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Carbon Market
Economic and industrial activities and changes in land use, such as deforestation, have resulted in a constant increase in the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) to the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution. A high concentration of GHGs (e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons) may in turn increase the average temperature due to the so-called greenhouse effect. On this basis, the subject has been analytically discussed at international conferences, especially at Conferences of the Parties (COP), which occur once a year in different regions of the world. A result of these discussions has been the proposition of market-based instruments to assist industrialized countries (developed countries)—hitherto the most responsible for the greatest percentage of GHGs—in reducing their GHG emissions. Another reason for the emergence of ...
- Adsorption Chiller
- Desalination Plants
- Batteries
- Engineering Studies
- Arms Race
- Appliances, Energy Efficient
- Actor-Network Theory
- Composting Toilet
- Algae Biofuel
- Environmental Remediation
- Clean Energy
- Environmental Science
- Authoritarianism and Technology
- Appropriate Technology
- Anarchoprimitivism
- Design for Recycling
- Anaerobic Digestion
- Green Metrics
- Coal, Clean Technology
- Frankfurt School
- Ecological Modernization
- Best Available Technology
- Bioethics
- E-Waste
- Bacillus Thuringiensis (Bt)
- Green Roofing
- Concentrating Solar Technology
- Information Technology
- European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive
- Best Practicable Technology
- Boundary Objects
- Extended Producer Responsibility
- Biochar
- Participatory Technology Development
- Earthships
- Science and Technology Studies
- European Union Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive
- Cadmium Telluride Photovoltaic Thin Film
- Carbon Footprint Calculator
- Flue Gas Treatment
- Biochemical Processes
- Water Purification
- Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
- University-Industrial Complex
- Green Building Materials
- Carbon Capture Technology
- Carbon Market
- Greywater
- Biogas
- White Rooftops
- Offshore Oil Drilling (Gulf Oil Spill)
- Green Technology Investing
- Carbon Finance
- Cradle-to-Cradle Design
- Plasma Arc Gasification Technology
- Biotechnology
- Zero-Energy Building
- Passive Solar
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs)
- Democratic Rationalization
- Recycling
- Cellulosic Biofuels
- Smart Grid
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- Copper Indium (Gallium) Selenide (CIGS or CIS) Solar Photovoltaic Thin Film
- Enframing and Standing Reserve
- Solid Waste Treatment
- Distillation
- Solar Cells
- LEED Standards
- Crystalline Silicon Solar Photovoltaic Cell
- Faustian Bargain
- Wastewater Treatment
- Green Chemistry
- Solar Hot Water Heaters
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Eco-Electronics
- Futurology
- Maglev
- Solar Ovens
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
- Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)
- Innovation
- Membrane Technology
- Waste-to-Energy Technology
- Science and Technology Policy
- Electrostatic Precipitator
- Labor Process
- Pyrolysis
- Wind Turbine
- Social Agency
- Geoengineering
- Luddism
- Thermal Depolymerization
- Sustainable Design
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Marxism and Technology
- Thermal Heat Recovery
- Green Markets
- Postindustrialism
- Thermochemical Processes
- Green Nanotechnology
- Reflexive Modernization
- High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) Systems
- Social Construction of Technology
- Hybrid/Electric Automobiles
- Sociology of Technology
- Materials Recovery Facilities
- Structuration Theory
- Microgeneration
- Systems Theory
- Pozzolan
- Technological Autonomy
- Product Stewardship
- Technological Determinism
- Rainwater Harvesting Systems
- Technological Momentum
- Technological Utopias
- Technology and Social Change
- Technology Transfer
- Unintended Consequences
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