Corporate carbon footprint for country Climate Change mitigation: A case study of a tannery in Turkey

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.

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Decolonizing REDD+ for Climate Change Mitigation: Case Study of Costa Rica’s Cultural Mediators Program

Handbook of Climate Change Management ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-22759-3_217-1 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-27

Author(s):

Britney Villhauer ◽

Olivia Sylvester

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Cultural Mediators ◽

Change Mitigation

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Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Higher Education Institutions: The Case Study of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Chile

Climate Change Research at Universities ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-58214-6_19 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 307-320

Author(s):

Claudia Mac-Lean ◽

Maisa Rojas ◽

Luis Vargas ◽

Natalia Vicencio

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Higher Education ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Mitigation And Adaptation ◽

Mathematical Sciences ◽

The University ◽

Change Mitigation

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Evaluating the Link between Low Carbon Reductions Strategies and Its Performance in the Context of Climate Change: A Carbon Footprint of a Wood-Frame Residential Building in Quebec, Canada

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10082715 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (8) ◽

pp. 2715 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Alejandro Padilla-Rivera ◽

Ben Amor ◽

Pierre Blanchet

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Carbon Footprint ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Ghg Emissions ◽

Mitigation Strategies ◽

Quebec City ◽

Baseline Scenario ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Building Sector ◽

Change Mitigation

The design and study of low carbon buildings is a major concern in a modern economy due to high carbon emissions produced by buildings and its effects on climate change. Studies have investigated (CFP) Carbon Footprint of buildings, but there remains a need for a strong analysis that measure and quantify the overall degree of GHG emissions reductions and its relationship with the effect on climate change mitigation. This study evaluates the potential of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the building sector by evaluating the (CFP) of four hotpots approaches defined in line with commonly carbon reduction strategies, also known as mitigation strategies. CFP framework is applied to compare the (CC) climate change impact of mitigation strategies. A multi-story timber residential construction in Quebec City (Canada) was chosen as a baseline scenario. This building has been designed with the idea of being a reference of sustainable development application in the building sector. In this scenario, the production of materials and construction (assembly, waste management and transportation) were evaluated. A CFP that covers eight actions divided in four low carbon strategies, including: low carbon materials, material minimization, reuse and recycle materials and adoption of local sources and use of biofuels were evaluated. The results of this study shows that the used of prefabricated technique in buildings is an alternative to reduce the CFP of buildings in the context of Quebec. The CC decreases per m2 floor area in baseline scenario is up to 25% than current buildings. If the benefits of low carbon strategies are included, the timber structures can generate 38% lower CC than the original baseline scenario. The investigation recommends that CO2eq emissions reduction in the design and implementation of residential constructions as climate change mitigation is perfectly feasible by following different working strategies. It is concluded that if the four strategies were implemented in current buildings they would have environmental benefits by reducing its CFP. The reuse wood wastes into production of particleboard has the greatest environmental benefit due to temporary carbon storage.

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Co-benefits of climate change mitigation policies on health: a case study in Suzhou City, China

ISEE Conference Abstracts ◽

10.1289/isee.2013.s-1-19-02 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 (1) ◽

pp. 5698

Author(s):

Haikun Wang ◽

Miaomiao Liu ◽

Jun Bi ◽

Clive Sabel

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Suzhou City ◽

Change Mitigation ◽

Mitigation Policies

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

Journal of Science Communication ◽

10.22323/2.15060204 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 15 (06) ◽

pp. A04 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

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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