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Making School-Based GHG-Emissions Tangible by Student-Led Carbon Footprint Assessment Program

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
Schools play an important role in achieving climate protection goals, because they lay the foundation of knowledge for a responsible next generation. Therefore, schools as institutions have a special role model function.
Oliver Wagner   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reconstructing Climate Policy: Beyond Kyoto [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In their comprehensive analysis of the Kyoto Protocol and climate policy, Richard B. Stewart and Jonathan B. Wiener examine the current impasse in climate policy and the potential steps nations can take to reduce greenhouse gases.
Stewart, Richard B., Wiener, Jonathan B.
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Carbon farming, overestimated negative emissions and the limits to emissions trading in land-use governance: the EU carbon removal certification proposal

open access: yesEnvironmental Sciences Europe
This article conducts a qualitative governance analysis of the European Commission’s 2022 proposal for a certification framework for carbon removals (CRCF). It highlights potential challenges and legal implications—with a specific focus on carbon farming.
Philipp Günther   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drivers and risks for renewable energy developments in mountain regions: a case of a pilot photovoltaic project in the Swiss Alps

open access: yesEnergy, Sustainability and Society, 2018
Background When renewable policies are in place, the mismatch between policy targets and lack of technology diffusion indicates a gap between codifying a policy and implementing it.
Paula Díaz, Oscar van Vliet
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Impact of e-Fuels via the Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cell (SOEC) and Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis (FTS) Route for Use in Germany

open access: yesEnergies
This paper examines the current and prospective greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of e-fuels produced via electrolysis and Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (FTS) for the years 2021, 2030, and 2050 for use in Germany.
Frank Labunski   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Australian carbon biosequestration and bioenergy policy co-evolution: mechanisms, mitigation and convergence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The intricacies of international land-use change and forestry policy reflect the temporal, technical and political difficulty of integrating biological systems and climate change mitigation.
McHenry, M.P.
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Climate Policy Commitment Devices [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
We develop a dynamic resource extraction game that mimics the global multi-generation planning problem for climate change and fossil fuel extraction. We implement the game under different conditions in the laboratory. Compared to a baseline condition, we find that policy interventions that provide a costly commitment device or reduce climate threshold ...
Dengler, Sebastian   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The EU Communication on ensuring availability and affordability of fertilisers—a milestone for sustainable nutrient management or a missed opportunity?

open access: yesEnvironmental Sciences Europe
The global mineral fertiliser crisis increased the pressure on the EU agricultural sector. In response, the EU Commission released a Communication on ensuring availability and affordability of fertilisers in November 2022. This Policy Brief discusses the
Beatrice Garske   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategies for green industrial and innovation policy–an analysis of policy alignment, misalignment, and realignment around dominant designs in the EV sector

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2023
Governments in industrialized as well as emerging economies are racing to implement policies to accelerate clean energy innovation and capture the economic benefits of decarbonization.
Easwaran Narassimhan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Backlash to Climate Policy

open access: yesGlobal Environmental Politics, 2023
Abstract Hard climate policy (e.g., regulation, taxes/pricing, phaseouts) is needed to meet ambitious climate targets, but when such policy is introduced, it can sometimes trigger backlash. Backlash involves an abrupt and forceful negative reaction by a significant number of actors seeking to reverse a policy, often through extraordinary
openaire   +4 more sources

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