Essays about: "CDM"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 70 essays containing the word CDM.

1. 16. Cultural Diversity Management : A Study of a Swedish Multinational Company

   University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle

   Author : Emma Aspvik; Eveline Aspvik; [2017]
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   Abstract : Globalization has opened up national borders, which has led to a spread of companies globally and a culturally diverse nature of labor. Efficient cultural diversity management (CDM) has become a significant challenge for organizations and managers have to find ways of managing a cross-cultural staff, as a disregard of cultural dissimilarities is the cause of most failures by cross-national businesses. READ MORE

3. 17. Can the Clean Development Mechanism bring Community Co-benefits? A case study of the Kachung Forest Project, Uganda

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Karin Edstedt; [2017]
   Keywords : Climate change mitigation; CDM; afforestation; local livelihood implications; climate justice; Uganda; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Global warming is one of the greatest challenges of our time. To globally reduce green house gas emissions, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was created under the Kyoto Protocol. READ MORE

4. 18. Carbon forestry and local livelihoods : a case study on poverty in Uganda

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Tove Ellingsen; [2017]
   Keywords : local livelihoods; capitals; Uganda; villagers; perception;

   Abstract : Green Resources is one of the largest companies engaged in carbon forestry on the African continent. The Green Resources carbon forestry plantation in northern Uganda is a particularly interesting case in a Swedish perspective, because the Swedish Energy Agency is committed to buying its carbon emissions reductions within a clean development mechanism (CDM) project under the Kyoto protocol. READ MORE

5. 19. The political ecology of carbon: Commodification, colonialism and debt in carbon offsetting under the Clean Development Mechanism

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Sara Ullström; [2017]
   Keywords : carbon offsetting; power; CDM; carbon forestry; Political ecology; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a market-based attempt to mitigate global greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, the mechanism is said to contribute to sustainable development in the Global South. READ MORE

6. 20. Cosmic Dawn in a Fuzzy Universe : Constraining the nature of Dark Matterwith 21 cm Cosmology

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för astronomi

   Author : Olof Nebrin; [2017]
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   Abstract : The cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm underlying the standard CDM model of cosmology is successful on large scales but faces potential problems on small scales partly related to a seeming overproduction of dwarf galaxies. This could be alleviated in exotic dark matter models that suppresses small-scale structure formation. READ MORE