transition towards a low carbon society

... Population (thousands) 60% 100% 800,000 20 50 80% By % of of global paper and board demand 900,000 Africa L America Oceana S-E Asia Japan China Near East Asian CIS Russia East Europe Central Europe ... 900,000 Africa L America Oceana S-E Asia Japan China Near East Asian CIS Russia East Europe Central Europe W.Europe-Nordic Nordic N America ! 90% 20 2050 100% 70% 1000 tonnes Forecast Africa L America ... microcellulose make it an interesting material for many applications i.e as barriers in packaging, as an additive in paper coatings, in hygiene/ absorbent products and in a myriad of other applications...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20

... of about 45-55dBA also facilitated natural ventilation The design was based on holistic conceptions and takes advantage of all available local sources of energy The site sits above a chalk aquifer ... giving a light transmission of 40% and a reflectance of 50% provided a reasonable balance among solar gain, daylight and glare control An innovative sinusoidal high thermal mass concrete floor slab ... initiative have accelerated the department’s longer term aim to establish a centre of excellence encompassing teaching at graduate and postgraduate level and high quality research into the application...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20

... now than last year for a low- carbon future Based on the overall findings from the Low- Carbon Readiness Barometer, Australian corporations today feel less ready for a low- carbon future than they ... Institute, an Australian think-tank, 57% of Australians are in favour of scrapping carbon pricing altogether—when as recently as 2006, some 68% wanted aggressive action taken to address climate change.1 ... up: Australia’s readiness for a low- carbon future 2012 progress report The Australian Low- Carbon Readiness Barometer: Jan 2011-May 2012 two questions—“Please rate the overall readiness of each...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:02

... of abatement and exploring projects that Santos can implement to reduce its carbon emissions “Australia’s abundant reserves of natural gas provide a lower -carbon alternative to coal, and have ... moving towards a low- carbon future, and hence Australia “cannot isolate itself from the rest of the world” However, he says that a carbon price will have a much bigger impact on Australia than it ... a carbon price This uncertainty around Australia’s future environmental policies is holding back corporate carbonreduction strategies Policy clarity will also allow Australian firms to capitalise...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:04

... International The Ernst and Young team was led by Shuvendu Bose and comprised Ajeya Bandopadhya, Amrita Ganguly, Urmi Sen, and Yubaraj Sengupta The CIEM team comprised Nguyen Manh Hai (Team Leader), Dang ... the remainder due to the accumulation of physical and human capital And in 2007–10 almost all growth came from factor accumulation • Second, Vietnam historically has had an abundance of cheap domestic ... (LCOs) that are technically and economically feasible today for Vietnam A number of economically viable options are available to help Vietnam transform its usual practices into a low- carbon investment...

Ngày tải lên: 29/08/2016, 09:54

... International Trade Union Confederation IUF International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations JAA Japan Aluminium Association JAMA Japan ... Transition The shift to a low carbon and sustainable society must be as equitable as possible It must, in a phrase, be a “Just Transition. ” A Just Transition framework is being assembled as a ... to accelerate in the years ahead A global transition to a low- carbon and sustainable economy can create large numbers of green jobs across many sectors of the economy, and indeed can become an...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20

... Bankengruppe (2.5%). The former is a supra‐national agency rated AAA and the latter a German  government agency also rated AAA.    The financial sector (predominantly banks and insurance companies) is more broadly spread but  ... S&P and  Moody's One year  Fitch averge default  average default  rate*  rate* AAA Aaa 0.00% 0.16% Investment  AA Aa 0.07% 0.72% Grade A A 0.09% 1.26% BBB Baa 0.29% 3.13% BB Ba 1.36% 9.90% B B 4.03% ... making continuous markets in gilts to both buyers and sellers, although not to other GEMMs. They  also have to maintain a reasonable market share − meaning that they have to actually buy and sell  bonds (rather than just making markets and not transacting) in both the primary gilt auctions and ...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... oxidation state via its absorbance at 455 nm [21,23] and at pH 8.5 and 15 °C (A) Wild-type DAAO or m-DAAO at 8.6 lM, O2 at 305 lM and D-Ala at 0.6 mM The symbols are the experimental data points ... tetrazolium bromide assay [36] on mouse CT26 (colon carcinoma), 4T1 (mammary gland), N2C (mammary gland) and TSA (mammary adenocarcinoma) and on human U87 (glioblastoma) cancer cell lines, as ... cytotoxicity than wt-DAAO and Q144R-DAAO [in particular at a low (1 mm) d-Ala concentration; Fig 5B,C], a result resembling the relative activity measured at low substrate concentrations (Fig 5A) The...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 02:20

... Efficiency of an Electro-Hydraulic Forklift 119 Tatiana Minav, Lasse Laurila and Juha Pyrhönen Chapter Energy Efficiency Analysis in Agricultural Productions: Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches ... Transition Towards a Low Carbon Society Europe & Eurasia Asia Pacific Fig 10 Global primary energy consumption by geographic regions Tables and show an imbalance between locations where the oil and gas ... Russian Federation 637 19,4 Russian Federation 169 Japan United States 613 18,7 Norway 101 Germany 99 83 Canada 160 4,9 Qatar 97 Italy 75 Islamic Rep of Iran 145 4,4 Canada 72 United States 74 Qatar...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20

