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Adaptation Measures in the EU : Policies, Costs, and Economic Assessment ('Climate Proofing' of Key EU Policies)
Altvater, Susanne - 2014
The aim of this report is to ascertain priority concerns for further climate proofing action through opposing current EU efforts to different threats, and suggest complementary options (cf. chapter 3) for the following four sectors: (1) Energy, (2) Transport infrastructure, (3) Urban areas, and...
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A Global Migration Framework Under Water : How Can the International Community Protect Climate Refugees?
Sussman, Caitlan M. - 2023
Climate disaster events are expected to displace at least 1.2 billion people by 2050. However, “climate refugees,” or individuals displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, lack international legal recognition and protection. In 2020, an international tribunal acknowledged in...
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The Cancún Climate Conference
Burleson, Elizabeth; Romano, Cesare P.R - 2011
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Free Lunch or Cheap Fix? : The Emissions Trading Idea and the Climate Change Convention
Driesen, David M. - 2014
Emissions trading has become a key component of U.S. environmental legal regimes. The U.S. has successfully lobbied to make international environmental benefit trading, an expanded form of emissions trading, a part of international efforts to address the threat of global climate change through...
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The UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol : The Challenges of Trying to Clean One's Own Nest
Merkouris, Panos - 2017
the strengths and weaknesses of said documents. It then highlights the three main challenges in climate change regulation …
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Gaps, Inexperience, Inconsistencies, and Overlaps : Crisis in the Regulation of Genetically Modified Plants and Animals
Mandel, Gregory N. - 2012
The regulation of genetically modified products pursuant to statutes enacted decades prior to the advent of … regulation unnecessarily expose society and the environment to the downside risks of biotechnology and introduce numerous … inefficiencies into the regulatory system. These risks and inefficiencies include gaps in regulation, duplicative and inconsistent …
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Decomposition Analysis of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the European Union
Drastichová, Magdaléna - 2017
Climate change is a significant threat to sustainable development (SD). Using the Log-Mean Divisia Index Method (LMDI) a decomposition of the data on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union (EU) in 2000-2013 is carried out. To detect if decoupling of the environmental variable...
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Capital Regulation as Climate Policy
Michaels, Joel - 2023
Federal banking regulators are grappling with how to confront the threats posed by climate change. There are increasingly loud calls for regulators to adjust the “risk-weights” used to calculate banks’ minimum capital requirements based on how exposed their counterparties are to...
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The final solutions for Common Agricultural Policy in years 2014-2020 : step towards environmental sustainability or business as usual?
Kociszewski, Karol - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 1, pp. 9-20
The Paper's goal is to assess the most important changes in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for years 2014-2020 in the context of its potential influence on environmental pressure of agriculture. The final solutions of that policy reform were discussed in relation to main...
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Maritime governance after COVID-19 : how responses to market developments and environmental challenges lead towards degrowth
Monios, Jason; Wilmsmeier, Gordon - In: Maritime economics & logistics 24 (2022) 4, pp. 699-722
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