Forest conservation and the clean development mechanism: Lessons from the Costa Rican protected areas projectSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 9 - Trang 217-240 - 2004
Frank Vöhringer
Deforestation is currentlythe source of about 20% of anthropogenicCO2 emissions. Avoided deforestationhas, nonetheless, been ruled out as a CleanDevelopment Mechanism (CDM) category in theKyoto Protocol's first commitment period,because several methodological issues wereconsidered too difficult to resolve. Thispaper explores whether CDM issues such as(1) carbon quantification, (2)additionality and...... hiện toàn bộ
Mitigation of CO2 emissions from the road passenger transport sector in BahrainSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 22 - Trang 99-119 - 2015
M. AlSabbagh, Y. L. Siu, A. Guehnemann, J. Barrett
There is much optimism that the 2015 Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention will yield an agreement on mitigation of climate change, to become effective in 2020. In this context, Bahrain represents a developing country with insufficient data to assess mitigation opportunities: its per capita carbon emissions rank among the world’s highest, yet there has been no resear...... hiện toàn bộ
Contents volumeSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 423-424 - 2000
Deeper understanding of the barriers to national climate adaptation policy: the case of South KoreaSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 28 - Trang 1-20 - 2022
Seunghan Lee, Jouni Paavola, Suraje Dessai
As climate change adaptation has become essential for the sustainable development of nations, national adaptation policies have increasingly been adopted and implemented over the past decade. However, an adaptation gap is observable and getting wider. We investigate the barriers to national adaptation policy and their origins, influence as well as relationships between them in South Korea. We also...... hiện toàn bộ
Drought adaptation in rural eastern Oklahoma in the 1930s: lessons for climate change adaptation researchSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 13 - Trang 379-400 - 2007
Robert McLeman, Dick Mayo, Earl Strebeck, Barry Smit
In the mid-1930s, eastern Oklahoma, USA, suffered an unusually harsh mixture of droughts and extreme rainfall events that led to widespread crop failure over several years. These climatic conditions coincided with low commodity prices, agricultural restructuring and general economic collapse, creating tremendous hardship in rural and agriculturally dependent areas. Using a previously developed typ...... hiện toàn bộ