... conception and design, statistical analysis and interpretation of data, and revision of manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The study was partially supported ... mechanical ventilation (Drägerwerk AG, Lübeck, Germany) after endotracheal intubation, via an intravenous peripheral line One gram of cephazoline was administered as infection prophylaxis A femoral ... femoral artery was cannulated for continuous monitoring of arterial pressure (Datex-Ohmeda, S/5; Datex-Ohmeda, Inc., Madison, WI, USA) and periodic blood sampling for gas analysis (IRMA®; Cremascoli...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... quantitative tool alternate to the RQPCR for early disease diagnosis (III) Preparation of ssDNA standard for quantitative assays A ssDNA standard bearing the same sequence and length as of the target, ... DNA in a sample) was obtained by Takenaka et al using a threading intercalator FND.37 This threading intercalator binds to the DNA duplex more tightly than usual intercalators and displays a ... bDNA hybridization assays indicated good integrity and functionality of the standard The approach offers a means to prepare standard suitable for non-PCR based quantitative nucleic acid assays...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 09:28

... Sanchez-Sinencio Laszlo Kish Charles S Lessard Costas Georghiades May 2006 Major Subject: Electrical Engineering iii ABSTRACT A Low Power, High Dynamic Range, Broadband Variable Gain Amplifier for an Ultra Wideband ... can be justified that, in low voltage applications, the complementary differential pairs with source degeneration structure can achieve larger variable gain range than that of the differential ... variation A differential pair can be linearized with diode-connected loads But in large gain cases, the linear range and bandwidth are limited A multiplier has good linearity and flexible tunablity...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:26

... Approach By reviewing and comparing Product Approach, Process Approach and Genre Approach, weakness and strength of each approach are identified As Raimes (1983:11) mentions that all of the approaches ... Product Approach, Process Approach and Genre Approach were reviewed and their advantages and drawbacks were drawn out so that suitable writing techniques can be picked up and inappropriate ones can ... relevant language forms and, finally, produce a short text To write in a particular genre, whether a formal report or a historical romance, the formal patterns that shape a text must be aware...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:31

... a low- carbon industry and system can provide na’s first carbon- neutral bank The Bank also ac- a transaction platform for carbon trading, as well tively promoted carbon finance business by means ... trading, create an open, fair and application of low- carbon technologies, construct transparent market, and encourage enterprises to low- carbon buildings, promote low- carbon forms take part in activities ... Neutral Alli- The construction of a low- carbon industry and system can provide a transaction platform for carbon trading, as well as a basis for policymaking and the establishment of rules ance was...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2013, 16:03

... periodate were added Afterwards, 1.2 mL of acetylacetone solution was added and the mixture was placed in a water bath at 70ºC for An absorbance measurement was made at 410 nm against a blank sample ... research, it can be concluded that AIK7 isolate could be a good candidate as a PHA producer by using this low- grade waste glycerol as a sole carbon source REFERENCES Anderson A J and Dawes E A ... volume was transferred to a clean test tube, was evaporated and then mL of concentrated sulfuric acid was added The sample was boiled for 10 minutes An absorbance measurement was made at 235 nm...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... its applications to phase change phenomena Thermal Science and Engineering 2002, 10(6), 31-38 [12] Takata Y, Tanaka K, Kaijima K, et al Enhancement of heat transfer with liquid-vapor phase change ... Bejan A, Tsatusaronis G, Moran M Thermal design and optimization, Wiley, 1996 [10] Cengel YA Heat transfer- a practical approach, McGraw-Hill, 1998 [11] Takata Y Photo-induced hydrophilicity and ... cold-side fins appeared a slowly decreasing tendency, and finally reached a steady state It was also found that the relative humidity experienced two accelerating stages (i.e.98-90% and 70-50%) and two...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 15:17

... functional areas, which are seldom used but potentially have vulnerabilities, prevents an attacker from being able to take advantage of them An application may install sample CGI scripts or other applications, ... that can serve to limit the access a potential adversary has to an organization's network While the passing of legitimate operational traffic does represent a risk (e.g., malicious emails, attacks ... Knowledge Base article 288358 for more information An additional safeguard can be made by disabling the storage of the LM hash in the local SAM database or Active Directory if the system is a domain...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 08:20

... and the paper indicates that these so-called anomalies are found among black Americans, Africans, Asians and ‘American Indians’ It is not necessarily the racial prejudices of individual research ... multicultural and anti-racist education and spent a year in India researching the education of children Later, while working at the Confederation of Indian Organisations, Amanda carried out the research ... health’ that is required, but an evaluation of what mental health actually means as a practical proposition Chapter examines Western thinking about mental health and illness in a historical context,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

... outlined above by introducing a very fundamental data structure called Initiative (Fig 3) An initiative is a generalization of any form of action that has a defined start and end date and is undertaken ... can ensure that all necessary approval steps are carried out before a project actually begins Each project plan can be archived as often as necessary by means of a plan version (PlanVersion) A ... Integration management Scope management Time management Cost management Quality management Human resource management Communications management Risk management Procurement management (Semi-)Formal...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 07:20