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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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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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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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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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