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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"UNFCCC"”.
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Informing international UNFCCC technology mechanisms from the ground up: Using biogas technology in South Africa as a case study to evaluate the usefulness of potential elements of an international technology agreement in the UNFCCC negotiations process
… transfer mechanism has been proposed under the UNFCCC; however, it remains unclear how this international mechanism would translate into local level technology implementation. This study uses biogas technology in South Africa to obtain empirical data inductively related to technology transfer. …
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US energy policy and its position in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations: a theory-guided historical analysis
… Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992. Since the formation of the UNFCCC, the United States of America (USA) has being recognised as both an essential, but also as a highly controversial actor within the negotiations due to its historical responsibility for anthropogenic …
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The legality and feasibility of the use of compulsory licensing under the trips agreement to facilitate the transfer of environmentally sound technologies under the UNFCCC regime
The primary objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is to attain stability in the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Considerable potential lies in mitigation technologies to lower the emission of these gases. Additionally, there is a crucial …
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Jungtinių Tautų ir Europos Sąjungos teisinės priemonės sprendžiant klimato kaitos problemas /
… of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992 was a major step forward in tackling the problem of global warming. Yet as greenhouse gas emission levels continued to rise around the world, it became increasingly evident that only a firm and binding commitment by developed …
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) : analysing the financial viability of potential CDM projects, and assessing associated sustainable development impacts for South Africa
… Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for encouraging prompt global action on climate change has been key in vitalising climate change negotiations. The UNFCCC process has triggered further negotiations and related international forums on climate change that eventually led to …
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India's Temporal Imaginaries of Climate Change, 1988-2018
… the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and also likely to be one of the most climate-affected societies moving forward. Over the 30-year history of India's engagement at the UNFCCC, there has been a shift from constructing a secular, past-oriented imaginary to a sacred, …
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Establishing relevant and high quality domestic MRV systems to support effective climate action
… 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 level that would …
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Towards the design of a reflexive regulatory framework to "Reduce and control emissions from land deforestation and degradation and enhancing carbon stocks" (REDD+): a perspective from select developing countries
… Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and outside the UNFCCC. The goal of REDD+ is that host countries will receive, inter alia, financial compensation if they choose to conserve their forests rather than convert them to non-forest land use. Such compensation is for significant …
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Green Bonds as a more effective way of capitalizing the South African National Green Fund
… Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has rallied countries together for a coordinated global response to the potential negative impact of climate change. The major challenge the UNFCCC through the conference of parties (COPs) is balancing the needs of developing countries with …
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A comparative study of climate change mitigation regime proposals, and the Triptych approach, and a South African energy model
… in global GHG emission levels. Under the UNFCCC a number of proposals exist for decreasing CO₂ levels. This thesis first makes use of the FAIR 2.2 policy support tool to determine South Africa’s GHG reduction requirements under the South-North dialogue, Contraction and Convergence and …
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Redução de gases de efeito estufa na agroindústria canavieira brasileira: discussão do instrumento crédito de carbono à luz da economia de baixo carbono
… Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) e do Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI). Dessa forma, para compreender o funcionamento desse mecanismo, foram identificados vinte e sete projetos de co-geração com bagaço registrados na UNFCCC. Com relação aos projetos …
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Can the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change achieve its ultimate objective?
… Climate Change (referred to in this paper as the UNFCCC. or the Convention). This Convention was a direct consequence of scientific evidence, produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), showing the devastating effects of dangerous anthropogenic greenhouse gases caught in the …
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Trends and inferred emissions of atmospheric high molecular weight perfluorocarbons
… Nations' Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by Annex 1 countries that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol (European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)/Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), 2009; United National Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, 2011). …
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Risk Perceptions of Climate Change in International Environmental Negotiations
… Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2010. Analysis of these texts identifies climate change discourse as crisis or opportunity, in addition to discourses of development, environmentalism, and rights or responsibilities to provide us a better understanding of how we perceive …
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Glocalizing Forests: Transnational Networks and the Geography of Global Climate Policy
… Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiating process. The focus on state actors to the exclusion of other types oforganizations active in global climate policy, however, glosses over the challengesof moving from agreement to implementation and underestimates the potentialof …
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Design and Modeling of Offshore Nuclear Platform Fuel and Transfer System
… generation “Key Aspects of the Paris Agreement | UNFCCC.” A specific focus on high-temperature gas reactors, notably pebble bed reactors for their compact fuel form and capability for at-power fuel replenishment through TRISO fuel pebbles recirculation will be evaluated. This study will review …
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Climate change technology transfer to developing countries: evidence analysis and policy recommendations
… Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC). However, setting caps for developing countries’ GHG emissions has encountered strong resistance in the current round of negotiations. Continued economic growth that allows poverty eradication is still the main priority for most developing …
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Are Countries in Environmental Cooperation Concerned About Relative Gains?
… Nations Framework Convention on Climate change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties meetings. The findings show that the fifteen countries are concerned about relative gains in international climate change cooperation and that neorealist relative gains theory of international relations is …
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Partisan Politics and Green Foreign Direct Investment (Electrical Vehicle Industry in the United States)
… to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (UNFCCC, 2015). Transportation is a major global source of carbon emissions (Van Fan et al., 2018), and these emissions can be reduced through the adoption of electrification (Bistline et al., 2022). Electric vehicles (EVs) represent an innovative …
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An analysis of States’ obligations towards climate displaced persons under the African Human Rights System
… Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the subsequent instruments such as the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. However, under the African Human Rights System (AHRS), the African Union Convention for the Protection and …
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