This article investigates the possible role of global governance in transforming land transport towards decarbonisation. While this transformation fac…

In response to the limitations of the United Nations climate change regime, a range of dynamic climate governance arrangements have emerged, including minilateral ‘climate clubs’. Although proposed a...

NDC ASPECTS has recently released one of its last major outputs in the form of 20 short reports or "fiches" on the transition pathways of major emitters and countries that can play a key role on the s...

A new Policy Brief by Hilton Trollip (IDDRI), Nicolas Berghmans (IDDRI), and Gauri Khandekar (VUB) suggests that green iron imports rooted in comparative advantages of different geographies are techni...

A key reason behind the buildings sector’s persistently high emissions is its diversity and complexity. This Policy Brief by Faidra Filippidou (E3Modelling) attempts to identify viable socio-technical...

Private motorized road mobility (cars, 2-3 wheelers) accounts for about 45% of transport emissions. The share of larger passenger vehicles – specifically sport utility vehicles (SUVs, including pickup...

NDC ASPECTS has released a new policy brief on the potential of scrap use for EU steel decarbonization by Annika Tönjes and Süheyb Bilici from Wuppertal Institute. With a strong focus on supporting hy...

On 20 October 2022, NDC ASPECTS work on sectoral options for global climate governance was presented by Adrián Vidal (BC3), Catherine Hall (UEF), and Simon Otto (VUB) at the 2022 Earth Systems Governa...

The multilateral governance frameworks that have been created so far to address climate change—primarily, the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement—h...

As the imperative to address climate change intensifies, understanding the effectiveness of policy interventions becomes paramount. In the context of addressing these urgent challenges and given the i...

International maritime shipping accounts for an important proportion of global CO2 emissions, but its role in a world with deep decarbonization has not been thoroughly examined. Through a multi-model ...

The ZEV revolution is already underway, as the market continues to rapidly gain steam across the globe. At COP26 in Glasgow, several countries came together and launched the Breakthrough on Road Trans...