This information can be used in the planning of policies for mitigation of climate change.
Policies for mitigation of the environment impact are having effects on both the supply and demand.
"The big issues in climate policy are costs of mitigation and costs of controlling the precursors of climate change," says Charles Kolstad, an economist at UC Santa Barbara's Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management.
In addition, this understanding can inform policy-relevant analyses of the possible consequences of mitigation policies.
In fact, the IPCC showed that the impact of mitigation policies, such as a tripling of renewables, will not be the brake on economic growth that many blockers still desperately try to claim.
The uptake of mitigation policies at the local level since the late 1990s has shown a steadily increasing trend, although it has been declining of late (following the 2011 termination of the SLOK scheme).
Comprehensive studies of these problems using experimental or quasi-experimental designs are still lacking, so conducting such studies should be the first step toward implementation of mitigation policies in Latin America.
According to the INDC of Gabon, net emissions reductions (compared to the BAU scenario) will be reached through successful implementation of a number of mitigation policies relating to the forest sector (e.g., Code Forestier, Plan National d'Affectation de Terre).
The tool, however, allows the introduction of mitigation policies at the global level.
In addition, models are needed of the consequences, including co-benefits, of mitigation policies at appropriate scales.
