Essays about: "voluntary environmental agreements"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words voluntary environmental agreements.
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1. Drivers for Reducing GHG Emissions from Purchased Freight Transports - Exploring if and how Science-Based Targets influence companies to manage Scope 3 emissions from freight transports
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : Despite that freight transports account for a notable and increasing share of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, previous studies have identified that buyers of freight transport services often do not engage sufficiently to reduce emissions from the freight transports they purchase. An aspect that has not been adequately investigated, however, is how transport purchasers are influenced by new potential drivers or facilitators, such as by adopting voluntary environmental agreements (VEA). READ MORE
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2. Cross-border Displacement: Prevent, Prepare or Adapt to?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : Despite the fact that some forecasts suggest that a large number of individuals could become displaced by 2050, the institutional and operational linkages between climate and cross-border displacement continues to be complex. While refugees and IDPs are treated according to specific treaties, the status of cross-border displacement as a result of disasters suffers from a normative gap and the linkages between disaster displacement, its drivers and risk reduction seems rather underrepresented in existing research. READ MORE
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3. EU Competition Law and Environmental Protection - Integrate or Isolate?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The European Commission has, in recent years, adopted an economic, consumer welfare-driven approach in its competition policy. Since the “modernisation” of the European competition law in 2004, the Commission has stated that “objective economic benefits” are necessary for the exemption in Article 101(3) TFEU to apply. READ MORE
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4. Private Lawmakers in International Environmental Law
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The body of international environmental law consists of framework agreements with vague norms that cannot be used in an operative manner. At the same time, sustainable development law promotes an integrated approach to social, economic and environmental issues, including other actors than states, which involves an increased pressure on private actors to take part in the efforts to protect the environment. READ MORE
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5. Voluntary forest set-asides in Sweden : an empirical and theoretical analysis
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : Voluntary forest set-asides have increased in Sweden since 1996 when they were first introduced. The theory of voluntary agreements states that they should be cost minimizing and flexible. The principle with voluntary forest set-asides is that the forest owners in a voluntary way should set forest with a high biological value aside from production. READ MORE
