summary of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), including: an introduction to SLCPs; explanation of the multiple benefits of reducing SLCPs with respect to climate, human...
This document (2021 update) sets out to guide countries wishing to develop national plans to implement Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) strategies.
This SNAP guidance document outlines...
As countries begin negotiations to restructure sovereign debt to address the COVID-19 pandemic and wider debt crisis, climate protection should be at the center, as way to ensure debt...
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The Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD), in collaboration with Automobile Manufacturer Tata Motors Limited (TML) based in Pune, India, and the Technology System Supplier...
This presentation was made by IGSD and MAHLE Behr Troy on 21 May 2019 in a webinar organised by the CCAC on the "Secondary Loop – Mobile Air Conditioning Project: Final Results and Path Forward...
This document presents results from the Climate & Clean Air Coalition’s Bricks Initiative reported between July 2016 and June 2017. These results were recorded using the Demonstrating...
This document is a report from the Institutional Strengthening Workshop, organised by the Initiative “Supporting National Action and Planning (SNAP) on short-lived climate pollutants”...
This document presents results from the Climate & Clean Air Coalition’s SNAP Initiative reported between July 2016 and June 2017. These results were recorded using the Demonstrating...
Staying at under 2°C will require a concerted global effort. We must address everything from our energy systems to our personal choices to reduce emissions to the greatest extent possible....
This is an informal and narrative analysis prepared by the CCAC Secretariat in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Governance (IGSD) to illustrate how 15 countries have integrated and...
Report from the Institutional Strengthening Workshop, organised by the Initiative “Supporting National Action and Planning (SNAP) on short-lived climate pollutants” of the Climate and Clean Air...
Statement by Durwood Zaelke, President, Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD) during the UNSG Climate Summit on September 23rd 2014.
This report provides a summary of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), including: an introduction to SLCPs; explanation of the multiple benefits of reducing SLCPs with respect to climate, human...
