Low-carbon economy

New Zealand’s transition to low carbon economy Notes Background information Aim of the report: Identify options on how New Zealand could reduce its domestic greenhouse gas emissions through a transition toward lower future emissions minimizing costs, while still maintaining well-being and income growth. Context: Despite generating 80% of its power from renewable sources, New Zealand has the second-highest level of emissions per GDP unit in the OECD and the fifth-highest emissions per

the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by Chinese cities have increased dramatically in the last few decade. Currently half of China's cities cannot meet the air quality standards, and one-third of its land is affected by acid rain (Zhang, 2007). In order to protect its people and nature from dangerous environmental threats, sustainable development of China's growing cities must become a top priority, and a key resolution is making them low carbon cities. Low carbon cities can be

• To help industries adopt low-carbon technologies through programs and services designed to help reduce greenhouse gas pollution while also reducing costs. Technologies will help to improve energy productivity and help industrial plants modernize so they can thrive in a competitive low-carbon economy. Key Point 2 • The second initiative will be to help the agri-food sector adopt low-carbon technologies through the reduction of emissions and retrofitting agricultural facilities. Both of these together

Framing climate change as an issue of sustainable development also has positive impacts for the governance of adaptation measures. It has been recognized that mitigation efforts have not sufficed to stop or even minimize the damage of global warming, with experts agreeing that the INDCs will not reach the intended reduction target of 2 degrees (International Energy Agency 2015). This has been argued to be the result of a ‘top-down’ approach that centers on nation states making international treaties

There are issues of the environment that exist within politics therefore it is necessary to define the terms environmentalism, ecologist and green politics. These terms have been used in a variety of ways and of which can be fully understood, so there are in no case accepted definitions. Ecologism refers to a movement that looks to change the nature of humankind’s relationship to its physical environment. It is widely based on the science of ecology which would then suggest it is an ideology in

and trade is usually the policy referred to when the literature uses the ambiguous phrase of ‘carbon pricing.’ While a carbon tax is functionally a pricing mechanism, the small quantity of available cases of implementation mean that cap and trade is the default mechanism for carbon pricing in the status quo. The primary benefit of the cap and trade approach is creating an almost infinitely scalable carbon market. Cap and trade accomplishes this by functioning simultaneously as a disincentive and an

transfer and up-take; maintaining EU industrial leadership on low-carbon energy technologies; fostering science for transforming energy technologies to achieve the 2020 Energy and Climate Change goals; contributing to the worldwide transition to a low carbon economy by 2050. (SETIS, 2016) Especially by the time of 2020, the EU is on track to reach its 20-20-20 goals of a 20% reduction of CO2 emissions, a 20% share of energy from low-carbon energy sources and

Mrs. Betsy Ching The Coca-Cola Company I ERCBA211 Mrs. Betsy Ching The Coca-Cola Company ERCBA211 Contents Executive Summary II Introduction 1 1. Stakeholders 2 2. Triple Bottom Line 4 2.1 Financial 4 2.2 Social 5 2.3 Environment 6 2.3.1 Energy Efficiency and Climate Protection 6 2.3.2 Sustainable Packaging 6 2.3.3 Recycling 7 3. Corporate Social Responsibility 8 3.1 Ethical CSR 8 3.2 Altruistic CSR

industry-wide limit to carbon production. Corporations that produce more than the set carbon limit are able to buy allowances from corporations who produce below the allowed amount. This creates a market for carbon so that companies can actually make money by reducing their carbon output. As time progresses, the government will incrementally lower the cap, which will reduce the number of allowances issued and increase their price. Ontario's Climate Change Mitigation and Low-carbon Economy Act, 2016 (the

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