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Urban carbon emissions in Chinese cities and climate policy

Memorandum for preparation for next year's negotiations for the Conference of the Parties (COP) Climate change poses one of the most difficult questions to the world today. Cities continue to be the main contributors of this challenge.

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Carbon credits and financial incentives for climate action

Environmental protection takes a number of different forms. Usually, laws are required to motivate businesses and people to reduce pollution or otherwise protect the environment. Climate change represents a much bigger challenge, however, than protecting any one given aspect of the environment.

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Steve Heckeroth's argument for solar energy as climate solution

Solar is the Solution, author Steve Heckeroth argues that solar energy is the key to alleviating climate change.

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Natural and human factors affecting Earth's climate

Climate is referred to as the weather patterns of a particular area over a long period. Earth climate can be divided into five main groups, which are as follow:

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Review of Van de Vliert's "Climate, Affluence, and Culture"

The article selected for this paper is a book review. The article, "Evert Van de Vliert: Climate, Affluence, and Culture" is a review of the book "Climate, Affluence, and Culture" by Evert Van de Vliert.

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National interests and conflicts in post-Kyoto climate agreements

International Conflict for Post-Kyoto: Which countries will benefit and lose national interests from the regulation of CO2?

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Six degrees of global warming and projected climate impacts

The arctic passage will become ice-free for half the year. The Bay of Bengal and its surrounding homes will be met with a deluge of flooding. The South Atlantic will be hit by hurricanes. Severe drought in the western U.S. will cause problems within commodity markets (e.g. grain, meet, etc.).

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Global warming's physical environmental changes and regional impacts

What is global warming? How does it affect the weather, what are the contributing factors?

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Organizational change at Fairfax Media Group: causes and consequences

Change anywhere is never easy, in fact most people in an organization usually have a difficult adjustment when it comes to that. However, it is a process that cannot be avoided, it must happen. An organization may have no other choice but to change.

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Easterling et al. and Vaughan et al. on climate extremes and regional warming

Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling and Impacts by Easterling et al. (2000) has the central thesis that modeling shows extreme weather events will increase for future weather events.

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