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    Transition UGent: a bottom-up initiative towards a more sustainable university

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    The vibrant think-tank ‘Transition UGent’ engaged over 250 academics, students and people from the university management in suggesting objectives and actions for the Sustainability Policy of Ghent University (Belgium). Founded in 2012, this bottom-up initiative succeeded to place sustainability high on the policy agenda of our university. Through discussions within 9 working groups and using the transition management method, Transition UGent developed system analyses, sustainability visions and transition paths on 9 fields of Ghent University: mobility, energy, food, waste, nature and green, water, art, education and research. At the moment, many visions and ideas find their way into concrete actions and policies. In our presentation we focused on the broad participative process, on the most remarkable structural results (e.g. a formal and ambitious Sustainability Vision and a student-led Sustainability Office) and on recent actions and experiments (e.g. a sustainability assessment on food supply in student restaurants, artistic COP21 activities, ambitious mobility plans, food leftovers projects, an education network on sustainability controversies, a transdisciplinary platform on Sustainable Cities). We concluded with some recommendations and reflections on this transition approach, on the important role of ‘policy entrepreneurs’ and student involvement, on lock-ins and bottlenecks, and on convincing skeptical leaders

    Contents complete volume 5C

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    Budowa chińskiego systemu rachunkowości węglowej z perspektywy zrównoważonego rozwoju

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    Carbon Financial Accounting System highlights the importance of carbon finance and carbon accounting in China's efforts towards sustainable development and reducing its carbon footprint. The article discusses the need to manage and trade carbon assets, develop a comprehensive carbon financing system, and account for and report carbon activities. It proposes constructing a carbon accounting framework that includes all key sources of carbon emissions and carbon sequestration capacity. The article emphasizes the need to integrate carbon accounting into a company's operations and establish a comprehensive carbon finance ecosystem as a critical component of national strategic development. To achieve this, the Chinese government must promote CDM initiatives and relevant policies, enhance support to intermediary institutions, centralize the management of CDM projects, and strengthen carbon financing regulations. The article suggests establishing carbon trading and pricing mechanisms and improving the carbon trading system to create an effective carbon finance regulatory structure. Additionally, a carbon accounting system is required for financial and accounting oversight to support green and low-carbon growth, hence strengthening carbon accounting and reporting regulations of companies. The incorporation of carbon exchange, carbon funds, and carbon sinks banks are also essential in enhancing the financial accounting system.System rachunkowości węglowej podkreśla znaczenie finansowania emisji dwutlenku węgla i rozliczania emisji CO2 w wysiłkach Chin na rzecz zrównoważonego rozwoju i zmniejszenia śladu węglowego. W artykule omówiono potrzebę zarządzania aktywami węglowymi i handlu nimi, opracowania kompleksowego systemu finansowania emisji dwutlenku węgla oraz rozliczania i raportowania działalności związanej z emisjami tego gazu. Proponuje skonstruowanie ram rozliczania emisji dwutlenku węgla, które obejmują wszystkie kluczowe źródła emisji i zdolność do sekwestracji CO2. W artykule podkreślono potrzebę włączenia rachunkowości emisji dwutlenku węgla do działalności przedsiębiorstwa i ustanowienia kompleksowego ekosystemu finansowania emisji CO2 jako kluczowego elementu krajowych strategii. Aby to osiągnąć, chiński rząd musi promować inicjatywy CDM i odpowiednią politykę, zwiększyć wsparcie dla instytucji pośredniczących, scentralizować zarządzanie projektami CDM oraz wzmocnić regulacje dotyczące finansowania emisji. W artykule sugeruje się ustanowienie mechanizmów handlu uprawnieniami do emisji i ustalania cen oraz poprawę handlu uprawnieniami do emisji w celu stworzenia skutecznej struktury regulacyjnej dotyczącej finansowania emisji dwutlenku węgla. Ponadto system rozliczania emisji CO2 jest wymagany do nadzoru finansowego w celu wspierania ekologicznego i niskoemisyjnego wzrostu, a tym samym wzmocnienia przepisów dotyczących rozliczania emisji dwutlenku węgla i raportowania przedsiębiorstw. Włączenie giełd emisji CO2, funduszy węglowych i banków pochłaniających emisję dwutlenku węgla jest również niezbędne dla ulepszenia systemu rachunkowości finansowej

