Essays about: "IPCC"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 128 essays containing the word IPCC.

  1. 21. How the Choice of Primary Treatment Affects the Biogas Potential of Primary Sludge

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kemiteknik (CI)

    Author : Fanny Blom; [2022]
    Keywords : wastewater treatment; primary treatment; biogas potential; primary settling treatment; rotating belt filter; chemically enhanced primary treatment; environmental engineering; water resources engineering; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The global heating has resulted in rising temperatures and more extreme weather conditions around the world. In combination with increasing energy demands, this has led to an increasing demand of renewable energy. One option is utilizing the wastewater to produce biogas. There-fore, wastewater can be seen as a resource rather than waste. READ MORE

  3. 22. Carbon Flows in Sweden : A Substance Flow Analysis of anthropogenic carbon flows

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Sofia Gunnarsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Carbon; Carbon Flow; Carbon Stock; Substance Flow Analysis; Sweden; Industrial Ecology; Anthropogenic;

    Abstract : Carbon (C) is an essential element for all life. However, modern livestock keeping and usage of carbon through burning of fossil fuels are resulting in increased concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere, two important greenhouse gases (GHG). READ MORE

  4. 23. Terrestrial Management: Ecological farming in Puerto Rico

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Tracy Trägårdh; [2022]
    Keywords : Terrestrial; management; multispecies; post-qualitative inquiry; plantationocene;

    Abstract : According to the 2022 IPCC report on mitigation of climate change, a transformational change is necessary in every aspect of society, industry and commerce by 2030 in order to keep global temperatures within safe limits. What would this transformation look like and how do we begin? I argue that applying Bruno Latour’s concept of the Terrestrial can help lead us towards the path of transformation. READ MORE

  5. 24. Toward establishing CO2-securitization’s warning process and likely non-conclusion

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sören Floderus; [2022]
    Keywords : Securitization; Climate; Warning process; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : For understanding undue politicization, Wilhelm Agrell and Gregory Treverton in their book National Intelligence and Science (2015) describe ‘Intelligence Modes of Science’ at work in also science’s policy-maker-analyst interface, while analytical social epistemology points at medialization as additional background. In this paper, securitization’s process is used as frame for exploring how IPCC’s, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, claim at its conclusion (Brauch, 2009) fares in the area of CO2/climate, for an independent account and with an eye for Swedish processes in particular as they’ve been covered. READ MORE

  6. 25. Locating Indigenous Agencies in Climate Policies of the Arctic : Positionalities of Indigenous People(s) and Traditional Knowledge in the Science-Policy Discourse of Climate Change

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Justiina Mattila; [2022]
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    Abstract : Indigenous people in the Arctic are recognized as being on front line of confronting the effects of changing climate as well as of the global measures taken for its management, however, remaining marginalized under the conventional ways of governing. This thesis examines the positionalities of indigenous people(s) and traditional knowledge in the science-policy discourse of climate change. READ MORE