emissions reductionsUSenvironmentclimateThis Policy Brief summarizes the emerging regulations at the national level in the US, and offers an assessment of potential emissions reductions under the CleaDallas BurtrawSocial Science Electronic Publishing
The impact of Trump’s executive order – which unravels all traces of climate change initiatives in the federal government – is already being felt.Climate Change Denial is now US policy. An empowered Department of Energy (DOE) is showing the most ridiculous display of bravado – telling itsOf...
The encouraging attitudes were on full display at the December 2007 meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. One spokesperson after another from developing countries averred that once the U.S. and other industrial nations start to lead, their...
In April 2018, China adjusted the functions of relevant government departments, and put the newly established Ministry of Ecology and Environment in charge of responding to climate change, thus reinforcing the coordination betwe...
Climate-change policy encompasses policies formulated specifically to tackle climate change and can be local, national or international in scope. These broadly fall into two categories; those designed to minimise the extent of climate change – climate change mitigation – and those intended to minimise...
Climate Change (CC) adaptation and mitigation policy coherence (PC) across sectors is essential to effectively address CC challenges and support synergies. Pakistan is highly vulnerable to CC. In this paper, the extent to which Pakistan’s national and provincial water, agriculture, and energy secto...
Significant recent attention, in both research and policy realms, has been given to the intersection of international trade and global climate change. Trade presents challenges to climate policy through carbon leakage and competitiveness concerns, but also potential solutions through the use of cooperative...
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出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US 摘要: C limate change, sometimes labeled global warming or the enhanced "greenhouse effect," is the extraordinary warming of the Earth from increased concentrations of "greenhouse gases" (GHGs) and the climatic consequences of that warming. Many of those consequences ...
The US also returned to the table to join serious multilateral negotiations on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.But after the initial euphoria had subsided, disappointment over the Obama administration's climate policy soon set in. There is disagreement among the parties ...