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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Climate action plans"”.
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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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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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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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Benchmarking San Luis Obispo's Municipal Energy Use: An Audit Implementation Plan
<p>As energy cost and climate change become increasingly prevalent concerns in the planning world, more and more jurisdictions are creating energy efficiency and climate action plans. As of 2011, over 120 cities and counties around the United States had already completed climate action plans …
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How Are American Cities Planning for Climate Change? An Evaluation of Climate Action Planning in Chicago, IL and Portland, OR
<p>Contending with a changing climate presents a necessary push for planning. Although climate change is considered a global environmental problem requiring a global commitment and trans-national action, more and more, policymakers are recognizing the vital need for action at the local level. In …
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Towards “just” energy transitions in unequal societies: an actor-centric analysis of South Africa's evolving electricity sector
… rapid and intensifying impacts of the changing climate and subsequent need to alleviate these have resulted in the synonymous pathway towards a global energy transition. Through enhanced national climate action plans, countries worldwide are formulating development pathways that are aligned to a …
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An Integrated Approach for Developing Adaptation Strategies in Climate Planning: A Case Study of Vulnerability in Dukes County, Massachusetts
<p>Climate Action Plans (CAP’s) are recent innovations in policy that have been catalyzed by a need to adjust the relationship between human activity and the Earth’s climate system. CAP’s often are composed of methods to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in addition to adaptation strategies. …
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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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Urban climate resilience : a global assessment of city adaptation plans
As policy makers accept climate change as an irrefutable threat, adaptation planning has emerged as a necessary action for countries, states, and municipalities. This thesis explores adaptive responses to climate change in 17 cities, comparing municipal plans created to "battle" a global problem at …
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Using Urban Building Energy Modeling to Develop Carbon Reduction Pathways for Cities
… to the challenges and potential impact of climate change, cities and municipalities around the world are developing climate action plans to reduce carbon emissions and enhance resilience of their built environments. However, policymakers require a data-driven method to identify the most …
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The South African coal mining industry as a driver of green growth and a low carbon economy? A study on Sustainable Development Goals 7 & 13
… what their strategy is with regard to energy and climate change. The coal sector is analysed in view of South Africa’s high contribution to greenhouse gas emissions as a result of its coal-based energy system. Results show that the major coal mining companies are reporting on some of the SDG 7 …
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Environmental and economic impacts of UIUC food purchasing
… The American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is a voluntary effort through which signatories have agreed to perform baseline carbon inventories and publish climate action plans with emission reduction targets. UIUC’s Climate Action Plan, iCAP, calls to increase the …
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Beyond Carbon Toward Liberation: An Urban Bioethical Case for a Socially and Environmentally Just University Health System
… to center equity and the lived experience of climate injustice in urban communities? Through the application of urban bioethical principles and examination of a public state-related university and its health system in a major U.S. city, I argue that the higher education institutional climate …