Research Study: “A study on institutional obstacles against the New Energy Industry in Korea,” Korea Energy Economics Institute, YS lee and JH Kim, December, 2015 In September 1986, the Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI) was launched as South Korea’s principal energy policy research organization. Since then, it has published on national energy and resource policy...
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South Africa Leading Research Study
Research Study: “The Long Term Mitigation Scenarios Research Project”, South Africa Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, coordinated by Professor Harold Winkler, 2005 and 2008 The Long Term Mitigation Scenarios (LTMS) Research Project took place in South Africa between 2005 and 2008. It is remembered as a ‘seminal and resounding success’, because it successfully placed...
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Saudi Arabia Leading Research Study
Research Study: “Implications of Climate Change on Water Resources in Saudi Arabia,” King Faisal University School of Petroleum and Minerals, Volume 18, Issue #8 The study examines the impact of climate change on climatic input parameters such as temperature, wind speed, precipitation, relative humidity, net radiation, and evapotranpiration, and their potential impact on water resources,...
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Russia Leading Research Study
Research Study: “ The 1st and 2nd Assessment Reports on Climate Change and its Consequences in the Russian Federation,” Russian Academy of Sciences (2008) (2014) At the beginning of this century, the problem of climate change was not considered properly in Russia. In general, the progressive part of its population was aware of the climate...
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Nigeria Leading Research Study
Research Study: “Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Technical Reports—National” Building Nigeria’s Response to Climate Change Project, 2012 An important climate change research project recently conducted for Nigeria is the Building Nigeria’s Response to Climate Change (BNRCC) project. The project, which began in 2007 and finished in 2011, was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency and...
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Mexico Leading Research Study
Research Study: “Modelación de descarbonización profunda del sistema energético en México al 2050”, National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change (Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático), prepared by Jorge Alberto Francisco Tovilla Cao-Romero, July of 2015 In 2015, the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change in Mexico funded and published a report on...
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Japan Leading Research Study
Research Study: Long-term Energy Supply and Demand Outlook, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (2015) Japan’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (METI) developed the Long-Term Energy Supply and demand Outlook in response to its research on consumer attitudes towards energy issues. Such research revealed widespread opposition to the continued use of nuclear power as Japan’s...
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Italy Leading Research Study
Research Study: “Italy’s National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (NAS),” Italian Ministry for Environment, Land, and Sea (IMELS), Higher Institute for Environmental Research and Protection (ISPRA) and the Euro-Mediterrenean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) 2014 One of Italy’s top research documents on climate change is the National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (NAS)....
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Indonesia Leading Research Study
Research Study: National Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals on Indonesia’s Forests and Peatlands (2015), Haruni Krisnawati, Rinaldi Imanuddin, Wahyu Catur Adinugroho, Silver Hutabarat, Ministry of Environment and Forestry (Kampus Badan Penelitian, Pengembangan dan Inovasi) Audience: government decision-makers and the UNFCCC primarily. Also an important primary source for academics, reporters, the public, and stakeholders...
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India Leading Research Study
Research Study: “Climate Change in the Indian Mind,” Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and Globescan Inc, Anthony Leiscrowitz and Jagadish Thaker, 2012 In November and December of 2011, a research team from Yale University, GlobeScan Incorporated, and C-Voter conducted a national survey of 4,031 Indian adults, using a combined urban and rural sample. The...