Integrated climate-change strategies of industrialized countries

Simeonova, Katia; Diaz-Bone, Harald

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2004.07.014

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“…Many of these policies are already reported by many Annex I countries (see Box 4, Simeonova and Diaz-Bone, 2005). An important advantage of the consumption accounting principle is that a country can reduce its overall emissions by reducing the pollution embodied in imports.…”

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confidence: 90%

Pollution embodied in trade: The Norwegian case

Peters

Hertwich

2006

Global Environmental Change

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Pollution embodied in trade: The Norwegian case

Peters

Hertwich

2006

Global Environmental Change

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“…Prominent examples for 'non-climate policies' that achieved emission reductions of up to 50% as an unintended by-product are those that shifted the energy mixes from coal to gas in Finland, Portugal, and the UK, and towards nuclear energy in France (for Finland see UNDP, 2007, p. 119; for the UK see Giddens, 2009;OECD, 2011; for France see Mathy, 2007). In Germany, the demise and modernization of polluting industries in former Eastern Germany had similar effects (Beck et al, 2009, p. 25;Simeonova & Diaz-Bone, 2005, p. 2540. Fourth, parts of the emission reductions were also due to developments that occurred outside (although facilitated by) the policy domain altogether, such as the financial and economic crisis from 2008 onwards (Chiodi et al, 2013, p. 170;Lekakis & Kousis, 2013), and, more importantly, carbon leakage (i.e.…”

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“…Finally, many NMSs also attempt to keep the cycle of climate policy making in motion by facilitating not only coordinated but also adaptive and reflexive implementation (Simeonova & Diaz-Bone, 2005). Cyclical implementation or action programmes are popular instruments to meet not only this governance challenge but also international reporting requirements (Ellis et al, 2010, p. 13).…”

Section: Nmss As Governance and Capacity-building Processesmentioning

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Bookkeeping rather than climate policy making: national mitigation strategies in Western Europe

Casado‐Asensio

Steurer

2015

Climate Policy

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Climate change mitigation is a wicked problem that cuts horizontally across sectors and vertically across levels of government. To address it effectively, governments around the world, in particular in the EU, have developed several generations of multi-sectoral national mitigation strategies (NMS) since the early 1990s. Although NMS became the main effort to systematically coordinate mitigation policies, few works have studied them comparatively so far. The present article fills this gap by analysing how the EU-15 group of countries operationalized climate protection through NMS. First, we introduce the three roles policy strategies usually aim to fulfil: besides being policy documents they also represent governance processes (supposed to coordinate sectoral implementation), and capacity-building efforts. Empirically, we then explore the rationale, origins and prevalence of NMS. Subsequently, we characterize them as policy documents (with regards to their contents and structures) and as governance processes that address capacity building only implicitly. Based on existing assessments we finally review some performance indications of NMS. We find that in particular second-and third-generation NMS aimed to take their governance function seriously but resembled 'lacklustre bookkeeping' of emissions, targets and mitigation options. Instead of approximating NMS towards their obviously overcharging governance function, we suggest to recalibrate them towards their communication and capacitybuilding function in a way that goes beyond bookkeeping. Policy relevanceThe present article shows that NMS fail to effectively govern climate change mitigation across a broad range of sectoral policy domains. Since most European countries have adopted not one but up to three generations of NMS since the 1990s, this finding is highly relevant for them -and for all others aiming to adopt similarly broad strategies. Instead of piling one strategy on top of another irrespective of their implementation, and instead of abolishing mitigation strategies altogether, we recommend recalibrating them towards what they can realistically accomplish: effective communication and capacity building so that NMS can advance from lacklustre bookkeeping to actively promoting a government-wide climate change mitigation vision. The article can help governments to realise that renewing integrated strategies such as NMS without overhauling them comes close to flogging a dead horse.

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“…Recent aggravation of global warming, due to increased levels of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere, results in sensible environmental consequences observed around the world (Tomkiewicz, 2006): about 85% of GHG are related to CO 2 (Jean- Baptiste and Ducroux, 2003). The average concentration of anthropogenic CO 2 in the atmosphere has increased from 278 ppmv in the pre-industrial era to 358 ppmv in 1996 (Simeonova and Diaz-Bone, 2005). Simulation of carbon cycle predict that if CO 2 emissions are maintained at the present levels, by 2,100 CO 2 atmospheric concentration will reach 500 ppmv (Johnston et al, 2003).…”

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Assessment of the impact of salinity and irradiance on the combined carbon dioxide sequestration and carotenoids production by Dunaliella salina: A mathematical model

Araújo

Gobbi

Chaloub

et al. 2008

Biotech & Bioengineering

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Current anthropogenic activities have been causing a significant increase in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 over the past 60 years. To mitigate the consequent global warming problem, efficient technological solutions, based on economical and technical grounds, are required. In this work, microalgae are studied as important biological systems of CO2 fixation into organic compounds through photosynthesis. These microorganisms are potential sources of a wide variety of interesting chemical compounds, which can be used for commercial purposes, reducing the cost of CO2 capture and sequestration. Specifically, Dunaliella salina culture was studied aiming at the impact evaluation of operational conditions over cellular growth and carotenoid production associated with the CO2 sequestration on focus. The main experimental parameters investigated were salinity and irradiance conditions. The experimental results supported the development of a descriptive mathematical model of the process. Based on the proposed model, a sensitivity analysis was carried out to investigate the operational conditions that maximize CO2 consumption and carotenoid production, in order to guide further development of technological routes for CO2 capture through microalgae. A preliminary cost estimation of CO2 sequestration combined to carotenoids production for a 200 MW power plant is presented, based on the growth rates achieved in this study.

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Integrated climate-change strategies of industrialized countries

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Pollution embodied in trade: The Norwegian case

Pollution embodied in trade: The Norwegian case

Bookkeeping rather than climate policy making: national mitigation strategies in Western Europe

Assessment of the impact of salinity and irradiance on the combined carbon dioxide sequestration and carotenoids production by Dunaliella salina: A mathematical model

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