carbon emissions Articles
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AGE assessment of interactions between climate change policy instruments and pre-existing taxes: the case of Ireland
We introduce a computable general equilibrium model for Ireland to investigate the impact of climate policy on the Irish economy, taking special notice of interactions with the existing tax structure. To this end, we extend the model with a detailed representation of the tax system using separate tax data on all transactions, both intermediate and final demand. We simulate the implementation of ...
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Social preferences and Environmental Kuznets Curve in climate change integrated assessment modelling
The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis implies that a bell shaped relationship between income and pollution would induce policy makers to pursue economic growth in order to improve environment. In this paper we will use the popular integrated assessment model DICE for climate change in order to consider a more generalised version of the social planner utility function and we will ...
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CO2 emission from cement manufacturing and its driving forces in China
In China, cement manufacturing has contributed 1788.78 million metric tons of CO2 (carbon equivalent) into atmosphere in the past 35 years (1969-2003). Its driving forces were analysed by a stochastic regression model (STIRPAT), which showed that population was a key driving force and its pressure was higher than the global average level. On the other hand, economic growth had less impact, but a ...
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Scope 3 Emissions: Why Quality Data Matters
Climate change is an unavoidable reality. For decades, scientists and activists have tried to shed light on this global crisis, and those efforts are finally taking hold. Consumers are increasingly demanding transparency when it comes to sustainable business practices. Many businesses have made promises to become more sustainable or improve their carbon emissions, but empty promises will no ...
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Modelling the complex factors driving CO
2emission reduction effortsChapman (2007) observes that transport accounts for 26% of global CO2 emissions and it is one of the few industrial sectors where emissions are still growing and are expected to add to environmental degradation. Although generic motivating factors identified in the literature have contributed somewhat to knowledge, there is a need to develop a clearer understanding of the motivations driving ...
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A Bayesian model for studying urban air pollution and respiratory symptoms in children
The association between traffic–related air pollution and long–term respiratory health problems has been extensively studied. In this work we evaluated the effect of traffic–related air pollution on respiratory symptoms in children living in Florence, Italy. Children were selected from different schools part of the Italian Studies on Respiratory Disorders in Children and the Environment 2. ...
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Removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reduce global warming: a modelling study
We propose non–linear models to study the feasibility of removing CO2 from the atmosphere by introducing some external species such as liquid droplets and particulate matters in the atmosphere, which may react with this gas and get it removed by gravity. Further, this gas can also be removed by photosynthesis process upon using plantation of leafy trees around the sources of emission. The ...
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EC announces support for better climate change data
The European Commission (EC) calls for better science-based climate change information and understanding to be developed, reports Envido.The EC has announced its backing for a new climate change framework to improve the scientific accuracy of climate forecasts and modeling. In the run-up to the Copenhagen Conference, the Global Framework for Climate Services is designed to develop better ...
By Vital Energi
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Improvement of greenhouse by reducing gas emissions using replacement policy
This study aims to build a vehicle replacement model for air quality improvement by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. The model based on linear programming with the objective to reduce the total cost considering different depreciation methods. The decision variables are; the mileage of the vehicles, age of the vehicles, the annual operating and maintenance costs, and the estimated cost ...
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Lean and green supply chain mapping: adapting a lean management tool to the needs of industrial ecology
How strong is the link between being Lean and being Green? In recent years, the discipline of industrial ecology has developed as a practical approach to incorporating ecological principles into business and industrial processes in order to make these more sustainable. This paper takes one business process improvement technique incorporated within the Lean Thinking paradigm, Value Stream Mapping, ...
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Five myths about extreme weather
This story originally appeared in the Washington Post. It’s too darn hot. From Maine to Hawaii, the mercury has been rising relentlessly. The oven-like conditions in the United States are just the latest in a series of extreme weather events over the past year – epic floods in Pakistan and Australia, record heat waves in Moscow, the heaviest snowfall in more than a century in South ...
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Application of The Air Pollution Model (TAPM) to the urban airshed of Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok has been faced with air pollution problems as a result of increasing traffic emissions. The Air Pollution Model (TAPM) was employed to simulate carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations based on an emissions inventory data. The hourly CO concentrations from a year-long simulation have been evaluated against observations from six monitoring sites. The simulated concentrations were evaluated ...
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Development and regional application of a photochemical oxidant dispersion/reactivity model
In this paper we use the urban airshed model IV, simultaneously including the dispersion and the tropospheric chemistry as described in version IV of the carbon bond (CB-IV). The modelling area covers northern France and a part of Belgium, with a total surface area of 15 000 km2. The wind field is calculated using the Meteo France ALADIN code and temperature vertical profiles from radiosoundings. ...
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World’s Carbon Budget to Be Spent in Three Decades
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) has delivered an overwhelming consensus that climate change impacts are accelerating, fueled by human-caused emissions. We may have just about 30 years left until the world’s carbon budget is spent if we want a likely chance of limiting warming to 2 degrees C. Breaching this limit would put the world ...
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China's energy outlook to the year 2030
This study gives a long-term energy outlook in China by an econometric method. In the coming 30 years, China's GDP growth will be around 7% annually, and the continuation of rapid economic growth could result in a number of difficult issues such as energy security, environment protection and CO2 emission reductions. China should solve these problems through its own efforts. The first step is to ...
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Simple modelling approaches to assess the impact of traffic air pollution: Cordoba case study
From 1991 to 1999, there were significant commitments to environmental protection in Argentina. During this period, several important cities of the country, such as Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Mendoza, Bahia Blanca, and Ushuaia, began air quality monitoring programmes. Among these cities, we have taken Cordoba as a case study because of the existence of a continuous monitoring campaign that collected ...
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Shifting the burden – Should developing nations bear the load for emissions reduction?
Pledges by the three titans of greenhouse gas emission – Europe, the US and China, which are the three biggest fossil fuel consumers – fall “far short of fair” and may not be nearly enough to contain global warming, according to new research. In the complex game of power politics, development economics, environmental campaigning, climate science and greenhouse gas ...
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Digging for data on Africa’s climate future
The cardboard box is covered with a layer of dust so thick it must have been tucked away in this Kenyan basement for decades. The researcher wipes off the dust and rummages through the papers stored inside by someone long since retired. Sheet after sheet of neatly typed paper emerges, the faded rows of numbers detailing rainfall, temperature and wind speed. In a way, the researcher is hunting for ...
By SciDev.Net
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Costs of air pollution from European industrial facilities 2008-2012
In 2011, the European Environment Agency (EEA) published a first assessment of the costs of air pollution caused by European industrial facilities. The report Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe (EEA, 2011) applied a simplified modelling approach to assess the damage costs to health and the environment in 2009, caused by pollutant emissions from industrial ...
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The “Social cost of carbon” and climate change policy
Economist Frank Ackerman has called the “social cost of carbon” the most important number you never heard of. What is the social cost of carbon, where do the numbers come from, and why should policymakers take care when using them? The Obama Administration (and the Bush Administration before it) uses the SCC to assess the benefits of regulations that would limit emissions of carbon ...
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