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Several agreements in the last decade have established the urgent need to intensify the efforts toward “net zero” carbon emissions. Globally, more than 80% of greenhouse gas emissions and economies are linked with net-zero targets. To achieve that, international collaboration and robust frameworks are needed that consider all factors from a socioeconomic, political, technological, institutional, and environmental perspective. This chapter considers these factors within a framework suggested by WRI. At the end the chapter proposes a framework to evaluate economic opportunities and challenges in the road toward global net-zero goals.
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Inglesi-Lotz, R., Kassier, C. (2023). Economics and Zero-Carbon. In: Wood, G., Onyango, V., Yenneti, K., Liakopoulou, M.A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Zero Carbon Energy Systems and Energy Transitions. Palgrave Studies in Energy Transitions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74380-2_39-1
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