air emissions Articles
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Size, structure and distribution of transport subsidies in Europe
Transport contributes to several environmental problems such as climate change, air emissions and noise and is at the same time favoured by significant subsidies. An EEA report identifies European transport subsidies worth at least EUR 270 to 290 billion a year. Road transport receives EUR 125 billion in annual subsidies, most of it as infrastructure subsidies, assuming that taxes on road ...
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California explores a state-wide cap-and-trade system for air emissions
Stakeholders were given the opportunity to provide specific technical input concerning various elements of the program design that may become part of the Assembly Bill (AB) 32 Scoping Plan. AB 32 includes specific criteria that the Californian Air Resources Board (ARB) must consider before using market-based measures to implement AB 32, and ARB will evaluate a possible cap-and-trade system ...
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The UK National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory
The task Air emission inventories are an essential management tool enabling UK Government to: • Develop national policy. • Implement sound planning and regulatory measures. • Track and fulfil its European and international emission targets. AEA Energy & Environment* has led and developed the UK’s National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI) since it was ...
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Air quality and ancillary benefits of climate change policies
Action to combat climate change will deliver considerable ancillary benefits in air pollution abatement by 2030. The ancillary benefits will be: • lower overall costs of controlling air pollutant emissions in the order of EUR 10 billion per year; • reduced air pollutant emissions, leading to a fall in damage to public health (e.g. more than 20 000 fewer premature deaths/year) and ...
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An approach for road air emissions calculation: Portuguese case-study
A methodology to estimate road transportation emissions was developed with the main objective of improving emission estimates for those pollutants that are most dependent on the vehicle class and abatement technology. Emissions were estimated with a detailed level of disaggregation allowing the evaluation of measures aiming key source groups rather than road traffic in general. Those measures ...
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Technology development for environmental problems of the Southeastern United States
The southeast has extensive natural resources, and limited population and industrial development. However it is one of the most rapidly growing regions of the USA, which leads to urban sprawl, development of wetlands and readily eroded beaches. Environmental regulations are generally at the minimum federal standard. Non-point source pollution from urban and agricultural areas and sedimentation ...
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The impact of economic growth and international environmental treaties on the environment in transition economies
Environmental quality and economic development are often thought to be causally linked. This paper empirically examines the impact of economic growth and international environmental treaties on air pollution emissions in several transition countries using panel data analysis. The results indicate that economic growth, proxied by the conventional input factors of production, total labour force and ...
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Coasian economics and the management of international aviation emissions
The recent decision by the EU Parliament supporting an emissions tax and subsequent carbon trading scheme for European airlines provides the structural foundation for an exploration of the role of Coasian economics in emissions abatements in the international aviation industry. The paper begins by outlining Pigouvian taxation in aviation and considers, from a business context, the potential ...
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EPA proposes new greenhouse gas emission standard under the Clean Air Act
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently proposed a new GHG emissions program designed to further regulate the amount of greenhouse gas produced in the US. The proposed Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule would require large facilities to obtain operating permits for their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Large facilities are defined as ...
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Innovation towards tourism sustainability: climate change and aviation
A wide range of publications has shown that the tourism sector is increasingly environmentally unsustainable. This is mainly caused by the contribution of aviation to a large and growing amount of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by tourism. In the light of this, we present an overview of developments in the aviation sector and discuss current options for innovation towards sustainability in three ...
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Sustainability as a business opportunity
Thinking of bringing your business to a more sustainable place? The best starting place for any business leader to embrace sustainability is to shift away from looking at sustainability in terms of how much it will cost, and towards assessing the returns it will generate. Consider the phenomenon known as the Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) which emerged in the field of quality management in the ...
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A collaborative platform for sustainable building design based on model integration over the internet
Considerable potential exists for reducing life cycle environmental impacts of buildings in Japan. While energy consumption during the operation stage of a building's lifetime is usually dominant, indirect energy use and pollutant emissions associated with production and disposal of building materials during construction and demolition are significant. For sustainable building design, ...
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Electronics Manufacturing Industry - Pollution Prevention Guidelines
Introduction Pollution Prevention Guidelines to provide technical advice and guidance to staff and consultants involved in pollution-related projects. The guidelines represent state-of-the-art thinking on how to reduce pollution emissions from the production process. In many cases, the guidelines provide numerical targets for reducing pollution, as well as maximum emissions levels that are ...
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Annual European Community LRTAP Convention Emission Inventory 1990–2004
1.1 Background information on the InventoryThe United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (UNECE LRTAP Convention) was ratified (approved) by the European Community in 1982. Article 2 of the convention states that 'the Contracting Parties, taking due account of the facts and problems involved, are determined to protect man and his ...
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EPA`s mandatory GHG emissions reporting commences Jan 1st in US
The Envinronmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced its new mandatory GHG reporting program will commence on January 1st 2010 with reports being due in 2011. The new mandatory GHG rule from the EPA brings some changes from the originally proposed rule. Some of the changes are outlined below. INDUSTRIES INCLUDEDExcluded from reporting are the following industries: Electronics manufacturing ...
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Will Your Company Still be Here in 1000 Years?
Climate change, social activism, empowered consumers, globalization – The world today presents a number of challenges to citizens and businesses alike. For businesses many of these issues get bucketed under the umbrella of sustainability. And for good reason, corporate sustainability is all about thinking and planning for long term success. But what does long term success really mean, ...
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Air quality model simulating photochemical formation of pollutants: the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area, Brazil
The main sources of ozone precursors in the atmosphere of the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA) in Brazil are emissions from gasoline-, ethanol-, and diesel-powered vehicles. Ozone is a significant air quality problem in the SPMA. To come into compliance with the National Ambient Air quality Standard for Ozone, emission reduction policies must be established. An adequate emissions inventory and ...
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Laying the foundations for greener transport — TERM 2011: transport indicators tracking progress towards environmental targets in Europe
The European Council, at its summit in Cardiff in 1998, requested that the Commission and transport ministers focus their efforts on developing integrated transport and environment strategies. At the same time, and following initial work by the European Environment Agency (EEA) on transport and environment indicators, the joint meeting of the Transport and Environment Council invited the ...
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Co-benefits of CO2-reducing policies in China - a matter of scale?
Acknowledgement of potential co-benefits - i.e. positive side-effects - of greenhouse gas mitigation policies may be of importance to promote climate policies. This paper argues that the issues of local and regional air pollution and their short to medium-term effects on human health and environment as well as greenhouse gas mitigation policies are environmental policy areas which would benefit ...
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Increasing the use of recovered mineral components in cement or concrete
Section 6017(a) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, P.L. 109-59, Aug. 10, 2005 (SAFETEA-LU), directs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) to, “…conduct a study to determine the extent to which procurement requirements, when fully implemented…may realize energy savings and environmental benefits attainable with ...
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