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Understanding the challenges and priorities in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires consideration of the complexity and diversity within the SDGs, addressing the unique geographic and economic conditions, and reliable and comprehensive data for performance-based evaluation.  While the SDGs Index ...

The SDG Transformation Center platform brings together tools and actionable instruments to support SDG data, policies and financing building on the latest insights from science and collaborates with stakeholders and decision makers.  Its SDG Index and Dashboards rank countries on SDG attainment and report global SDG pr ...

A study, “Macroeconomic Impacts of Increased Decarbanisation and Green Industrial Policies in the European Union” by Cambridge Econometrics, models two scenarios for the period 2022 to 2050 and their impact on the economy and the labor market as well as on energy consumption/production, energy prices, and greenhouse ga ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) attributes observed climate fluctuations primarily to anthropogenic CO₂ emissions and claims that these emissions have caused a net radiative forcing of about 1 Wm-² (watt per square meter) since 1750, resulting in a global temperature increase of 0.8 to 1.1 °C.  Thi ...

Uncertainties characterizing climate science, the economy and their interrelationships are a compelling argument for considering ambiguity and misspecification in the economics of climate change.  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) approach to dealing with uncertainty is like risk as defined in deci ...