Under the UK Climate Change Act 2008, the government has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 relative to 1990 levels (Climate Change Act, 2008). This will require a large shift in the UK’s energy system, ranging from energy production, across transmission to consumption.

The public are implicated in the transition process as energy users, increasingly also as energy producers and as active members of society who might support or oppose energy projects and policies. Previous research (Demski et al., 2015; Parkhill et al., 2013) has shown that there is widespread public support for transitioning to a low-carbon, affordable and reliable energy system – however, this change is associated with costs and it remains to be seen how these costs will be covered.

This research explores the views of the British public on how the energy transition should be financed. Drawing on a survey of 3,150 respondents and focus groups in 4 locations across Great Britain, it investigates what responsibility members of the public assign to government, energy companies and the general public for financing energy system change.

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http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/publications/paying-for-energy-transitions.html

http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/asset/402B12E6-98A9-4591-AED4A2B0B07A06BE/

Aware that the growing deployment of renewables has set in motion a global energy transformation with significant implications for geopolitics, Adnan Z. Amin, the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), with the support of the Governments of Germany, Norway and the United Arab Emirates, convened the Global Commission in January 2018.

Chaired by former President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson of Iceland, the Commission comprises a diverse group of distinguished leaders from the worlds of politics, energy, economics, trade, environment and development. The Commission is an independent body with members serving in their individual capacity.

This Report analyzes the geopolitical implications of the global energy transformation driven by renewables. It is the culmination of ten months’ deliberations by the Commission, involving four meetings held in Berlin, Oslo Reykjavik and Abu Dhabi respectively, as well as consultations with business leaders, academics and policy thinkers. It is informed by a number of background papers drafted by experts in the fields of energy, security and geopolitics.

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https://www.irena.org/publications/2019/Jan/A-New-World-The-Geopolitics-of-the-Energy-Transformation

http://geopoliticsofrenewables.org/assets/geopolitics/Reports/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Global_commission_renewable_energy_2019.pdf

For many of us, climate change is a distant, complex issue that is difficult to understand. Most people recognise the problem and many are worried about it, but they can’t connect with how climate change will affect them personally and what they, as individuals, can do about it.

As the world’s temperatures rise and consumer behaviour remains stuck at unsustainable levels, an urgent question for business, governments and civil society is: How can we engage people across the world to act on climate change?

We identified four consumer segments according to their beliefs, levels of empowerment, and the kinds of solutions they look to. And we developed a Climate Activation Framework to explain how we can engage people on climate change.

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https://globescan.com/ikea-climate-action-consumer-study/

https://globescan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IKEA-GlobeScan_Climate_Action_Report_Sept2018.pdf

La Política Nacional de Laboratorios a través de la cual se busca definir lineamientos de política pública alrededor de tres grandes estrategias: (i) mejorar las capacidades técnicas de los laboratorios, (ii) establecer incentivos que permitan consolidar el mercado de servicios de laboratorios, apropiar la cultura de la calidad y fomentar el trabajo en red, y (iii) mejorar el marco normativo e institucional aplicable a los laboratorios que permita una correcta gestión y articulación del Subsistema Nacional de la Calidad (Sical) y del Sistema Nacional de Competitividad, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SNCCTI).

El cumplimiento de estas estrategias permitirá el aprovechamiento de más de trece Tratados de Libre Comercio (TLC) de Colombia con el mundo, además de la sofisticación del aparato productivo y diversificación de la oferta exportable, y la innovación e investigación con aplicaciones para la industria (patentes).

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https://www.dnp.gov.co/CONPES/documentos-conpes/Paginas/documentos-conpes.aspx

https://colaboracion.dnp.gov.co/CDT/Conpes/Econ%C3%B3micos/3957.pdf

https://colaboracion.dnp.gov.co/CDT/Conpes/Econ%C3%B3micos/Anexo%20A_%20Plan%20de%20Acci%C3%B3n%20y%20Seguimiento_3957.xlsx