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preventing hydro-meteorological extremes related to water scarcity or excess. A majority of respondents engage in mitigation … behaviours largely for financial or contextual reasons. Finally, support for adaptation and mitigation policy responses is … protection increasing the water tariffs (52.5%). As discussions about mitigation and adaptation become increasingly common within …
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Taiwan ranks 22nd worldwide in greenhouse gas emissions. One-third of these emissions come from the city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. To mitigate global warming, the Taiwanese government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of environmental protection have promoted a series of energy conservation...
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Taiwan, although not a Party to the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Kyoto Protocol, has diligently strived to advance technological and social changes for mitigating the use of potent greenhouse gases, including...
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annually by 2020. The Accords’ specification that adaptation must be addressed with the same priority as mitigation is not … reflected in current patterns of international climate finance where we face a strong bias towards mitigation finance. A recent … study by Buchner et al. (<CitationRef CitationID="CR14">2011</CitationRef>) ascertains a split between mitigation and …
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. Many countries are making investments for the implementation of mitigation and adaptation strategies to combat …. The main goal of our paper is to assess the relation between the mitigation and adaptation investments and the socio …
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range of likely financial benefits of REDD+ implementation in the country under various forest degradation and mitigation …
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The European Union (EU) has advocated an emission reduction target for developed countries of 80% to 95% below the 1990 level by 2050, and a global reduction target of 50%. Developing countries have resisted the inclusion of these targets in both the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...
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mitigation and adaptation. It analyzes climate change impacts on Mexico and Mexico City (also known as the Federal District), the … federal and city’s mitigation and adaptation responses, and advances and contradictions in the implementation of these …
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