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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Climate policies"”.
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Uncertainty analysis of the cost of climate policies
Every climate change policy issue is inherently limited by two questions: what are exactly the consequences of climate change for our lives? How much will it cost to deal with them? Almost twelve years after the parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Kyoto in …
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California in the greenhouse: regional climate policies and the global environment
This thesis explores how climate policy is developing at sub-national or “regional” scales of decision-making. It considers local-global connections on both the science and the politics of climate change by investigating four main research questions as they pertain to regional climate action: What …
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Using climate policies and carbon markets to save tropical forests : the case of Costa Rica
… advocates for forest conservation thought that climate change could provide a lever to motivate developing countries to reduce deforestation. Fifteen years after the first climate change convention, however, global emissions from deforestation have increased. This thesis uses Costa Rica as a …
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The effects of interactions between federal and state climate policies : implications for federal climate policy design
… to begin in 2009. As development of federal climate policy moves forward, federal policymakers must address how legislation or regulation capping GHG emissions will define the relationship between a federal cap and any existing state programs, particularly when state programs involve …
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An analysis of how climate policies and the threat of stranded fossil fuel assets incentivize CCS deployment
To be on track to stabilize climate change, scientists estimate that up to two thirds of global coal, oil, and natural gas reserves will need to remain stranded in the ground. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the only technology that has the potential to mitigate climate change while utilizing …
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The Critique of Everyday Drought: A Feminist Decolonial Analysis of Hydro-Climate Policies in Cape Town, South Africa
… of the power dynamics shaping urban hydro-climate policies in the context of a growing push by the World Bank and other powerful actors to create new opportunities for water-related private investments in the global South. Drawing from the emblematic case of Cape Town, South Africa, this …
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The Climate Emergency and the Need for Global Climate Stabilization: The Role of Energy Efficiency in Climate Policy
<p>Global climate change is a worldwide challenge requiring a coordinated, international policy response. However, political pressures and disagreements between developed and developing countries have obstructed past climate negotiations and have stalled the adoption of binding greenhouse gas …
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The management of local greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate change is recognized as a major threat to humanity and action is being taken at various spatial levels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Most efforts at the local level are focused on the development and implementation of policies to tackle climate change but there is little research on …
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Towards zero emissions and zero poverty in the Global South: a comparative analysis of South Africa, India and Mexico's approach to development and climate change mitigation
… the 21st century are sustainable development and climate change mitigation. In light of these challenges, this thesis seeks to analyse and compare the extent to which development and climate change mitigation are aligned on a policy level in three countries in the global south, namely South …
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LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION POLICY IN AN IMPERFECT WORLD
… widely acknowledged that an important element of climate change mitigation policy will be the development and diffusion of low-carbon technologies. This dissertation uses the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM), a global integrated assessment model to study the relationships between technology …
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Transport under Emission Trading
… which are an important factor in evaluating climate policies are not included. Therefore, the second model is a static Small Open Economy model of the German economy including congestion effects and detailed technological characteristics of electricity generation. The results of both models …
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Distributed household effects of climate policy in the United States
The net effects of various climate policies on households in the United States are assessed, with particular attention to the distribution of economic outcomes across geography, urbanity, and income groups. Climate policy has the potential to assess more costs to low-income households than …
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Impacts of emission policies in China on air pollution and human health
… at emitting sources by end-of-pipe control policies or as co-benefits of climate policies that limit fossil fuel. Identifying cost-effective control strategies requires understanding policy costs, chemical non-linearities in pollution formation, and the value of health benefits. China …
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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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Essays on the Impact of Climate Change and Related Policies
The strategy to limit adverse climate change impacts develops along two dimensions: mitigation, i.e., initiatives aimed at reducing future emissions of greenhouse gases, and adaptation, i.e., efforts aimed at reducing the vulnerability of human systems to climate change. Within this framework, this …
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Climate governance in South Africa: challenges, risks and opportunities
This mini-dissertation examines the state of climate governance in three diverse South African municipalities, namely the City of Cape Town, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality (Durban), and Amathole District Municipality. Using a qualitative literature review research approach, this study examines …
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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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Bridging the energy divide and securing higher collective wellbeing in a climate-constrained world
… to the already daunting challenge of securing climate stabilization. This thesis examines the potential incompatibility between these two efforts by estimating the additional energy needed to secure higher collective wellbeing across the globe by mid-century based on regional energy …
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When Politicians Misread the Public: Experimental Evidence that Politicians Underestimate Climate Policy Support and Norm-Based Solutions
… striking disconnect between public demand for climate action and governments’ limited responses, this thesis investigates: Do politicians underestimate public support for climate policies? The social norm literature shows that citizens often underestimate climate policy support, contributing to …
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