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- Publication 16 August 2021 Economic benefit analysis of green building based on fuzzy logic and bilateral game model Green building is the development of sustainable development concept in architectural field. While the construction industry has brought great benefits to the development of national economy, its high investment, high pollution and inefficient development mode has also produced a huge energy load. Therefore, from the perspective of environmental and economic sustainability, the development of green buildings is particularly important. In this paper, the author makes economic benefit analysis of…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Sustainable development impacts of nationally determined contributions: assessing the case of mini-grids in Kenya As of today, access to electricity is still unavailable to 1.1 billion people in the world, half of which live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Projections suggest that this share will increase, leaving millions of people with limited development prospects. Kenya’s nationally determined contribution (NDC) to the 2015 Paris Agreement includes a commitment to expand power supply, and in doing so, provide all its citizens with access to electricity. Access in rural areas, where the majority remains…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Research on regional energy efficiency based on GIS technology and image quality processing Economic development requires energy support, but the economy that relies too much on high energy consumption and high pollution is not sustainable. However, due to blind investment and low-level expansion of some new energy companies, some new energy industry has overcapacity and low production efficiency, slowing down the pace of new energy industry development, and limiting the development space of new energy companies. Thus, this paper is based on the GIS technology and image quality…
- Publication 16 August 2021 How do energy policies accelerate sustainable transitions? Unpacking the policy transfer process in the case of GETFiT Uganda Energy policies play an important role in accelerating ‘sustainable transitions’ by enabling and incentivizing investment in electricity generation from renewable sources. Key policies such as feed-in tariffs, tradable permits and auctions were pioneered in OECD nations, notably within the European Union, and in recent years have been the subject of donor-funded projects to transfer such policies to lower-income countries. However, within the wider transition studies literature, there is a lack…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Analyzing effects of transport policies on travelers’ rational behaviour for modal shift in Denmark In this paper, an innovative agent-based model is developed to simulate emergent patterns arising from individual actions to analyze opportunities for modal shift in Denmark (ABMoS-DK). The modeling process simulates the interaction between travelers (agents) and the network, and applies a heuristic algorithm to model travelers’ rational decision making process based on tangible costs (ticket price, fixed and variable operation and maintenance costs) and Value of Travel Time (VOTT) explained by…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Vertical and horizontal dimensions of upgrading in global value chains: the establishment of local wind turbine component manufacturing in South Africa.
- Publication 16 August 2021 UN Environment Emissions Gap Report 2018 This is the 9th edition of the UN Environment Emissions Gap Report. It assesses the latest scientific studies on current and estimated future greenhouse gas emissions and compares these with the emission levels permissible for the world to progress on a least-cost pathway to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. This difference between “where we are likely to be and where we need to be” is known as the ‘emissions gap’. As in previous years, the report explores some of the most important…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Introduction