Policy Interventions for Climate Change: Assessing Global Strategies to Reduce Carbon Footprint

Climate change is still a critical issue in the world, and some trends should be combat with international efforts in the regions and some sectors. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the efficiency of policy measures in fostering energy efficiency (EE) and reducing deforestation from 2000 to 2020 for Europe, California, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and others. The work focuses on assessing savings from EE and demand, and reductions in deforestation. The changes on EE on facilities were as percent changes while on the other hand deforestation was compared on the number of hectares of forest covers. These two areas with policy interference captured here as European union and California depicted sharp improvements in EE and had reduced the figure of energy consumption per GDP by 28 and 29 respectively. Where an implementation of a control on deforestation was done in Brazil, deforestation was reduced by 37.5%. China and India had no policy change, and they witnessed a magnitude of 10% increase in the efficiency of energy use and 5% increase in deforestation. It was observed that proactive policy areas recorded substantial positive changes while the lack of such measures incurred small gains. The study indicates the need to integrate climate policies to achieve climate sensitive development.