Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development

June 14, 2017

Élysée Palace Announces Opening of IGSD Office in Paris

The Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) became the first climate research group to accept French President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to France to work together on the fight against climate change.

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May 4, 2017

New strategy needed to cut the rate of global warming in half by 2042 say top scientists

Governments must urgently aim to cut the rate of global warming in half over the next 25 years, a group of leading climate scientists concludes today. Meeting this “near-term goal” would involve taking much more rapid action than is envisaged in the groundbreaking Paris Agreement, and require aggressively reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants along with long-lived carbon dioxide.

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November 19, 2016

Momentum Stalls in Marrakech, Despite Plea for Urgent and Ambitious Action

We lost a step in Marrakech that we couldn’t afford,” said Durwood Zaelke, President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development.

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October 14, 2016

Nations Agree to Kigali Amendment: Largest Near-Term Temperature Reduction from Single Agreement

Warming caused by one of the six main greenhouse gases will be taken out of the climate system through the Kigali Amendment agreed in the early morning hours today in Rwanda. The amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase out HFCs is the largest temperature reduction ever achieved by a single agreement.

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September 22, 2016

Philanthropic Group Launches World’s Largest Energy Efficiency Investment

Today Bill Gates and other philanthropic foundations announced fast-start funding to maximize energy efficiency in parallel with an ambitious HFC amendment under the Montreal Protocol.

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September 21, 2016

Watch: Reducing HFCs with the world’s most successful environmental treaty

Watch: Reducing HFCs with the world’s most successful environmental treaty

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September 19, 2016

California Governor Signs World’s Toughest Super Pollutant Law

Today California Governor Jerry Brown signed the nation’s—and the world’s— strictest law against powerful short-lived super pollutants – SB 1383 – pushing the state’s near-term climate mitigation efforts one step further.

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September 9, 2016

The Climate’s Low-Hanging Fruit

Next month, signatories to the 1989 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer will convene in Kigali, Rwanda, to consider an amendment to the treaty that would gradually reduce, and eventually eliminate, the use of HFCs

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July 23, 2016

Obama Climate Priority Moves Closer to Cutting HFC Super Pollutants

The top climate priority of President Obama to use the Montreal Protocol to phase down HFCs became much more likely in the early hours of Sunday, when almost all parties converged on a narrower set of options on key issues as they concluded their extraordinary meeting in Vienna.

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June 29, 2016

North American Leaders’ Double-Barreled Climate Strategy

Today President Obama, Prime Minister Trudeau, and President Pena Nieto agreed to an aggressive double-barreled climate strategy, committing to cut both carbon dioxide, by moving to 50% clean energy sources by 2025, and the short-lived super pollutants.

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June 9, 2016

How President Obama Became the World’s Leading Climate Champion

Three years ago this month, President Obama began to redouble his already substantial efforts to address climate change. Since then he’s emerged as perhaps the most consequential climate leader in the world. His actions hold critical lessons for other leaders around the world, not least his successor in the Oval Office.

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IGSD works to promote just and sustainable societies and to protect the environment by advancing the understanding, development, and implementation of effective, and accountable systems of governance for sustainable development.

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14 Jun

Élysée Palace Announces Opening of IGSD Office in Paris

The Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) became the first climate research group to accept French President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to France to work together on the fight against climate change.
12 May

Arctic States Commit to Reduce Black Carbon Soot Up to 33 per cent

Arctic Council Ministers from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and the United States set for the first time a collective goal to reduce black carbon emissions in the Arctic Region and stressed “the need for global action to reduce both long-lived greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants” in the Arctic.
4 May

New strategy needed to cut the rate of global warming in half by 2042 say top scientists

Governments must urgently aim to cut the rate of global warming in half over the next 25 years, a group of leading climate scientists concludes today. Meeting this “near-term goal” would involve taking much more rapid action than is envisaged in the groundbreaking Paris Agreement, and require aggressively reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants along with long-lived carbon dioxide.
21 Apr

Watch: TIME Magazine Names Montreal Protocol Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Guus Velders Among Most Influential People of 2017

Publications

Primer on Hydrofluorocarbons

Primer on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

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