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Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Guidelines for the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Verification, and Certification of Energy-Efficiency Projects for Climate Change Mitigation
Author: The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change Activities Implemented Jointly (AIJ) Pilot: Experiences and Lessons Learned
Author: Robert K. DixonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401142874
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Jose Maria Figueres Olsen Former President Republic of Costa Rica The heated debate about global climate change continues. Some say it is the gravest calamity our species has ever encountered. Others deny its existence altogether. As with most caseS of human decision making, the truth is most likely somewhere in the middle. The challenge of this particular set of decisions is the overwhelming sense of uncertainty. Science cannot fully attribute the climatic catastrophes occurring before our eyes to increasing levels of greenhouse gas concentrations. Neither can Science prove that extreme events and warming trends are unrelated to human behavior. Economic models, sophisticated as they are, cannot agree on the costs of reducing carbon dioxide (C~) emissions in industrialized countries. International negotiations are thus mired in the morass of scientific and economic uncertainty. The are only two elements of certainty in the whole debate. The frrst is the need for precaution. The potential impacts are such, that the risk of inaction is unaffordable to the human race. Under the current state of knowledge, mankind must take cautious but unequivocal steps to reverse current patterns.
Measuring Results from Climate Change Programs
Author: Publisher: GEF Evaluation Office
ISBN: 1884122868
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Handbook of Financing Energy Projects
Author: Albert ThumannPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780849336676
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Lack of funding is the number one project killer. Most organizations do not have extra cash lying around, therefore most projects must be financed to get approval. Your energy project may be one of many potential projects from which the CFO can choose only a few. If you present your proposal with positive cash flow, your project will stand-out from the crowd. Filled with practical yet innovative financing methods, Handbook of Financing Energy Projects provides effective solutions to finance problems. The authors delineate the key success factors for structuring a financed energy project and getting it approved. They examine and assess the full scope of current project financing, including energy service performance contracting, rate of return analysis, and energy savings measurement and verification. You get all the facts you need to assess a project's payback in advance, avoid potential risks and hidden costs, and assure that their energy projects are an economic success. There are many correct ways to assemble and finance an energy management project. The possibilities are limited only by your creativity. This book explores successful solutions for every situation and builds increased confidence in your understanding of the many successful ways to assemble and finance an energy management project.
Energy Project Financing
Author: Albert ThumannPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 8770222738
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
First published in 2008. This practical application reference provides a resource for those seeking to utilize the innovative methods now available to finance energy projects. The full scope of current project financing practices are fully examined and assessed, including coverage of energy service performance contracting, rate of return analysis, measurement and verification of energy savings, and more. Readers will receive the facts they need to assess a project's payback in advance, anticipate and avoid potential risks and/or hidden costs, and assure that your energy project is an overall economic success. Other topics covered include financing international projects and ESCO’s (Energy Service Company’s) financing.
Climate Change and Developing Countries
Author: Nijavalli H. RavindranathPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 030647980X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Among global environmental issues, climate change has received the largest attention of national and global policy makers, researchers, industry, multilateral banks and NGOs. Climate change is one of the most important global environmental problems with unique characteristics. It is global, long-term (up to several centuries) and involves complex interactions between climatic, environmental, economic, political, institutional and technological pressures. It is of great significance to developing countries as all the available knowledge suggests that they, and particularly their poorer inhabitants, are highly vulnerable to climate impacts. The projected warming of 1. 4 to 5. 8° C by 2100 and the related changes in rainfall pattern, rise in sea-level and increased frequency of extreme events (such as drought, hurricanes and storms) are likely to threaten food security, increase fresh water scarcity, lead to decline in biodiversity, increase occurrence of vector-borne diseases, cause flooding of coastal settlements, etc. Recognizing the potential threat of severe disruptions, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was organized in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to begin to address ways to reduce these impacts, which led to the formulation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This Convention and the subsequent Kyoto Protocol recognize “the common but differentiated responsibility” of developing and industrialized countries in addressing climate change. Developing countries thus have a unique role to play in formulating a sound, reasoned, and well informed response to the threat of climate change.
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol
Author: Publisher: World Business Pub.
ISBN: 9781569735688
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard helps companies and other organizations to identify, calculate, and report GHG emissions. It is designed to set the standard for accurate, complete, consistent, relevant and transparent accounting and reporting of GHG emissions.
Carbon Inventory Methods
Author: N.H. RavindranathPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402065477
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Carbon Inventory Methods Handbook fills the need for a handbook that provides guidelines and methods required for carbon inventory. It provides detailed step-by-step information on sampling procedures, field and laboratory measurements, application of remote sensing and GIS techniques, modeling, and calculation procedures along with sources of data for carbon inventory. The book is driven by a growing need for ‘carbon inventory’ for land use sections such as forests.
The Kyoto Protocol
Author: Sebastian OberthürPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662039257
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in December 1997 was a major achievement in the endeavour to tackle the problem of global climate change at the dawn of the 21st century. After many years of involvement in the negotiation process, the book's two internationally recognised authors now offer the international community a first hand and inside perspective of the debate on the Kyoto Protocol. The book provides a comprehensive scholarly analysis of the history and content of the Protocol itself as well as of the economic, political and legal implications of its implementation. It also presents a perspective for the further development of the climate regime. These important features make this book an indispensable working tool for policy makers, negotiators, academics and all those actively involved and interested in climate change issues in both the developed and developing world.
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