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No Time to Waste : Embracing Sustainable Procurement to Mitigate the Accelerating Climate Crisis
Schooner, Steven L. - 2021
Procurement professionals will increasingly be asked to play an important role in adapting to and mitigating the effects of climate change. Unfortunately, we don't have time to waste, either feeling hopeless or waiting for changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and subsequent...
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Addressing a counterproductive dichotomy in the energy transition debate
Raugei, Marco - In: Biophysical economics and sustainability 8 (2023) 3, pp. 1-6
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335107
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The Effect of Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events on Tourism
Bigano, Andrea; Goria, Alessandra; Hamilton, Jacqueline; … - 2005
Tourism is an industry of primary importance for the world economy. For some countries, tourism is the first source of income and foreign currency, and many local economies heavily depend on tourism. Tourists are sensitive to climate and to climate change, which will affect the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312633
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The Effect of Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events on Tourism
Bigano, Andrea; Goria, Alessandra; Hamilton, Jacqueline M. - 2009
Tourism is an industry of primary importance for the world economy. For some countries, tourism is the first source of income and foreign currency, and many local economies heavily depend on tourism. Tourists are sensitive to climate and to climate change, which will affect the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066630
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The Effect of Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events on Tourism
Bigano, Andrea; Goria, Alessandra; Hamilton, Jacqueline; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
Tourism is an industry of primary importance for the world economy. For some countries, tourism is the first source of income and foreign currency, and many local economies heavily depend on tourism. Tourists are sensitive to climate and to climate change, which will affect the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005392522
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Addressing the COVID-19 and climate crises : Potential economic recovery pathways and their implications for climate change mitigation, NDCs and broader socio-economic goals
Buckle, Simon - 2020
This paper provides decision-makers with a framework for prioritising different economic, social and environmental goals and analysing the options available to achieve them. To this end, it develops three stylised COVID-19 recovery pathways (“Rebound”, “Decoupling” and “Wider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630326
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Re-embedding the economy in nature and society : seven theses on the socio-ecological reorientation of the economy in times of Covid-19 and the climate crisis
Loske, Reinhard - 2020
This paper reflects on the links between the current COVID-19-crisis and the climate and biodiversity crises. It argues that the present pandemic and nonsustainable development on a global scale have similar roots: from ignoring natural boundaries to denying scientific facts, from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240970
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions in New Zealand : A Preliminary Consumption-Based Analysis
Romanos, Carl; Kerr, Suzi; Will, Campbell - 2014
New Zealand’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions are usually calculated by taking total emissions as reported under the Kyoto Protocol or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and simply dividing by population. However this focuses on emissions associated with production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146042
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions in New Zealand: A Preliminary Consumption-Based Analysis
Romanos, Carl; Kerr, Suzi; Will, Campbell - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2014
New Zealand’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions are usually calculated by taking total emissions as reported under the Kyoto Protocol or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and simply dividing by population. However this focuses on emissions associated with production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762522
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Climate change, ethics and sustainability: An innovative approach
Sánchez García, José Luis; Díez Sanz, Juan María - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 3 (2018) 2, pp. 70-75
and a key element in any consideration and review of the process. In this context, the concept of sustainability emerges … responsibility of man within the framework of an ethics of sustainability. Man is called to do right in all orders. When he does not … existence of God, analyzing the theistic view, the foundations of sustainability for the good of man himself and the planet. …
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