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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Climate Protection"”.
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The Diffusion of Climate Protection Planning among U.S. Municipalities
Many U.S. municipalities are engaged in climate protection planning, or efforts to reduce their communities' greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through land use, transportation, and energy planning. However, they face a number of procedural and institutional obstacles that limit the adoption and …
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Local action for the global environment : municipal government participation in a voluntary climate protection program
The Cities for Climate ProtectionTM (CCP) campaign is a voluntary environmental program for municipalities, which is increasingly being applied around the world by local governments taking action on climate change. This thesis investigates the reasons for adoption, barriers and drivers of …
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Or else : cataclysm and containment
… attached from building to building as climate protection. The accumulated effect of seamless sequences of corridors renders autonomous and free-standing structures obsolete. Introversion becomes de-contextual (or creates its own interior context), yet it is nevertheless a direct product …
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City of San Luis Obispo: Community and Municipal Operations 2005 Baseline Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
… and report emissions at this time, the AB 32 Climate Change Scoping Plan recommended a reduction goal for local governments of 15 percent below today’s levels by 2020 to ensure consistent reduction goals at the state and local levels. ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability initiated the …
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Challenges of the Energiewende from a policy analysis perspective
… costs on the cost-effectiveness of selected climate policy instruments? The main results and the subsequent policy conclusions of this thesis can be summarized as follows: The research on the goals of the Energiewende was based on a survey among elite policy actors, which showed that climate …
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Regional planning and the energy efficiency purposes
… be divided into four categories; first, the climate change impacts are clearly visible in urban regions throughout Iran, including Tehran Region; second, despite the national regulations set to reduce the use of fossil energies, the use of those energies are still high in different …
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Environmental Impact of Pasture-Based Milk Production in Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems
… farming, has become central to discussions on climate change and sustainability, especially in regions with high agricultural activity and policy-driven climate targets. This dissertation investigated the environmental effects of pasture-based milk production within an organic integrated …
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Pathways to Sustainable Housing
… devastating, yet growing effects of climate change. GDP has been slow for decades; Covid-19 has disturbed the economy; energy prices are rising; unemployment remains high; consumer debt and budget deficit are climbing; wealth inequality is at an all-time high. Still, 89% of the energy …
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The public understanding of climate change : A case study of Taiwanese youth
Global climate change is likely to be the most challenging environmental dilemma of the 21st century because its impacts on ecosystems and human society are transnational in scale and long term in scope. Due to its high scientific complexity and uncertainty and high political and economic …
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Populist Just Transitions
… community's urgent efforts to address climate change. Right-wing populism is a growing threat to organized labor and climate protection efforts. Some labor activists hope that advocacy for the just transition policy framework, a set of guidelines for compensating workers in polluting …
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The impact of South Africa's largest photovoltaic solar energy facility on birds in the Northern Cape, South Africa
… have replaced, but might offer opportunities for climate protection that do not necessarily conflict with nature conservation. Monitoring success of avian mortality was significantly influenced by variation in detection rates by size class (60 and 95% for birds <100 g and >100 g, respectively) and …
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Climate change impacts on electricity and residential energy demand
The energy sector is both affected by climate change and a key sector for climate protection measures. Energy security is the backbone of our modern society and guarantees the functioning of most critical infrastructure. Thus, decision makers and energy suppliers of different countries should be …
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The impact of silvicultural strategies and climate change on carbon sequestration and other forest ecosystem functions
… as a possible mitigation option against climate change. Furthermore, the use of harvested wood can contribute to the reduction of atmospheric carbon through (i) carbon sequestration in wood products, (ii) the substitution of non-wood products with wood products, and (iii) through the use …
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Driving forces and barriers for adaption strategies against the urban heat stress hazard in Berlin, Germany
Climate change is here and mitigation efforts will not be enough to stop it. We need to adapt to its unavoidable impacts. At the same time, increasing anthropogenic influence on urban climates is leading to worsening urban heat stress. Increased amounts of impervious area, dark surfaces, and the …