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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
climate change on humans and the environment will include increasing stresses on and even collapses of ecosystems … by implementing green development strategies based on low energy –intensity, low-carbon emissions and clean technologies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259199
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Growth Theory and "Green Growth"
Smulders, Sjak; Toman, Michael; Withagen, Cees - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2014
The relatively new and still amorphous concept of "Green Growth" can be understood as a call for balancing longer-term investments in sustaining environmental wealth with nearer-term income growth to reduce poverty. We draw on a large body of economic theory available for providing insights on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820270
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E-Learning: Sustainability, Environment and Renewable Energy, a Multinational Training Pilot Module at the Postgraduate Level
Amaro, Nelson; Buch, Lea Franziska; Guerra, José Baltazar - Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Instituto … - 2010
: Sustainability, Environment and Renewable Energy (with courses such as Sociology of Development and Global Challenges, Environment … and Sustainable Development, Energy Matrix Planning, Energy Economics, Policies and Regulations on Energy and Environment … and courses mainly devoted to renewable energy and their management). The Postgraduate Program is to be implemented in 4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693764
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Mali - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development : a study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Coulibaly, Ousmane - 2021
the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421112
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Cities and Green Growth: A Conceptual Framework
Hammer, Stephen; Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Robert, Alexis; … - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2011
This report examines the current state of knowledge about green growth in cities and outlines the key research questions and protocols that will guide the OECD Green Cities programme. It builds the case for an urban green growth agenda by examining the economic and environmental conditions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364446
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Cities and Green Growth: Case Study of the Paris/Ile-de-France Region
Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Plouin, Marissa - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2012
This report, developed within the framework of the OECD Green Cities programme, is a pilot case study examining the green growth potential of the Paris-IDF region. In a context of stiff international competition and internal socio-economic and environmental pressures, green growth could be an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650713
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Mali - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development: A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Coulibaly, Ousmane - 2021
the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662858
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Policy Interventions in Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development : Is Ghana on the Right Path to Achieve SDG 7?
Ackah, Ishmael - 2016
Goal 7 of the Sustainable Development Goals seeks to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy … services and increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030. This target provides an … opportunity as well as a challenge to African countries including Ghana. Indeed, the Ghana Energy Commission estimates that Ghana …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988330
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Land, climate, energy, agriculture and development in the Sahel : synthesis paper of case studies under the Sudano-Sahelian initiative for regional development, jobs, and food secu...
Mirzabaev, Alisher; Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Sylla, … - 2021
change and energy in the Sahel. The current synthesis paper highlights their major findings and provides crosscutting and … and land degradation, energy use and supply, climate change projections and impacts, as well as their interactions and …-economic and policy solutions at the nexus of land, water, energy and climate challenges that enable environmentally sustainable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421166
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Cities and Green Growth : A Conceptual Framework
Hammer, Stephen; Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Robert, Alexis; … - 2011
This report examines the current state of knowledge about green growth in cities and outlines the key research questions and protocols that will guide the OECD Green Cities programme. It builds the case for an urban green growth agenda by examining the economic and environmental conditions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446283