policy reform and regulatory requirements – ETS, Climate Change Response Act, climate risk disclosure emissions trading issues, contracting and disputes mitigating reputational risks maximising climate change-related advantages, including advising on emissions offsetting programmes, sustainability claims and marke...
Due to ecological and environmental constraints, limitations imposed by the industrial structure, and the level of social and economic development, developing countries are generally weaker in terms of their ability to adapt to ...
Climate change is a challenge for all of humanity. China attaches great importance to its response to climate change. As the largest developing country in the world, China has adopted a number of policies, measures and actions to tackle climate ...
Other times, they are informal, such as when a married couple talks about investing in climate change solutions. Organizations such as the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) share governance practices that apply across asset owners9. They ...
Flood risk on the rise: Climate change causes more persistent heavy rainfall https://www.uni-graz.at/en/news/flood-risk-on-the-rise-climate-change-causes-more-persistent-heavy-rainfall/ Yes, Australia needs new homes – but they must be built to withstand disasters in a warmer world https:...
The case of Mr. Ioane Teitiota from Kiribati entered the global limelight in 2015 when New Zealand’s highest court ultimately rejected his claim that he and his family, i.e. his wife and three NZ-born children, could not return to their home country because climate change made it impossib...
Climate Change is Causing Accelerated 21st Century Surface Warming Measuring the Earth’s Global Average Temperature is a Scientific and Objective Process El Niño and Climate Change Climate Models have Accurately Predicted 30 Years of Warming A Climate Tipping Point Will Happen at 1.5°C...
and a cloud of dust it was not possible to immediately know the extent of any damage. Later television shots showed a naked steel frame remaining at the top of the reactor building. The external building structure does not act as the containment, which is an airtight engineered boundary ...
There should be a change to ground heatpumps and water-water heatpumps. Distributed heat in communitys that is more predictable and can be planned with reserve so that no pump has to run 100%. If you give free loans for heat pumps you can make conditions (smart grid, load balancing, ex...
more than two-thirds of the buildings that are expected to be constructed between now and 2050 are expected to be constructed in countries that currently do not have any building energy codes. Moreover, where codes exist, they are often not enforced properly (IEA,2021a; UN Climate Change,202...