A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options

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2022-11-18

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Steg, Linda
Veldstra, Janet
de Kleijne, Kiane
Kılkış, Şiir
Lucena, André F.P.
Nilsson, Lars J.
Sugiyama, Masahiro
Smith, Pete
Tavoni, Massimo
de Coninck, Heleen
van Diemen, Renée
Renforth, Phil
Mirasgedis, Sebastian
Nemet, Gregory
Görsch, Robert
Muri, Helene
Bertoldi, Paolo
Cabeza, Luisa F.
Mata, Érika
Novikova, Aleksandra
Caldas, Lucas R.
Chàfer, Marta
Khosla, Radhika
Vérez, David

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Mitigation option are not yet being implemented at the scale required to limit global warming to well below 2°C. Various factors have been identified that inhibit the implementation of specific mitigation options. Yet, an integrated assessment of key barriers and enablers is lacking. Here we present a comprehensive framework to assess which factors inhibit and enable the implementation of mitigation options. The framework comprises six dimensions, each encompassing different criteria: geophysical, environmental-ecological, technological, economic, sociocultural, and institutional feasibility. We demonstrate the approach by assessing to what extent each criterion and dimension affects the feasibility of six mitigation options. The assessment reveals that institutional factors inhibit the implementation of many options that need to be addressed to increase their feasibility. Of all the options assessed, many factors enable the implementation of solar energy, while only a few barriers would need to be addressed to implement solar energy at scale.

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barriers, climate change, enablers, feasibility, IPCC, mitigation options

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85134301665&origin=inward
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/101578

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One Earth

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.10.007

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Article

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L. Steg et al., “A method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options,” One Earth, vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 1216–1227, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85134301665&origin=inward.