Climate-change policy is a tale of two sciences. The natural sciences have done an admirable job of describing the geophysical aspects of climate change. The science behind global warming is well established. While the timing and regional effects of the changes are not known with certainty, natural scientists have persuasively shown that unchecked CO2 emissions will have dangerous consequences. But understanding the natural science of climate change is only the first step.

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On March 29, 2021, the promulgation of the “Guidelines for the Verification of Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting (Trial)” means the further improvement of the methodology of China’s monitorable-reportable-verifiable (MRV) system. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzU5NDgyNjYxMw==&mid=2247489287&idx=1&sn=19bb0785c3645e9e41b54510ca406754&chksm=fe7a131dc90d9a0b8e59f303a765bc53f72bb48b2c95964191a7a34afec2131be6898a63049f&scene=21#wechat_redirect 2021年3月29日，《企业温室气体排放报告核查指南（试行）》的颁布意味着我国可监测-可报告-可核查（MRV）体系方法学建设的进一步完善。MRV的基础——碳排放数据的准确性、及时性对于碳市场建设至关重要。因此碳核算边界的定义、方法的选取是气候变化相关政策制定的核心要素。然而，无论是碳核算的定义还是方法，时至今日在国内外的研究中都没有形成一致的定义和统一的标准。本文收集了碳核算相关领域最有代表性的7篇文章，分别从定义和方法两个维度对相关研究进行梳理，便于读者对碳核算方法的相关研究建立清晰的逻辑框架。 01 Carbon accounting: a systematic literature review https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652612000972 Kristin Stechemesser, Edeltraud Guenther Technische Universitaet Dresden, Faculty of Economics, Chair of Environmental Management and Accounting, Muenchner Platz 1/3, 01062 Dresden, Germany Received 27 February 2011, Revised 3 February 2012, Accepted 16 February 2012, Available online 13 March 2012.

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Pages Posted: 24 Jul 2021 Last revised: 30 Aug 2021 Jiarui Zhong Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg Jiansuo Pei Renmin University of China - School of Applied Economics https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3891356 Abstract Curbing climate change is gaining increasing consensus globally. While many countries seek to set carbon prices, significant price dispersion and policy stringency continue to raise concerns about competitiveness. To address this issue, the EU has proposed a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), which aims to level the playing field by levying a carbon price on EU imports.

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https://matplotlib.org/stable/tutorials/intermediate/gridspec.html#sphx-glr-tutorials-intermediate-gridspec-py

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Tuple Tuples are used to store multiple items in a single variable. A tuple is a collection which is ordered and unchangeable. Tuples are written with round brackets. thistuple = ("apple", "banana", "cherry") Tuple items are ordered, unchangeable, and allow duplicate values. When we say that tuples are ordered, it means that the items have a defined order, and that order will not change. Tuples are unchangeable, meaning that we cannot change, add or remove items after the tuple has been created.

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Sacha Baron Cohen denounces Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google as ’the greatest propaganda machine in history’ and culpable for a surge in ‘murderous attacks on religious and ethnic minorities’. The actor focuses on Facebook, saying that ‘if you pay them, the platform will run any “political” ad you want, even if it’s a lie’. Baron Cohen is speaking on Thursday at Never Is Now, the Anti-Defamation League’s summit on antisemitism and hate in New York, where he is presented with the organisation’s international leadership award.

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pyplot.subplots creates a figure and a grid of subplots with a single call, while providing reasonable control over how the individual plots are created. For more advanced use cases you can use GridSpec for a more general subplot layout or Figure.add_subplot for adding subplots at arbitrary locations within the figure. https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/subplots_demo.html matplotlib.pyplot.subplots matplotlib.pyplot.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=1, *, sharex=False, sharey=False, squeeze=True, subplot_kw=None, gridspec_kw=None, **fig_kw) Returns: fig: The matplotlib.pyplot.figure object to be used as a container for all the subplots.

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