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The relationship between long-term climate goals and short/medium-term emission targets forms crucial information for the design of international climate policy. Since IPCC's 4th Assessment Report (AR4), a large number of new scenario studies have been published. This paper reviews this new...
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- Editorial. Ziesing, Hans-Joachim // Economic Bulletin;Sep2003, Vol. 40 Issue 9, p303
Under the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the European Union (EU) has undertaken to reduce its emission of six greenhouse gases by 8% from the reference year 1990 between 2008 and 2012. The EU is keeping to that target regardless of the fact that...
- A Fine Act to Follow When it comes to renewable energy, Germany is the undisputed leader. Taylor, Jennifer; Kitchell, Valerie; Balabanowicz, Julia // Alternatives Journal;2008, Vol. 34 Issue 5/6, p18
The article discusses Germany's role in stimulating the renewable energy market and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), enacted in 2000, is said to be most effective in greenhouse gas mitigation. EEG was responsible for reducing 44 million tonnes of...
- Carbon Emissions on the Rise. Russell, James // World Watch;Jan/Feb2009, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p28
The article reports that carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion worldwide reached an estimated 8.2 billion tons in 2007, which was 2.8 percent more than in 2006 and 22 percent above the 2000 total. Fossil fuels account for about 74 percent of all C02 emissions and for roughly 57 percent of...
- Technology Policy and World Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the AMIGA Modeling System. Hanson, Donald A.; Laitner, John A. "Skip" // Energy Journal;Multi-Greenhouse Gas Mitigation, Vol. 27, p355
In this paper we examine the interaction between technology policy and its impact on the full basket of worldwide greenhouse emissions over the 21st century. The heart of the analysis is the Argonne National Laboratory's AMIGA Modeling System, a technology rich, general equilibrium model that...
- Baring all for climate change. // Sustain' Magazine;2007, Vol. 8 Issue 5, p8
The article focuses on several people who have shed their clothes in the Swiss Alps to boldly cry out for help against global warming. More than 600 nude volunteers posed for renowned U.S. naked installation artist Spencer Tunick on the Aletsch Glacier. Tunick, who is known around the world for...
- carma points. // Vegetarian Times;Mar2008, Issue 356, p19
The article focuses on the Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) database at carma.org. Get details about carbon emissions for more than 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies worldwide with a few clicks of the mouse. CARMA is the brainchild of the Center for Global Development, a...
- 2015. D�AZ, ALEXANDER F. // Caribbean Business;11/27/2008, Vol. 36 Issue 47, Special section p1
The article focuses on the issue concerning the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions led by 2000 leading scientists in 2015. According to the article, the reports on the greenhouse gas mitigation has been issued after the meticulous study performed by several scientists and they aimed to...
