Emerging lessons on designing and implementing mitigation actions in five developing countries

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Acknowledgements

The articles in this Special Issue have emerged from research conducted by the authors as part of the Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS programme). The authors, who are researchers involved in the MAPS programme, had the opportunity to share earlier versions in a MAPS Research Lab held in Lima, Peru (September 2011) and appreciated the vibrant discussion in the MAPS community subsequently. The articles were significantly reworked in preparation for submission and in response to valuable comments received from Climate and Development's peer reviewer process.

MAPS is a collaboration amongst developing countries to establish the evidence base for the long-term transition to robust, carbon efficient economies.

In this way, MAPS contributes to ambitious climate change mitigation that aligns economic development with poverty alleviation. MAPS current works in-country in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru, with a MAPS international team based in South Africa at the Energy Research Centre (University of Cape Town) and SouthSouthNorth. We gratefully acknowledge funding by Children's Investment Fund Foundation for the original research. The responsibility for the views expressed in this guest editorial and the articles in this Special Issue remains that of the authors.