Climate Change Mitigation: Strategies for Reducing Carbon Footprint and Promoting Sustainable Development

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🔬研究者:Provides a broad literature review of mitigation strategies, useful as a starting point for further research.

🏢実務担当者:Offers an overview of key mitigation options for corporate sustainability teams to consider in their decarbonization planning.

🏛政策担当者:Highlights policy instruments and challenges that can inform national climate strategy and international cooperation.

Climate change has emerged as one of the most critical global challenges of the twenty-first century, primarily driven by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions resulting from fossil fuel combustion, industrial activities, and land-use changes. Reducing carbon footprints while ensuring sustainable development has therefore become a central objective of global climate policy and research. This paper critically examines key climate change mitigation strategies that contribute to emission reduction and promote long-term sustainability. Drawing upon recent peer-reviewed literature, international reports, and empirical studies, the research analyzes renewable energy transitions, energy efficiency improvements, carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), nature-based solutions, and policy instruments such as carbon pricing and climate finance. The study highlights that large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies, particularly solar and wind power, combined with improvements in energy efficiency across buildings, industry, and transport sectors, can significantly reduce global emissions. Complementary strategies such as CCUS and ecosystem-based approaches play a vital role in addressing residual and hard-to-abate emissions while offering co-benefits for biodiversity and livelihoods. The paper further explores the alignment of mitigation strategies with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), emphasizing the importance of equity, just transition, and inclusive growth. Despite technological progress, the research identifies major challenges, including scalability constraints, financial and technological gaps in developing countries, and weak policy implementation. The paper concludes that an integrated, multisectoral mitigation framework supported by strong governance, international cooperation, and equitable climate finance is essential to achieve net-zero emissions and advance sustainable development in line with the Paris Agreement goals.

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