Essays about: "pre-industrial"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 52 essays containing the word pre-industrial.

  1. 1. The Loss and Damage fund: An investigation of discourse and power under the UNFCCC

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Olivia Östlin; [2024]
    Keywords : loss and damage; the UNFCCC; critical discourse analysis; political ecology; climate justice; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : At the international climate negotiations at COP27, parties reached the historic agreement to establish a fund to provide assistance to countries in responding to costs associated with climate change, the loss and damage fund. The decision is a result of many years of struggle for the recognition of loss and damage under the UNFCCC which have long been opposed by post-industrial countries. READ MORE

  3. 2. IMPLICATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG TO ALIGN WITH THE GOVERNMENT’S TARGET REGARDING CLIMATE NEUTRALITY BY 2045 - Scenarios and Consequences

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap

    Author : Nafiseh Kazemi Ashtiani; [2023-06-21]
    Keywords : Climate Neutrality; GHG emissions; higher education institutions HEIs ; Net Zero emission; carbon footprint; carbon capture and storage CCS ;

    Abstract : It is widely acknowledged that one of the most significant global challenges of the 21 st century is climate change. In its Fifth Assessment Report (2014), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) described the present extent of the problem and the hazards involved, citing greenhouse gas emissions from human activities as the primary contributor to global warming since the mid-20th century. READ MORE

  4. 3. Techno-economic Assessment of Carbon Capture from Low Concentration Streams

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Prithvi Kiran Joshi; [2023]
    Keywords : Carbon capture; industrial emissions; low concentration; MEA; Benfield; absorption; Immobilised Amine; adsorption; Kolavskiljning; industriella utsläpp; låg koncentration; MEA; Benfield; Absorption; Immobiliserad amin; Adsorption vi;

    Abstract : Investments in carbon capture from industrial emissions have been on the rise in recent years, having reached over $200 million in 2021 as compared to 2015’s $13 million. The Paris Agreement, signed by 196 parties globally in 2015, is purported to be the primary driver for this, with its ambitious goal of limiting global surface temperature rise to 1. READ MORE

  5. 4. POSSIBLE TIMING OF THE TRANSITION FROM PRE-INDUSTRIAL TO INDUSTRIAL CLIMATE IN THE CENTRAL TO NORTHERN OF SWEDEN, BASED ON PROXY DATA FROM TREE-RINGS

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Mika Falkensjö Oppenheim; [2022-09-28]
    Keywords : Tree-ring; maximum latewood density MXD ; Scandinavia; pre-industrial; industrial climate;

    Abstract : Earth’s climate has varied through time, with orbital forcing as the most dominant force on the climate system the last million years, causing glacial-interglacial cycles. The last glacial period ended about 11.6 thousand years (kyr), ago and the last interglacial maximum around 6.5 kyr ago. READ MORE

  6. 5. Seawater Heat Recovery by the Utilisation of Phase Change Heat of Freezing : Technical feasibility study of a system for District Heating in the city of Helsinki

    University essay from KTH/Kraft- och värmeteknologi

    Author : Rakesh Ramesh; [2022]
    Keywords : District heating; Seawater; Ice slurry; Aspen Plus; Pressure drop; Fjärrvärme; Havsvatten; Isslurry; Aspen Plus; Tryckfall;

    Abstract : With the Paris agreement calling to limit global warming to 2°C below pre-industrial levels, with further efforts to ensure it stays below 1.5°C, the Finnish government passed the Lakihiilen energiakäytön kieltämisestä (416/2019), i.e. READ MORE