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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Climate Change Policy"”.
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Evaluating Climate Change Policy Through the Endangered Species Act
… sets out to address a growing knowledge gap of climate change science in regards to the state of Arkansas. Within the coming chapters, the goal of this research is to examine climate data and to identify if any evidence of climate change can be detected and what are the policies in place to …
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Translating Climate Change Policy: The case of REDD+ in Ghana
The policy of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) has been promoted at the global level as an innovative approach to reduce forest loss that contributes to about one-fifth of global climate change. My dissertation brings together theories of policy processes and political …
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Using energy-economic-environmental models in the climate change policy process
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1992.
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Climate Change Policy in an Enlarged European Union: Institutions, Efficiency, and Equity
By inserting the estimated equations of the model in a social planner's optimization problem, a framework to analyze different notions of efficiency and equity have been developed.
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Induced technical change in computable general equilibrium models for climate-change policy analysis
Policies to avert the threat of dangerous climate change focus on stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations by drastically reducing anthropogenic emissions of carbon. Such reductions require limiting the use of fossil fuels-which supply the bulk of energy to economic activity, and for …
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Climate Change Policy Narratives and Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa: New Concerns, Old Arguments?
… on the effects of climatic and other forms of change on pastoralism in Africa, less is known about how recent policy responses and development interventions in the name of climate change and pastoral area development are shaped by certain discourses and narratives and by political interests. …
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European Union Climate Change Policy: in the nexus of internal policy-making and international negotiations
… dissertation is to examine the European Union s climate policy in the nexus of domestic policy-making and international negotiations. I firstly test the EU s internal climate policy-making by applying the rational choice institutionalism on the model of institution and preference affect EU s …
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Autonomous energy efficiency improvements : relevance, use, and empirical basis for global climate change policy analysis
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Debating sustainable development in global climate change policy: The “Cancún agreements” v. the “People’s agreement of Cochabamba”
<p>The climate is in crisis, and the policies put in place now will have a dramatic impact on international development, international relations, and social movements for generations to come. In recent years there have been two major conferences bringing together international policy makers to …
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Benchmarking climate change strategies under constrained resource usage
… presents evidence based research into climate change policy. The research technique of political economy is used to investigate policy development. A major change in the Anglo-American growth paradigm from unconstrained to constrained growth is identified. The implications of this …
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A Brazilian Emissions Trading Scheme: modelling a legal framework to secure its environmental integrity and ensuring effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
… economy. As part of its efforts to mitigate climate change, the Brazilian Government has developed an ambitious voluntary greenhouse gas emissions reduction target and a climate change policy, the Brazilian Climate Change Policy, which foresees that a future Brazilian Emission Reduction …
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An analysis of the political rhetoric of South African President Jacob Zuma's speeches on climate change
Climate change has a global impact on all sectors of life including politics and the economy; health and food security, social justice and media. There are stark contrasts in the political and scientific debates on climate change. The economic impacts have already gripped the attention of both the …
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Did State Renewable Portfolio Standards Induce Technical Change In Methane Mitigation in the U.S. Landfill Sector?
… However, landfills sometimes face conflicting policy incentives. The theory of technical change shows that the diffusion of a technology or groups of technologies increases slowly in the beginning and then picks up speed as knowledge and better understanding of using the technology diffuses …
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An investigation into adoption of mitigative and adaptive strategies to climate change: a case of construction materials manufacturing business enterprises in Lusaka province.
Climate change is a global problem that affects not just the physical existence of the world but the less physical aspects such as the economy. It is caused by both natural processes and by man’s industrial activities. These causes results in the emission of greenhouse gases that eventually elevate …
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An investigation into adoption of mitigative and adaptive strategies to climate change: a case of construction materials manufacturing business enterprises in Lusaka province.
Climate change is a global problem that affects not just the physical existence of the world but the less physical aspects such as the economy. It is caused by both natural processes and by man’s industrial activities. These causes results in the emission of greenhouse gases that eventually elevate …
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Organizational Strategies of Influence on American Environmental Policy, 1976-2006: A Network Exploration of Power Elitism versus Pluralism
… employed for influencing American environmental policy with considerations to the "power elite" and "pluralist" models of policy control. Using a data set comprised of 379 organizations derived from US congressional hearings on climate change policy between 1976 and 2006, I find that industrial …
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Political Institutions and Carbon Taxation
… left-party power represents greater demand for climate change policy. Federalism has a strong negative effect, meaning this type of political decentralization might make implementation of national-level ECTs more challenging, and decentralization might also reduce the administrative capacity for …
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Comparing Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change During Election Campaigns in the United States, Canada and Australia
<p>This study compares newspaper coverage of climate change and global warming during the national elections in Australia, Canada and the U.S. during 2007 and 2008. Using a census of newspaper coverage and in-depth interviews with reporters, editors and columnists in the three countries, the study …
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Determinants for the adoption of climate change policies for urban Africa: A study of urban local governments in Ghana
… 2012). One issue facing all countries is climate change. Though contested, climate change has emerged as an urgent issue around which both ideas of development and practice are crystallising both in the north and south. However in this discourse, the diffusion and adoption of climate …
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Corporate political responsibility and climate change : exploring barriers to strategy alignment among major U.S. food and beverage companies
… but how they make it. Responsibility towards climate change is a central pillar. While companies are increasingly taking steps to address their contributions to climate change, their political activities are often not aligned with this goal. Many companies continue to directly and indirectly …
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