emissions credit Articles
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Legal Lookout: Water Quality Trading: What's It All About?
Untitled Document Since EPA issued its final Policy on Water Quality Trading in 2003, state and local governments have been encouraged to develop trading programs to provide enhanced water quality at reduced costs. Background Pollution credit trading has been promoted by many as a sensible and much needed tool for addressing air and water pollution, as ...
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`Climate Change and Visibility-Related Issues for 2002,` published in Environmental Protection, February 2002
Global Climate Change In March 2001, the Bush administration announced that it found the Kyoto Protocol fatally flawed with respect to American interests and, consequently, the U.S. would no longer participate in the implementation negotiations. Reaction both domestically and internationally was swift and forceful. Even members of the President's political party expressed opposition to the ...
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The AIJ pilot phase as laboratory for CDM and JI
The Activities Implemented Jointly (AIJ) program has developed about 150 greenhouse gas reduction and sequestration projects in many economic sectors in over 40 countries during the last six years. Most of these projects are rather small and many of them have only been partially implemented due to lack of finance. The lack of emissions credits is the main reason. Only half a dozen investor ...
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Successful installation and operation of Chacabuquito`s Sediment Removal Equipment, Chile - Case Study
This year SediCon provided the first Sediment Removal Equipment operated from a travel crane for Chacabuquito Hydropower plant. Chacabuquito is a Chilean run of river hydropower plant located in Los Andes, V Region, Valparaiso, which uses discharge from Los Quilos Hydropower Plant (Colorado and Aconcagua rivers). Chacabuquito began operations on 2002 and it has an installed capacity of 25.7 MW ...
By SediCon AS
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California Power Plant
Location: South Coast Air District Project Completed: 2011 A power company developing a project in the Los Angeles area was in need of both Emission Reduction Credits (ERCs) and Annual NOx and SOx RECLAIM Trading Credits (RTCs). The company called on Element Markets expertise. We first helped senior management become comfortable with the complexities of environmental credit strategies, and we ...
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Carbon credits earned from a double slope active solar still under forced circulation mode
Human life on land is vitally dependent on fresh water along with food and air. Many areas in the world do not have access to fresh water. Growing demands of freshwater resources are creating an urgent need to develop self sustained system to meet the demand. At present, many distillation methods are available like reverse osmosis, thin film distillation multi-effect fresh evaporation but they ...
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Is $0 your best guess? - Many companies do not yet factor in a price for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into their corporate planning.
Emerging climate change policy regimes and evolving greenhouse gas (GHG) markets are increasingly important for corporate decision-makers around the world. Readers of Environmental Finance, of course, do not need to be convinced of the sheer magnitude of voluntary and mandatory climate change initiatives being discussed at national and international levels. And few observers believe that the ...
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Molycorp`s Mountain pass mine
Location: Mountain Pass, CA Project Completed: 2011 Element Markets was exclusively retained by Molycorp to procure Emissions Reduction Credits (ERCs) for a large expansion of a mining operation in California. At the time there was a shortage of available credits in the area, so we had to think outside the local air basin. We solved the challenge by purchasing credits in an adjacent air district ...
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Environmental Asset Management
Location: 20+ Sites across the US Project Start Date: 2008 Element Markets manages emissions compliance for one of the largest private equity firms in the United States. Our client controls several projects that require an array of compliance services, and they rely on our expertise to centrally manage every aspect and to optimize value across their portfolio. Element Markets handles procurement ...
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Benchmark selection impact and uncertainty in emission reductions for selected case study projects
The efficiency of Joint Implementation (JI) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) can be seriously harmed as investors and hosts of JI/CDM investments are trying to maximise emission reduction credits. The easiest way to invoke gaming in emission reductions is the selection of an overestimated baseline and credit "non-real" emission reductions. The baseline which is inherently a ...
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Proposed Revised Guidelines for the DOE 1605(b) Registry
Introduction On December 5, 2003, the Department of Energy proposed revisions to the DOE 1605(b) registry, which is a voluntary, national greenhouse gas (GHG) i registry. The registry was originally established through Section 1605(b) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, which directed the DOE to develop a voluntary GHG reporting program. The program guidelines were initially issued in 1994 and ...
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Greenhouse gas emission trends and projections 2005
Projections show that the pre-2004 EU Member States (EU-15) could cut their total emissions to 9.3% below 1990 levels by 2010 with a combination of existing domestic policies and measures already implemented, additional policies and measures currently being planned and the use of credits from emissions-saving projects in third countries through the Kyoto Protocol's 'flexible mechanisms'. Thus the ...
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Trends and projections in the EU ETS in 2015
The European Union (EU) Emission Trading System (ETS) covers about 45% of the EU's total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. GHG emissions from the installations included in the ETS decreased by 24% between 2005 and 2014. The emission level reached in 2014 was the lowest since 2005, when the system was launched. It was also lower than the 21% reduction target for the year 2020. Between 2013 and ...
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Efficiency left out of cap and trade
Waxman/Markey’s climate change bill is about 1,400 pages. Its length and complexity, alone, provides fuel for its opponents. Would it stand a better chance of enactment if it encompassed less?For example, would it have been wiser if Congress pursued cap and trade one year and a renewable energy standard another? I’ve asked this question a lot during interviews the past few weeks, and received a ...
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Polish gas from Polish coal: environmental benefits
The development of coalbed methane gas from Polish coal offers a significant opportunity to reduce noxious pollutant emissions associated with coal combustion. A review of energy supply and consumption within Poland, and of available coalbed methane resources, indicates that use of coalbed methane could eliminate 40-60 million tonnes of sulfur dioxide and particulates from the atmosphere, save ...
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Regeneration of Palladium Catalyst for Methane Abatement
Abstract: The exhaust gas of lean burn gas engines contains significant amounts of unburnt methane gas. Since methane is a strong greenhouse gas, reducing methane emissions would greatly improve the environment and provide greenhouse gas emissions credits. Oxidation catalysts containing platinum are commonly used for the elimination of non-methane hydrocarbons (all hydrocarbons except methane). ...
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The core of the global warming problem: energy
From the thermodynamic point of view, the global warming problem is an "energy balance" problem. The heat (energy) accumulation in the earth and its atmosphere is the cause of the global warming. This accumulation is mainly due to the imbalance of (solar) energy reaching and the energy leaving the earth, caused by "greenhouse effect" in which the CO2 and other greenhouse gases play a critical ...
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Fine Particulate Series: PM2.5 nonattainment — What you need to know
In the March 2009 4 The Record article “A Practical Guide to PM2.5,” ALL4’s PM2.5 Team discussed the technical basics of PM2.5 and the specific steps that you can take to assess your position with regard to the challenging regulatory landscape that lies ahead. This month’s article aims to fill in a few technical details regarding PM2.5 nonattainment areas, including a ...
By All4 Inc.
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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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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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