carbon emissions control Articles
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Carbon Emissions Control with SERAM at Novartis - Case Study
Novartis is one of the world's leading Pharmaceutical and Healthcare companies with sales over $40 billion. Operating in 140 countries and with approximately 100,000 employees, Novartis adopts the highest standards when it comes to corporate citizenship. Novartis began using SERAM in 2006 to manage its worldwide environment, health and safety performance. Today the software is used at over 200 ...
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Carbon Fiber Emission Control Strategies
ProblemCarbon fiber (fibre) and graphite reinforced polymers are materials that have, and will continue to revolutionize the products we use everyday by making them stronger, lighter and more durable. However, the manufacturing process can have serious environmental ramifications and immediate danger to human health if careful consideration is not given to emission control at the production phase ...
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions trading and duties of the state: A preliminary review of Alberta’s specified Gas Emitters Regulation
In July 2007 the oil endowed Canadian province of Alberta launched the first compliance emissions trading scheme for greenhouse gases in North America under its Specified Gas Emitters Regulation. This paper reviews key aspects of the programme including scope, performance credit trading and project offsetting with comparative reference to other carbon emissions trading schemes. The paper ...
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Case study - Carbon fiber: Oven emission control strategies
OVERVIEW Carbon fiber (fibre) and graphite reinforced polymers are materials that have, and will continue to revolutionize the products we use everyday by making them stronger, lighter and more durable. However, the manufacturing process can have serious environmental ramifications and immediate danger to human health if careful consideration is not given to emission control at the production ...
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International Fleet World: Knorr-Bremse Launches CV Telematics Solution Under Microlise Deal
Commercial vehicle braking systems specialist Knorr-Bremse is to enter the CV telematics arena under a partnership with Microlise. The newly announced agreement between the two firms will lead to the launch of a range of fleet solutions under the TruckServices ProFleet Connect banner. These will initially be aimed at truck fleets but will later target lighter commercial vehicles too, and will ...
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Who Should Abate Carbon Emissions? A Note
Economists commonly believe that failure to equalize the marginal cost of carbon abatement across countries implies a loss of global efficiency. Chichilnisky and Heal [(1994), Economic Letters 44, 444] first challenged this consensus a decade ago, demonstrating that, in general, efficiency does not require equalizing marginal abatement costs. This note revisits that important debate. It provides ...
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Economic growth and carbon emission in Mauritius: an econometric analysis in the context of the Maurice Ile Durable project
Using data over the period 1966–2008, this paper investigates the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis for Mauritius. The conventional inverted-U EKC is not found, instead a long-run quadratic relation implying higher carbon emission as a result of economic growth since the early 1980s is uncovered. The estimated cointegrating equation is used to derive projections for carbon emission up ...
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The world printing market suffered difficult investment
U.S. regulators recently disclosed documents show that the price of $ 28.72 per share on February 13, News Corp. (NWS) Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch sold 139.6 million shares of News Corp. Class B shares, cash of about $ 40 million . This indicates that the�Guanglian�paper�media printed challenged in the future. The face of the the the surging international situation and the growing debt ...
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Sustainable development and adjustment of low carbon industrial investment in dual heritage areas using SD–FREVM: a case study in China
This paper targets the adjustment of industrial investment for low carbon development area through integrating system dynamics and a fuzzy random expected value model. Following that, Leshan, one of the World Natural and Cultural Heritage areas in Western China, is selected as a case to reach the aim of reducing carbon intensity. After the simulation results are analysed, it is concluded that by ...
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Nearly half of UK’s top companies failing to set carbon reduction targets
Despite UK’s tough legislation on carbon, nearly half of the FTSE 100 do not have carbon reduction targets or they’re mostly short-term. The study, provided by the Carbon Trust, has found forty of the FTSE 100 either lack numerical targets on carbon emissions, or their carbon reduction targets are for previous years and have now expired, without being renewed. The carbon ...
By Vital Energi
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Blue lighting: the most effective for the workplace
The current demand to reduce carbon emissions has prompted building designers, owners and occupiers to look at the energy efficiency of their lighting. But, is it simply a case of cutting the electricity used by your lighting? Well, it might be, but poor lighting may lead to much higher carbon emissions and additional business costs. It is highly accepted that lighting in the workplace is highly ...
By Vital Energi
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A `safety deposit' mechanism for US climate policy
US policy makers are currently evaluating options to reduce domestic carbon dioxide emissions, and several economy-wide cap-and-trade proposals have been put forward in the 111th Congress. Despite mounting enthusiasm for cap-and-trade, advocates of this approach have had to defend such proposals against the criticisms that prices in the resulting carbon market will be unstable and that the ...
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How to achieve a corporate sustainable strategy
Organisations can achieve energy savings and capitalise on the financial incentives from carbon emissions reduction by implementing an effective sustainable strategy. A potential £1.6bn of available energy savings can be achieved in the UK corporate sector every year, yet hardly a fraction of these energy savings are being realised, according to a Carbon Trust estimation. A sustainability ...
By Vital Energi
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SAP cuts carbon emissions while increasing sales in 2010
Software giant is confident it will meet its long-term carbon reduction targets after reducing carbon emissions by 4% in 2010. SAP AG's carbon emissions fell 4% in 2010, a year in which its business software sales grew 17%. The software giant produced 103 kilatons of carbon emissions during the fourth quarter, turning out to be its best quarter in SAP history due to a 35% increase in revenue. ...
By Vital Energi
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A simple integrated model of global warming and policymaking
This paper describes a simple integrated model of global warming due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions, which can be used by policy makers for quick screening of various mitigation scenarios to achieve desired carbon reduction targets. First, the constant airborne fraction model was generalised to establish a relationship between CO2 emissions and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, which was then ...
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Techno-optimism: progress towards CO2 reduction targets in transport: a UK and London perspective
Transport is making a very limited contribution to carbon emissions reduction targets in the UK, and this paper argues the case for a substantial shift in thinking away from the concentration on technological alternatives to a revised approach that combines technological efficiency with behavioural change. The paper presents a critique of the UK approach to energy and transport, commenting on the ...
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UK Universities risk losing funding unless they achieve carbon reduction targets
New Green League reveals that more than a fifth of UK universities still don’t have a publicly available carbon management plan. This year’s Green League reveals universities’ carbon emissions have gone up an average 24% so far, despite setting an ambitious target to reduce its carbon emissions by 48% between 2005 and 2020, and 10% by 2012-13. The average increase per ...
By Vital Energi
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Recyclers lauded as climate and environment ‘heroes’
In recent years, the environmental debate has become ever more carbon-centric. However, the recycling industry’s contribution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions has not attracted much of the international spotlight - until now, that is. At the latest BIR Spring Convention in Monte Carlo, where the world recycling body also celebrated its sixtieth birthday, the enormity of the industry’s role in ...
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£1million funding opportunity unveiled for UK Low Carbon businesses
Environmental impact company Berti Investments is once again taking applications for their Berti Green Accelerator Programme. Berti Investments is a young and inspiring environmental impact investment company that invests in growing, entrepreneurial, low carbon businesses in the UK. Their concept is clear; they focus purely on innovative, thought-leading organisations whose strategy is led by ...
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Germany to tax up to 26 euros on air travel – UK to follow?
The tax on air travel could generate up to 1 billion euros annually in 2011. Germany plans to tax air travel up to 26 euros for each passenger on flights under a plan aimed to encourage more environmentally friendly travel and bolstering government finances. The tax on air travel, called an "incentive for environmentally friendly behaviour," could generate 1 billion euros annually beginning in ...
By Vital Energi
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