South Africa’s Long Term Mitigation Scenarios: Background
Stefan Raubenheimer speaks about how the South African Long Term Mitigation Scenarios came about and inspired the MAPS Programme. The post South Africa’s Long Term Mitigation Scenarios: Background...
View ArticleMAPS as a transformational process
Kate Hampton, Executive Director of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), in conversation with Stefan Raubenheimer, discusses using MAPS as long term transformational processes for climate...
View ArticleMulti-stakeholder led processes & multidisciplinary research in low carbon...
Considering the role of technological capacity and national development priorities in selecting appropriate mitigation actions. The post Multi-stakeholder led processes & multidisciplinary research...
View ArticleSequencing in South Africa’s Long Term Mitigation Scenarios
Stef Raubenheimer and Harald Winkler talk about the importance of sequencing in South Africa’s Long Term Mitigation Scenarios (LTMS) focussing on the relationship between the stakeholders and the...
View ArticleLTMS: Researcher stakeholder interaction
Harald Winkler and Brett Cohen from the MAPS International team discuss the interaction between stakeholders and research in the MAPS process, including project management and potential challenges....
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Communities learning about possible and desirable futures
Backcasting (image courtesy of Arising Future Subjunctive is one of the best articles I have read in years. It’s about backcasting as social learning. For John Robinson, backcasting the future...
View ArticleMAPS Facilitators Workshop
From 21-25 January 2013, 26 participants gathered at Jahuel, Chile, for the first MAPS/LEDS GP Facilitators Training Course. The course sought to equip mid-career professionals with the requisite...
View ArticleCommonalities and differences in approaches to mitigation actions in five...
In light of the ongoing international discussions about the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action concept, this study takes instead a more ‘bottom-up’ approach through a comparative analysis of five...
View ArticleMitigation actions: Understanding the variables that affect policy...
Mitigation actions are currently a source of both academic and ‘on-the-ground’ interest, especially as they arise within the UNFCCC context as Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)....
View ArticleMitigation Actions Country Study: Argentina
This study seeks to understand how mitigation actions are approached and conceptualised in Argentina. It describes how the country defines and identifies mitigation actions. It also maps the general...
View ArticleMitigation Potential in the Agriculture Sector: The case of Argentina,...
This paper examines the socio-economic importance of the agriculture sector in six emerging economies (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and South Africa) and compares their greenhouse gas...
View ArticleWhat was the contribution of the Long Term Mitigation Scenario process to...
The LTMS is acknowledged as being the “foundation” of South African climate mitigation policy, both domestically and internationally. However the extent to which climate mitigation implementation has...
View ArticleMAPS approach: learning and doing in the global South
This brief presents the main elements underpinning the MAPS Programme practice at national level to date. It illustrates the “how” and “why” of the MAPS experience at country level and generate a...
View ArticleColombian Low Carbon Development Strategy- Results 2015
The CLCDS has published the results of its MAPS process. The CLCDS has produced 8 Sectoral Mitigation Action Plans for Climate Change ( SMAPS) Transport PAS Mining & Energy PAS Energy &...
View ArticleAn overview of the analytical results of MAPS
This paper documents the analytical results of the four MAPS processes in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru. It focuses on the information built around emissions reference cases, emission reduction...
View ArticleBuilding Institutional Capacities for Climate Change Policy Formulation in...
This study analyses the MAPS-Chile project from a processes perspective which emphasises decisions, strategic and methodological actions that articulate the relation and interaction between the various...
View ArticleThis was different: The MAPS Programme and southern climate mitigation...
The paper asks whether the MAPS Programme can be considered a case of southern planning theorising at work and if it can, then what makes it so. In order to do this, it describes first the key...
View ArticleMAPS Chile Phase 2 Results
MAPS Chile officially launched their Phase 2 results on the 30th October 2015 at an event attended by the Chilean Minister of Health Helia Molina and Environment Minister Pablo Badenier. The results...
View ArticleIES-Brasil-Economic and Social Implications of GHG Mitigation Scenarios in...
The IES-Brasil study has assessed the economic and social implications of different sets of GHG mitigation measures in Brazil up to 2030. This summary provides an overview of the main conclusions of...
View ArticleMAPS Approach: If the answer is low carbon development, the most pressing...
This brief outlines how the MAPS programme informed action towards a lower emissions future in four Latin American countries. It details the collaborations made across domains and disciplines in each...
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