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Energy Challenges in the Global South

Silvia Hostettler

Energy needs at the global level are gigantic and steadily increasing while the need to reduce carbon emissions is vital if catastrophic climate change is to be avoided. In the Global South, a large part of the population still lacks access to energy, whic ...

Springer International Publishing2015

Statistical distributions of trace metal concentrations in the northwestern Mediterranean atmospheric aerosol

Thomas Robin

The concentrations of 11 crustal and anthropogenic trace metals (Li, Al, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb) were measured from 2006 to 2008 in the atmospheric aerosol at a northwestern Mediterranean coast (station of Cap Ferrat, situated on the southeaster ...

Springer Netherlands2013

Diffusive-type of double diffusion in lakes - a review

Alfred Johny Wüest, Martin Schmid

This chapter is a contribution in honour of Gerhard H Jirka, who has been fascinated by the amazing variety of small-scale structures that nature surprises us with, particularly in stratified natural waters. Here, we focus on the diffusive regime of double ...

CRC Press2012

Atmospheric impacts and ice core imprints of a methane pulse from clathrates

Jérôme Chappellaz

Reconstructions of past atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases provide unique insight into the biogeochemical cycles and the past radiative forcing in the Earth's climate system. We present new measurements of atmospheric nitrous oxide along the ic ...

Elsevier BV2012

Three steps toward modeling Swiss post-2012 climate policies

André Sceia

This thesis presents three steps toward a more precise modeling of climate policies using hybrid models. Specific hybrid models have been devised and used to analyze different post-Kyoto Swiss climate policies. Chapter 1 presents a rather simple hybrid mod ...

EPFL2010

Coupling GEMINI-E3 and MARKAL-CHRES to Simulate Swiss Climate Policies

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera, André Sceia

This report collects two studies hat have been performed in the Research group on the Economics and Management of the Environment of EPFL to assess the Swiss post-Kyoto climate policy with a focus on the residential sector. We couple two existing top-down ...

2008

Global emission estimation by using probe vehicles

André-Gilles Dumont, Edward Chung, Emmanuel Bert

Air pollution is becoming a more and more important aspect for transportation, particularly car emission in urban area. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the global emission of a transport network based on probe car and sensor data. Probe vehicles ...

2006

An overview of the economics of voluntary approaches in climate policies

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini

Introductory chapter to this volume, with an typology and overview of voluntary approaches and the issues they raise and with an introduction to the contributions. ...

Edward Elgar2004

Voluntary Approaches in Climate Policy

Voluntary approaches (VAs) are increasingly implemented in different countries as the main instrument in environmental policies. The authors focus on the economics of VAs, their advantages and disadvantages and how they compare with other climate policy in ...

Edward Elgar Publishing2004