Friends of the Earth-ETUI presentation
... minimises other impacts • Social – gives people access to services they need eg warm homes, safe & reliable transport • Economic – does this at an affordable cost for people and businesses ...
... minimises other impacts • Social – gives people access to services they need eg warm homes, safe & reliable transport • Economic – does this at an affordable cost for people and businesses ...
What`s your carbon footprint? Fact sheet
... When we burn fossil fuels to run our homes, factories and cars, carbon dioxide is produced. This is adding to the greenhouse effect, which in turn is causing our climate to change. What is the greenhouse effect? Greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide let the heat of the sun into our atmosphere but do ...
... When we burn fossil fuels to run our homes, factories and cars, carbon dioxide is produced. This is adding to the greenhouse effect, which in turn is causing our climate to change. What is the greenhouse effect? Greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide let the heat of the sun into our atmosphere but do ...
Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy Peat Coal Coal Burning Coal
... Ireland has a mild moist climate. This means that we don‛t get very hot summers or very cold winters and we have quite a lot of rain. The plants and animals in Ireland are suited to our climate and are able to survive well here. However, our climate was not always the same. In the past Ireland‛s cli ...
... Ireland has a mild moist climate. This means that we don‛t get very hot summers or very cold winters and we have quite a lot of rain. The plants and animals in Ireland are suited to our climate and are able to survive well here. However, our climate was not always the same. In the past Ireland‛s cli ...
Carbon Management for Sustainable Development: The Case Study
... Technology:Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) CCS System • The net reduction of emissions to the atmosphere through CCS depends on the fraction of CO2 captured, the increased CO2 production resulting from loss in overall efficiency of power plants or industrial processes due to the additional e ...
... Technology:Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) CCS System • The net reduction of emissions to the atmosphere through CCS depends on the fraction of CO2 captured, the increased CO2 production resulting from loss in overall efficiency of power plants or industrial processes due to the additional e ...
A Fractured Future: climate change in an age of fossil fuel abundance (pdf)
... transportation sector. The average new American vehicle is now three times as efficient as it was 40 years ago, and by 2025, they are required to be 65 per cent more efficient still. As a result, US oil consumption is declining, coal is being replaced by cheaper, cleaner and more abundant natural ga ...
... transportation sector. The average new American vehicle is now three times as efficient as it was 40 years ago, and by 2025, they are required to be 65 per cent more efficient still. As a result, US oil consumption is declining, coal is being replaced by cheaper, cleaner and more abundant natural ga ...
transcript - American Chemical Society
... talk, you know, we haven’t changed anything in the last 20 years. That’s Dr. Frank S. Zeman, of Columbia University, an expert who reported on responses to global warming in March in Environmental Science & Technology, one of the American Chemical Society’s 36 peer-reviewed scientific journals. Some ...
... talk, you know, we haven’t changed anything in the last 20 years. That’s Dr. Frank S. Zeman, of Columbia University, an expert who reported on responses to global warming in March in Environmental Science & Technology, one of the American Chemical Society’s 36 peer-reviewed scientific journals. Some ...
Carbon sequestration
... the exploration costs are small; and the reservoirs in question have already proved they can hold liquids and gases for aeons, since that is how the extracted hydrocarbons built up in them. What is more, injecting CO2 into such wells could produce a saleable by-product; a similar technique is alrea ...
... the exploration costs are small; and the reservoirs in question have already proved they can hold liquids and gases for aeons, since that is how the extracted hydrocarbons built up in them. What is more, injecting CO2 into such wells could produce a saleable by-product; a similar technique is alrea ...
Carbon Sequestration - Geophysical Laboratory
... Prospective areas in sedimentary basins where suitable saline formations, oil or gas fields, or coal beds may be found. Locations for storage in coal beds are only partly included. Prospectivity is a qualitative assessment of the likelihood that a suitable storage location is present in a given area ...
... Prospective areas in sedimentary basins where suitable saline formations, oil or gas fields, or coal beds may be found. Locations for storage in coal beds are only partly included. Prospectivity is a qualitative assessment of the likelihood that a suitable storage location is present in a given area ...
Fossil fuels and climate change
... Step 2: An asset is stranded. Stranding requires a) immobility, plus b) an external imposition that reduces the asset’s value. The next Investments that expand fossil fuel reserves and build new infrastructure and power plants could create “stranded assets”: these investments presume 20-60 years of ...
... Step 2: An asset is stranded. Stranding requires a) immobility, plus b) an external imposition that reduces the asset’s value. The next Investments that expand fossil fuel reserves and build new infrastructure and power plants could create “stranded assets”: these investments presume 20-60 years of ...
Paper`s carbon footprint is not as high as you think
... ensure stable or increasing stock of wood as well as carbon sequestered in it. European forests sequester increasing amounts of carbon in tree biomass. Each year about 430 million tonnes of CO2 (MCPFE, 2011), or around 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions, are removed from the atmosphere by photosy ...
... ensure stable or increasing stock of wood as well as carbon sequestered in it. European forests sequester increasing amounts of carbon in tree biomass. Each year about 430 million tonnes of CO2 (MCPFE, 2011), or around 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions, are removed from the atmosphere by photosy ...
Why technology is so important
... ESTs are often considered more expensive than existing fossil fuel-based technologies. This problem will diminish as demand for ESTs increases, as approaches that factor in environmental costs are taken up and as current price distortions are addressed. But this process can only begin if: ...
