Comparative analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from major
... emitting from electricity consumption in domestic sector and fuel consumption are accounted. The major fuels used in this study are LPG, Piped Natural Gas (PNG) and kerosene based on the availability of data. Total greenhouse gas emissions converted in terms of CO2 equivalent from the domestic secto ...
... emitting from electricity consumption in domestic sector and fuel consumption are accounted. The major fuels used in this study are LPG, Piped Natural Gas (PNG) and kerosene based on the availability of data. Total greenhouse gas emissions converted in terms of CO2 equivalent from the domestic secto ...
Three Key Elements of Post-2012 International Climate Policy
... million (ppm) without significant reductions by China and India. The Kyoto Protocol may not be as fair as originally intended, given how dramatically the world has changed since the UNFCCC divided countries into two categories in 1992. Approximately fifty non-Annex I countries now have higher per ca ...
... million (ppm) without significant reductions by China and India. The Kyoto Protocol may not be as fair as originally intended, given how dramatically the world has changed since the UNFCCC divided countries into two categories in 1992. Approximately fifty non-Annex I countries now have higher per ca ...
How to design a building envelope to provide thermal
... Thermal comfort can be expressed by using predicted mean votes (PMV) and also by using overheating criteria based on operative temperatures. Acceptable PMV levels for offices are suggested by CIBSE Guide A: Environmental design as ±0.5 (i.e., corresponding to 10% people dissatisfied (PPD)). CIBSE Gu ...
... Thermal comfort can be expressed by using predicted mean votes (PMV) and also by using overheating criteria based on operative temperatures. Acceptable PMV levels for offices are suggested by CIBSE Guide A: Environmental design as ±0.5 (i.e., corresponding to 10% people dissatisfied (PPD)). CIBSE Gu ...
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... The analysis here evaluates how well state-level transportation decisions are aligned with efforts to reduce GHG emissions by examining a selection of key transportation policies currently in place in the 50 states. The findings suggest that there is tremendous potential to make progress on reducing ...
... The analysis here evaluates how well state-level transportation decisions are aligned with efforts to reduce GHG emissions by examining a selection of key transportation policies currently in place in the 50 states. The findings suggest that there is tremendous potential to make progress on reducing ...
Leicestershire Together Draft Carbon Reduction Strategy
... There is international consensus that anthropogenic climate change is happening and presents a significant risk to society; environmentally, socially and economically. Nations are taking action to become more resilient to climate change, coping with increasingly frequent extreme weather events, and ...
... There is international consensus that anthropogenic climate change is happening and presents a significant risk to society; environmentally, socially and economically. Nations are taking action to become more resilient to climate change, coping with increasingly frequent extreme weather events, and ...
Fairtrade and the carbon market
... communities in developing countries to benefit from access to carbon finance and the opportunity to tackle the effects of climate change. We call on businesses and civil society to consider their carbon emissions and support the Fairtrade Climate Standard by purchasing ...
... communities in developing countries to benefit from access to carbon finance and the opportunity to tackle the effects of climate change. We call on businesses and civil society to consider their carbon emissions and support the Fairtrade Climate Standard by purchasing ...
Fairtrade and the carbon market
... communities in developing countries to benefit from access to carbon finance and the opportunity to tackle the effects of climate change. We call on businesses and civil society to consider their carbon emissions and support the Fairtrade Climate Standard by purchasing ...
... communities in developing countries to benefit from access to carbon finance and the opportunity to tackle the effects of climate change. We call on businesses and civil society to consider their carbon emissions and support the Fairtrade Climate Standard by purchasing ...
Switzerland
... established. Switzerland has committed itself under the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008-2012) and reached its target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8 percent compared to 1990, including through the use of carbon credits. At the beginning of 2013, the CO2 Act and the CO2 Or ...
... established. Switzerland has committed itself under the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008-2012) and reached its target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 8 percent compared to 1990, including through the use of carbon credits. At the beginning of 2013, the CO2 Act and the CO2 Or ...
