Southwest Retort, Volume 62, Number 3, November 2009 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 62, Number 3, November 2009

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: November 2009
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 56, Number 3, November 2003 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 56, Number 3, November 2003

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: November 2003
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 61, Number 3, November 2008 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 61, Number 3, November 2008

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: November 2008
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 54, Number 3, November 2001 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 54, Number 3, November 2001

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: November 2001
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 53, Number 3, November 2000 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 53, Number 3, November 2000

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: November 2000
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata and XML

This presentation discusses how XML can help store metadata. The University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Projects Unit developed the UNTL metadata element set with IndexData that tailored the data to meet their needs.
Date: November 7, 2003
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 58, Number 3, November 2005 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 58, Number 3, November 2005

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: November 2005
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 57, Number 3, November 2004 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 57, Number 3, November 2004

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: November 2004
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 60, Number 3, November 2007 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 60, Number 3, November 2007

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: November 2007
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 59, Number 3, November 2006 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 59, Number 3, November 2006

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: November 2006
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 55, Number 3, November 2002 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 55, Number 3, November 2002

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: November 2002
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interactions of the EU ETS with Green And White Certificate Schemes: European Commission Directorate-General Environment (open access)

Interactions of the EU ETS with Green And White Certificate Schemes: European Commission Directorate-General Environment

The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme ('EU ETS') began on 1 January 2005. The implementation of the EU ETS has raised interest in market-based approaches to achieving environmental and related public policy goals in the EU, particularly those related to promotion of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Indeed, national and regional markets in tradable green certificates ('TGCs') and (to a lesser extent) tradable white certificates ('TWCs') already exist. Green certificate schemes are established or proposed in a number of Member States (e.g., Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK) and form part of a growing portfolio of measures to achieve the renewable targets outlined in Directive 2001/77/EC. White certificate schemes are considerably less widespread, although schemes have been established in Italy and the UK and further activity may be stimulated by the Commission proposal on energy services (COM(2003)739). Both the renewables Directive and the energy services proposal envisage the possible evolution and harmonisation of these instruments into EU-wide certificate schemes. This study has two major objectives: -1. Analyse interactions among EU ETS and green/white certificate markets. The first major objective is to describe the interactions between green and white certificate programmes and the EU …
Date: November 17, 2005
Creator: NERA Economic Consulting
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNDP Briefing Note on Adaptation to Climate Change: Doing Development Differently (open access)

UNDP Briefing Note on Adaptation to Climate Change: Doing Development Differently

The document outlines UNDP's adaptation services and UNDP-GEF's adaptation portfolio that comprises 21 national, regional and global projects taking place in 45 countries.
Date: August 2010
Creator: United Nations Development Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Major Tipping Points in Earth’s Climate System and Consequences for the Insurance Sector Summary (open access)

Major Tipping Points in Earth’s Climate System and Consequences for the Insurance Sector Summary

The focus of climate change mitigation policy to date has been on "preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with Earth's climate system". There is no global agreement or scientific consensus for delineating ‘dangerous’ from ‘acceptable’ climate change but limiting global average temperature rise to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels has emerged as a focus for international and national policymakers.
Date: October 2010
Creator: World Wild Fund
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Montana Climate Change Action Plan: Final Report of the Governor’s Climate Change Advisory Committee (open access)

Montana Climate Change Action Plan: Final Report of the Governor’s Climate Change Advisory Committee

Report of the Governor’s Climate Change Advisory Committee, managed by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and facilitated by the Center for Climate Strategies. It provides 54 policy recommendations help reduce the state’s emissions of green house gases to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Most will have additional benefits, including reduced reliance on imported fossil fuels, reduction in air pollution, increased opportunity for Montana agriculture to provide renewable fuels, healthier forests, and the opportunity for the state to be a leader in developing new technologies.
Date: November 2007
Creator: Montana.Governor's Climate Change Advisory Committee
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low Carbon Shipping, Transport & Market Incentive Programs (open access)

