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Climate Change Laws of the World
No full textClimate Change Laws of the World and Climate Change Litigation Databases compile several years of data collection by both the Grantham Research Institute and the Sabin Center, including the collaboration of Grantham Institute with GLOBE International on a series of Climate Legislation Studies. Climate Change Laws of the World includes national-level climate change legislation and policies globally. The database covers climate and climate-related laws, as well as laws and policies promoting low carbon transitions, which reflects the relevance of climate policy in areas including energy, transport, land use, and climate resilience
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Climate Change Laws of the World
No full textClimate Change Laws of the World and Climate Change Litigation Databases compile several years of data collection by both the Grantham Research Institute and the Sabin Center, including the collaboration of Grantham Institute with GLOBE International on a series of Climate Legislation Studies. Climate Change Laws of the World includes national-level climate change legislation and policies globally. The database covers climate and climate-related laws, as well as laws and policies promoting low carbon transitions, which reflects the relevance of climate policy in areas including energy, transport, land use, and climate resilience
Climate change and equity
Get PDFThe Gavin Mooney Memorial Essay Competition honours the work and memory of the late Professor Gavin Mooney, a health economist who was a tireless advocate for social justice in local, national and international arenas.
Launched in 2013, the competition seeks to draw public attention to social justice and health equity concerns, and to recognise the public-interest value of writing and writers.
The inaugural competition called for essays on the theme of climate change and equity, in recognition of the work of Professor Mooney’s late partner Dr Delys Weston. Each year the competition will call for entries related to a theme around equity and social justice.
Sydney GP Dr Tim Senior took out the inaugural 2013 prize with his essay “Climate Change and Equity: Whose Language Is It Anyway?”. The judges said the winning entry challenges the language of climate change activism, and also incorporates the voices of those who are most likely to be affected by climate change.
The four runner-up entries are by Steve Campbell and Lucie Rychetnik, Oscar McLaren, Peter Boyer and Dora Marinova, and Fergus Green
Managing the unavoidable while avoiding the unmanageable: climate policy tests for the 2013 federal election
Get PDFIntroductionEvery Federal election, The Climate Institute undertakes a qualitative assessment of the climate change policy position of political parties and independents represented in the Parliament. The Institute bases this assessment on our analysis of what is required for Australia to contribute to effective global climate change solutions and build a prosperous, resilient economy and society.This policy brief explains the rationale for our 2013 Federal election policy tests.This Federal election is critical to Australia’s economic and climate future. The next Government will determine whether Australia will:1. Help or hinder global solutions to climate change: This will in large part be determined by our ability to meet international commitments to do our fair share to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and help the poorest countries adapt to an increasingly hostile climate and invest in low carbon development pathways. Both of these elements will influence the positive or negative role Australia could play in current negotiations to finalise a global agreement in 2015 that will cover emission commitments from all major economies.2. Continue the historic decline in domestic emissions and accelerate low carbon investment: Driven by global trends and domestic policies like renewable targets and carbon prices, pollution from some of Australia’s largest emission sources have begun to decline. Positive global trends in clean energy technology and increasing scrutiny of the risks associated with investments in high carbon assets are among the global mega-trends that leave our economy exposed in the real world of significant, if insufficient, action to price and constrain carbon emissions.3. Boost preparations for unavoidable extreme weather and other climate impacts: Agencies such as the World Bank, the IMF and the International Energy Agency are increasingly warning that climate change threatens to reverse gains made over decades of economic and social development. We no longer live in the relatively safe climate enjoyed by our ancestors. Even if we achieve more urgent and ambitious action now, our climate will get more hostile with the dangerous levels of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere. How well we prepare for our increasingly unsafe climate will influence the health and wellbeing of Australians and our economic systems. It will determine the extent to which we can minimise the suffering of unavoidable impacts.Australia is faced with a challenge to manage the unavoidable and avoid the unmanageable. To be credible, let alone strong and effective, 2013 climate election policies will need to:1. Cut carbon pollution.2 Accelerate low carbon investments.3 Prepare for climate impacts
Submission to Bank of England consultation CP10/25 — Enhancing banks’ and insurers’ approaches to managing climate-related risks — Update to SS3/19
Get PDFThis report consists of a submission by the Earth Capital Nexus initiative, hosted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, made in response to the open consultation by the Bank of England CP10/25 — Enhancing banks’ and insurers’ approaches to managing climate-related risks — Update to SS3/19. This consultation represents an important step forward in safeguarding the stability and competitiveness of the UK financial system in the face of accelerating environmental change
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Submission to UN Special Rapporteur consultation on access to information on climate change and human rights
No full textThis report consists of a submission made in June 2024 by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, in response to a call for inputs issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change. The submission has been informed by research conducted using the Climate Change Laws of the World database, which is maintained by the Grantham Research Institute and is the world’s most comprehensive database on climate change legislation, litigation and public policy. The database is powered by machine learning and natural language processing technology developed by Climate Policy Radar. For more information about the call for inputs, visit www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2024/call-inputs-access-information-climate-change-and-human-rights
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