Explaining Human Influences on Carbon Dioxide Emissions across
... average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate ever documented, and the consequences of this phenomenon are already becoming visible. In 2003, extreme heat waves caused over 20,000 deaths in Europe and over 1,500 deaths in India (Global Warming). It is estimated that the Arctic's polar ...
... average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate ever documented, and the consequences of this phenomenon are already becoming visible. In 2003, extreme heat waves caused over 20,000 deaths in Europe and over 1,500 deaths in India (Global Warming). It is estimated that the Arctic's polar ...
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... A globally efficient policy requires emissions reductions at a similar marginal cost in all countries, and on all sources of emissions where control policies are practicable. To achieve this efficiency, we (and many others, such as Stern 2006, xviii) contend that climate policy needs to use emission ...
... A globally efficient policy requires emissions reductions at a similar marginal cost in all countries, and on all sources of emissions where control policies are practicable. To achieve this efficiency, we (and many others, such as Stern 2006, xviii) contend that climate policy needs to use emission ...
green logistics: the carbon agenda
... indicates that the cost trade-offs which companies make between transport, inventory and warehousing are very robust. Tilting these cost trade-offs sufficiently to induce a return to more localised and decentralised patterns of production and distribution would require very large increases in freigh ...
... indicates that the cost trade-offs which companies make between transport, inventory and warehousing are very robust. Tilting these cost trade-offs sufficiently to induce a return to more localised and decentralised patterns of production and distribution would require very large increases in freigh ...
Carbon tax – key instrument for energy transition!
... Internalising environmental costs: According to Polluter Pays Principle (PPP), emitters of CO2 should pay a Carbon tax for their emissions and in this way pay for current and future costs caused by the emission. Hence, the environmental costs (external costs) are internalised and made a part of the ...
... Internalising environmental costs: According to Polluter Pays Principle (PPP), emitters of CO2 should pay a Carbon tax for their emissions and in this way pay for current and future costs caused by the emission. Hence, the environmental costs (external costs) are internalised and made a part of the ...
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... decades. Although the introduction of a European emission trading scheme within the Kyoto framework could have represented a pragmatic resolution to this discussion, the need to engage the US and other large-emitters fast-growing countries, has led some economists to suggest a global carbon tax as a ...
... decades. Although the introduction of a European emission trading scheme within the Kyoto framework could have represented a pragmatic resolution to this discussion, the need to engage the US and other large-emitters fast-growing countries, has led some economists to suggest a global carbon tax as a ...
Session 2: who is responsible?
... released into the atmosphere as a result of activities by an individual person, an organisation, a community, a country or an event. Explain that every person on our planet has a carbon footprint. However some people and some countries have larger carbon footprints than others. Ask learners why they ...
... released into the atmosphere as a result of activities by an individual person, an organisation, a community, a country or an event. Explain that every person on our planet has a carbon footprint. However some people and some countries have larger carbon footprints than others. Ask learners why they ...
Increased Logging is a Threat to Our Global Climate
... These policies have provided tremendous secondary benefits in terms of carbon storage. Extensive areas that were previously logged are now regrowing. The federal forests in Oregon are now absorbing more carbon then they are emitting, and there is a net flow of carbon from the atmosphere back into th ...
... These policies have provided tremendous secondary benefits in terms of carbon storage. Extensive areas that were previously logged are now regrowing. The federal forests in Oregon are now absorbing more carbon then they are emitting, and there is a net flow of carbon from the atmosphere back into th ...
View/Open
... essentially is a voluntary agreement to promote cleaner energy technology. Its main stated purpose is to ‘create a voluntary, non-legally binding framework for international cooperation to facilitate the development, diffusion, deployment, and transfer of existing, emerging and longer term cost-effe ...
... essentially is a voluntary agreement to promote cleaner energy technology. Its main stated purpose is to ‘create a voluntary, non-legally binding framework for international cooperation to facilitate the development, diffusion, deployment, and transfer of existing, emerging and longer term cost-effe ...