Low Carbon Shipping, Transport & Market Incentive Programs

The carbon labeling project presents methods to promote biodiesel use, disseminate information on the potential carbon efficiency of biofuels and promote the concept of carbon labeling. This guide is aimed at policy makers and interested industry groups. It aims to evaluate the suitability of the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Smart Way Transport Partnership as a model for the EU to promote more efficiency and low carbon shipping of goods to market. It includes: a thorough description of the US EPA scheme and its objectives; carbon labeling initiatives in the UK (independent and national); a review of the strengths and weaknesses of the US EPA scheme with regards to its suitability for EU transport policy; the different EU transport system and pilot programmes; and suggestions for freight and multi-sector low carbon transport programmes in the EU. This useful guide enables decision makers to develop a road map on how best to provide incentives for implementing a low carbon shipping program in Europe.
Date: November 2007
Creator: Wason, Bill & van Thuijl, Elke
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications, Executive Summary (open access)

Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications, Executive Summary

Executive summary describing research to evaluate environmental feedback related to climate change. The summary includes a breakdown of the key findings from each chapter of the report, with charts and maps illustrating statistics.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Sommerkorn, Martin & Hassol, Susan Joy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Projections of Global Emissions of Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases in 2050 (open access)

Projections of Global Emissions of Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases in 2050

This is the result of a German study which underlines once more the urgent need for measures to reduce F-gas emissions. Global emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) will increase to 4 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalents by 2050 if no political mitigation measures are taken. The contribution of F-gases to global warming is projected to grow from 1.3% (2004) to 7.9% of total direct CO2 emissions.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Gschrey, Barbara; Schwarz, Winfried & Öko-Recherche
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Power Switch: Impacts of Climate Policy on the Global Power Sector (open access)

Power Switch: Impacts of Climate Policy on the Global Power Sector

This report assesses the financial consequences of climate change policy for 14 leading global power companies.
Date: November 2003
Creator: WWF Climate Change Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Major Tipping Points in the Earth’s Climate System and Consequences for the Insurance Sector (open access)

Major Tipping Points in the Earth’s Climate System and Consequences for the Insurance Sector

A 2°C rise in temperature from pre-industrial levels has been widely regarded as a tipping point for planet earth. Major Tipping Points in Earth's Climate System and Consequences for the Insurance Sector argues instead that sudden volatile transformations in earth's climate will occur long before this 2°C threshold is reached.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Prof. Lenton, Tim; Footitt, Anthony & Dr. Andrew Dlugolecki, Andlug Consulting
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Florida’s Energy and Climate Change Action Plan: 2007 (open access)

Florida’s Energy and Climate Change Action Plan: 2007

This report provides findings and recommendations addressing 11 charges, framed by three principal energy challenges facing Florida: stimulate economic development, achieve energy security and address the effects of global climate change.
Date: November 2007
Creator: Governor’s Action Team on Energy and Climate Change
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications

Report describing sea-level rise and the associated flooding of coastal regions that may affect more than a quarter of the world’s population. It includes sections on atmospheric and ocean circulation feedbacks, ice sheets and sea-level rise feedbacks, marine and land carbon cycle feedbacks, and methane hydrate feedbacks.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Sommerkorn, Martin
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Unresolved Land Reform Debate: Beyond State-Led or Market-Led Models (open access)

The Unresolved Land Reform Debate: Beyond State-Led or Market-Led Models

In response to the problem of inequalities in the distribution of land, this Policy Research Brief points toward a land reform model that could both satisfy legitimate and urgent demands for social justice and develop an agrarian system that is economically viable. It draws primarily on a UNDP-ISS supported set of country studies and analytical papers.
Date: November 2006
Creator: Saturnino M. Borras Jr. & Terry McKinley
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reclaiming the Land Sustaining Livelihoods (open access)

Reclaiming the Land Sustaining Livelihoods

The brochure, part of UNDP/GEF's "Lessons for the Future" series, highlights examples of activities to combat land degradation. It focuses on "cross-cutting projects" that address land degradation but were primarily designed to deal with other environmental problems, and specific UNDP/GEF land degradation projects that seek to build capacity or foster SLM practices.
Date: November 2004
Creator: United Nations Development Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library