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problematic outcome. Abatement of greenhouse gas emissions is a global public good, and supplying a public good is a game with … pre-cap abatement levels. The poorest countries and those with the lowest emissions adopt caps above business …-as-usual emissions. These results parallel the current polarization of developed and developing countries. As an alternative to the cap …
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unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation … reducing their emissions at the same time? Then, we look at a scenario in which the timing of developing countries …
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emissions as a part of any post-Kyoto framework, and sets out suggested elements of a framework for early action in a post … be achieved by implementing them. As a practical matter, too, long-term greenhouse gas emissions are virtually impossible … action. The suggested framework for early action includes a short-term goal for stabilizing global greenhouse gas emissions …
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After several decades of improvement, water quality in the United States is getting worse, and the problem is primarily caused by run-off from non-point sources, such as farms and urban development. These non-point sources have never had regulatory mandates in the Clean Water Act, and have...
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Greenhouse gas (GHG) removals by afforestation and reforestation project activities under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are vulnerable to a variety of risks and uncertainties, resulting in the partial or total reversal of such removals. Hence, GHG removals from these...
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that can be accounted against the industrialized countries' commitments for limiting their greenhouse gas emissions, as …
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From ecosystems we derive food and fiber, fuel and pharmaceuticals. Ecosystems mediate local and regional climates, stabilize soils, purify water, and in general provide a nearly endless list of services essential to life as we know it. To understand how to manage these services it is essential...
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As Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a new technology, there had been no legal framework regulating CCS projects or addressing its potential risks on either an international or a European or national level. Accordingly, significant changes at all governance levels have taken place within the...
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sujet controversé dans la littérature. S'appuyant sur une étude comparative des stratégies de lutte contre les émissions CO2 …
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