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Carbon Accounting by Public and Private Financial Institutions : Can We Be Sure Climate Finance Is Leading to Emissions Reductions?

Spittle, Emily; Dietrich Brauch, Martin - 2021

As reporting GHG emissions becomes mandatory in the financial sector, the methods by which emissions are calculated will grow in importance for their impact on the resulting metric. Progress is underway in both the public and private financial sectors to embed emissions accounting standards, but...

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A shale gas revolution for China?

Gunningham, Neil - In: Climate policy 14 (2014) 2, pp. 302-320

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Climate, Entropy and Environment

Bennewitz, Jürgen - 2010

Based on the Publications of the IPCC Working Groups I to III the question of the influence of the entropy increase since the industrialization around 1750 on the current climate development is answered both in general terms as well as through a first quantitative approach. It is shown that the...

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Finance and Policies : How Financial Actors and Policy Makers Can Engage in the Green Economy To Respond to Climate Change?

Rueche, Nathan - 2021

This working paper, part of my Master of Economics and International Business Management, highlights the impacts of environmental changes on society and the multidisciplinary concept of sustainable development. This work focuses on two major actors, financial actors and policy-makers, and their...

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Do We Give a Damn? Climate Change Anxiety

Gambles, Paul; Ung, Jureemas; Endo, Nuttika - 2023

The recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was the 27th ‘Conference of the Parties’ since 1992. Better known as COP 27, it has widely been derided as ‘COP OUT 27’, for achieving few, if any, significant, actionable outcomes, especially in comparison to the sheer...

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Regulatory Uncertainty and Opportunity Seeking : The Climate Change Clean Development Case

Kolk, Ans; Mulder, Gerhard - 2014

Regulatory uncertainty has been inherent to climate change in the absence of a successor to the Kyoto Protocol and with ongoing policy discussions on how to proceed. To facilitate steps to help address the issue, many companies have called for more certainty and a stable policy framework. What...

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Institutional governance and climate change nexus : a panel data analysis

Nawaz, Ahmad; Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Siddique, Hafiz … - In: Pakistan journal of applied economics : PJAE 30 (2020) 2, pp. 203-233

governance on climate change based on panel data of 203 countries for time series of 1996 to 2017. We have divided the countries … institutional governance on CO2 emissions (a proxy of climate change) and conditional impact of income and institutional governance … institutional governance and CO2 emissions in all income groups of countries. We have termed this curve as Environmental Governance …

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Legislating Climate Change : Australia's Renewable Energy Target Legislation Examined by a Solar Farmer

Fullarton, Alexander - 2017

This paper examines the concept of sustainable development and the need to consider its ‘three pillars' – the social, economic and environmental impacts as one interrelated concept - the triple bottom line (TBL). The rationale of the TBL is that no single influence can exist in isolation for...

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Emerging U.S. Climate Policy : Where We are and How We Got Here

Clemm, Geoffrey; Smith, Mark Griffin - 2009

After eight years of non-engagement, the new administration and the U.S. Congress, led by a majority in the President’s party, are rapidly developing climate policy legislation. This paper summarizes past efforts to establish a national climate policy in the United States as well as the major...

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Climate Change, Carbon Sequestration, and Property Rights

Wilson, Elizabeth J.; Klass, Alexandra B. - 2014

This Article considers the role of property rights in efforts to sequester underground hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year from power plants and other industrial facilities in order to mitigate climate change. This technology, known as carbon capture and sequestration...

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