... Climate change Government policy China entered a period of high economic growth in 1978. In 2005, the annual economic growth rate was 9.5 and the real GDP had expanded 9.7 times when compared to the GDP in 1980. The growth in energy demand was slower because of energy savings and energy...

... Government policy Energy management Energy consumption Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, mainly by reduction of anthropogenic CO₂, is necessary to avoid long‐term irreversible climate change (IPCC, 2007). The Chinese National Development and Reform Commission (CNDRC) has pointed...

... Government policy Environmental management Climate change presents significant risk to people. Reference is made recently to evident on climate and associated environmental projections by IPCC (2007). Climate change which results from increased greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere...

... Environmental management Government policy Finland Italy As both mitigation and adaptation responses to climate change receive mounting global attention, discussions on the role of information in decision making are becoming both increasingly important and relevant. The unprecedented nature of human...

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... Government policy Latvia Energy management Global warming Climatological research over the past decades has proved that the Earth's climate is changing in response to anthropogenic increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases. Thus, global warming can be considered as one of the priority environmental...