Mitigation Techniques to Reduce the Impact of Wind Turbines on Radar Services

Radar services are occasionally affected by wind farms. This paper presents a comprehensive description of the effects that a wind farm may cause on the different radar services, and it compiles a review of the recent research results regarding the mitigation techniques to minimize this impact. Mitigation techniques to be applied at the wind farm and on the radar systems are described. The development of thorough impact studies before the wind farm is installed is presented as the best way to analyze in advance the potential for interference, and subsequently identify the possible solutions to allow the coexistence of wind farms and radar services.

Warning to navigators: IPCC report on climate change mitigation

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Market Instruments and CO2 Mitigation: A General Equilibrium Analysis for Spain

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Cost effectiveness of a combination of instruments for global warming: a quantitative approach for Spain

Climate change is an important environmental problem and one whose economic implications are many and varied. This paper starts with the presumption that mitigation of greenhouse gases is a necessary policy that has to be designed in a cost effective way. It is well known that market instruments are the best option for cost effectiveness. But the discussion regarding which of the various market instruments should be used, how they may interact and what combinations of policies should be implemented is still open and very lively. In this paper we propose a combination of instruments: the marketable emission permits already in place in Europe for major economic sectors and a CO(2) tax for economic sectors not included in the emissions permit scheme. The study uses an applied general equilibrium model for the Spanish economy to compute the results obtained with the new mix of instruments proposed. As the combination of the market for emission permits and the CO(2) tax admits different possibilities that depend on how the mitigation is distributed among the economic sectors, we concentrate on four possibilities: cost-effective, equalitarian, proportional to emissions, and proportional to output distributions. Other alternatives to the CO(2) tax are also analysed (tax on energy, on oil and on electricity). Our findings suggest that careful, well designed policies are needed as any deviation imposes significant additional costs that increase more than proportionally to the level of emissions reduction targeted by the EU.

Cost effectiveness of a combination of instruments for global warming: a quantitative approach for Spain

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The long road of climate negotiations: From Kyoto to Paris stopping over in Doha

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Alternative trajectories for decarbonizing urban transportation

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Warsaw Conference: “Small steps forward while awaiting major decisions at the 2015 Paris Conference”

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La Cumbre de Varsovia: “Pequeños avances en espera de decisiones de envergadura en la Cumbre de Paris 2015”

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Breaking the 400 ppm barrier: Physical and Social implications of the recent CO2 rise

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Rompiendo la barrera de las 400 ppm: implicaciones físicas y sociales del reciente aumento de CO2

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400 ppm-ko langa hautsi da: CO2-kontzentrazioaren igoeraren ondorio fisiko eta sozialak

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IPCC WGII Fifth Assessment Report (AR5): Expanding the solution space for adaptation

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Quinto informe de evaluación (AR5) del GT-II del IPPC: aumentando el espacio de las soluciones para la adaptación

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IPPC-ren II. lan-taldearen bosgarren ebaluazio txostena (AR5): egokitzerako konponbideeremua zabaltzen

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