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Exploring options to measure the climate consistency of real economy investments : the transport sector in Latvia
Dobrinevski, Alexander; Jachnik, Raphaël - 2020
the climate consistency of investments in transport infrastructure and vehicles in Latvia between 2008 and 2018, estimated … transport mode to a 2°C scenario from the International Energy Agency’s for the European Union and to projections from Latvia … highlights future investment and financing challenges, especially for road transport. The methodology piloted in this study can …
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Identifying Barriers to Adoption of ‘No-Cost’ Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Practices in Pastoral Systems
Cortés Acosta, Sandra - 2019
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Climate Mitigation Policy in Denmark : A Prototype for Other Countries
Batini, Nicoletta; Parry, Ian; Wingender, Philippe - 2021
Denmark has a highly ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. While there is general agreement that carbon pricing should be the centerpiece of Denmark's mitigation strategy, pricing needs to be effective, address equity and leakage concerns, and...
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Cows, Cash and Climate : Low Stocking Rates, High-Performing Cows, Emissions and Profitability across New Zealand Farms
Fleming, David; Kerr, Suzi; Lou, Edmund - 2019
Using the New Zealand Monitor Farm Data (NZMFD), this paper explores the cost-effectiveness of two mitigation options to reduce biological greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on farms: reducing stocking rate (SR; the number of cows per effective hectare of dairy land); and increasing animal...
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A Comprehensive Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Strategy for the Netherlands
Batini, Nicoletta; Black, Simon; Luca, Oana; Parry, Ian - 2022
The Netherlands has ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the future - to cut them by 49 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and 95 percent by 2050. These targets and the likely new EU-wide targets under the recent EU Green Deal entail a rapid acceleration in decarbonization....
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Climate Change as Financial Risk : A Survey of Bank Employees' Perception in Nigeria
Oguntuase, Oluwaseun - 2017
Background: The knowledge and perception of people on climate change have profound effect on the success of implemented adaptation and mitigation strategies. This study sought to determine the knowledge level of climate change among bank employees in Nigeria, their perception of climate change...
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Exiting the fossil world : the effects of fuel taxation in the UK
Bretschger, Lucas; Grieg, Elise - 2020
the tax on CO2 emissions, GDP, and transport behaviour. With a potential control pool of OECD countries, we use the …
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Freight futures : the potential impact of road freight on climate policy
Carrara, Samuel; Longden, Thomas - 2017
This paper describes changes to the modelling of the transport sector in the WITCH (World Induced Technical Change …
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Accounting for CO2 emissions from international shipping : burden sharing under different UNFCCC allocation options and regime scenarios
Heitmann, Nadine; Khalilian, Setareh - 2010
CO2 emissions from international shipping, which are currently unregulated, are predicted to rise from 2.7% today to 18% in 2050. International bunker fuel emissions have been excluded from any commitment in the Kyoto Protocol; the UNFCCC conference in Copenhagen also failed to bring about clear...
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A comparative study of selected Asian countries on carbon emissions with respect to different trade and climate changes mitigation policy scenarios
Truong, Truong Phuoc - 2010
Trade, economic development, and climate change issues are closely linked and this has significant implications for the design of climate change policies especially for developing countries. Developing countries regard the objective of economic development and growth as being as important as the...
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