| Key message 3: “Aligning sustainable development & climate change actions can reduce the burden and facilitate transition to stabilization. LCE is technologically and economically feasible.” |
There is trade-off between economic development and environment conservation. LCE itself may be costly, but it creates innovations to break trade-offs and shift the frontier line toward sustainable development. LCE has ancillary benefits such as energy security, land conservation, self-sustained city, and environmentally sustainable transportation. Early action avoids lock-ins from current technologies and makes it possible to achieve national and global LCE technologically and economically.
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Circumventing economy–environment trade-off with innovative strategies
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Scenario development to achieve low carbon economy
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