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01 Jan 2023

Global Warming: Causes and Chemistry of Climate Change

Course material - 7 pages - Ecology & environment

This report serves as an overview of important aspects related to global warming and climate change. It touches on the relevant international organization and authorities in the field of climate change, forecasts of temperature increases, greenhouse gases, atmospheric chemical...

29 Oct 2023

What worries you the most concerning global warming ?

Dissertation - 1 pages - Ecology & environment

In September 2018, Nicolas Hulot resigned as Minister of Ecology, describing his time at the head of this ministry as an "accumulation of disappointment".

13 Jul 2023

Global warming - published: 24/02/2023

Presentation - 4 pages - Ecology & environment

This document contains a presentation on global warming, addressing its causes, effects, and solutions to mitigate its consequences. To view this document effectively, it is necessary to preview it as a slideshow.

15 Dec 2016
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Global warming and climate change

Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment

These are terms used to describe increased earth's temperatures. Human activities and natural occurrences are said to be the major contributors to this increase. Increase in greenhouse gases for example carbon dioxide result to the temperatures increase. The U.S. have been a major contributor...

21 Aug 2014
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The main causes of global warming

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

In the recent past, the world as a whole has come to terms with the increasing incidences of heightened and elevated temperatures across all continents. The Northern and Southern hemispheres are experiencing high temperatures and this is leading to the melting of the ice at the snow caps and this...

03 Feb 2012
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Global warming - published: 01/02/2012

Presentation - 15 pages - Educational studies

Global warming is the increase in amounts of “greenhouse gases” in Earth's atmosphere • Greenhouse gases trap the sun's rays in the atmosphere, raising the temperature to abnormal levels • The main greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane,...

29 Sep 2010
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Environmental Economics: global warming

Essay - 14 pages - Economy general

This essay is about the climate change and the direct and indirect effect on our environment, not only caused by human activities. The increased concentration of the greenhouse gases which include carbon-di-oxide and others, over the last 150 years has dramatically progressed. This fact, caused...

24 Sep 2009
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The four drivers of global warming

Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education

Global warming is recognized by scientists and most world governments as a major climate event that is currently happening. There has been much debate about its causes, which come from many factors and not all of which are known. Several major contributing factors have been...

15 Jan 2009
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Global warming may open Northwest Passage

Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment

It is almost daily that television news mention environmental and natural disasters in each area of the world. Thus, the recent environmental events in the last years were cyclones like Katrina, tsunamis, floods, dryness… Scientifics don't give a verdict on these events but public opinion...

03 Jul 2009
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The debate on global warming

Thesis - 6 pages - Ecology & environment

It seems like every night in the news for the past several years a similar story is being reported. All these stories, of course, have something to do with the issue of global warming. Global warming is a potentially dangerous problem for all people of the Earth, but...

17 May 2009
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Global warming

Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment

In today's society, environmental issues have an important impact on business and industrial decisions and are becoming part and parcel of economics. We live in scorching summers, the winters seem to be milder from year to year, and the seasons seem to have disappeared. Are these observations...

08 Feb 2008
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Politics of Global Warming

Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Political science

In the modernized lifestyles we live today, the consequences of this lifestyle seems to have finally caught up with us. Since 1994, the world's mean temperature has risen almost 1 degree Fahrenheit, and it is only increasing. This is believed to have been caused by excess gas and smoke emissions...

20 Jul 2008
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New approaches to decisions on global warming

Essay - 16 pages - Ecology & environment

Former Vice President Al Gore generated tremendous global awareness and concern for the issue of global warming through his movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”. His activism won him a Nobel Peace Prize, and the issue has become a central topic of discussion for many of...

17 Jul 2008
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Global warming - published: 17/07/2008

Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment

Recently, global warming has gained massive attention due to the documentary . An inconvenient truth presented by former Vice-President of the United States Al Gore. The National Academy of Sciences reported that “gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a...

06 Dec 2022

Fostering sustainable global growth through green finance

Dissertation - 5 pages - Finance

The ideas and goals of the United Nations (UN) in the areas of environment and development are at the origin of environmentally friendly finance, or green finance. In 1992, 178 countries met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to discuss environmental and development issues for the 21st century....

11 Jul 2013
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Greenhouse gases and long term global effects

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

Over the last few years there has been much talk in the news and government about topics such as global warming and greenhouse gases. Yet, how much do we really know about such things? Definitions of these complicated topics are hard to come by and specific consequences are even...

