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Fukushima Meltdown Hastens Decline of Nuclear Power

By J. Matthew Roney
Earth Policy Institute

On May 5, 2012, Japan shut down its Tomari 3 nuclear reactor on the northern island of Hokkaido for inspection, marking the first time in over 40 years that the country had not a single nuclear power plant generating electricity. The March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown shattered public confidence in ...

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National greenhouse gas inventories can help countries curb climate change

By Thomas Damassa
World Resources Institute WRI

At WRI, we like to say that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” For managing and mitigating climate change, one of the most fundamental measurements is a periodic inventory of the problem’s root cause: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities. GHG emissions inventories are carried out at several ...

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Notus Clean Energy LLC – Cape Cod, MA - Case Study

Boreal Renewable Energy Development

The owners of a Falmouth, MA industrial park parcel saw the potential in 2004 for a utility-scale wind turbine sited in a large, well-elevated location. A large turbine could supply electricity for the complex and create surplus power that could be delivered back to a regional utility. Despite receiving more than 100 letters of support from ...

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Reinforcing China’s leadership in reducing global carbon emissions

FirstCarbon Solutions

Believed by many as the next superpower¹, China also has the opportunity to be viewed as an international leader in energy efficiency solutions and environmental best practices. With its flourishing economy, China can decide whether to accelerate or decelerate implementation of ...

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Plastic bags should be managed, not banned

By Lilia Casanova
SciDev.Net

Cities in a number of Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan, are currently on the warpath against plastic shopping bags. The cities have passed local laws that ban such bags, on the basis that they clog sewers and drainage canals, cause street flooding, choke animals ...

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Managing GHG emissions from agriculture: a unique but solvable challenge

By Stephen Russell
World Resources Institute WRI

Thousands of companies have developed greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories in recent years as a crucial first step towards measuring and ultimately reducing their emissions. Agricultural emissions are a large part of many of those inventories: farming is currently responsible for between 10 and 12 percent of global GHG ...

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Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe

European Environment Agency (EEA)

Climate change — the risk to cities and Europe Climate change is happening, projected to continue and poses serious challenges for cities. Extreme weather events resulting in hazards such as heatwaves, floods and droughts are expected to happen more frequently in many parts of Europe. The impacts are stark: flooding can damage or wash away ...

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ITALIAN PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY ENJOYS FAST PAYBACK ON GEM STEAM TRAPS

By Grant Bailey
Thermal Energy International

A leading global healthcare company has revealed that it has achieved a 12-month payback on Thermal Energy International’s GEM venturi orifice steam traps installed at its manufacturing facility in Italy. Thermal Energy International has installed a total of 92 steam traps throughout the facility’s process plant, which has ...

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Biological Odour Control for wheelie bins

By Ciaran Gillen, Pier Sante Testi
BioFuture Limited

One of the problems with large wheelie bins used for waste storage is that organic deposits build up and these give rise to bad odours. From time to time the bins are washed to remove the organic deposits. However in many cases the odours are not removed so the bin may look clean but not smell clean. There are a number of different types of ...

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How to become energy efficiency’s #1

By Elisa Wood
Real Energy Writers

It’s easy to get the impression that technology game-changers happen in a near flash. And the stories of Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple leave us thinking that genius pops right out of the dorm room. But in the energy industry it’s not that easy. The innovation we see today often stems from years of late nights, deep ...

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How the EPA’s new oil and gas standards will reduce greenhouse gas emissions

By Michael Obeiter
World Resources Institute WRI

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently issued final rules to reduce air pollution at natural gas wells and other sources in the oil and gas industry. The rules—a New Source Performance Standard (NSPS) for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and National Emissions Standards for hazardous air ...

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Projected greenhouse gas emissions reductions from the power sector under the clean energy standard act of 2012, s. 2146

By Nicholas Bianco;Kristin Meek
World Resources Institute WRI

This analysis provides an assessment of the projected power sector greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions from S. 2146, the Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 (CESA), introduced by Senator Bingaman and eight cosponsors on March 1, 2012.iCESA establishes a standard for clean energy generation in the United States through 2035.iiIn ...

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Model forecasts long-term impacts of forest land-use decisions

Soil Science Society of America

The drive to develop crops for use as biofuel, continues to raise questions about additional uses of forest land. A cutting edge computer model developed at North Carolina State University offers detailed insight to predict the environmental impact – along with understanding forest ecosystem response to global climate change. ...

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Building international climate cooperation: lessons from the weapons and trade regimes for achieving international climate goals

By Greg Fuhs;Ruth Greenspan Bell;Ruth Greenspan Bell;Ruth Greenspan Bell;Micah Ziegler;Barry Blechman;Brian Finlay;Thomas Cottier
World Resources Institute WRI

Tackling global climate change requires countries across the world to engage in multigenerational cooperation (referred to herein as “collective action”) to advance a transition to a near-zero-carbon economy by 2050, in order to keep global average temperature increase below 1.5–2 degrees Celsius in comparison with preindustrial ...

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Peatlands – guidance for climate change mitigation by conservation, rehabilitation and sustainable use

By Hans Joosten
Wetlands International

Peatlands provide many important ecosystem services, including water regulation, biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration and storage. Because of the enormous size of the peat carbon pool, its high sensitivity for disturbance, the large emissions from a small land area (which continue long after conversion), and the virtual ...

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