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A survey of GHG mitigation policies for the agriculture, forestry and other land use sector
Henderson, Ben; Frezal, Clara; Flynn, Eimear - 2020
In light of the urgency for policy action to address climate change, this report provides the first detailed global catalogue of targets and policies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector. It covers 20 countries which collectively...
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Wild Spaces or Polluted Places: Contentious Policies, Consensus Institutions, and Environmental Performance in Industrialized Democracies
Ozymy, Joshua; Rey, Denis - In: Global Environmental Politics 13 (2013) 4, pp. 81-100
effectively conserving biodiversity requires different institutional strategies than reducing air emissions. Institutional … effectiveness diminishes as the politically contentiousness of the issue increases, moving from biodiversity to air pollution, and … air pollution than biodiversity, but that decentralized strategies can improve biodiversity when implemented alongside …
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Green Growth and Climate Change Policies in New Zealand
Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
New Zealand, as a resource-based economy anxious to protect and promote its clean-and-green image, appropriately sees green growth as a natural direction for future development. The country’s environment is of high quality, and depletion of its abundant natural resources is for the most part...
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Long-term low emissions development strategies : cross-country experience
Aguilar Jaber, Aimée; Anderson, Brilé; Nachtigall, Daniel - 2020
The Paris Agreement invites signatory countries to formulate and communicate long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LT-LEDS). This report compares the experience of three developed countries that have communicated LT-LEDS within the framework of the United Nations...
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CDM Forestry and the Ultimate Objective of the Climate Convention
Dutschke, Michael - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 12 (2007) 2, pp. 275-302
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Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia : A Conceptual Framework
Matsumoto, Tadashi - 2014
The development of Asian cities is characterised by rapid and continuous urbanisation on an unprecedented scale, with rapid economic growth led in most places by the manufacturing industry, and rapidly increasing motorisation. The result has been escalating greenhouse gas emissions, sprawling...
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Towards green growth in Denmark : improving energy and climate change policies
Jamet, Stéphanie - 2012
Denmark’s green growth strategy focuses on moving the energy system away from fossil fuels and investing in green technologies, while limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. On the whole, current policies should allow Denmark to reach near-term climate change targets, but may not be...
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Towards a green investment policy framework : the case of low-carbon, climateresilient infrastructure
Corfee-Morlot, Jan; Marchal, Virginie; Kauffmann, Celine; … - 2012
Achieving low-carbon, climate-resilient (LCR) development is a policy goal of many governments today, and investment in built-infrastructure – in the energy, transport, water and building sectors – is a central part of the challenge. In the face of growing infrastructure needs and fiscal...
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Korea's Green Growth Strategy : Mitigating Climate Change and Developing New Growth Engines
Jones, Randall - 2011
Korea’s greenhouse gas emissions almost doubled between 1990 and 2005, the highest growth rate in the OECD area. Korea recently set a target of reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 relative to a “business as usual” baseline, implying a 4% cut from the 2005 level. Achieving this objective in a...
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Norway - Sustainable Development: Climate Change and Fisheries Policies
O'Brien, Paul - 2010
Sustainable development is a key theme in policy making in Norway. Although it owes a considerable part of its wealth to the carbon-based economy, Norway gives priority to the objectives embodied in the OECD Green Growth Strategy and sees itself as a pioneer in some areas. The sustainable...
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