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Niger - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development : a study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Adamou, Rabani; Ibrahim, Boubacar; Bonkaney, Abdou Latif; … - 2021
The Sahel is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change in the world. Located in the central part, Niger is facing many complex and interconnected challenges which strongly hinder the achievement of the key sustainable development goals (SDGs). The high population growth rate (3.8% per...
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Nigeria - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development : a study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Olayide, Olawale Emmanuel - 2021
This review report involves the analysis and synthesis of literatures on climate change, land use, energy, livelihoods and sustainable development in Nigeria. The methodology employed in the review involves searching keywords related to the study objectives on relevant literature search engines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421128
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The cold economy
Peters, Toby; Sayin, Leyla - 2022
Lack of cooling and cold-chain access is a critical development challenge that has significant implications for people's livelihoods, productivity, health, food, and nutritional security. While business-as-usual demand projections suggest 19 new cooling appliances will be sold every second by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013264856
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The emissions reduction potential for freight transport on a high-speed rail line along the "European Silk Road"
Arsenev, Aleksandr; Angers, Erica; Holzner, Mario - 2023
This report estimates the CO2 emissions of freight transport on a hypothetical high-speed rail (HSR) line along the northern route, from Lyon to Warsaw, of a 'European Silk Road' (ESR). Using a methodology consisting of predictions regarding the freight-carrying capacity of the future HSR, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343066
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Greening the G7 economies through a more inclusive Climate Club
Barbier, Edward - 2023
revenues saved or raised should be recycled to fund green innovation or additional measures to offset any adverse income or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251659
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Climate change mitigation and green growth in developing Asia
Howes, Stephen; Wyrwoll, Paul - 2012
Developing Asia is the driver of today's emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflecting this global reality and a range of related domestic issues, the governments of the People's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009560028
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Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth in Developing Asia
Howes, Stephen - 2014
Developing Asia is the driver of today's emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflecting this global reality and a range of related domestic issues, the governments of the People's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065846
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OECD progress update on approaches to mobilising institutional investment for sustainable infrastructure : background paper to the G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group
Röttgers, Dirk; Tandon, Aayush; Kaminker, Christopher - 2018
The large need for investments in sustainable infrastructure will require investments from the private sector, including institutional investors. This working paper contributes to scaling up investments by analysing public project-level interventions for projects involving institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990042
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Transition Towards a Green Economy in Europe : Innovation and Knowledge Integration in the Renewable Energy Sector
Conti, Chiara - 2018
A major concern regarding innovation in clean technologies in the EU is that the fragmentation of its innovation system … hindering the movement towards the technological frontier. This paper evaluates the fragmentation of the EU innovation system in … integration of EU countries' innovation efforts and to assess how citation patterns changed over time. We show that EU RES …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935118
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Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research : from mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?
Havas, Attila; Schartinger, Doris; Weber, Karl Matthias - 2022
understand these changes. This claim is based on our review of Innovation Studies, Social Innovation research, and Sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014452490