scholarly journals Climate Change Mitigation Through Increased Biomass Production and Substitution: A Case Study in Morth-Central Sweden

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bishnu Chandra Poudel ◽  
Roger Sathre ◽  
Leif Gustavsson ◽  
Johan Bergh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Biomass Production ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals The Kyoto Rotation Fund as a policy tool for climate change mitigation: The case study of an Italian school

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (Special Issue1) ◽  
pp. S159-S165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Nocera ◽  
Antonio Gagliano ◽  
Gianpiero Evola ◽  
Luigi Marletta ◽  
Alice Faraci
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Italian School ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals The Conditional Sink: Counterfactual Display in the Valuation of a Carbon Offsetting Reforestation Project

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Véra Ehrenstein ◽  
Fabian Muniesa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Carbon Offsetting ◽  
The World ◽  
Prospective Assessment ◽  
Change Mitigation

This paper examines counterfactual display in the valuation of carbon offsetting projects. Considered a legitimate way to encourage climate change mitigation, such projects rely on the establishment of procedures for the prospective assessment of their capacity to become carbon sinks. This requires imagining possible worlds and assessing their plausibility. The world inhabited by the project is articulated through conditional formulation and subjected to what we call “counterfactual display”: the production and circulation of documents that demonstrate and con!gure the counterfactual valuation. We present a case study on one carbon offsetting reforestation project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We analyse the construction of the scene that allows the “What would have happened” question to make sense and become actionable. We highlight the operations of calculative framing that this requires, the reality constraints it relies upon, and the entrepreneurial conduct it stimulates.

scholarly journals Science, Twitter and election campaigns: tracking #auspol in the Australian federal elections

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (06) ◽  
pp. A04 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merryn McKinnon ◽  
David Semmens ◽  
Brenda Moon ◽  
Inoka Amarasekara ◽  
Léa Bolliet
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Public Sentiment ◽  
Online Conversation ◽  
Change Mitigation

Social media is increasingly being used by science communicators, journalists and government agencies to engage in discourse with a range of publics. Despite a growing body of literature on Twitter use, the communication of science via Twitter is comparatively under explored. This paper examines the prominence of scientific issues in political debate occurring on Twitter during the 2013 and 2016 Australian federal election campaigns. Hashtracking of the umbrella political hashtag auspol was used to capture tweets during the two campaign periods. The 2013 campaign was particularly relevant as a major issue for both parties was climate change mitigation, a controversial and partisan issue. Therefore, climate change discussion on Twitter during the 2013 election was used as a focal case study in this research. Subsamples of the 2013 data were used to identify public sentiment and major contributors to the online conversation, specifically seeking to see if scientific, governmental, media or ‘public' sources were the more dominant instigators. We compare the prominence of issues on Twitter to mainstream media polls over the two campaign periods and argue that the potential of Twitter as an effective public engagement tool for science, and for politicised scientific issues in particular, is not being realised.

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