Essays about: "the climate pledge"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words the climate pledge.

  1. 1. EU Versus Sweden – the Battle of Sustainability in Our Forests

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Ewelina Kaniecka; [2023]
    Keywords : Content Analysis; Earth Sciences; EU Forest Strategy; Forest Policy; Sustainable Development; Swedish Forestry Act;

    Abstract : In 2021, the European Union (EU) released the New EU Forest Strategy for 2030 to improve the welfare of forests within the EU. This caused a conflict between the EU and some of its Member States. READ MORE

  3. 2. Phasing out Gas? Implications of the Narratives around Natural Gas for Germany’s Heat Transition in the Building Sector

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Anna Katrin Kraus; [2022]
    Keywords : heat transition; building sector; natural gas; narratives and discourses; lock-in effects; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Germany must decarbonise the heating of its buildings, now majorly dependent on natural gas, to meet its climate neutrality pledge. However, the share of natural gas-based heating has not been decreasing in the last decades, and Germany continuously failed to meet the building sector’s emission reduction targets. READ MORE

  4. 3. Deep reinforcement learning for real-time power grid topology optimization

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Jacob Rothschild; [2021]
    Keywords : Deep reinforcement learning; Dueling Deep Q-Network; electricity transmission network; real-time topology optimization; sustainable energy; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : In our pursuit of carbon neutrality, drastic changes to generation and consumption of electricity will cause new and complex demands on the power grid and its operators. A cheap, promising, and under-exploited mitigation is real-time power grid topology optimization (RTTO). READ MORE

  5. 4. The Other Amazon: Deconstructing Amazon's Climate Pledge and Sustainability Discourse

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Ebba Campbell; [2020]
    Keywords : amazon; amazon Inc.; amazon.com; sustainability; critical discourse analysis; the climate pledge; greenwashing; ecological modernization; eco-modernism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The techno-conglomerate Amazon has emerged as a corporate giant, branching out their operations to include many sectors of the global market. While previously concealing their carbon footprint, Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge together with two former architects of the Paris Agreement in 2019 with the goal of reaching net zero carbon by 2040, ten years earlier than the Paris agreement. READ MORE

  6. 5. The cost of phasing out coal - Quantifying and comparing compensation costs of coal phase-out policies to governments

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Lola Nacke; [2020]
    Keywords : Political feasibility; decarbonization; distributional costs; coal phase-out; marginal abatement cost; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : To reach internationally agreed climate targets, it is especially important to phase out coal-powered electricity generation in favour of low-carbon technologies. Several governments have pledged to phase out coal power. However, coal phase-out is hindered by resistance of negatively affected workers, companies and regional governments. READ MORE