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Showing 1 to 20 of 188 for “"climate change mitigation"”.
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Investment Strategies for Climate Change Mitigation
Der anthropogene Klimawandel verlangt die Reduktion von Treibhausgasen. Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Kosten und Strategien zur Vermeidung des Klimawandels. Dabei werden vor Allem Investitionsstrategien der Vermeidung untersucht. Die Arbeit is unterteilt in fünf Teile, die jeweils …
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Essays in Macroeconomics and Climate Change Mitigation
… reach unprecedented levels and threats of climate change mount, countries all over the world are racing to implement climate change mitigation policies to limit their carbon footprint and minimize climate risk. This dissertation explores the macroeconomic effects of climate change …
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Rights and climate change mitigation - why the individual rights approach to climate change mitigation is not the right approach
… philosophical ideas of rights extend to climate change mitigation? The dissertation analyses this question in the light of three philosophical theories of rights: (1) analytical theories of rights, (2) moral theories of rights, and (3) political theories of justice. The dissertation …
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Strategies for climate change mitigation: policy and technological considerations
… to an alteration of the net payoffs of domestic climate policy and an update on the information about the benefits (or costs) of policy adoption derived from the adoption of a similar policy or the deployment of abatement technology in foreign juris- dictions. The evidence suggests that …
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Economic Prospects for Advanced Combustion Technologies Suited for Climate Change Mitigation
… the coming century. Concerns over accelerating climate change have spurred development of technologies aimed at reducing CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants through carbon capture and sequestration: CCS). Utilities considering expansion of baseload generation capacity face a myriad of …
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Community climate change mitigation and adaptation : the role of Columbia Basin Trust
Local communities are on the front line of climate change adaptation and mitigation. Columbia Basin Trust, in the province of British Columbia, is a leading intermediary that is helping communities in the Canadian Columbia Basin address climate change mitigation and adaptation. They have done this …
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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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Towards effective climate change mitigation: viewpoints of cost efficiency, uncertainty and consumer choice
… gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere and to reach the climate and energy objectives, GHG emission mitigation measures need to be implemented and the share of renewable energy increased in the energy system. In addition to policy actions, consumer energy choices also have an essential effect on the …
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Evaluation of the design and implementation of climate change mitigation policies in developing countries
… of environmental policies with respect to climate change mitigation, promotion of green technologies, and forest management policies. Specifically, this study attempted to: 1. Compare transaction cost effects with asymmetric information effects on the supply response of developing countries …
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Formulating an FM strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation of commercial built assets
As per the UKCIP 09 climate change projections the United Kingdom is very likely to experience increased sea level rise, increased winter rainfall, heat waves and an increase in frequency and severity of extreme weather events. Such inevitable impacts of climate change will require adaptation …
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The role of industrial policy in pursuing climate change mitigation objectives in South Africa
… between industrial policy, energy use, and climate change mitigation policy in the South African context. The analysis finds that the South African economy has clearly developed in response to sets of industrial incentives offered both pre- and post-apartheid, which have structured the …
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Behavioural economic applications to climate change mitigation and adaptation: public good games and risk experiments
This thesis contributes to the economics of climate change by incorporating insights from behavioural economics. As both mitigation and adaptation are components of any climate change strategy, the four papers presented here use laboratory and field experiments to examine different dimensions of …
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Public awareness of carbon capture and storage : a survey of attitudes toward climate change mitigation
… about the environment, global warming, and climate change-mitigation technologies. The analysis in this thesis uses the survey responses to draw conclusions about the level of public understanding and awareness of global climate change and carbon dioxide capture and storage and to suggest …
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Distributive Impacts of Global Climate Change Mitigation. Effects of Technology, Emission Permit Allocation and Energy Trade
Die Dissertationsschrift analysiert die Auswirkungen einer stringenten Begrenzung der globalen CO2-Emissionen auf die Wohlstandsentwicklung in verschiedenen Weltregionen. Ein solches Emissionsziel führt zu einer signifikanten Umverteilung von Wohlstand zwischen den Weltregionen, da zum einen die …
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The potential for a nuclear renaissance : the development of nuclear power under climate change mitigation policies
… greenhouse gases are very likely to have already changed the Earth's climate, and will continue to change it for centuries if no action is taken. Nuclear power, a nearly carbon-free source of electricity, could contribute significantly to climate change mitigation by replacing conventional …
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Climate change mitigation and adaptation through suburban sustainable landscape : a case study of the city of Colwood
… features and solutions to the impacts of climate change in the City of Colwood, a suburban area on Vancouver Island in Canada. It does so by addressing this research question: What landscape features could be incorporated into a suburban landscape to enhance its ability to mitigate and/or …
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Climate change mitigation via ocean disposal of power-plant-generated CO₂ : a comprehensive environmental and political analysis
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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An Impact Assessment of Agro-Ecology on Climate Change Mitigation and Economic Sustainabilty: A Case of Mopani District
See the atttached abstract below
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Assessing South Africa's potential to become a low carbon society : a backcasting approach to climate change mitigation assessment
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-170).
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A comparative study of climate change mitigation regime proposals, and the Triptych approach, and a South African energy model
Global climate change is one of the most serious challenges facing the world with the cause being increased levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The required solution is a decrease in global GHG emission levels. Under the UNFCCC a number of proposals exist for decreasing CO₂ levels. This …
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