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Toward a Low Carbon–Dematerialization Society

Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2012
Summary Rapid industrialization and urbanization has been occurring in China since the introduction of the opening‐up policy in 1978. The demands of building and infrastructure construction have increased rapidly, especially in the transportation and housing sectors in China.
Feng Shi, Tao Huang, Hiroki Tanikawa, Ji Han, Seiji Hashimoto, Yuichi Moriguchi   +5 more
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Low Carbon Economy and Society

2018 International Conference and Utility Exhibition on Green Energy for Sustainable Development (ICUE), 2018
The main challenge of developed countries is to maintain their economic expansion, which is mainly based on the energy from fossil fuels, with significant greenhouse gas emissions. Likewise, the least developed countries have high risks of climate-change induced disasters, as they can neither set the policy for mitigation nor invest much amount money ...
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Low-carbon society scenarios for India

Climate Policy, 2008
Low-carbon society scenarios visualize social, economic and technological transitions through which societies respond to climate change. This article assesses two paradigms for transiting to a low-carbon future in India. An integrated modelling framework is used for delineating and assessing the alternative development pathways having equal cumulative ...
Shukla, P. R., Dhar, S., Mahapatra, Diptiranjan   +2 more
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Achieving a low-carbon society

Climate Policy, 2013
Climate change is perhaps the central challenge that faces humanity. If the concept of green growth is to be anything more than a mere rebranding of the concept of sustainability, then it must elucidate the relationship between economic activity and pollution and provide a more detailed economic account of it.
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Land use and a low-carbon society

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2012
ABSTRACTLand use and the management of our natural resources such as soils and water offer great opportunities to sequester carbon and mitigate the effects of climate change. Actions on forestry, soil carbon and damaged peatlands each have the potential to reduce Scottish emissions in 2020 by hundreds of thousands of tonnes.
Campbell, Colin D., Lilly, Allan, Towers, Willie, Chapman, Stephen J., Werritty, Alan, Hanley, Nick   +5 more
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Low-Carbon Society in Switzerland

2012
Switzerland is unique compared to other European countries as there is hardly any heavy industry and electricity production is a nearly carbonfree, consisting of 60 per cent hydro and 40 per cent nuclear energy. As a consequence the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per capita are quite low, despite the high-income level.
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Low-carbon societies: a challenging transition for an attractive future

Climate Policy, 2008
The Low-Carbon Society (LCS) research project (Strachan et al., 2008a) is examined for its insights about the scale, nature and timing of the deployment of low-carbon technologies. In addition to ‘carbon price only’ policies, other incentives and demand-side efforts are needed in order to embed climate policies into broader development approaches.
Hourcade, Jean Charles, Crassous, R.
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Financing the transition to a low-carbon society

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 2010
In the absence of a significant reduction in global emissions from current levels between now and 2050, global temperatures could rise by 4 °C, and possibly 6 °C by 2100. The world now has 100–150 months to dramatically change the world’s energy supply trajectory and limit temperature rise to a “safe” 2 °C.
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Sustainability of silicon feedstock for a low-carbon society

Sustainability Science, 2009
We need to ensure the sustainable management of advanced materials, such as purified silicon, that contribute to a low-carbon society. Because a drastic increase in the demand for photovoltaic (PV) systems is tightening the supply of silicon for PV cells, the sustainability of silicon feedstock needs to be explored.
Hiroaki Takiguchi, Kazuki Morita
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Development of Thailand Low Carbon Society Scenario

Advanced Materials Research, 2012
The objective of this paper is to establish and manage the study group of Thailand and conduct the research activities and create the possible scenario stories of Thailand under the global trend of carbon reduction. The goal of "Balance of Economic, Environment, Energy and Social development (3E&1S) for Low Carbon Societies (LCS)” has been set to ...
Raksanai Nidhiritdhikrai, Supawat Vivanpatarakij, Weerin Wangjiraniran   +2 more
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