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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) : analysing the financial viability of potential CDM projects, and assessing associated sustainable development impacts for South Africa

Oganne, Galonkge January 2003 (has links)
Bibliography: leaves 85-91. / A growing concern regarding the limitation inherent in the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for encouraging prompt global action on climate change has been key in vitalising climate change negotiations. The UNFCCC process has triggered further negotiations and related international forums on climate change that eventually led to the birth of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. This outcome represents a legally enforceable strategy for reinforcing the UNFCCC. Being among the first key climate change regime milestones, the Kyoto Protocol was adopted to enable a working environment for international co-operation against the threat of climate change to humanity. To this end, incorporates carbon emissions reduction instruments known as 'flexibility mechanisms' to achieve the overall objective of “... stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere ...” (UNFCCC 1992). Of the four climate change mitigation implementation instruments (or mechanisms), the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) stands out as the only one relevant for the developing world. The thesis investigates the potential for the CDM to both protect and promote the indigenous development policy objectives of the Southern project-host countries in the context of a new paradigm of sustainable development The CDM would support local capacity building and provide a tool for enabling technology reception in the South; and would set up a unique arrangement by which the Northern parties will have access to more cost-effective avenues in fulfilling their climate commitments than pursuing domestic measures. The core of the rationale behind the thesis stems from a need for expanding the insight into how the CDM will achieve its primary purpose of enhancing sustainable development for developing country-based participants. Austin et al (1999) reviewed this question for three other developing countries (Le. Brazil, China and India), in an effort to enhance the insight into measuring sustainable development outcomes arising from the CDM. The thesis employs a South African socio-economic development context for investigation. The thesis also assesses how supporting CDM-driven activities will be worthwhile, from an economic standpoint, for potential project investors or developers in developing countries. The thesis investigates the investment (or financial) performance of CDM projects by comparing the impact, on a project's Internal Rate of Return (IRR), of incorporating an associated carbon investment component within a conventional project investment framework. For this, it focuses on four of the country's potential energy sector climate mitigation projects as case studies for its investigation.
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Prediction of stock market indices using machine learning

Modarres Najafabadi, Sayed Reza January 2009 (has links)
No description available.
3

Quantum games as quantum types

Delbecque, Yannick January 2009 (has links)
No description available.
4

Cache aware load balancing for scaling of multi-tier architectures

Tickoo, Neeraj January 2011 (has links)
No description available.
5

The development of an artificially intuitive reasoner

Sun, Yung Chien January 2010 (has links)
No description available.
6

Motif discovery algorithms incorporating nucleosome positioning information

Sayad-Rahim, Azin January 2010 (has links)
No description available.
7

Dependability-oriented model-driven requirements engineering for reactive systems

Mustafiz, Sadaf January 2010 (has links)
No description available.
8

Development of an expert system for the identification of bacteria by focal plane array Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

Ghetler, Andrew January 2010 (has links)
No description available.
9

Backward pertubation analysis of least squares problems

Titley-Péloquin, David January 2010 (has links)
No description available.
10

A practical face recognition system using a game with a purpose

Travassos, Willer January 2010 (has links)
No description available.

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