1. Nordic Green to Scale –
Low-Carbon Success Stories
to Inspire the World
#GreenToScale
#NNCS

2. How much can we reduce emissions globally if comparable countries
achieve by 2030 what some have already achieved today
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How far can we go with what we already have?

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Global Green to Scale study: –12 Gt by 2030
• Sitra worked with institutions from 10 countries
• Analysis was carried out by Ecofys
• Results were released in DC in 2015
• The study covers 17 existing solutions from both
the global North and the South
• Key results
• 12 Gt emission reduction by 2030 – equal to about
1/4 of current global emissions
• costs at most $94 billion – less than 1/5 of direct
fossil fuel subsidies
• All material available at www.greentoscale.net

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Nordic follow-up project: 15 Nordic solutions
• Sitra partnered with institutions from other
Nordic countries
• Concito, Denmark
• Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
• University of Iceland Institute for Sustainability
Studies, Iceland
• Analysis carried out by Center for International
Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO)
• Funding kindly provided by the Nordic Council
of Ministers (NCM)
• Results released for the first time in Marrakech
and presented later in all Nordic capitals

5. Project partners selected the solutions based on four criteria: 1) Nordic
distinctiveness, 2) proven climate impact, 3) analysis feasibility, 4)
scalability. There are many more existing Nordic low-carbon solutions.
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How were the solutions selected?

7. Solutions available for all sectors

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Solutions represent a wide range

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Some solutions actually save money

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Scaling up solutions is affordable

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Climate solutions provide multiple co-benefits

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Cycling in cities

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Combined heat and power production

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Geothermal power

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Electric vehicles

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Residential heat pumps

17. • Various proven, attractive and affordable low-carbon solutions clearly exist
• They are held back by various barriers, such as
1. required up-front investment
2. fossil fuel subsidies and low energy prices
3. lack of awareness and public opposition
4. negative social or environmental impacts, if planned or implemented poorly
• Challenges tend to be larger in poorer countries
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Why are we not doing it already?

18. • Barriers can be removed, as shown by Nordic and other countries
• Countries can remove barriers by introducing
1. incentives to reduce emissions through e.g. pricing carbon
2. mandates and norms
3. clear targets and a predictable regulatory environment
4. information and awareness campaigns
5. social and environmental safeguards
• Poor countries would benefit from international support
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We can learn from successes in removing barriers

19. Thank you
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