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energy have led to a plethora of urban woes. These range from the economic, institutional and carbon costs of managing …
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Achieving the Paris Agreement Long-term temperature goal (PA LTTG) requires closing the 2030 ambition and action gap between emissions levels consistent with the Paris Agreement and emissions levels projected with current targets and policies. G20 countries have a crucial role to play in...
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International environmental agreements have been and are negotiated to facilitate mitigation efforts on climate change. To avoid severe impacts, global cooperation is required as the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions represents a global public good. However, free-riding incentives impede the...
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for other sources of energy, and displacement of emissions from forests outside the EU. It also explores through scenario …) Cascade use – prevent first use of biomass for energy and (V) Strongly increase material wood use. The study presents detailed … sources of energy, and displacement of emissions from forests outside the EU. It also explores through scenario analysis …
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Limiting global warming to no more than 2°C requires global large-scale deployment of low-carbon and negative emissions technologies. This requires the development of new eco-innovations and the diffusion of new and existing ones. Existing portfolios of environmental and technology policy...
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is not evident whether CCS is an efficient mitigation option, it is compared to a variety of renewable energy sources …. Thus, it is cheaper to avoid one ton of CO2 by means of wind energy, but costs arising from the use of solar energy are …
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renewable energy, and Colombia’s clean development mechanism. Using the “chicken game,” the best response is to “disable the …
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climate and energy targets in 9 chosen European countries and on transition into low-carbon economies. The paper discusses … emissions of at least 9 million tonnes CO2 equivalent per year, increase in the capacity of renewable energy sources and … improvement in the primary energy consumption. The analysis of operational programs allowed also for a rough estimate of the …
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This paper combines an econometric analysis of the response of energy demand to temperature and humidity exposure with … future scenarios of climate change and socioeconomic development to characterize climate impacts on energy demand at … different spatial scales. Globally, future climate change is expected to have a moderate impact on energy demand, in the order …
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