Challenges of developing and applying integrated strategies at various scales

摘要

An integrated co-benefits strategy is a mechanism for grouping climate change goals with non-climate goals to produce policies that are more likely to achieve both. Leveraging these synergies through a single policy action can bring additional resources and political support to the climate change issue that a narrowly focused climate policy would otherwise fail to receive.rnThere are many significant barriers to enacting concrete, simultaneous, and global reductions of climate forcing emissions. Integrated strategies offer a plan of action for policy makers at all scales of government to overcome these barriers and achieve more rapid greenhouse emission reductions than would otherwise be possible. This background paper outlines a series of themes and questions that arise when considering the challenges to developing and applying these types of strategies. It has been drafted to supplement the panel discussion, "Challenges to developing and applying integrated approaches at different scales", which took place on September 18, 2008 at the meeting of the Global Atmospheric Pollution Forum in Stockholm, Sweden.