Malta Low Carbon Development Strategy.

Malta Low Carbon Development Strategy is a national multi sectoral strategy of the Country. Its main objective is to map out the country’s decarbonisation journey up to 2050.
The LCDS is being spearheaded by the Ministry for the Environment, Climate Change and Planning (MECP), with considerable inter-ministerial collaboration involved. CC ubiquitously impacts all sectors of the economy and hence collaboration from all parties, including private individuals and households, civil society and the private sector, will be required to make sure that both mitigation and adaptation measures are adopted effectively.
This Strategy is the result of a three-year process initiated by MECP, whereby mitigation measures have been researched and short-listed, possible abatement levels quantified through Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) modelling (i.e. ratio of abatement potential against incremental cost of measure), and stakeholders consulted, leading to a list of realistic and cost-effective measures which are to be implemented in the years to come. The use of MACC modelling allows government to predict the likely economic impacts and benefits of reducing GHG emissions, including overall economic investment costs and operational cost/ savings.
As this trajectory is still not enough for Malta to reach its 2030 targets under the ESR and will not be conducive to the EU’s new goal of climate neutrality by 2050, this LCDS outlines a feasible set of measures in seven different sectors, namely: Energy, Transport, Buildings, Industry, Waste, Water and Agriculture and land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), aimed to achieve target reductions in GHG emissions by 2050 and also enabling Malta to reach its ESR targets by 2030. The LCDS operates on a four-year policy cycle which will provide further opportunities to update such measures as new information becomes available, and as technologies (and their costs) develop.
This Strategy also assesses the social and economic impacts of each measure and includes adaptation measures, proposing initiatives which will help the country be resilient in the face of CC impacts which are already hitting our islands.