... ESTs are often considered more expensive than existing fossil fuel-based technologies. This problem will diminish as demand for ESTs increases, as approaches that factor in environmental costs are taken up and as current price distortions are addressed. But this process can only begin if: ...
bioenergy with carbon capture and storage
... One of the first bioenergy + CCS facilities resides in Decatur, Illinois, USA. The project was developed by Archer Daniels Midland and at full scale will capture and sequester about one million tonnes of CO2 annually. The plant captures CO2 during the fermentation process to create corn-based ethano ...
... One of the first bioenergy + CCS facilities resides in Decatur, Illinois, USA. The project was developed by Archer Daniels Midland and at full scale will capture and sequester about one million tonnes of CO2 annually. The plant captures CO2 during the fermentation process to create corn-based ethano ...
Fossil oil 87g CO2/MJ
... The oil industry’s global investment 2007-2011 April 2013 BP decided to abandon all investments in wind power and focus on oil and gas ...
... The oil industry’s global investment 2007-2011 April 2013 BP decided to abandon all investments in wind power and focus on oil and gas ...
China and Climate Change July 2013 - Yuhong Zhao
... non-ferrous metal, power generation, building materials, textile, paper, rubber etc); Non-industrial sources: emission over 10,000 tonnes CO2e/year in 2010 or 2011 (aviation, port, airport, railway, commercial, hotel, financial etc); Allocation: free for 2013-15; auction in due course; 3rd par ...
... non-ferrous metal, power generation, building materials, textile, paper, rubber etc); Non-industrial sources: emission over 10,000 tonnes CO2e/year in 2010 or 2011 (aviation, port, airport, railway, commercial, hotel, financial etc); Allocation: free for 2013-15; auction in due course; 3rd par ...
Background on the emergence of carbon labeling
... and the opportunity for meeting [scientific advice on emissions targets] is narrowing ...
... and the opportunity for meeting [scientific advice on emissions targets] is narrowing ...
backgrounder.pdf
... We have the technology…. Each of the 15 strategies below has the potential to reduce global carbon emissions by at least 1 billion tons per year by 2054, or 1 wedge. A combination of strategies will be needed to build the 7 wedges of the stabilization triangle. ...
... We have the technology…. Each of the 15 strategies below has the potential to reduce global carbon emissions by at least 1 billion tons per year by 2054, or 1 wedge. A combination of strategies will be needed to build the 7 wedges of the stabilization triangle. ...
- Center for Climate Strategies
... • Policy cost-benefit analysis • Regional economic impact analysis • Stakeholder involvement ...
... • Policy cost-benefit analysis • Regional economic impact analysis • Stakeholder involvement ...
Consultation on setting New Zealand`s post
... residue after the oil has been pressed out of the algal cells is rich in nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. Also the water left behind is an important nutrient for agriculture and forestry. Unfortunately Christchurch and Waimakariri constructed pipelines delivering treated waste water into t ...
... residue after the oil has been pressed out of the algal cells is rich in nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. Also the water left behind is an important nutrient for agriculture and forestry. Unfortunately Christchurch and Waimakariri constructed pipelines delivering treated waste water into t ...
OSPAR Decision 2007/1 to Prohibit the Storage of
... ocean acidification due to elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; EMPHASISING the need to further develop renewable and low carbon forms of energy generation and use; RECOGNISING that carbon dioxide capture and storage is one of a portfolio of options to reduce levels of atmosp ...
... ocean acidification due to elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; EMPHASISING the need to further develop renewable and low carbon forms of energy generation and use; RECOGNISING that carbon dioxide capture and storage is one of a portfolio of options to reduce levels of atmosp ...
OSPAR Decision 2007/1 to Prohibit the Storage of Carbon Dioxide
... ocean acidification due to elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; EMPHASISING the need to further develop renewable and low carbon forms of energy generation and use; RECOGNISING that carbon dioxide capture and storage is one of a portfolio of options to reduce levels of atmosp ...
... ocean acidification due to elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; EMPHASISING the need to further develop renewable and low carbon forms of energy generation and use; RECOGNISING that carbon dioxide capture and storage is one of a portfolio of options to reduce levels of atmosp ...
the truth about co2
... Before I deal with that question, let’s get clear on our terms. It has become common to refer to the emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy as “carbon” emissions. That is entirely misleading. Carbon dioxide is not carbon. Carbon dioxide is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas which is an ind ...
... Before I deal with that question, let’s get clear on our terms. It has become common to refer to the emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy as “carbon” emissions. That is entirely misleading. Carbon dioxide is not carbon. Carbon dioxide is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas which is an ind ...
Carbon Removals Peter Read Massey University Centre for Energy
... SRES-A2 with three land use change activities and 300 tC per ha released through land use change ...
... SRES-A2 with three land use change activities and 300 tC per ha released through land use change ...
Carbon Solutions Group - Australian Industry Group
... ● Being involved in the development of the Aust carbon market ● Dedicated resources to ensure a co-ordinated understanding and response ● New products ● Raising awareness of climate change risks and opportunities to our Bankers ● Developing carbon price risk management capability ● Financing renewab ...
... ● Being involved in the development of the Aust carbon market ● Dedicated resources to ensure a co-ordinated understanding and response ● New products ● Raising awareness of climate change risks and opportunities to our Bankers ● Developing carbon price risk management capability ● Financing renewab ...
The future for fossil fuels in a low carbon economy
... Yes. This is something we are hoping for, but I am not sure that we will get it. In June of this year, six European companies, Total among them, wrote to (the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) Christiana Figueres to call for a carbon pricing mechanism because we t ...
... Yes. This is something we are hoping for, but I am not sure that we will get it. In June of this year, six European companies, Total among them, wrote to (the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) Christiana Figueres to call for a carbon pricing mechanism because we t ...