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Box 4.8: Investment Needs and the Financial Challenge of Limiting Warming to 1.5°C

… to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 7 on clean energy access, and enhance the adaptive capacity to climate change .

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4.4.4.3The role of government in 1.5°C-consistent climate technology policy

… et al., 2015). Countries regard innovation in general and climate technology specifically as a national interests issue and addressing climate change primarily as being in the global interest. Reframing part of climate policy as technology or industrial policy might therefore contribute …

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4.4.4.2Technologies as enablers of climate action

… progress of GPTs. Governments have established institutions for achieving many social, and sometimes conflicting goals, including economic growth and addressing climate change (OECD, 2017c), which include investment in basic research and development (R&D) that can help develop game-changing technologies (Shayegh et …

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4.4.3.3Acceptability of policy and system changes

… strongly value other people and the environment (Visschers et al., 2017). Climate policy is more acceptable when people believe climate change is real, when they are concerned about

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Box 4.6: Bottom-up Initiatives: Adaptation Responses Initiated by Individuals and Communities

To effectively adapt to climate change , bottom-up initiatives by individuals and communities are essential, in addition to efforts of governments, organizations, and institutions (Wamsler and …

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4.4.3.2Strategies and policies to promote actions on climate change

Strategies and policies to promote actions on climate change

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4.4.3.1Factors related to climate actions

… when they are or feel more capable to do so. Hence, it is important to enhance ability to act on climate change , which depends on income and knowledge, among other things. A higher income is related to higher CO2 emissions; higher …

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4.4.3 Enabling Lifestyle and Behavioural Change

Humans are at the centre of global climate change : their actions cause anthropogenic

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4.4.2.4Co-operative institutions and social safety nets

… of confidence during the transition (McCormick and Kåberger, 2007). How do broader socio-economic processes influence urban vulnerabilities and thereby underpin climate change adaptation? This is a systemic challenge originating from a lack of collective societal ownership of the responsibility for climate risk …

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4.4.2.3Financial institutions

… insurance purchasing. The development and enhancement of microfinance institutions to ensure social resilience and smooth transitions in the adaptation to climate change impacts could be an important local institutional innovation (Hammill et al., 2008).

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