Nuclear power and global climate change: security concerns of Asian developing countries

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Bob van der Zwaan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Security Concerns ◽  
Asian Developing Countries

scholarly journals Preventing Nuclear Weapon Proliferation as Nuclear Power Expands

MRS Bulletin ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siegfried S. Hecker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Nuclear Attack ◽  
The Cold War

Raj et al. describe the promise of nuclear energy as a sustainable, affordable, and carbon-free source available this century on a scale that can help meet the world's growing need for energy and help slow the pace of global climate change. However, the factor of millions gain in energy release from nuclear fssion compared to all conventional energy sources that tap the energy of electrons (Figure 1) has also been used to create explosives of unprecedented lethality and, hence, poses a serious challenge to the expansion of nuclear energy worldwide. Although the end of the cold war has eliminated the threat of annihilating humanity, the likelihood of a devastating nuclear attack has increased as more nations, subnational groups, and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear weapons.

China-US deal sets stage for new climate change regime

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bilateral Agreement ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Game Changer

Significance The United States has already committed, in an unprecedented deal with China in November 2014, to reducing its emissions to 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025 (an improvement on its previous 17% goal). China in return pledged that its emissions would peak around 2030. This agreement is a game-changer for combating global climate change, since the two countries are the world's largest sources of carbon emissions, together accounting for 40% of the total, and were not covered under the now-expired Kyoto Protocol. Impacts Washington is poised to reclaim its place, lost after Kyoto, as a leader in global efforts against climate change. US-China climate cooperation initiatives could serve as templates for other developing countries. There are new opportunities for trilateral cooperation involving the EU. Fears that the bilateral agreement makes the UNFCCC obsolete are unwarranted, but it could preclude more ambitious efforts.

scholarly journals URGENSITAS HARMONISASI HUKUM PERLINDUNGAN DAN PENGELOLAAN HUTAN DALAM MITIGASI PERUBAHAN IKLIM GLOBAL MELALUI PROGRAM REDUCING EMMISION DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION AND ENHANCING STOK CARBON

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewi Gunawati
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
State Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Sociological Approach

<p align="center"><strong><em>Abstrak</em></strong></p><p><em>This study aims to identify the urgency or the reasons for the harmonization of legal protection and management of forests in mitigating global climate change through REDD + .Urgency harmonize the protection and management of forests in mitigating global climate change examined in three approaches. First, a philosophical approach that formed in the Welfare State Theory by Espring Enderson, active role of the state in the context of the protection and management of forests is that the state is obliged to undertake the protection and management of forests in mitigating global climate change. Studied from the theory of sustainable development Edith Brown Weiss, i) The phenomenon of global climate change is a result of lifestyle or human behavior in the form of patterns of production and patterns of excessive and unfriendly environment. Excessive fossil energy resulting ecological crisis impact on global warming so trigger global climate change. ii) Due to the interest of developing countries to emission concept promoted in the global climate change convention, which it does not restrict their movement from space to improve economic competitiveness by building centers of industrial activity which tends to be a major contributor to the increase in gas emissions greenhouse. In this condition the developing countries try to hum with the concept that those countries have the same right to do the construction. Studied from the theory of justice, John Rawls justice is understood as a balance between personal interests and common interests. In the structure of the society in which justice as the main problems then need to be formulated and given a list of reasons on the principles that must be met by a basic structure of a just society in which the principles of justice must distribute the prospect of meeting the basic needs.</em></p><p><em>Secondly, the juridical approach imprinted on the legal system theory, Lawrence Friedman, and Third, Sociological Approach, engraved on Theory Brianz Tamanaha.</em></p>

Environmental Kuznets curves, carbon emissions, and public choice

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
JODY W. LIPFORD ◽  
BRUCE YANDLE
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Emissions Reductions ◽  
The World ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curves ◽  
Global Carbon ◽  
Shed Light

ABSTRACTConcern about global climate change has elicited responses from governments around the world. These responses began with the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and have continued with other negotiations, including the 2009 Copenhagen Summit. These negotiations raised important questions about whether countries will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and, if so, how the burden of emissions reductions will be shared. To investigate these questions, we utilize environmental Kuznets curves for carbon emissions for the G8 plus five main developing countries. Our findings raise doubts about the feasibility of reducing global carbon emissions and shed light on the different positions taken by countries on the distribution of emissions reductions.

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