carbon emissions Articles
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US carbon emissions, technological progress and economic growth since 1870
The long-term US experience emphasises the importance of controlling for electrification and other major technology transformations when evaluating the growth of carbon emissions at different stages of development. Prior to World War I, carbon emissions grew faster than economic growth by 2.3% per year. As electricity use expanded and steam engines became much larger, carbon emissions began to ...
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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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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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Note: carbon-cycle estimation: a plea for measurement of ocean carbon dioxide concentrations
Unless an effort is made to measure the carbon dioxide content of the oceans, the ability of researchers to distinguish between absorption by oceanic and by biotic sinks related to carbon emissions will remain imperfect. This uncertainty presently limits the ability of policy-makers to set a carbon emissions target fully consistent with that for carbon dioxide concentrations.Keywords: ...
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More companies save money by tracking their supply chain carbon emissions
New report found that more companies and suppliers have lowered costs from cutting energy and fuel in their supply chains. The Carbon Disclosure Project’s latest supply chain report undertaken by A.T. Kearney has shown that more major companies are tracking their supply chain carbon emissions, and many, along with their suppliers, are also saving money from reducing carbon emissions. The ...
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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CRC puts big responsibility on Financial Directors
Inaccuracy in reported carbon emissions could be fined more aggressively under the CRC scheme, reports Envido. Financial Directors are now on the front line of ensuring their companies are prepared for the Carbon Reduction Commitment. From April 2010, the CRC will create a direct link between many companies' carbon emissions and their bottom line. By 2010, the UK government had promised to reduce ...
By Vital Energi
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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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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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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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Long-term energy scenarios: the approach of the World Energy Council
This paper outlines the six WEC/IIASA scenarios, which began life in 1993 as three "cases" or scenario families, and which are now regarded as the "state of the art" in this field. They were published in detail in N. Nakicenovic et al. (1998) Global Energy Perspectives, Cambridge University Press. The fully integrated scenarios present a rational range of possible energy and carbon dioxide ...
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Carbon emissions - carbon formula
Carbon emissions represent an increasing and potentially significant cost for business. The case that carbon measurement and reporting systems can help organisations make significant reductions in their emissions and costs has been well made - but what are the quantum and source of these savings? Alan Waller, Carbon Consultant at Greenstone Carbon Management draws on the experiences of ...
By Greenstone+
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World’s top companies failing to cut carbon emissions
New report claims that only 19% of the world’s top companies have achieved significant reductions in their carbon emissions. New research reveals that over 80% of the world's top companies aren't achieving significant carbon emissions reductions, although there is an increase in the amount of companies that identify significant opportunities instead of risks from climate change. According ...
By Vital Energi
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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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Allocation of ecologically allowable carbon emissions to countries as a key to more effective post–Kyoto Protocol climate change mitigation law
The paper proposes novel carbon indicators as effective control instruments to design the post–Kyoto Protocol climate change mitigation law. The allocation of Ecologically Allowable Carbon Emissions (EACE) to countries show that a group of countries needs no emissions reductions today because their actual carbon emissions are below the EACE. The presented approach offers improved flexibility ...
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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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How organisations can take full advantage of the CRC scheme
Organisations should prepare during the rest of the financial year to take best advantage of the CRC scheme. Organisations that think they have got the hard work completed by successfully registering for the CRC Energy Efficiency scheme ahead of last month’s deadline will be surprised knowing that is far from reality. Business and public sector bodies should prepare during the rest of ...
By Vital Energi
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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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Larger trucks can bring vast cuts in carbon emissions
New study claims 2-metres larger trucks can save the UK 3.2 tonnes of carbon emissions per year. Larger trucks could help to save carbon emissions and reduce traffic congestion, proving to be better for the environment. This was the conclusion of a study conducted for the government by UK logistics giant Wincanton, one of Europe's largest transport companies. The new report says that extending ...
By Vital Energi
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Carbon emission trading in India and Sri Lanka
Kyoto Protocol has established three trading mechanisms, namely International Emission Trading (IET), Joint Implementation (JI) and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) which enable industrialised countries to achieve carbon emission reduction targets as economically as possible. Out of these three mechanisms, CDM is the most important mechanism for the developing countries. CDM allows the carbon ...
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