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Road to glory or highway to hell? Global road access and climate change mitigation
Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Transportation infrastructure is considered a key factor for economic development and poverty alleviation. The United Nations have explicitly included the provision of transport infrastructure access, e.g.
Leonie Wenz +3 more
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From Targets to Action: Rolling up our Sleeves after Paris
Global Challenges, 2017 At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015 ambitious targets for responding to the threat of climate change have been set: limiting global temperature increase to “well below 2 °C […] and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature ...
Brigitte Knopf +5 more
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Global citizenship education at the crossroads: Globalization, global commons, common good, and critical consciousness [PDF]
PROSPECTS, 2020 AbstractThis article-dialogue addresses current criticisms of global citizenship and challenges frequent misinterpretations of Global Citizenship Education (GCE), while discussing what it means to educate for critical global citizenry in an increasingly multicultural world.
Torres, CA, Bosio, E
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Managing the global commons: common good or common sink? [PDF]
Third World Quarterly, 2016 The global commons, comprising the areas and resources beyond the sovereignty of any state, build upon the heritage of Grotius’s idea of mare liberum – an idea that aimed to preserve the freedom of access for the benefit of all. However, the old mare liberum idea digressed into ‘first come, first served’ advantages for industrialised countries ...
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Striving towards 2050 net zero CO2 emissions: How critical are clean energy and financial sectors?
Heliyon, 2023 The development of clean energy and financial sectors have been highlighted as critical factors in tackling climate change and achieving net zero emissions goals.
Haibo Chen +2 more
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of ex-post evaluations on the effectiveness of carbon pricing
Nature CommunicationsToday, more than 70 carbon pricing schemes have been implemented around the globe, but their contributions to emissions reductions remains a subject of heated debate in science and policy.
Niklas Döbbeling-Hildebrandt +14 more
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Assessing human and environmental pressures of global land-use change 2000–2010
Global Sustainability, 2019 Global land is turning into an increasingly scarce resource. We here present a comprehensive assessment of co-occuring land-use change from 2000 until 2010, compiling existing spatially explicit data sources for different land uses, and building on a ...
Felix Creutzig +9 more
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npj Climate ActionCurrent climate mitigation policies are not sufficient to meet the Paris temperature target, and ramping up efforts will require rapid learning from the scientific literature on climate policies.
Max Callaghan +10 more
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Teleconnected food supply shocks
Environmental Research Letters, 2016 The 2008–2010 food crisis might have been a harbinger of fundamental climate-induced food crises with geopolitical implications. Heat-wave-induced yield losses in Russia and resulting export restrictions led to increases in market prices for wheat across
Christopher Bren d’Amour +4 more
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Determinants of low-carbon transport mode adoption: systematic review of reviews
Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Urban transport provides access to multiple services, structures and impedes daily life of residents, and translates into wellbeing considerations, sustainability impacts, and GHG emissions.
Aneeque Javaid +2 more
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