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As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
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the speaker’s use of the modal verbs that contribute to the mitigation or the aggravation of the illocutionary forces …
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This paper considers the challenges confronting LDCs in meeting the adaptation and mitigation requirements brought on …
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An increasing proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas in industrializing and developing countries. Recent research shows that per capita emissions in cities like Bangkok, Cape Town or Shanghai have already reached the level of cities like London, New York or Toronto....
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climate policies for mitigation and adaptation have to play an important role in any effective global climate protection … for local climate governance. A large part of the literature focuses on mitigation and cities in industrialized countries … that the national framework conditions are important. It matters, whether cities engage in mitigation or adaptation …
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committed to emission targets and mitigation activities. This study analyses the actual performance of municipal climate action … to reach its reduction commitment. Cities average mitigation performance is slightly worse than the German average, and … reach – provided that optimal framework conditions for local mitigation activities would be put in place by other policy …
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("IPCC") asserts that there is substantial economic potential for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions over the coming …
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Little is known about how aggregate economic shocks are mitigated by social safety nets. I use hurricanes as an exogenous shock to the economics of US counties and show that non-disaster government transfers, such as unemployment insurance and public medical spending, increase substantially in...
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effects on society, economy and nature. The lack of response of carbon emitters in mitigation has aid to raise temperature …
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This report primarily aims to provide both dispatch and wholesale spot price forecasts for the proposed hybrid gas-solar thermal plant at Collinsville, Queensland, Australia for its lifetime 2017-47. These forecasts are to facilitate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) negotiations and to evaluate...
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