Similar Search Results

Can Shale Gas Help Accelerate the Transition to Sustainability?

Dernbach, John C. - 2015

The sudden and unexpected development of shale gas has the potential to accelerate or hinder the transition to sustainability, depending on how it is handled. Sustainable development is a useful evaluative framework for shale gas development. It would have us analyze its environmental, social,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032001

Measuring Urban Sustainability Through Common Indicators and Peer City Benchmarking : Assessing Sustainability Assets for Performance Improvement and Economic and Environmental Progress in Delaware

Byrne, John - 2018

contributions of each city's sustainability assets, with a focus on the creation of a rooftop distributed solar energy plant …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930252

'Sustainable Finance Made by the EC' - Inconvenient Insights into An Unsustainable Economic Policy

Schäfer, Henry - 2023

The European Commission's (EU Commission) Sustainable Growth Action Programme aims to transform national economies in the European Union towards a Green Economy. This is linked to the aspiration to achieve the EU climate protection goals and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263440

Sustainable Development

Dernbach, John C. - 2015

agreed to work together for sustainable development at the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158550

Promoting Poles of Clean Growth to Foster the Transition to a More Sustainable Economy

Hoffmann, Ulrich - 2015

poles" are: (i) enhancing energy efficiency, often implemented in combination with material and resource efficiency; (ii … energy technologies for sustainable rural development. These areas are most likely also those that will be at the core of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039093

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239637

How low-carbon green growth can reduce inequalities

Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam; Bauer, Armin - 2013

Half of the world’s population - 3 billion people - lives below the poverty line, and Asia has the largest share. In pursuit of sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation, there is great potential among low-income households for green consumption, production, innovation, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740731

Shale Gas and the Future of Energy : Framing the Sustainability Questions

Dernbach, John C. - 2016

Few energy issues in recent decades have proven as contentious as shale gas. Supporters and opponents often speak in … Future of Energy: Law and Policy for Sustainability (Edward Elgar 2016), explains sustainable development as an essential …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993052

Solutions for Sustainability : How the International Trade, Energy and Climate Change Regimes Can Help (Table of Contents and Chapter 1)

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2019

century: achieving sustainable energy (i.e., energy that is affordable, secure, and clean) and mitigating climate change. It … takes the unique approach of not only examining how international trade can help achieve energy and climate goals, but also … of citizens and prosumers. The book analyzes energy- and trade-related regulations in a range of jurisdictions to assess …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863716

A Role for the International Finance Corporation in Intergrating Environmental and Human Rights Standards into Core Project Covenants : Case Study of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline Project

Lawson-Remer, Terra - 2013

The purpose of this paper is to argue that the International Finance Corporation (the member of the World Bank Group responsible for financing private-sector projects) can and should require inclusion of commitments regarding sustainable development and human rights in the legal covenants that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095261