Browsing by Subject "climate"
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AN EVALUATION OF CORPORATE VOLUNTARY CLIMATE ACTIONS: A FOCUS ON THE RENTAL CAR & TRUCK INDUSTRY
(2010-04-30)Climate change is a global problem with social, economic, and environmental consequences, resulting primarily from reliance on fossil fuels like coal and oil. In the absence of federal climate policy, some companies have ... -
Changes in U.S. Residential Monthly Energy Use per Capita: 1990-2017
(2019)Residential energy consumption represents a large share of total end use energy and shows strong correlation with monthly cooling and heating degree days. This study focuses on quantifying temporal change in the relationship ... -
City of Greenville, NC Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Emissions Reduction Plan
(2022-04-22)As we near the International Panel on Climate Change’s 2030 deadline to halve global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, cities are being called upon to proactively manage the negative effects of urbanization. Greenville, North ... -
Emerging Perspectives on Climate Risk: Current Business Leaders & Future Business Leaders
(2018-04-27)Increasingly, global companies have to balance short-term objectives with longer-term opportunities in response to a changing climate. Corporations have a great deal to gain from reframing climate-related risks into opportunities ... -
Influence of Increased Human Presence in the Mills River Basin on Water Availability and Drought
(2016)Periods of drought and low streamflow can have profound impacts on both human and natural systems. People depend on a reliable source of water for numerous reasons including potable water supply and to produce economic value ... -
Investigating the Eco-Hydrological Impact of Tropical Cyclones in the Southeastern United States
(2013)Tropical Cyclones (TCs) intensity and frequency are expected to be impacted by climate change. Despite their destructive potential, these phenomena, which can produce heavy precipitation, are also an important source of ... -
Premature Deaths in Africa Due To Particulate Matter Under High and Low Warming Scenarios.
(GeoHealth, 2022-05)Sustainable development and climate change mitigation can provide enormous public health benefits via improved air quality, especially in polluted areas. We use the latest state-of-the-art composition-climate model simulations ... -
The Ocean-Land-Atmosphere-Model: Optimization and Evaluation of Simulated Radiative Fluxes and Precipitation
(2010)This work continues the presentation and evaluation of the Ocean Land Atmosphere Model (OLAM), focusing on the model's ability to represent radiation and precipitation. OLAM is a new, state-of-the-art earth system model, ...
