Part 1: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1: Sustainability in the Oil and Gas Industry: An Introduction. By Thomas Walker, Sergey Barabanov, Maya Michaeli, and Victoria Kelly -- Part 2 – Fundamentals of Sustainable Development in the Oil & Gas Industry -- Chapter 2: “Petroleum Industry Structural...

Our goal in this article is the analysis of the state of affairs, regarding the phenomenon of climate change and its impact in different areas. We synthesize the various approaches available in the scientific debate on this subject, mainly the one that affirms the existence of global warming and...

Since the mid-1980s, the international community has controlled refrigerants that may damage the ozone layer and cause climate change based on several international agreements. In particular, the Montreal Protocol contributed to not only solving the ozone layer depletion problem but also...

After twenty years of global negotiations, the world is still far from a comprehensive climate agreement. The "top-down" approach embodied by the Kyoto Protocol has all but stalled, chiefly due to disagreements over levels of ambition and objections to financial transfers. To avoid those...