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Exploring Perspectives on Climate-resource-nexus Policies

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Exploring Perspectives on Climate-resource-nexus Policies

barriers and relevance in different world regions

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Hirschnitz-Garbers, M., Araujo Sosa, A., Hinzmann, M., Exploring perspectives on climate-resource-nexus policies: barriers and relevance in different world regions, J.sustain. dev. energy water environ. syst., 1090408, DOI: https://doi.org/10.13044/j.sdewes.d9.0408

Natural resource extraction and processing accounted for 23 % of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2015. Therefore, reducing resource use through resource efficiency promises significant contributions to climate protection. This "climate-resource-nexus" has mostly been explored from a scientific, Global North-oriented perspective. In this article, researchers from the Ecologic Institute analyze the potential interactions between climate and resource policy in different world regions. They did not find a generic climate-resource-nexus policy. The article is available online.

Scientific studies mostly address greenhouse gas emission reduction potentials of resource efficiency approaches, e.g. lifetime extension, material substitution, and recycling. Interview findings reveal that climate and resource policy measures will have to differ regionally to improve relevance and fit, and that silo culture may prevent an integrated climate-resource-nexus perspective. It is argued that creating an overarching line of policy reasoning through cross-departmental cooperation could help overcoming silos and grant flexibility to national and regional policy-making to adapt policies to their contexts.

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English
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Dr. Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers
Ariel Araujo
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Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
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30 pp.
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1848-9257
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Keywords
climate-resource-nexus, policy measures, relevance, world regions, exploratory research