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Legally binding and ambitious biodiversity protection under the CBD, the global biodiversity framework, and human rights law

open access: yesEnvironmental Sciences Europe, 2023
Beyond climate change, the planet faces several other environmental challenges that are at least as threatening, such as the loss of biodiversity. In each case, the problems are driven by similar factors, such as fossil fuels and intensive livestock ...
Felix Ekardt   +5 more
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Solar Prosumers in the German Energy Transition: A Multi-Level Perspective Analysis of the German ‘Mieterstrom’ Model

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
The expansion of photovoltaics in German cities has so far fallen short of expectations. The concept of ‘tenant electricity’ (‘Mieterstrom’ in German), in which tenants of a building are supplied with solar power produced on site, offers great potential ...
Raphael Moser   +3 more
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Using bone char as phosphate recycling fertiliser: an analysis of the new EU Fertilising Products Regulation

open access: yesEnvironmental Sciences Europe, 2023
Background Phosphorus recycling is an important cornerstone of sustainable phosphorus management and required to establish a circular economy in line with the EU Green Deal.
Katharine Heyl   +2 more
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Enumerating Indigenous Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) Associated with Three Permanent Preservation Plots of Tropical Forests in Bangalore, Karnataka, India

open access: yesBacteria, 2023
The establishment of Permanent Preservation Plots (PPPs) in natural forests has a signifi-cant role in assessing the impact of climate change on forests.
Saritha Boya   +4 more
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Towards a Digital Product Passport Fit for Contributing to a Circular Economy

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a concept of a policy instrument particularly pushed by policy circles to contribute to a circular economy. The preliminary design of the DPP is supposed to have product-related information compiled mainly by ...
Thomas Adisorn   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender differences on the choices of a portfolio of climate change adaptation strategies in Ethiopia

open access: yesClimate Risk Management, 2022
Gender-based intra-household resource distributions constitute an important role in technology adoption-related decisions. Using a non-unitary household model and fitting an empirical adoption model for men and women individually and jointly, we examine ...
Hailemariam Teklewold   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges of Food Waste Governance: An Assessment of European Legislation on Food Waste and Recommendations for Improvement by Economic Instruments

open access: yesLand, 2020
Food is wasted throughout the entire food supply chain—from agricultural production to the household level. This has negative impacts on natural resources and the environment. At the same time, food waste is undermining the global target of food security.
Beatrice Garske   +4 more
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Human Rights and Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal: Potential Limits to BECCS and DACCS Deployment

open access: yesLand, 2022
Negative emissions technologies (NETs) approaches are an essential part of virtually any scenario in which global warming is limited to 1.5 °C in accordance with the Paris Agreement.
Philipp Günther, Felix Ekardt
doaj   +1 more source

Wind speed stilling and its recovery due to internal climate variability [PDF]

open access: yesEarth System Dynamics, 2021
Near-surface winds affect many processes on planet Earth, ranging from fundamental biological mechanisms such as pollination to man-made infrastructure that is designed to resist or harness wind.
J. Wohland, D. Folini, B. Pickering
doaj   +1 more source

Presentation of the 5Ds in Energy Policy: A Policy Paper to Show How Germany Can Regain Its Role as a Pioneer in Energy Policy

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
The widely recognised Energiewende, (“energy transition”) in Germany has lost its original momentum. We therefore address the question of how the transition process to a new energy system can be reignited. To do so, we developed the “5Ds approach”, which
Oliver Wagner, Thomas Götz
doaj   +1 more source

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