greenhouse gas News
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GHGMI releases topical GHG issue briefs
The Institute recently developed two topical “issue briefs” covering key GHG program design and implementation topics. The two papers outline best practice program design recommendations drawing from GHGMI’s extensive institutional knowledge, including focused experience designing and deploying quality assurance, training, and complementary and synergistic elements of climate ...
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GHGMI committee on professional competency requirements prepares for fall standards push
Earlier this summer GHGMI convened a group of international experts to examine and systematically address the question of competency in greenhouse gas management. This Institute-initiated “Committee on Professional Competency Requirements” (the Committee), a top priority of GHGMI’s professional programs has since begun to lay the groundwork for the realization of the ...
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GHGMI’s Michael Gillenwater at Wilson Center China environment forum event
On Oct 1 GHGMI Dean Michael Gillenwater participated in a panel discussion, “Taking Stock of Carbon Emissions: Policies, Strategies, and Tools for the U.S. and China” at the Woodrow Wilson Center International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Michael’s presentation focused on the broader issues of measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) of greenhouse gas emissions, ...
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Deadline approaching for GHG survey
The second annual GHGMI-Sequence Staffing Greenhouse Gas/Climate Change Workforce Needs Assessment Survey will close this month. If you have not already completed a response we invite you to take part in this industry-defining needs assessment by filling out the online survey at www.greenhousegassurvey.com. As a quality assurance measure, the survey is by invitation only for leading GHG / ...
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GHGMI at the Asian Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) regional workshop on GHG inventories and accounting
The first regional workshop on GHG inventories and accounting took place at the 5th Asian Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) hosted by ADB and USAID on June 21, 2010 in ADB’s headquarters in Manila. GHGMI’s Gao Pronove presented at the workshop and shared GHGMI’s experience as the leading training provider for GHG accounting, verification, and management. The ACEF website features all of ...
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Sink or Swim? given the political reality of climate change policy, what do we do now?
The environmental community at the international level and here in Washington DC is coming to terms with failure. It is well accepted that global action to address greenhouse gas emissions is largely being held up by inaction in the United States. And so, U.S. legislative failure has been functionally equivalent to global failure. You will be hard pressed to find someone with high hopes for an ...
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BusinessWeek asks Michael Gillenwater why GHG auditing is one of “20 small businesses of the future”
Doing a greenhouse gas audit is endlessly complicated, because so much of our daily lives, from heating to transportation to food, involve contributing to climate change. As policy shifts to stop impending environmental degradation, the jobs will follow. Michael Gillenwater is an expert in greenhouse gas measurement and co-founder of the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute. "There are going to be ...
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What will break the climate policy log jam? And what do we do in the meantime?
Earlier this month the European Environment Agency (EEA) released a report (http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/progress-towards-kyoto/) detailing Europe’s progress towards emission targets set under the Kyoto Protocol. Europe’s relative success in limiting its emissions can be explained by a number of factors, which could monopolize this entire post (and more), but for the purposes ...
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GHG & climate change workforce needs assessment report now available!
Earlier this month, against the backdrop of a busy first week of international climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, GHGMI – in collaboration with Sequence Staffing – released a report detailing the findings of the 2010 GHG & Climate Change Workforce Needs Assessment Survey. (The full report is available here.) Attracting responses from more than 1,000 global climate change ...
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Air & Waste Management Association presents conference on greenhouse gas assessment and reporting processes
The Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) will present ”Harmonizing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Assessment and Reporting Processes,” August 31-September 2, 2009, in Baltimore, MD. This conference will provide a forum to discuss advances in greenhouse gas emission estimation methods, emission inventories, and reporting. “Reporting data plays an important role in determining the success of ...
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The Chicago climate exchange closure, a vote for robust GHG MRV?
In the wake of last week’s “wave” election in the United States significant attention has turned to sifting through the new political realities for climate policymaking in the US and beyond. As the climate world grapples with this political shift we would like to offer a slightly different take on the state of GHG management by pausing to examine a separate announcement that ...
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Australia on track to meet Kyoto protocol target
Australia’s Kyoto target is to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the 2008-2012 period to 108 per cent of 1990 ...
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The limits of complexity and capacity in climate policy: what can we learn from Britain?
In a wave of reorganization initiated by Her Majesty’s Treasury Spending Review, the British government has brought reform to the UK’s gleaming new climate program: the Carbon Reduction Commitment and Energy Efficiency Scheme (the CRC). The CRC, an ambitious organizational GHG trading scheme, is facing substantial restructuring under the banner of simplification. As a part of this ...
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U.S. EPA and Japan’s ministry of environment hold workshop on climate change efforts
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Japan’s Ministry of Environment (MOEJ) and Japan’s Institute for Global Environmental Strategies met May 11-12 to exchange information and expand collaboration on key climate change issues. The two-day workshop brought together representatives from EPA, MOEJ, and the U.S. State Department, as well as a number of non-governmental organizations, to review ...
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Measuring Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Recent reports on the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions have shown that CO2 levels within the atmosphere are steadily rising. The UN has consistently promoted the use of renewable energies for the control of atmospheric conditions. These need to be steadily monitored and in order to do so it is essential that cheap, robust, and accurate sensors are available for the acquisition of reliable ...
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Air & Waste Management Association offers students environmental tools and essay contest for Earth Week
To promote Earth Week and environmental education in the classroom, the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) is offering its Environmental Education Resource Guides and other learning tools to K-12 classrooms. A&WMA also announces its Second Annual High School Essay Contest, “Greenhouse Gas Management Actions: What Can Students Do?” “As an Association of environmental professionals, we ...
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U.S. Cities Struggle to Hit Climate Change Targets
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (ENS) - 'The 355 U.S. cities in 49 states that have committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions will miss their goals unless they redouble their efforts,' says John Bailey, author of a new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 'Lessons from the Pioneers: Tackling Global Warming at the Local Level.' The report praises the signatories to the U.S. Mayors' ...
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EU greenhouse gas emissions lowest to date
The EU's environmental agency says the 27-nation bloc's greenhouse emissions in 2011 were the lowest since it began monitoring them in 1990. The European Environment Agency says greenhouse gas emissions dropped 3.3 percent compared to 2010, and were 18.4 percent below 1990 levels. It cited a milder winter in 2011 as the main reason for the drop. Agency director Jacqueline McGlade said Wednesday ...
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Generating the future: UK energy systems fit for 2050
Achieving the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 will require the biggest peacetime program of investment and social change the UK has ever ...
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Innovative approach for transportation related carbon offsets announced
CN Modal Shift Protocol to help British Columbia meet greenhouse gas emissions ...
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