In order to measure climate change policy, we introduce a new index, the 'Climate Laws, Institutions and Measures Index' (CLIMI), the first systematic attempt to measure countries' policy responses to the risk of climate change. CLIMI covers all the relevant institutions and sector-specific ...
2020, President Xi Jinping announced that China would scale up its NDCs by adopting more vigorous policies and measures, strive to peak CO2 emissions before 2030, and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. China
Given that corporate policies and decisions related to environmental threats and opportunities boil down to individual beliefs and societal institutions (Hoffman,2010), it is likely that local perceptions regarding climate change influence such decisions and permeate the concomitant firm-level environmental o...
And according to the principle of Pigou tax, environmental regulation can improve the impact of climate change by reducing the carbon emissions of enterprises through measures such as environmental taxes. Therefore, some scholars believe that environmental taxes play an important role in enhancing the ...
This law comprehensively stipulates emergency response plans, institutions, mechanisms, and legal systems, and emphasizes the dominant role of government in emergency response to natural disasters.43 2. Operating agencies The Whole-Nation System operates under the unified leadership of the State Council ...
Sure, we have made some limited progress by recycling, better insulating our homes, producing more energy efficient appliances, and expanding the use of renewable fuels. But those measures are far too little, too late. We led the world in establishing an extravagant, disposable culture. Now we...
Climate change has far-reaching effects on human and ecological systems, requiring collaboration across sectors and disciplines to determine effective resp
“It is not possible at this time to predict the timing and effect of climate change or whether additional [greenhouse gas (GHG)] legislation, regulations or other measures will be adopted at the federal, state or local levels. However, more aggressive efforts by gov...
Adaptation strategies depend on the local context, region, or country; limiting the discussion of options and measures to only one type of approach—"top-down” or “bottom-up”—may lead to unsatisfactory solutions for those areas most affected by climate change but with few resources to adapt...
Control de Electricidad) and the Agency of Regulation and Control of Hydrocarbon Fuels—ARCH (in Spanish Agencia de Regulación y Control de Hidrocarburos), which are the institutions in charge of regulating and controlling the distribution and use of electricity and fossil-derived fuels, respectively...