Façade retrofitting: from energy efficiency to climate change mitigation

Global food efficiency of climate change mitigation in agriculture

Climate change mitigation through CDM - Bioenergy Technology and Energy Efficiency in the Steel Industry

Climate change is one of the most significant challenges to sustainable development facing the international community. Increased attention has been given by industries and governments from both industrialized and developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the clean development mechanism (CDM), one of the Kyoto Protocol’s (KP) flexible mechanisms. China is the biggest...

Combating Climate Change: The Role of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

Climate change and its possible impacts on the environment and socio-economic systems now constitute the most important environmental problem facing mankind in the 21st century. Climate change will increase poverty and hardship, endanger food security, destabilize economies, decrease food and water and create social insecurity in many countries and undermine our goals for achieving sustainable ...

Cities as development drivers: from waste problems to energy recovery and climate change mitigation.

There is a strong connection between economic growth and development of cities. Economic growth tends to stimulate city growth, and city economies have often shaped innovative environments that in turn support economic growth. Simultaneously, social and environmental problems related to city growth can be serious threats to the realization of the socio-economic contributions that cities can mak...

Organic Agriculture Contributes to Climate Change Mitigation