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Dear readers,
Welcome to the Climate Weekly Digest by the Centre for Science and Environment’s Climate Change programme and Down to Earth.
Around the world, there is a growing understanding that decarbonisation must integrate industrial transformation, which, in turn, will require policy, planning and coordination. CSE Climate’s Trishant Dev and Avantika Goswami, in their new article, highlight how green industrialisation is increasingly being framed as the organising principle of economic strategy across multilateral fora—and why the climate regime must catch up or risk being sidelined.
Dev and Goswami point out how multilateral institutions are shaping their language around green industrial policy. This includes the flagship report of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization which stresses on the centrality of industrialisation within development thinking, the G20 referencing “sustainable industrial policy” and identifying barriers to green industrialisation faced by developing countries, and the adoption of the Belem Declaration on Green Industrialisation at COP30 which links climate outcomes to green industrial policy. Moreover, research frameworks are evolving to link the green transition to political-economy issues such as structural asymmetries that favour the Global North and historical disadvantages faced by the Global South. CSE’s new research series, “Towards a New Green World”, looks at how climate policy must focus on economic resilience and green industrialisation for climate action in developing countries.
As a result, Dev and Goswami argue, the global climate regime can no longer limit industrial policy as mitigation action but rather must frame it as a development and political-economy question. There is potential to amplify this agenda, such as within the UNFCCC’s new trade and climate dialogues beginning next year, discussions on a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels where countries can chart out viable alternative pathways to prosperity that incorporate green industrialisation, and Brazil’s upcoming Integrated Forum on Climate Change and Trade. In the end, green industrial policy must reflect the shift in understanding from emissions reduction to a global political-economic challenge.
Lastly, the latest episode of the Carbon Politics podcast was released on Sunday, December 28. In this episode titled “Beyond Belem: What's next on the multilateral climate agenda?”, CSE Climate’s Avantika Goswami, Trishant Dev, Sehr Raheja and Rudrath Avinashi reflect on the recently concluded COP30 in Brazil. They highlight the concrete results and acute disappointments from the climate summit on issues such as just transition, adaptation and fossil fuels. Further, looking forward to 2026, they discuss what to expect on global climate cooperation in the year ahead.
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By - Upamanyu Das
Climate Change, CSE
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