The European Union reached an agreement to impose a tax on imports based on the greenhouse gases emitted to make them, inserting climate-change regulation for the first time into the rules of global trade. …The
The scientific advisory board of Altmaier's ministry has proposed significantly reducing and reforming taxes and levies on energy in Germany as well as abolishing the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) levy, which had been used to finance the country's energy transition. Instead, the German Econo...
Introduction: Reorienting climate research in the Arctic The well-documented impacts of climate change on the Arctic's physical environment are not only disrupting the local ecosystems but pose significant societal challenges in the region, as well (Jafry, Mikulewicz, et al., 2019; WMO, 2019)....
References for ‘Dr Karl’s Little Book of Climate Change Science’ I did my first story on Climate Change in 1981. These references go back to before that and hopefully up to the present day. If you want to know anything specific about Climate Change all the hard work I’ve done will...
Scientists say that climate change is spurring more in- tense wildfires as some areas become hotter and drier. The May 2023 Potomac Conservancy's re- port on the river's condition concluded, ". . . we are already experiencing the impacts of a warming climate" in the region, and these ...
A civilization based on adversarial conquest expects concessions and quid-pro-quo gifts on the table. Isn't climate change just another problem we face? It's as if today we say "since we changed our light bulbs and got a hybrid car, so now we should get cooler weather this summer, yes...
Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, L.L. White (Eds.), Climate Change Africa: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part B: Regional Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, ...
In the UK, for example, the public health discourse on climate change, was conducted, ini- tially at least, with a clear focus on environmental change taking place, or imminently anticipated, in that country. From the outset, concern centered on what the greater incidence and severity of ...
(Land Bank) Tax Increment Financing Air Right Sale/Tradable Development Rights Betterment Levy Property Tax Special Economic Zone Impact Fee and Connection Fee Business Improvement District Toll Lane Cordon Pricing Zoning Change Country Design Guideline Parking Restriction Urban Green Preservation / ...
“The Democrats got hurt this past election cycle by not effectively dealing with the gap between perception and reality on the economy and concerns about affordability,” said Lawrence Levy, a suburban politics expert at Hofstra University. “Any policy that even looks lik...