climate change mitigation Articles
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Climate Change Mitigation and Water
Both natural and anthropogenic processes contribute significantly to climate change. Among the natural processes are changes in the energy emitted from the sun, the distance between the sun and the earth, and eruptions from volcanoes. The main anthropogenic processes include emissions of greenhouse gasses such as methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and ...
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Governance of large-scale environmental problems: the case of climate change
This paper focuses on the management of Climate Change Mitigation (CCM), seeking a working institution capable of addressing its cross-scale and multi-level challenges. Currently, two most studied forms of institution are co-management and transnational networks, of which a common point is that they both attempt to build up cooperative networks. While cooperative networks have a general form of ...
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Using the transtheoretical model of behavioural change to understand the processes through which climate change films might encourage mitigation action
A number of recent films such as An Inconvenient Truth and The Age of Stupid aim not merely to inform their audience about climate change, but to engage them in taking mitigation action. This paper outlines the transtheoretical model of behavioural change, which incorporates six stages of change that individuals progress through as they change their behaviour, and ten associated processes of ...
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Book Review: Tourism and Climate Change Mitigation. Methods, Greenhouse Gas Reductions and Policies by Paul Peeters
Tourism and Climate Change Mitigation. Methods, Greenhouse Gas Reductions and Policies, by Paul Peeters. Breda, Stichting NHTV Breda, 2007. 207pp. ISBN: 978 90 72766533Keywords: book ...
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`Climate Change Mitigation Strategies,` presented at EUEC 2008
Workshop Agenda Part I Emerging Stakeholder & Regulatory Pressures Latest news on stakeholder initiatives Insights from the Carbon Disclosure Project Critical new regulatory/permitting pressures under NSR Part II Effective Use of Carbon Trading Voluntary versus compliance carbon market Critical design elements for a carbon trading program Important factors in generating ...
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Climate change mitigation: overview of the environmental policy instruments
Climate variability has been observed over a long period of time and is considered a natural process occurring on Earth. Climate change, however, is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere in addition to natural phenomena. Global climate governance requires a broad area of measures and policies to be implemented worldwide to tackle ...
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Inside stories on climate compatible development: Niger
Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration brings increased crop yields, income and food security to impoverished rural communities in Niger. It also holds climate change mitigation potential. Honouring local wisdom is key to the success of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration – farmers can play a central role in experimenting, innovating, communicating potential benefits, and advocating ...
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Framing the role of design in transformation of consumption practices: beyond the designer-product-user triad
Lifestyle changes can contribute to climate change mitigation. Social and technical changes are however intimately related, and consumption entangled with technology. Design researchers have proposed several strategies for facilitating more sustainable consumption patterns through design. However, many actors and structures influence both technology development and how consumption patterns ...
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Allocation of ecologically allowable carbon emissions to countries as a key to more effective post–Kyoto Protocol climate change mitigation law
The paper proposes novel carbon indicators as effective control instruments to design the post–Kyoto Protocol climate change mitigation law. The allocation of Ecologically Allowable Carbon Emissions (EACE) to countries show that a group of countries needs no emissions reductions today because their actual carbon emissions are below the EACE. The presented approach offers improved flexibility ...
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The optimal paths of climate change mitigation and adaptation under certainty and uncertainty
Tradeoffs between climate change mitigation and adaptation policies are explored under both certainty and uncertainty with learning using a numerical two-period decision model. We first replicate a version of the Adaptation in DICE climate model (AD-DICE) (de Bruin et al., 2009), which modifies the Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (DICE) (Nordhaus and Boyer, 2000) to ...
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Carbon capture and storage under the clean development mechanism – An overview of regulatory challenges
The safe and secure deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage in developing countries could be a way to reconcile their economic development with the objective of climate change mitigation. The Clean Development Mechanism could provide the required additional financial incentive to enable the implementation of CCS projects. However, the inclusion of this technology in the CDM faces important ...
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Unilateral climate change mitigation, carbon leakage and competitiveness: an application to the European Union
The setting of binding targets for CO2 emission reductions for 2020 by the European Union (EU) alone has led to concerns that unilateral climate change mitigation may not only hamper the union's competitiveness, but also result in carbon leakage. The paper explores these claims through the deployment of a dynamic, nonlinear, macro-econometric simulation called the Energy-Environment-Economy (E3) ...
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Analysis of key trends and drivers in greenhouse gas emissions in the EU between 1990 and 2015
Publication Created 31 May 2017 Published 01 Jun 2017 Topics: Climate change mitigation The report analyses the major factors underpinning the trends in greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, both in the last year and over the period since 1990. The data is based on the EU’s 2017 submission to the UNFCCC of its greenhouse gas inventory. ...
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Tetra–stable bifurcation structure of the climate system of Earth: mechanisms triggering potential transition to the greenhouse steady state
The emissions of human–made greenhouse gases may trigger transition from the pre–industrial climate to the greenhouse steady state, which was for the last time abandoned 49 million years ago. The study provides an energy balance climate model with temperature–dependent parameters, which illustrates the tetra–stable bifurcation structure of the climate system. Bifurcation structures can evolve in ...
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Pro-poor low carbon development and the role of growth
Climate change adaptation and mitigation need to cut across all poverty reduction efforts, including any post-2015 architecture. However, low carbon development (LCD) debates to date have been mainly about high and middle-income countries. There are good reasons why even the poorest countries with low emissions might be interested in pursuing LCD. This article assesses the controversial role of ...
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Strategies and Instruments for Climate Proofing the EU Budget. Interim report.
The EU budget is one option in the EU's tool box to deliver policy results. There is a growing view among policy stakeholders that the future EU budget should not only dedicte targeted spending to climate change mitigation and adaptation actions but also horizontally integrate climate change measures across all spending areas. This is an interim report seeking to provide a basis for further ...
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Economics of climate change mitigation and adaptation: moving from impact assessment to vulnerability
The article is based on a detailed literature review pertaining to conceptual and methodological issues of climate change impact and vulnerability assessment. The impact of climate change differs among geographical regions owing to the abject difference in the levels of income, production and consumption pattern, availability and use of technology, etc. The initial impact assessment studies, ...
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Adapting to climate change : assessing the World Bank Group experience - phase three of the World Bank Group and climate change
This paper constitutes the third and final volume of a series of assessments of the World Bank Group's engagement with climate change issues. The first focused on World Bank involvement in policy issues related to greenhouse gas mitigation. It was mainly concerned with the potential for energy price reform and energy efficiency policies to yield dividends in growth, fiscal savings, and climate ...
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The role of organisations in enhanced global environmental management: perspectives on climate change and waste management strategies
This paper examines the drivers for and strategies employed in the implementation of climate change mitigation at the organisational level. The study employed a desk-based survey of the environmental policies of selected companies worldwide from a range of sectors including the energy, commercial, financial and educational sectors. The findings suggest that international and national ...
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Climate change: knowledge, attitude and practice among the residents of Ifo LGA, Ogun State, South West, Nigeria - challenges and prospects towards site–specific interventions
The end of the 19th century witnessed an increase in mean global temperature, with rising sea levels, due to discernible human influence on the global climate, causing untoward effects on lives and properties. The study determined the knowledge, attitude and practice towards climate change among the residents of Ifo LGA, Ogun State, South West, Nigeria. A descriptive cross–sectional survey was ...
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