29 Sep 2010
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Global business context, car industry

Essay - 6 pages - Management

The car industry has witnessed major changes over the years, thanks to the growing number of external forces that changed the decades-old practices of manufacturing. This paper analyses the important forces in the last two decades that have had a major impact on the car manufacturing practices....

03 Feb 2011
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The anti-globalization: another logical organization of global space

Essay - 7 pages - International relations

The process of universalization is essential for all, whether it is appreciated or not, whether one thinks to be profited by it or as a victim of it. But the globalization of the economy is not enough to summarize the world of ours: however, other processes coexist thus making this issue more...

29 Sep 2010
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What are the main obstacles to the provision of global public goods?

Essay - 5 pages - Political science

Global public goods are hard to define. Even though, there is a consensus about the definitions of public goods and collective goods, there exists different approaches. Public goods are supposed to be available for all and they are characterized by two principles: non-rivalry, which means...

15 Jan 2009
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Institutional Failures of the Global Environmental Governance

Essay - 42 pages - Ecology & environment

Despite a great awareness of environmental questions from developed and developing countries, there is a degradation of environmental issues and an appearance of new environmental problems. This aggravation of environmental matters is due to the inefficient state of the global...

20 Feb 2007
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Nation-state and globalization

Essay - 11 pages - Political science

This essay deals with one of the most controversial questions in today's social science debates: the relationship between the nation-state and globalisation. Globalisation, understood quite loosely here as a series of contemporary and unprecedented developments in the economic, social and...

02 Jun 2008
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The Sociological Aspects of the Globalization of Soccer in the United States

Essay - 5 pages - Sports

Through an extensive review of related literature, the present study intended to investigate the sociological aspects of the globalization of soccer in the United States. The key findings are as follows: 1) poorer countries suffer from “leg drain” over the richest soccer clubs,...

19 Apr 2009
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Role of an engineer in solving global issues

Thesis - 6 pages - Ecology & environment

This report emphasizes the role of an engineer in solving three major global issues, which are excessive demand for global energy production, limited natural resources of the planet and exponentially growing environmental pollution. An engineer's role in solving the global...

29 Sep 2010
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The term globalization used in relation to a host of social, economic, cultural and political processes

Essay - 12 pages - International relations

Globalization is easier to describe than to define. This is because, in its present form and usage, it is a new, complex, dynamic, multidimensional, and worldwide phenomenon, which means different things to different people and different things to the same groups across time and space. It evokes...

15 Jan 2009
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Using the examples of organically grown coffee in Mexico and fair trade bananas St-Vincent, this paper argues that a new global 'Green Revolution' is underway

Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment

'Globalization is the increasing interdependence, integration and interaction among people and corporations in disparate locations around the world' . This phenomenon can have good effects such as helping developing countries improve their economy or their industry but also their...

29 Sep 2010
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International economics: Essay on the advantages and disadvantages of globalization

Essay - 6 pages - Economy general

‘We are living a transformation which is going to reconstruct population and economy for the coming century. There will be no more national products and technologies, no more national firms, no more national industries, no more national economies. Only individuals, which constitute nations,...

13 Oct 2011
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Avon - Global operations

Market study - 7 pages - Business strategy

Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) is a US cosmetics, perfume and toy seller with markets in over 140 countries across the world and sales of $10.9 Billion worldwide as of 2010 with net income of $609 Billion and employing a workforce of 44000 personnel. Avon Product is a multi-level marketing...

04 Sep 2023

The place of wine in society in the face of climate change

Thesis - 38 pages - Green marketing

Don't worry, you're not the only one who drinks wine. Millions of us drink wine. And not just one glass! In fact, there are about a thousand bottles tasted every second in the world. France is known for its gastronomy, and its luxury, but also for its wine. Wine is a drink that brings...

21 Sep 2011
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British Petroleum: The Global Oil Giant

Market study - 7 pages - Business strategy

BP, or, British Petroleum as the world knows it, is one of the giants in the oil industry. Initially known as the Anglo-Iranian oil company, BP took on the name of British Petroleum in 1954. Apart from selling fuel and lubricants for transportation, BP also provides petrochemicals and energy in...

21 Sep 2011
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Cartier's global operations

Market study - 7 pages - Business strategy

The famed watch and jewelry House of Cartier, one of the classiest brands in the industry, can trace its origins back to 1847, when Louis-Francois Cartier opened a small jewelry store in Paris. Over the years, the brand has evolved to become the official jeweler of the Royal courts of England,...