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Built-up land intensively concentrates human activities, and its area or the changes in its intensity dramatically affect the regional carbon balance. This study proposed a new framework to assess how in China, the interregional trade?s use of built-up lan ...

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A continuous growth of international trade, especially between developing countries, has greatly increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with energy consumption over the past two decades. Given the more intensified intraregional cooperation and ...

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Global Climate Change Mitigation: Strategic Incentives

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Central to global agreement on carbon emissions are strategic interactions amongst regions over abatement policy and the benefits to be shared. These are re-examined in this paper, in which benefits from mitigation stem from a meta-analysis that links carb ...

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The potential of palm-oil biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared with fossil fuels is increasingly questioned. So far, no measurement-based GHG budgets were available, and plantation age was ignored in Life Cycle Analyses (LCA). Here, w ...

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Who invests in sustainability as a strategic choice? We adopt a behavioral theory perspective to explain the heterogeneity of sustainability-driven investments. Building on problemistic search and organizational inertia arguments, and contrary to resource- ...

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A review of assessment methods for the urban environment and its energy sustainability to guarantee climate adaptation of future cities

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The current climate change is calling for a drastic reduction of energy demand as well as of greenhouse gases. Besides this, cities also need to adapt to face the challenges related to climate change. Cities, with their complex urban texture and fabric, ca ...

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Food is a critical global resource that impacts all 17 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and a huge contributor to both problems (climate, environment, health) and solutions. The Food Action project engaged 5 countries in developing and testing a pr ...

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Relatively low travel costs and abundant opportunities for research funding in Switzerland and other developed countries allow researchers large amounts of international travel and collaborations, leading to a substantial carbon footprint. Increasing willi ...

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What does the IPCC 1.5° special report mean for Switzerland? Can and should Switzerland decarbonize? How can Switzerland help other countries? ...

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On the Design of a Youth-Led, Issue-Based, Crowdsourced Global Monitoring Framework for the SDGs

Sharada Prasanna Mohanty, Rajiv Ramaswamy

In this paper, we propose a novel methodology and design to contribute towards the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by member states of the United Nations for a better and more sustainable future for all. We particularly f ...

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