Pathfinder 2020
In our Pathfinder 2020, we invite you to learn more about our projects and achievements, our solutions and activities, our methods of working, and our global network.
2021 Future Policy Award Brochure – Protection from Hazardous Chemicals
About the Future Policy Award 2021 Brochure
This brochure is presenting the winners of the Future Policy Award 2021 on Protection from hazardous chemicals.
Championing and spreading effective, future-just policy solutions is the principal goal of the World Future Council. Our Future Policy Award is the first award that celebrates legislation and policies for the benefit of current and future generations at an international level. The aim of the award is to raise global awareness about these exemplary laws and speed up action towards just, sustainable and peaceful societies. Each year we select a priority topic in which policy action is particularly needed. Some of the key global issues that we have addressed include children’s rights, youth empowerment, food security, agroecology. In 2021, we are awarding policy solutions that protect people, especially children, and the environment from hazardous chemicals. We are proud to present to you the winners of the Future Policy Award 2021 and we encourage policymakers globally to adopt and implement key elements of these inspiring, innovative and effective policies in their own countries, states and cities. The Future Policy Award 2021 would not have been possible without our partners and donors! The World Future Council would like to sincerely thank all of them for their generous support – and all the jury members and nominators, researchers and experts who have supported our evaluation process. We are immensely grateful for your precious work and recommendations.Enjoy reading and do visit our website to find out more about the 2021 Awardees.
The Case for a Wider Energy Policy Mix in Line with the Objectives of the Paris Agreement
Food security is a key aspect of sustainable development. Civil society projects, organisations and initiatives working on urban food security are often the only or main provider of nutritious food to the urban most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.
Pathfinder 2019
Let’s take a tour through our various projects, solutions and activities, our way of working, and our worldwide network. We invite you to look back at our impact in 2019. This Path Finder presents to you the highlights of our work. Enjoy reading!
Policy Roadmap for 100% Renewable Energy in Costa Rica
Costa Rica is a global leader when it comes to ensuring energy production comes from renewable energy sources.
Food Security: Local governments and civil society working together
Food security is a key aspect of sustainable development. Civil society projects, organisations and initiatives working on urban food security are often the only or main provider of nutritious food to the urban most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.
Achieving 100% Renewable Energy for all
The Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll) initiative pledged to ensure universal access to modern energy services, double the rate of improvement in energy efficiency and double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030. Yet, it’s self-published progress reports states that the initiative has fallen short of its objectives.
This report summarises the initiatives often underlined structural shortcomings. Namely, a lack of integration into other UN frameworks, an excessive focus on centralization and profitability, a disproportionate emphasis on private finance, a lack of inclusion of diverse business models and a lack of representation and civil society involvement. The report then examines the SEforALL Action Agendas for eight African countries.
100% Renewable Energy for Costa Rica – A Decarbonisation Roadmap
Excerpt
100% Renewable Energy for Costa Rica: Costa Rica is already a global leader when it comes to ensuring energy production comes from renewable energy sources. With a 98% share of renewables in its electricity matrix and solid achievements to prevent deforestation—around 25% of the country’s land area is in protected National Parks and other protected areas—Costa Rica is at the forefront of environmental sustainability, climate action and driving the renewable energy transition. Wanting to go even further, Costa Rica has adopted the National Decarbonization Plan in February 2019 to achieve a net-zero emissions economy by 2050, in line with the objectives of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. This report, commissioned by the World Future Council and La Ruta del Clima/Costa Rica, and financed by the One Earth Foundation USA to provide input into Costa Rica’s ambitious plan to achieve 100% renewable energy.
As the Costa Rican President, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, noted during the launch of the Plan, “Decarbonization is the great challenge of our generation and Costa Rica must be among the first countries to achieve it, if not the first.” The biggest challenge will be to increase the share of renewables in energy consumption. More than 60% of energy consumption in the country is from petroleum derivatives. 64% of Costa Rica’s emissions come´from energy use, and more than two thirds of that is from transport. A critical part will thus be to
decarbonize the transport sector. The growing demand for personal vehicles, the majority of which run on petrol, is keeping a high share of fossil fuels in the country’s energy consumption. The Decarbonization Plan aims to have 70 percent of public transport powered by electricity in 2035—and the whole fleet by
2050.
This study aims to complement these efforts and show pathways to 100%RE in order to meet the
decarbonisation challenge.
Policy Brief: “Leveraging climate finance for the Global South. Context and tools – a brief overview”
Abstract
Climate finance in the Global South differs in various ways from the conditions in the industrialised world. These differences result in several obstacles which could be identified as one reason why the annual global renewable energy investments stagnated at a level around $300 billion since 2011, while an estimated number in an area of $2.4trillion is necessary to meet the 1.5°C limit of the Paris Agreement.
The bulk of these $300bn Renewable Energy (RE)-investments happened in high-income countries and China while only a very small part was invested into renewables in the Global South. Only 0.1% of total clean energy investments accumulated in the 31 poorest countries between 2009 and 2018. The main barrier to more RE-investments in the Global South is not a lack of (green) investment capital, but rather a lack of bankable projects.
This policy brief provides an overall assessment of climate finance mechanisms in the context of domestic and international finance in the Global South. Furthermore, it will give a prospect on a possible new finance mechanism if at least a few relevant central banks from the industrialised world will engage in the global climate finance issue. Such an engagement could be the basis to facilitate the needed RE-investments to stop climate change at 1.5°C.
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