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Dangerous flames: Uncontrolled combustion and fires on landfills
Landfills are not merely massive receptacles for our waste since they pose plenty of risks. It is common enough for explosions and uncontrolled fires to occur within them, claiming human lives every year. When waste, especially organic matter, decomposes without adequate control, it can generate flammable gases such as methane. This combustible compound, notorious for its ignition capacity, ...
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ESG & decarbonization in operations: the digital gap
This article was previously published in the December 2022 issue of APUEA magazine. ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is a framework that helps stakeholders understand how a company is managing risks and opportunities related to environmental, social, and governance criteria. Looking at ESG from a plant management’s perspective: Environmental includes energy, water and waste. ...
By Siveco China
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GHG and carbon emissions and their role in limiting warming to 1.5°C
With the latest IPCC report, the much anticipated COP26 conference and almost constant news reports on the subject, climate change and the reduction of carbon now seem to be at the centre of most discussions. As our attention is turned towards the ways businesses can act now to limit warming to 1.5°C, some terms used can lead to confusion. This blog discusses the difference between terms ...
By Greenstone+
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GHG and carbon emissions and their role in limiting warming to 1.5°C
With the latest IPCC report, the much anticipated COP26 conference and almost constant news reports on the subject, climate change and the reduction of carbon now seem to be at the centre of most discussions. As our attention is turned towards the ways businesses can act now to limit warming to 1.5°C, some terms used can lead to confusion. This blog discusses the difference between terms ...
By Greenstone+
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Climate Change Widespread, Rapid, and Intensifying - IPCC Report
Scientists are observing changes in the Earth's climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, released today. Many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and some of the changes already set in motion-such as continued sea level ...
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Improved biogas analysis key to unlocking ROI for anaerobic digestion plants
A more stringent approach to the biogas analysis process has the potential to deliver a step-change in ROI for anaerobic digestion (AD) plants, believes a leading global specialist in environmental engineering and gas instrumentation. More than a year since the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) launched its landmark Biomethane: The Pathway to 2030, which outlined the ...
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Iron and Steel Today - Thermal Imaging is Vital
Among the most pressing issues for the iron and steel industry is the need to reduce its environmental footprint. Worldwide air pollution control regulations require producers to measure emissions of control emissions of species, such as carbon monoxide (CO) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matter, from the steelmaking process and downstream operations, such as rolling mills. In ...
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UCL Open: Environment
Very shortly humanity needs to begin solving the planetary problems caused by humanity’s activities and moving towards making the world a better place for all its citizens. 10 billion people can’t be provided with the energy, water and food they need without such an effort. For example, by 2020 or soon thereafter, emissions of greenhouse gases must peak if the impacts of climate ...
By UCL Press
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UL and TK’Blue Announce Partnership to Help Shape the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy
Franklin, TN UL, a leading provider of environmental, supply chain, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility software solutions, and TK’Blue, labeling and rating agency for eco-responsible transport, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver more comprehensive solutions for European companies that are transitioning to a low carbon economy. Completely free for all ...
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Lovelock urges ocean climate fix
Two of Britain's leading environmental thinkers say it is time to develop a quick technical fix for climate change. Writing in the journal Nature, Science Museum head Chris Rapley and Gaia theorist James Lovelock suggest looking at boosting ocean take-up of CO2. Their idea, already being investigated by a US firm, involves huge flotillas of vertical pipes in the tropical seas. The two ...
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Climate change legislation sees huge increase
A growing number of countries are passing laws aimed at ensuring they will keep their promises to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, new research shows. But some still need to do more to give their pledges practical effect under national laws. An analysis by researchers and staff of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UNFCCC, shows a clear rise in the number of countries ...
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Border carbon tax could cut emissions
The US, China and the European Union (EU) should bring in border taxes on carbon emissions contained in imported products not already taxed in their countries of origin, according to a former New Zealand cabinet minister. It would mean that if China, for example, includes rice in its emissions trading scheme, any rice it then imports − and which had not been subject to an emissions tax in ...
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Aviation industry plans to curb emissions
The aviation industry has taken the first step towards limiting the ever-growing carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft in an attempt to reduce airline contributions to global warming. Delegates at the 39th congress of the International Civil Aviation Organisation(ICAO) in Montreal, Canada, have finalised what they called “an historic agreement”, which begins in 2020 to offset carbon ...
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Carbon dioxide could ease drought impacts
Climate science may have over-estimated the menace of drought in the world of global warming. Because green plants will respond to extra carbon dioxide, the water taken up by the roots could be halved. In effect, the greenhouse gas emissions that threaten the world’s climates could at the same time limit one of the grimmer consequences − more frequent and more prolonged droughts in ...
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Past presents warning on greater warming
If the distant past is anything to go by, then climate scientists may have under-estimated the hazards of greenhouse gases, and future global warming could be a lot worse than anybody thought. The calculation rests on two things. One is a detailed reconstruction of rising greenhouse gas concentrations and an interlude of dramatic warming 56 million years ago. The other involves an almost ...
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Europe’s summer temperatures in recent years: the highest of past two millennia
Some of the summer temperatures in this century across much of Europe are likely to have been the warmest of the past 2 000 years, according to a study published today in Environmental Research Letters. The research is a joint effort of a group of 45 scientists from 13 countries, including a JRC expert. They used tree-ring information and historical documentary evidence to reconstruct European ...
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Global Weather Report – Extreme weather warning
New research warns that longer, hotter and more frequent heatwaves than those that killed 55,000 Russians in 2010, or 72,000 in France, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK in 2003, will hit Europe in the next two decades. But, over the same period, Europe could also begin to get colder as a consequence of a drop in solar activity, and a century-long chill could be on the way, ...
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WMO: 2015 likely to be Warmest on Record, 2011-2015 Warmest Five Year Period
Climate Change Breaches Symbolic Thresholds, Fuels Extreme Weather Geneva 25 November 2015 (WMO) The global average surface temperature in 2015 is likely to be the warmest on record and to reach the symbolic and significant milestone of 1° Celsius above the pre-industrial era. This is due to a combination of a strong El Niño and human-induced global warming, according to the World ...
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Climate plans could reduce emissions significantly, yet still fall short of 2 °C
Climate plans submitted by countries in the run-up to the Paris Summit could deliver significant reductions in the emission of greenhouse gases. Without new climate policies, the world would emit about 65 GtCO2 equivalents by 2030. The unconditional INDCs (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions) (plans made by countries without conditions attached) could reduce emissions by approximately ...
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Greenhouse gas concentrations hit yet another record
The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached yet another new record high in 2014, continuing a relentless rise which is fuelling climate change and will make the planet more dangerous and inhospitable for future generations. The World Meteorological Organization’s Greenhouse Gas Bulletin says that between 1990 and 2014 there was a 36% increase in radiative forcing – the ...
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