Today’s report on deep decarbonisation delivered to Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, offers a new perspective on how countries can avoid dangerous climate change and achieve sustainable development. The report, produced by the Deep Decarbonisation Pathways Project which is overseen by the UN Sustainable Development Network, describes the joint efforts of independent experts from 15 countries to find national pathways to making economies based on low-carbon energy consistent with the 2-degree Celsius limit on global warming agreed to by governments in 2010. Such low-carbon pathways are feasible, but to achieve them will require a high degree of global cooperation and a novel design of the climate deal to be reached at the Cop 21 meeting in Paris in December 2015.
日前呈給聯合國秘書長潘基文(Ban Ki-moon)的一份關于深度脫碳的報告，為各國如何避免危險的氣候變化和實現可持續增長提供了新的視角。這篇報告由聯合國可持續發展網絡(UN Sustainable Development Network)指導的“深度脫碳道路項目”(Deep Decarbonisation Pathways Project)撰寫，是來自15個國家的獨立專家共同努力的成果，目的是按照國際社會在2010年達成的將地球氣溫升溫幅度控制在2攝氏度以下的目標，為各國尋找建立在低碳能源基礎之上的經濟發展道路。這樣的低碳道路是可行的，但要實現它們將需要全球緊密合作，也需要在2015年12月法國巴黎舉行的第21屆聯合國氣候變化大會上拿出設計新穎的氣候協議。