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Climate Change Adaptation: California Style

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CCAVS seminar Abstract California loves to innovate. Faced with new challenges, or with a sense that there may be opportunity, Californians look to invent their way out of problems.  California arrived relatively late to the realization that the impacts of climate change will be critical to the State’s natural systems, economy and way of life. ...

Community energy futures: challenges and opportunities for the UK sector

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PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED Joint SRI / Priestley Seminar  Abstract UK Government support for community energy was once clearly evident, with a sector specific UK strategy, a Feed In Tariff Scheme (FITS) that supported significant growth in deployment rates and various grant funding schemes. Under these conditions, the sector grew rapidly. However,...

Presidential attention to climate change in Mexico from 1994 to 2018, differentiating the effect of the systemic and governmental agendas

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CCCEP Seminar Abstract It is critical that political leaders remain focused on climate change in order to push forward and implement ambitious policies and actions in the long-term. Based on the content analysis of nearly 1,000 documents published by four Mexican presidents in the last 24 years, we explore how international negotiations and governmental plans...

At the roots of adoption, diffusion and marketing of climate innovation: preliminary findings and empirical insights

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CCVAS Seminar Abstract Climate services are technology-intensive, science-based and tailored tools providing timely climate information to a wide set of users.  They accelerate innovation, while contributing to increasing climate resilience and boosting adaptation. Understanding how and why climate services are taken up, spread and commercialised is now essential to build effective policy instruments and promote this...

Living scenarios: Engineers and the future of human emissions

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Joint Priestley Centre & School of Civil Engineering Seminar Abstract Climate models of the distant future show discouraging temperature increases and other changes in the Earth system, mainly caused by accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. How do we know what carbon dioxide emissions will occur in the future? “Emission scenarios” are inputs to future...