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Scope 3 Emissions: Why Quality Data Matters
Climate change is an unavoidable reality. For decades, scientists and activists have tried to shed light on this global crisis, and those efforts are finally taking hold. Consumers are increasingly demanding transparency when it comes to sustainable business practices. Many businesses have made promises to become more sustainable or improve their carbon emissions, but empty promises will no ...
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Kenya to launch Africa’s first carbon trading hub
Kenya plans to launch a carbon trading platform to facilitate the trade of carbon credits and to help drive renewable energy. Kenya plans to create a carbon trading market to help drive clean tech and carbon emissions reduction within the country and across Africa. The carbon trading platform is expected to be open for business by the middle of next year, and it will be the first of its kind in ...
By Vital Energi
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How is a carbon footprint measured in a simple way?
Is Calculating Carbon Footprint Simple Math? A Carbon Footprint is relatively simple to measure. One just needs to add all the carbon emissions and subtracts the carbon offsets. Now, carbon emissions can be of different kinds. Cars, powered with fossil fuels, emit carbon for every mile they run. Once you know your car emission ratio (which varies depending on the size and efficiency of the ...
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The state of carbon finance in Europe: a 'SWOT' analysis of the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme
As Phase III of the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) will begin in January 2012 when airlines operating flights to or from Europe will have to buy carbon permits to help offset their emissions under EU legislation, carbon finance and trading in Europe is set to proceed to a new horizon. Launched in January 2005, EU ETS is one of the established multilateral measures in the ...
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The Business Case for REDD
Deforestation and Degradation Around the world, forests are being destroyed at a rate of about thirteen million hectares a year and deforestation accounts for an estimated 17 – 20% of all global emissions. In addition, forests and other terrestrial carbon sinks play a vital role in preventing runaway climate change, soaking up a full 2.6 Gt of atmospheric carbon every year. The destruction ...
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Bioenergy and greenhouse gases
Branches, stalks, and manure are waste no longer; bioenergy is part of the solution to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. A study released by the Green Power Institute, the Renewable Energy Program of the Pacific Institute, reports that converting forest residues, agricultural and urban biomass waste, and gases from manure and landfills into energy helps reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions and ...
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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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Biochar Carbon Credits in Climate Change Mitigation
As the world faces the challenges of climate change, innovative approaches are being explored to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainable practices. Biochar, a carbon-rich charcoal-like substance derived from biomass pyrolysis, has emerged as a powerful tool in the fight against climate change. Not only does biochar enhance soil fertility and agricultural productivity, but it ...
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The scope of the land–based sector to mitigate climate change in North–east Scotland: opportunities and challenges with particular reference to the role of forests
This paper reviews the scope for the rural land use sector to support emissions reduction with particular reference to the role of forestry. A bottom–up approach is adopted to explore the relative contribution of different land–based activities in the region and explore the Scottish policy context and the scope for emissions reduction through new tree planting. It is concluded that the ...
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GA3000 PLUS fixed biogas analysis system at Harper Adams - Case Study
Plant manager, James Wood, wanted to monitor biogas composition automatically 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He wanted his own independent analysis of the gas mix and to record it in detail, especially the percentage of methane, hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide. How the company uses the GA3000 PLUS product James said: “We want our own gas analysis record of the biogas quality we ...
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GA3000 fixed biogas analysis system at Harper Adams case study
About the customer Harper Adams Energy in Shropshire, England, is responsible for running the anaerobic digestion plant at Harper Adams University College. The challenges the customer faced Plant manager, James Wood, wanted to monitor biogas composition automatically 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He wanted his own independent analysis of the gas mix and to record it in detail, especially ...
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5 Must-have Features for Your Sustainability Software
What is the right feature set for your sustainability software? Calculating your CO2 footprint has never been that easy: online calculators help you with the math, online forms help you record all the information, and automated reports help you communicate. Today, sustainability software solutions are available and making a difference. Sustainability software solutions go far beyond simple ...
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Carlsbad project charts the future of sustainable desalination
Over the past five years desalination is gaining momentum in California. With more than ten projects in various stages of planning, environmental review, design and construction, brackish and seawater desalination plants are planned to provide 400 MGD to 500 MGD of new drinking water supplies for the state by year 2015. One of the largest and most advanced projects under development today is the ...
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Carbon Offsetting – Part 2
The diagram below is an overview of the structure of the carbon offset markets. The players in these markets are indicated by the labelled boxes. The same players exist in both the Compliance Carbon Markets (CCM) and the Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM). Carbon Standard Carbon offset markets are comprised of carbon offset projects. These projects are either nature-based ...
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ASTM Membership: From Student to Professional
In 2002, I was on my way to getting my degree in materials engineering at the Instituto Tecnologico de Chihuahua. As my graduation date approached, I accepted an internship in the research and development department of Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua in my hometown of Chihuahua, Mexico. At GCC, I learned the fundamentals of cement and concrete production and the importance of standardized tests, ...
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Study shows online consumers want environmentally friendly options
Reducing the carbon footprint of what we buy isn’t easy, but the opportunity for impact is substantial: In the United States, producing and delivering consumer purchases releases twice as much carbon into the atmosphere as home energy use and personal travel. By gathering and sharing information on carbon emissions associated with their products, companies can make environmentally friendly ...
By Ensia
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6 companies that use waste to strengthen their supply chain
Imagine a world where your supply chain creates no waste. Everything gets used in perfect portions. Factories run on 100% renewable energy. There are no carbon emissions to offset. Orders are delivered via an all-electric fleet. Sounds like a dream, right? We’ve got a long way to go before we’re living in a zero-waste supply chain world, but we can take steps today to reduce ...
By Sustain.Life
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5 Ways Minnesota Can Reduce its Power Plant Emissions
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moves forward with standards to reduce emissions from existing power plants—which are due to be finalized in June 2015—many states are wondering how they will comply. WRI’s fact sheet series, Power Sector Opportunities for Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions, examines the policies and pathways various states can use to ...
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Hydro Polymers: Searching for a More Sustainable PVC
Over the last five years, the European PVC industry has been forced to reassess the environmental impact of its products in the face of continuing pressure from environmental groups, governments and end users. Hydro Polymers, one of two PVC manufacturers in the UK, is forging ahead of its competitors through a partnership with sustainability consultancy The Natural Step. The company is launching ...
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If carbon pricing is so great, why isn’t it working?
Political hurdles and low prices have made carbon pricing a low-impact affair. But there’s still hope it can help limit climate change. Earth’s atmosphere has long served as a free dump for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases generated by humans. That is changing as policy-makers embrace economists’ advice that the best way to cut greenhouse gas emissions is to charge an ...
By Ensia
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