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Accelerating U.S. Clean Energy Deployment: Investor Policy Priorities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
International investment to mitigate climate change is far below levels needed to reach the two-degree target. The International Energy Agency estimates that an average of an additional $1 trillion in incremental financing for clean energy is needed to ...
Aaron Pickering   +7 more
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Scrutinizing Virtual Citizen Involvement in Planning: Ten Applications of an Online Participatory Tool

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2018
How to organize citizen participation in planning is continuously debated. The amount of Online Participatory Tools (OPTs) to facilitate inclusive and efficient participation has increased.
Mattias Hjerpe   +2 more
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Potential for climate protection in hospitals

open access: yese-Prime: Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy
Achieving national and international climate protection targets is a major challenge for many stakeholders. An often overlooked sector in this context is the healthcare sector.
Oliver Wagner, Lena Tholen
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Impact of Climate Change on Natural Snow Reliability, Snowmaking Capacities, and Wind Conditions of Ski Resorts in Northeast Turkey: A Dynamical Downscaling Approach

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2016
Many ski resorts worldwide are going through deteriorating snow cover conditions due to anthropogenic warming trends. As the natural and the artificially supported, i.e., technical, snow reliability of ski resorts diminish, the industry approaches a ...
Osman Cenk Demiroglu   +3 more
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Low Carbon Resilient Development and Gender Equality in the Least Developed Countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The issue of gender equality and climate change has come to the fore in both policy and research arenas in the last decade, due to the widespread recognition that neither the impact pathways for climate change, nor the policy responses are gender-neutral.
Rachel Mohun, Susannah Fisher
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Climate Policy Integration: Towards Operationalization [PDF]

open access: yes
The climate change debate raises the issue of often identified, but as yet little explored, requirement to incorporate climate policy into other policy sectors, often termed climate “mainstreaming” or climate policy integration (CPI). This paper explores
Imran Habib Ahmad
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Heatwave health risk index for Karnataka, India

open access: yesThe Journal of Climate Change and Health
Introduction: With the rise in global temperatures due to climate change, heatwaves are predicted to become more frequent, prolonged, and intense. Safeguarding people's health, well-being, and quality of life from the effects of climate change and its ...
Vidhatri Thakkar   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sub-national variability of wind power generation in complex terrain and its correlation with large-scale meteorology

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2020
The future European electricity system will depend heavily on variable renewable generation, including wind power. To plan and operate reliable electricity supply systems, an understanding of wind power variability over a range of spatio-temporal scales ...
Bryn Pickering   +2 more
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Quantifying the shift of public export finance from fossil fuels to renewable energy

open access: yesNature Communications
By providing guarantees and direct lending, public export credit agencies (ECAs) de-risk and thus enable energy projects worldwide. Despite their importance for global greenhouse gas emission pathways, a systematic assessment of ECAs’ role and financing ...
Philipp Censkowsky   +3 more
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Climate Policy : Quo Vadis?

open access: yesEnergy & Environment, 2009
Climate change has become a major issue of our time. While Earth history clearly demonstrates that there has always been climate change, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) keeps reminding us that the current climate change, i.e. the measured recent warming of the Earth, is something exceptional and alarming and is mainly caused by ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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