The Global Carbon Trading Market: Concepts, Regulations and Industry Brochure
... - Analysis on all global carbon market exchanges — the EU Emission Trading System (ETS), New South Wales Exchange, Chicago Climate Exchange, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), Australian Climate Exchange, World Green Exchange etc. - Historic pricing trends for carbon in various exchanges ...
... - Analysis on all global carbon market exchanges — the EU Emission Trading System (ETS), New South Wales Exchange, Chicago Climate Exchange, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), Australian Climate Exchange, World Green Exchange etc. - Historic pricing trends for carbon in various exchanges ...
Nitrogen and phosphorous limitations significantly reduce future
... Total CO2 emission is calculated as the sum of emissions from fossil fuel burning and land use change. From 1850 to 2005, the total amount of fossil fuel CO2 emission is 314 Pg C [Andres et al., 2011] and the total amount of CO2 emission from land use change is 155 Pg C [Houghton, 2008]. The uncerta ...
... Total CO2 emission is calculated as the sum of emissions from fossil fuel burning and land use change. From 1850 to 2005, the total amount of fossil fuel CO2 emission is 314 Pg C [Andres et al., 2011] and the total amount of CO2 emission from land use change is 155 Pg C [Houghton, 2008]. The uncerta ...
Shareholder briefing: forthcoming AGM resolutions
... This objective has not been achieved in any overall proportionate sense. The emissions intensity of Origin’s internal generation has more than doubled its 2009 on an equity basis. On an operational control basis it has increased approximately one quarter. In 2013/14 0.06% of Origin’s direct internal ...
... This objective has not been achieved in any overall proportionate sense. The emissions intensity of Origin’s internal generation has more than doubled its 2009 on an equity basis. On an operational control basis it has increased approximately one quarter. In 2013/14 0.06% of Origin’s direct internal ...
Devolution - London Councils
... o Construction/Built Environment sector lead o Up to 3 members to come from exemplar businesses leading the way in reducing their organisation’s carbon footprint ...
... o Construction/Built Environment sector lead o Up to 3 members to come from exemplar businesses leading the way in reducing their organisation’s carbon footprint ...
carbon geography: the political economy of congressional support
... the role that a Congressional district’s income, greenhouse gas emissions, and political ideology each play in determining voting on carbon mitigation legislation. We study recent voting patterns on major pieces of carbon mitigation legislation including the 2009 ACES. Recent Congressional voting pa ...
... the role that a Congressional district’s income, greenhouse gas emissions, and political ideology each play in determining voting on carbon mitigation legislation. We study recent voting patterns on major pieces of carbon mitigation legislation including the 2009 ACES. Recent Congressional voting pa ...
Tropical Hydropower is a Significant Source of Greenhouse Gas
... spillways is under high pressure from the water above and can contain large amounts of dissolved methane. When this water is discharged the pressure instantly drops to atmospheric pressure and the dissolved methane is suddenly released – an effect similar to that of the fizz of carbon dioxide bubbl ...
... spillways is under high pressure from the water above and can contain large amounts of dissolved methane. When this water is discharged the pressure instantly drops to atmospheric pressure and the dissolved methane is suddenly released – an effect similar to that of the fizz of carbon dioxide bubbl ...
29 Curbing carbon without curbing development
... generated by popular concern about climate change. It does so by using a fair basis for the sequence of coal closures to generate intense moral pressure on specific decisiontakers at specific times. The sequence would require high-income coal producers to act first – specifically, Germany, the US an ...
... generated by popular concern about climate change. It does so by using a fair basis for the sequence of coal closures to generate intense moral pressure on specific decisiontakers at specific times. The sequence would require high-income coal producers to act first – specifically, Germany, the US an ...
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... Agriculture is an important source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Therefore countries who have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and are consequently committed to reducing their GHG emissions, may be assessing methods of reducing emissions from the ...
... Agriculture is an important source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Therefore countries who have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and are consequently committed to reducing their GHG emissions, may be assessing methods of reducing emissions from the ...