    The low-carbon development of shipping industry in China

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    Carbon Pricing in Japan

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    This open access book evaluates, from an economic perspective, various measures introduced in Japan to prevent climate change. Although various countries have implemented such policies in response to the pressing issue of climate change, the effectiveness of those programs has not been sufficiently compared. In particular, policy evaluations in the Asian region are far behind those in North America and Europe due to data limitations and political reasons. The first part of the book summarizes measures in different sectors in Japan to prevent climate change, such as emissions trading and carbon tax, and assesses their impact. The second part shows how those policies have changed the behavior of firms and households. In addition, it presents macro-economic simulations that consider the potential of renewable energy. Lastly, based on these comprehensive assessments, it compares the effectiveness of measures to prevent climate change in Japan and Western countries. Providing valuable insights, this book will appeal to both academic researchers and policymakers seeking cost-effective measures against climate change

    Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action

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    China’s road to sustainability has attracted global attention. Since the “Reform & Opening Up” policy, China’s rapid pace of both urbanization and industrialization has made its being the second largest economy but meantime a heavy environmental price has been paid over the past few decades for addressing the economic developmental target. Today, as the biggest developing country, China needs to take more responsibilities for constructing its local ecological-civilization society as well as for addressing the global challenges such as climate change, resources scary and human beings well-fare; therefore, we need to have deeper understandings into China’s way to sustainability at very different levels, both spatially and structurally, concerns ranging from generating sustainable household livelihoods to global climate change, from developing technological applications to generate institutional changes. In this spirit, this publication, “Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action” aims to investigate the intended and spontaneous issues concerning China’s road to sustainability in a combined top-down and bottom-up manner, linking international knowledge to local-based studies

    Green Logistics development and evaluation of the carbon footprint

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    Along with the worldwide climate changing, human activities and the rapid deterioration of the environment, Low-carbon economy in recent years become increasingly focus of attention in people's lives. The economic reform will gradually penetrate into the logistics system, modern logistics as a composite service industry, play a decisive role in the modern division of labor and cooperation under the social environment, it is a manufacturing! The important supporting business is an important bridge between production and consumption. The logistics industry is in a period of rapid development, the logistics process not only energy consumption demand is big, and the C02 emissions are also large. Coupled with the destruction of the human living environment, the greenhouse effect becomes more and more prominent, more the need of the development of green logistics, low carbon logistics. However, at home and abroad for most of the research of this aspect is still stay in the stage of qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis of the literature on energy consumption and C02 emission of less amount of logistics system. There are four objectives will be discussed. The first objective is the relevant literature on the green logistics is summarized, which lays the foundation for the research in this paper, green logistics. The second objective is the energy consumption and C02 calculation models were summarized, to provide reference for other scholars to conduct relevant research. The third objective is through statistical analysis, master the different modes of transport energy consumption and C02 emissions, and provide the basis for enterprises to choose the mode of transport. The fourth objective combining with specific examples, analyzed the carbon footprint of the logistics process instance modeling based on LCA.fi=Opinnäytetyö kokotekstinä PDF-muodossa.|en=Thesis fulltext in PDF format.|sv=Lärdomsprov tillgängligt som fulltext i PDF-format

    中国における再生可能資源産業の産業成果に関する研究

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    Regional logistics, carbon emission index and green financial performance enhancement configuration: a comparative study based on 30 Chinese provinces

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    In recent years, because of the increasingly severe global environmental protection situation and the superimposed effect of the new crown epidemic, the importance of green finance has been highlighted and gradually elevated to an important future development strategy for the country. However, it is unclear how to improve the effectiveness of green finance in each province. Using 30 Chinese provinces and regions as research samples, this paper summarizes five influencing factors, including regional logistics, carbon emission index, regional finance, economic level, and environmental regulation. Considering the complex causal relationship between factors and green finance performance, fsQCA is used to explore the different configurations formed in the process of developing green finance in each province. The results comprise four different configurations for high performance and four types of configurations for the absence of high performance. Currently, with the regional green finance development model still in its infancy, regional logistics and carbon emission index factors play a key role in stimulating the development of green finance in the provinces and regions. This study has important theoretical and practical significance for the construction of regional green financial system and local government performance appraisal system with local characteristics in each province of China, and provides locally adapted policy suggestions for different provinces to achieve optimal allocation of resources
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