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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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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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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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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 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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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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The essence of a conservation easement as a static perpetual restriction is coming to a head with the understanding that the world is a changing place. This demonstration is nowhere more dramatic than in the context of global climate change. In response to this conflict, users of conservation...
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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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