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to "end hunger" and "achieve food security and improved nutrition," while promoting "sustainable agriculture." Lifting … the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas …; in Asia, during the same period, on-farm GHG emissions grew by 27%, from 2.5 to 3.2 GtCO2e. All of this puts agriculture …
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An increasing proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas in industrializing and developing countries. Recent research shows that per capita emissions in cities like Bangkok, Cape Town or Shanghai have already reached the level of cities like London, New York or Toronto....
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Developing countries reject meaningful emission targets (recent intensity caps are no exception), while many industrialized countries insist that developing countries accept them. This impasse has prevented the Kyoto Protocol from establishing a global price for greenhouse gas emissions. This...
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Eleven years after the United States signed the Kyoto Protocol, climate change policy remains stalled in the United States. While 177 countries have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and several countries have enacted strong climate change policies, the United States has lagged behind primarily over...
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We investigate how different types of environmental policies and new regional environmental knowledge affect new venture creation in and financing of green (low carbon), brown (fossil fuel) and gray (unrelated to natural resources) technologies across 24 OECD countries and 293 regions over the...
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This article analyzes the international emissions trading regime at the heart of the world's effort to address global warming as a means of exploring broader international governance issues. The trading regime seeks to marry two models of global governance, market liberalism, which embraces...
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