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- Publication 16 August 2021 Piloting a City Health Adaptation Typology with data from climate-engaged cities: Toward identification of an urban health adaptation gap Climate change has important population health impacts, and cities are often on the frontlines. However, health is reported to be less active in climate adaptation than other sectors. To contribute to better understanding urban health adaptation efforts and identifying gaps we developed a City Climate Health Adaptation Typology and tested it with adaptation actions of 106 large world cities (population > 1 million) reported to a major publicly-available adaptation database. We found two…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin - Current Situation and Risks for the Future
- Publication 16 August 2021 Collaborative brief on taxonomy of climate change adaptation technology
- Publication 16 August 2021 Enhancing forest targets and measures in nationally determined contributions (NDCs)
- Publication 16 August 2021 Counteracting market concentration in renewable energy auctions: Lessons learned from South Africa Competitive bidding programmes, or auctions, are becoming the dominant method for procuring utility-scale renewable energy generation capacity and have coincided with significant cost reductions of renewable energy (RE) technologies. The use of price in auctions as the main awarding criterion has been criticized for apparently leading to market concentration and dominance in project ownership. We investigate: to what extent South Africa’s renewable energy auction programme has contributed to…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Assessing the performance and impacts of Project Bundles
- Publication 16 August 2021 System Change: Transformative design of Article 6 programmes for net zero emissions by 2050
- Publication 16 August 2021 Managing climate change: Challenges related to uncertainty, distributional impacts, technology transfer and transnational governance The Paris Agreement, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, lays out the international community’s blueprint for curbing global warming. It is a blueprint articulated around the individual contributions that each party to the Convention is prepared to make, in light of its capabilities and the so-called principle of common-but-differentiated responsibilities. This thesis explores how national governments are responding to the challenges associated with determining the…