Design and integration of policies to achieve environmental targets

Few problems are as urgent and important as climate change. Climate change mitigation policies are geographically and culturally dependent given the variability of resources, of access to technology and of national political constraints such as ensuring energy security, affordability and social acceptability. Thus, climate change mitigation hinges on devising integrated policies involving many mutually reinforcing and coordinated efforts in order to exploit synergies between policy tools and to avoid policy conflicts.