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As the world works to stop global heating by putting an end to the use of fossil fuels according to climatic objectives, ensuring that everyone on Earth has a decent standard of living is possible if the world has an advantage quickly and decisively Over Countersover Fountsions.
The study, led by the Jarmo Kikstra research scholar with the Energy, Climate and Environment program at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), analyzed the energy scenarios that are aligned with the Paris and Sustainable Agreement).
“With intense climate change and billions of people who still lack basic needs, addressing both simultaneous challenges is not only possible but essential,” said a press release from Iiasa.
The authors of the findings analyzed whether the SDGs and the Paris Agreement provide sufficient energy so that all on the planet have essential services such as cooling and heating, clean cuisine, medical care, education and transport.
“Our goal is to understand what is needed to eliminate extreme poverty while climate action progresses,” Kikstra said in the press release. “We are not only talking about getting people out of extreme poverty; we are seeing futures with high development ambition, ensuring the standard of living as a minimum for everyone worldwide.”
Using the new desire model, the research team compared energy scenarios that make sustainable development a priority with those who continue with past trends.
“A surprising finding is that sustainable development scenarios significantly reduce the number of people who consume less than the minimum energy required for basic needs. In these scenarios, it is projected that the number of people who do not have enough energy to meet their basic needs of households decrease by more than 90%, a much faster progress rate than that achieved by what would be achieved by continuing the current trends,” Iiasa said.
The study highlights that the necessary emissions to support decent life standards are much lower than total emissions.
“Our findings challenge the notion that eradicating poverty and the protection of the planet are conflicting objectives. In fact, the energy necessary to ensure that basic human dignity is small compared to what is currently consumed worldwide,” Kikstra explained. “Thus, such a sustainable development trajectory means that growth rates in low -income countries are much higher than we have.
Shonali Pachauri, co -author of the study and leader of the transformative institutional and social solutions research group, said that efficiency, growth and reduction of equality are important to ensure that everyone can be enough.
“Not only should there be more services in which they are needed, but it is also very important to improve the way in which services are tested, and ensure that resources will not be wasted, but are assigned to those who need them,” Kikstra said.
The study, “close the living gap decent in energy and emission scenarios: introduction of desire”, was published in the magazine Environmental Research Letters.
“Our study is the first to connect detailed studies on energy needs for global integrated modeling for emissions reductions. If done well, future energy needs could be at least one lower third, while emissions are low for zero, said the study of the study, said Histor or Saudi, Saudi, Saudi, said Histor or Said Histor. The press release.
The authors emphasized the importance of combining climatic action with development. However, they noticed that they do not implement effective climatic policies will mean that even satisfying the minimum of basic needs would be impossible without navigating the limits of the Paris Agreement.
A key conclusion of the study is that only approximately one third of the world’s energy consumption would be needed to support decent life standards, while the other two thirds are destined for purposes beyond satisfying basic needs.
In the future like this, which Iiasa said that it will be achieved in the next two decades, half of the world population, including those of low -income nations, would reach the standard of living that are more than double the minimum sector.
“Providing the services that people need throughout the world is unlikely to destroy the planet, at least not from an energy perspective. Fulfilling the climatic objectives and guaranteeing a decent life for all is within our reach, but requires immediate and decisive action to reduce emissions,” Kikstra said.
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