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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"Climate Action"”.
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The psychological underpinnings of collective climate action
We are in the midst of a dangerous climate crisis, and collective mobilization is needed to push for urgent global transformations. Many people already perceive the risk that human actions are driving increasingly catastrophic climate impacts, but only a few are taking actions such as asking …
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Essays on the Economics of Climate Action
… an experimental project studying individual action on climate change in the United States. In the first chapter of my thesis, Hannah Ruebeck and I study whether and how individuals strategically build political movements, focusing on the climate movement in the US. Policy change typically …
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Collecting Ideals: Re-envisioning ejidos as climate-action platforms
… In "Collecting Ideals: Re-envisioning ejidos as climate-action platforms" I argue that ejidos, have and are still playing a major role in the urbanization and development of more rural settings in Mexico, particularly in regions with small towns. I further argue that ejidal dynamics in such …
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Analysis of the Intended Implementation Strategies of Municipal Climate Action Plans
In the United States, many cities have adopted Climate Action Plans (CAPs) to outline strategies to achieve emissions reduction targets. This research focuses on analyzing gaps, strengths, and weaknesses of the actions included in municipal climate action plans to achieve carbon reduction targets …
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Leading Climate Action Planning: A Case Study of Local Community Practices
<p>Given the increasing rate of anthropogenic climate change and the resulting climate impacts that communities around the world will be coping with over the next century, it is becoming increasingly important that communities, cities, and regions begin to develop climate action plans that will …
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The Equity Market Reaction to Corporate Climate Action Bond Issue Announcements
Climate change has become the defining crisis of our time. Without drastic action today, adapting to the future impact of this issue will be both challenging and costly. Green bonds enable capital-raising and investment for projects that have a positive impact on the environment, facilitating the …
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Is Micromobility Here to Stay? Insights from Canadian Communities Prioritizing Climate Action
… particularly in cities prioritizing climate action. Using both deductive and inductive coding, the analysis applies a framework within the existing literature (the Sustainable Micromobility Framework) while also identifying emergent themes through a grounded theory process. The …
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Establishing relevant and high quality domestic MRV systems to support effective climate action
… of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or Convention) at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit marked a decisive global turning point in the fight against anthropogenic climate change. The ultimate objective of the Convention is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a …
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Individualizing Climate Action Plans in Southern California
… California city, is under severe threat from climate change. Sea level rise, flooding, extreme heat, and environmental pollution all pose risk to the city and especially its vulnerable residents. This thesis has taken an environmental justice lens and applied it in analyzing Imperial Beach’s …
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Navigating Climate Action: The River as Teacher for Eco-Literacy, Educational Regeneration and Creative Participation
… spanning a spectrum from reciprocal to transactional practices. In time, these engagements form a body of knowledges that nurtures the culture and its land, or arrests their vital and diverse qualities. This research project aims to bring to light how the different ways of engaging with and …
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Quantifying the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Hazards: Incorporating Disaster Mitigation Strategies in Climate Action Plans
… we can quantify to better understand the climate impacts of disasters.</p> <p>The proposed methodology draws data from existing emission and hazard resource literature and combines the information in a community scale life cycle assessment. Case studies of past disasters are used to refine …
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Does GRID Alternatives Impact Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Targets in Central Coast Climate Action Plans?
… (MT CO<sub>2</sub>e) emissions reduction for the climate action plans’ <em>Energy</em> or <em>Renewable Energy</em> c<em>limate action measures</em> that pertain to solar electric installations in the cities of: Arroyo Grande, Atascadero, Paso Robles, and San Luis Obispo and San Luis Obispo …
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Nature Sports Signatories of the United Nations Sports for Climate Action Framework: A Thematic Analysis
Climate change is a real and present threat to our planet and all living things. As part of the solution, the UN intends to leverage sport to raise awareness and take up climate action to be climate leaders. The UN’s Sports for Climate Action Framework asks that sports organizations become …
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Pathways for Investor Climate Action: Trade-offs and Synergies under the Banner of Net Zero
Climate change is a critical issue for financial markets because of physical risk to assets from extreme weather events, and risks and opportunities arising from the world’s transition to a low carbon economy. This transition can be understood as a wave - a metaphor in which investors use different …
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Collective Climate Action, Policy Learning and COVID-19: A Comparative Analysis of the Global Governance and Responses
… in terms of policy learning and collective action. The COVID-19 pandemic and anthropogenic climate change pose critical challenges to human well-being as much as they depend on collective responses to contain them. The comparative analysis of governance structures in climate change and the …
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Intersectional Approaches to Climate Action: A Comparative Study of Women's Equality and Indigenous Voices in Iceland and New Zealand
<p>Climate change is one of the greatest challenges our world faces today and will be facing for generations to come, as nature and its ecosystems increasingly experience extreme weather patterns and irreversible environmental damage. Marginalized populations such as women and indigenous peoples …
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