greenhouse gas emissions control Articles
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Control
Most of the time, people think about Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions with carbon dioxide, which is the most common of the GHGs. While fairly typical, carbon dioxide isn’t the only GHG U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates. Since EPA has begun regulating GHG emissions under its Clean Air Act authority, sources of emissions from others may require add-on air pollution control ...
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The cost to Australia of reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Australia has a particular interest in the greenhouse issue and control of greenhouse gas emissions. Although the economy is reliant on energy-intensive industries, Australia has been one of those countries prepared to make substantial commitments to reducing emissions. This paper describes the potential impact on Australia of the cost of these commitments, with a particular focus on ...
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Environmental Benefits of Manure Dewatering Machines
The agricultural sector plays a pivotal role in providing food and resources to sustain human life. However, it also contributes significantly to environmental challenges, including water pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and soil degradation. Livestock farming, in particular, generates vast quantities of manure, which can have detrimental effects on the environment if not managed properly. ...
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Utilisation of Municipal Solid Waste Compost as landfill cover soil for reducing greenhouse gas emission
Municipal Solid Waste Compost (MSW-C) was introduced for improving landfill cover soil properties and enhancing methane oxidation. The landfill cover soil was irrigated with leachate for maintaining appropriate moisture content for methane oxidation reaction. It was found that MSW-C was an effective landfill cover material for landfill gas emission control exhibiting the highest Methane Oxidation ...
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A mathematical programming model for achieving total emission control in the petroleum refining industry
This paper addresses the planning and optimisation of a petroleum refinery with consideration to multiple pollutants and greenhouse gases reduction alternatives. The study provides a tool that can be utilised for optimum pollution and greenhouse gases control strategy to achieve a given reduction level. The proposed method is based on a mathematical programming model whose performance is ...
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The Crucial Need for Measuring Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Plants
Wastewater treatment plants are indispensable infrastructures for maintaining public health and environmental quality. However, these facilities are not only responsible for purifying water; they also emit significant amounts of greenhouse gases, including nitrous oxide (N2O). Despite its potency as a greenhouse gas, the monitoring and measurement of N2O emissions from wastewater treatment plants ...
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Uncertainties Pervade GHG Emission Reduction Projects
James Wintergreen and Elizabeth Delaney outline the difficulties encountered in assessing the likely quantity and value of emission reductions from a potential CDM ...
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Addressing market failures in the CDM: A funding-based approach
The CDM was designed to utilize the power of the market to efficiently reduce GHG emissions and promote sustainable development. Unfortunately, market failures resulting from information asymmetries and lack of product homogeneity are preventing the CDM from efficiently allocating resources. The result is that long-term projects, such as public transit projects and renewable electricity ...
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The future of the CDM in a Post-Kyoto world
The Clean Development Mechanism tells a story of success. Private and public entities from industrialized and developing countries alike have embraced the mechanism, which is expected to generate four billion tonnes of GHG emission reduction by the end of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. The creation of the CDM as a market mechanism co-opted the private sector in the global task ...
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Technology Transfer and Financing: Issues for Long Term Climate Policy in Developing Countries
Currently, in the area of climate change, the two most contested issues for a long term policy are centered on the financing and technology transfer issues. Under the regime of climate change the developing countries are faced with the trade-off of maintaining economic growth to foster their own development and nonetheless having to moderate their emissions growth and eventually cut GHG ...
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Greenhouse Gas Verification Programme
Greenhouse Gas verification programme in the aluminum industry 1. BUSINESS CHALLENGE Over the past decade, the aluminum companies operating in Quebec have voluntarily achieved significant reductions in their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In 2002, the Aluminum Association of Canada and the Government of Quebec signed a covenant to voluntarily reduce an additional 200,000 tons of GHG ...
By EEM Inc.
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New climate talk model suggests more strategy means more catastrophe
With the Paris climate negotiations just two weeks away, we’ll soon see if the world can agree on a plan for slashing greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change. To get insight into the upcoming conference, a research team from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, built a simplified (read: not completely real-world) mathematical model that reached two conclusions ...
By Ensia
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Climate negotiations from 1992 to 2011: changing issues and new stakes
This paper describes the main stages of the climate negotiations since the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. After recalling the main components of the Kyoto Protocol, it describes the stakes in the discussions for developing countries as well as the increasing importance taken by these countries. It finally explains how the logic of binding commitments to reduce emissions, which was at the core of ...
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Environmental stories to watch 2008
International Climate Negotiations – The Road from Bali The big issue in December’s U.N. climate change conference in Bali was not one of science, but of political will. Would nations agree to try to negotiate an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? The answer – barely – was yes. The “Bali roadmap” creates a process and set of principles for negotiating a successor to the Kyoto ...
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Peatlands in Indonesia National REDD+ Strategy
In a unilateral effort, Indonesia committed to voluntarily reduce its GHG emissions by 2020 with 26% compared to a business as usual scenario. If assistance from foreign countries is made available, this target will be increased to up to 41%. In the draft National REDD+ Strategy (issued for public consultation on August 18, 2011), the Indonesian Government has identified peatland conservation ...
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Railroads in the Amazon: A key strategy for reducing deforestation
The article examines the impacts of paving highway BR-319, which connects two of the largest state capitals in the Brazilian Amazon. In recent years, the construction of highways has been the biggest driver of deforestation in the region. As currently planned, BR- 319 will run through the middle of the largest contiguous area of intact forest in Brazil. By 2050, the deforestation projected to ...
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Approval of JI and CDM projects with Germany as host and investor country – An analysis of the German project mechanisms act
The Kyoto Protocol obliges its signatories to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to a certain level. In order to meet these reduction obligations, the countries are not limited to taking solely domestic action. They can, in part, meet these commitments through international emissions reduction projects within the ambit of mechanisms such as 'Joint Implementation' (JI) and the 'Clean ...
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Interaction between local air pollution and global warming and its policy implications for Belgium
In this paper, we study the policy interactions between meeting a greenhouse gas emission constraint and local air pollution policies. We use a partial equilibrium model of a national energy market to address three questions. Firstly, what is the greenhouse gas emission reduction one can expect if one pursues local air pollution objectives only? Secondly, what ancillary air pollution benefits can ...
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EU emissions reduction strategy
The task To work with ECOFYS in the Netherlands and NTUA in Greece to identify ways to help the European Union reduce greenhouse gas emissions. How we helped Under the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union agreed that, by 2010, greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by 8% compared with 1990 levels. AEA Energy & Environment* was asked by the European Commission to identify how the ...
By Ricardo plc
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Voluntary greenhouse gas reduction programs have limited potential
The set of voluntary GHG programs we reviewed use outreach efforts to recruit program partners and reduce GHG emissions. We found the greatest barriers to participation were the perceived emission reduction costs and reporting requirements. We also found that it is unlikely these voluntary programs can reduce more than 19 percent of the projected 2010 GHG emissions for their industry sectors. ...
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