Essays about: "Canadian Climate Policy"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Canadian Climate Policy.
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1. Symbolic coping in Canada’s coal phaseout : applying social representations dynamics to communities in transition
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : The Canadian federal government has introduced policy to phase out coal-fired electricity generation by 2030, as part of its climate change mitigation commitments under the Paris Agreement. The policy plan, positioned as a just transition, includes funding and measures to help workers and communities manage economic difficulties arising from the coal phaseout. READ MORE
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2. Knowledge and Implementation of Climate Change Adaptation in the Infrastructure Sector in Nunavut, Canada
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : The Arctic is at the forefront of climate change and is considered to be the most at risk, warming at twice the rate of the global annual average. The environment and its inhabitants are and will be subjected to deep transformational shifts, with changes in temperature and climate having potentially worldwide repercussions. READ MORE
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3. The Dollars and Cents of Driving and Cycling: Calculating the Full Costs of Transportation in Calgary, Canada
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : Many cities across the globe are working to facilitate cycling as a sustainable transportation mode through changes to public policy and investments in infrastructure. Examining the costs and benefits of both driving and cycling using the cost benefit analysis (CBA) framework developed in Copenhagen provides an opportunity to identify private and social costs associated with these modes of transport with respect to environmental, social, and economic impacts. READ MORE
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4. Donor Driven Innovation: Using cultural analysis to stimulate strategic change in a Canadian NGO
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiAbstract : This thesis is a study of development and international aid institutions and practices undertaken to give form and substance to international development as a cultural product. In a climate of changing policy priorities and the prospective loss of government backing for international development NGOs, this thesis uses applied cultural analysis to develop knowledge of the support network of NGO A, a British Columbian NGO. READ MORE
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5. Spurring Climate Change Action Beyond External Borders - A study of legal measures available to the EU to exert pressure on Canada to pursue climate change action in times of international institutional failure
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Climate change is one of today’s major challenges; a challenge with significant consequences that will affect all countries in different ways if a way to combat global warming by stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions cannot be agreed on. A global problem calls for an international response; however, the international climate regime has failed to deliver adequate results. READ MORE
