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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"united nations framework convention on climate change"”.
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Can the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change achieve its ultimate objective?
Hardly a day goes by without reading, in the national and international media, about new evidence of catastrophic climate change, be it droughts, floods, fires, storms or wildlife extinction. But are we to blame? Are anthropogenic (human-induced) interferences with the climate system causing. …
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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
The multilateral negotiations aimed at securing international cooperation on climate change and its mitigation have widely been criticised as a political deadlock since the establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992. Since the formation of the …
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Risk Perceptions of Climate Change in International Environmental Negotiations
Climate change poses an unprecedented risk to global human security and future generations. Yet actions to mitigate or adapt to the changing climate system vary greatly among countries and their constituencies. Despite mounting evidence detailing the economic, social, and ecological risks of …
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The role of human dimensions of natural resources and risk communication in mitigation efforts during flood recovery: a Lyons, Colorado case study
In December 2015 during the 21st conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, virtually all the nations agreed on the existence of anthropogenic climate change, the need for a decrease in carbon emissions, and a responsibility to help mitigate its effects …
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Are Countries in Environmental Cooperation Concerned About Relative Gains?
<p>A country’s decision to join or withdraw from environmental cooperation has been argued by interest based theories to be influenced by the economic cost of international agreements, national interest of countries and the free-rider problem. However, this thesis argues that relative gains is a …
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Institutional interplay in global environmental governance
The Rio Conventions stand at the centerpiece of international cooperation within the governance area of climate change, biodiversity, and desertification. Due to substantial environmental and political linkages, there are interrelations between the three regimes. This study seeks to examine the …
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An analysis of States’ obligations towards climate displaced persons under the African Human Rights System
Climate change poses the most menacing threat to the environment today. The effects of climate change are experienced globally, and Africa in particular is one of the most vulnerable regions. One of the main consequences of changes in climate is the displacement of populations, mostly internally. …
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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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Geologic carbon dioxide sequestration from the Mexican oil industry : an action plan
Climate change has become an important focus of international environmental negotiations. In response, global energy corporations have been looking for practical ways of reducing their industrial carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. Capturing massive quantities of CO₂ from flue gases (at large …
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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
REDD+ has emerged as one of the governance approaches to address climate change. It calls for developing countries to take part in a second commitment period for a post-2020 climate change regime under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and outside …
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The Commodification of Nature: Power/Knowledge and REDD+ in Costa Rica
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) is a global carbon trading program intent on mitigating or reversing carbon emissions from forestry in the global south. REDD+ was negotiated at the 2005 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is …
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Frontlines of crisis, forefront of change : climate justice as an intervention into (neo)colonial climate action narratives and practices
… youth, and the global poor, all face disproportionate impacts from climate change, a fact captured in the adage "the least responsible are most vulnerable." Recognising the Global North as the instigators and benefactors of a carbon economy built on the continuing oppression and exploitation of …
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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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A changing global south? The emergence of the BASIC grouping
The rapid economic advancement of emerging economies in the South has come to effect a change within the nature of the global South and within the traditional North-South relationship more broadly. One development representative of a change within the global South as a unit has been the emergence …
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Evaluating temperature and precipitation extremes under 1.5°C and 2.0°C warming above pre-industrial levels: Botswana case study
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) noted the need and therefore requested further quantitative research to better inform policy on the potential impacts of further warming to 1.5 and 2.0 °C above preindustrial levels. Climate extremes are expected to become more …
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Green Bonds as a more effective way of capitalizing the South African National Green Fund
Greenhouse gas emissions are said to be on a very dangerous trajectory and the debate around man's industrial activity being the key cause of climate change seem to be receding. Governments around the world are mostly in agreement that something urgent needs to be done but the big question that …
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Carbon finance, tropical forests and the state : governing international climate risk in the Democratic Republic of Congo
… thesis examines how evolving norms of international climate change mitigation are translated into national forest governance policies and land management techniques in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The development of administrative mechanisms to reduce emissions from deforestation and …
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Investigating environmental quality and economic growth interdependency: an environmental kuznets curve study of South Africa
Economic growth at the expense of environmental quality has become an increasingly important policy concern since 2015, with the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris. This study investigated the interdependency …
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Taking responsibility for climate knowledge in a warming world: Exploring responsibility assembled in and around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This thesis interrogates what it means for expert climate knowledge holders to take responsibility for what they know in a warming world. ‘Responsibility’ in the context of climate change is often invoked around historical responsibility for emissions and cause-effect relations. However, conceptual …
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LA ACIDIFICAZIONE DEGLI OCEANI E IL DIRITTO INTERNAZIONALE
Ocean acidification is a global phenomenon caused by the absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), leading to chemical alterations that severely impact marine ecosystems. Despite its ecological and socio-economic significance, there is no specific international legal regime that …
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