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Dear Colleague,
I am pleased to announce the launch of Systems Change Lab, a collaborative initiative that aims to spur action at the pace and scale needed to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges: limiting global warming to 1.5°C, halting biodiversity loss and building a just economy. The new open-source data platform will track global progress across nearly every major system, including shifts needed in how we power industries, build cities, govern societies and conserve nature.
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It is clear that worldwide ambition is still far from where it needs to be. Systems Change Lab has identified more than 70 transformational shifts needed to protect both people and the planet, while also highlighting current action against climate, biodiversity and equity targets. The new data platform tracks which shifts are accelerating or heading in the wrong direction, as well as the key forces driving these changes, providing insights to spur change and drive policy, investment and action.
Systems Change Lab is a joint effort convened by the Bezos Earth Fund and World Resources Institute, supporting the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions. This collaborative initiative would not have been possible without tremendous partnership across organizations including Climate Action Tracker (a project of NewClimate Institute and Climate Analytics), ClimateWorks Foundation, Global Environment Facility, Just Climate, Mission Possible Partnership, Systemiq, University of Exeter and the University of Tokyo’s Center for Global Commons, among others. Systems Change Lab is a component of the Global Commons Alliance.
The Systems Change Lab platform features new research, analysis, interactive dashboards and data visualizations for five key systems: power, industry, transport, finance and carbon removal. Additional systems and research will be released throughout 2023 until the platform is tracking global progress across more than a dozen systems, as well as the connections and leverage points that exist between them.
Join leading experts at COP27 on November 9 for a high-level launch event at 9 a.m. EET. If you cannot attend in person, tune in via the livestream link.
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Understanding where we are – or aren’t – seeing exponential shifts is critical to aligning action across all sectors. For example, we find that:
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- Global investments in battery storage have grown from $1.6 billion in 2015 to $18 billion in 2022, reaching an average growth rate of 36% per year since 2019.
- Between 2010 and 2020, global green hydrogen production increased almost 7-fold.
- About 23% of global greenhouse gas emissions were covered by a direct carbon pricing regime as of 2022, compared with 13% in 2020.
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Read our latest Insights article to learn more about systems change and how this approach can help solve complex environmental and development challenges.
Ahead of COP27, we hope you find Systems Change Lab a useful tool to identify critical leverage points for rapid change and evidence-based opportunities to allocate resources most effectively. Visit the platform now!
Warmly,
Ani
Ani Dasgupta
President & CEO
World Resources Institute
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