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Climate change and variability, energy and disaster management: produced risks without produced solutions: rethinking the approach [PDF]
, 2008 Accelerated climate change and increasing climate variability is the single largest threat to the international goals of sustainable development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and disaster risk reduction.
O'Brien, Geoff +3 more
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Environmental Research LettersDirect air capture (DAC) is increasingly recognized as a necessary puzzle piece to achieve the Paris climate targets. However, the current high cost and energy intensity of DAC act as a barrier.
Nicoletta Brazzola +4 more
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Barriers, Risks and Policies for Renewables in the Gulf States
Energies, 2015 The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have both large fossil fuel resources and vast renewable energy potentials. Here, we investigate in a literature meta-analysis and a survey, whether there is a need for renewables in the GCC, what ...
Johan Lilliestam, Anthony Patt
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Understanding New Zealand public opinion on climate change : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Politics at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2017 This project explored how climate change is understood by members of the New Zealand public and how these understandings relate to their climate-related policy preferences and actions.
Allan, Ross
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Digital twins in sustainable transition: exploring the role of EU data governance
Frontiers in Research Metrics and AnalyticsIntroductionDigital twins can accelerate sustainable development by leveraging big data and artificial intelligence to simulate state, reactions and potential developments of physical systems.
Beatrice Garske +4 more
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Assessing the Policy gaps for achieving China’s climate targets in the Paris Agreement
Nature Communications, 2019 The extent to which China’s existing and forthcoming policies would lead to emission reductions domestically has not been well understood. Here the authors combined expert elicitation and a system dynamic model and showed that China is on track to peak ...
Kelly Sims Gallagher +4 more
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Post-2012 climate policy scenarios [PDF]
The cost and effectiveness of climate policy in Europe depend on the international post-2012 climate regime. Crucial are the stringency of the policy and the size of the climate coalition, e.g.
Gerard Verweij +4 more
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Climate change and its consequences were never felt more than in recent years. Severe weather conditions are not only becoming more frequent but also more extreme. Political actors worldwide have recognised the dangers and problems related to climate change which has emerged as an issue on domestic policy agendas over the past 25 years.
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Climate and Industrial Policy in an Asymmetric World [PDF]
Climate change is a phenomenon leading to randomly distributed disasters around the globe. Due to massive economic and technical asymmetry between the advanced North and the developing South efficient climate and industrial policy is particular difficult.
Gries, Thomas
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