The Victorian government announced the major energy reform on Friday as part of its plan to reach net zero emissions in the state by 2045. The government estimates the change will save households up to $1,000 on their annual energy bills – or $2,200 if they have solar installed – and ...
This chapter deals with climate-related changes in the marine ecosystem of the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea is often described as one of the world’s largest brackish water bodies. It has a unique combination of oceanographic, climatic, and geographic feat
Belo Horizonte further integrated climate change in urban policies in 2015, by amending Organic Law n° 8/2015, that lays the ground for the new Master Plan passed by the City Council, establishing measures that affect climate related issues, such as incentives to non-motorised modes and efficie...
This is the first study in Nepal which has used the bottom-up method of climate change analysis at the national scale focusing on hydropower. Results indicate regional differences in hydrological responses; the Eastern Basin hydropower projects are expected to face larger variabilities in energy ...
where he holds theSir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Changein theSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciencesand is also a member of theCenter for Energy Technology.He has published three books, over 200 refereed scientific papers, isa highly cited researcher, and regularly writes popular articles ...
It is increasingly necessary to quantify the impacts of climate change on populations, and to quantify the effectiveness of mitigation and adaptation strategies. Despite growing interest in the health effects of climate change, the relationship between mental health and climate change has received little...
An analysis of the influence of climate change on tourism mobility in South Tyrol assumes that in future the traffic intensity on South Tyrol's roads will be twice as high in summer as in winter, due to increasing demand in summer tourism and a decrease in demand in winter tourism due to...
have very large impacts, the rate of change -- despite being instantaneous on a geological timescale -- are long enough on a human timescale that their power to affect public attitudes towards adaption and mitigation actions is far less than we might hope. When catastrophic regional floods like...
climate change mitigation. The paper includes country case studies from Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union (EU), India, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, South Korea and the United States covering renewable energy options, industry, transportation, the residential sector and cross-...
David Shearman(AM, Ph.D., FRACP, FRCPE) is a professor of medicine at the University of Adelaide, South Australia and co-founder ofDoctors for the Environment Australia. He is co-author of “The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy” (2007) commissioned by the Pell ...