emissions offsetting Articles
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A linear programming approach to evaluate economic instruments for intra-firm SPM emissions reduction trading within M/s Tata Steel, Jamshedpur
A linear programming model is developed to calculate optimum SPM abatements at different emitting sources of M/s Tata Steel to achieve the abatement limits for the environmental bubble with least cost. An environmental bubble with its limit equal to the sum of permitted SPM emissions at all the emitting sources of M/s Tata Steel is considered. The optimum SPM abatements at different emitting ...
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The alternatives analysis under nonattainment NSR (and PSD?), presented at EUEC 2010
Outline Why does it matter? Statutory and Regulatory Basis Nonattainment NSR Examples PSD Examples Best Practices Why does it matter? Most requirements for an NNSR or PSD permit have bounds Demonstrate acceptable air quality impacts (PSD) Offset adequate emissions (NNSR) Show usage of the best control strategy to achieve a low emission rate (both) Show other sources in state ...
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New Case Study: Aviva and ClimateCare – Taking the Measure of Social Impact
Aviva leads the way for corporate environmental and social responsibility in the Financial sector. After becoming Carbon Neutral in 2006, they partnered with ClimateCare to go one step further; offsetting emissions through world-leading projects with the aim of both protecting the environment and improving lives. Measuring carbon reductions was straightforward. But, like many companies, Aviva ...
By ClimateCare
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Impacts of Ozone Nonattainment Designation and Strategies for Compliance
In 1997, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) revised the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), to include an 8-hour ozone standard. The previous 1-hour ozone standard addressed the effects of exposure to short periods of high concentrations of ground-level ozone. The intent of the new standard is to address exposure to lower ozone levels over longer durations. With the ...
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`Impacts of Ozone Nonattainment Designation and Strategies for Compliance,` presented at the 2004 AWMA annual conference
Abstract In 1997, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) revised the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), to include an 8-hour ozone standard. The previous 1-hour ozone standard addressed the effects of exposure to short periods of high concentrations of ground-level ozone. The intent of the new standard is to address exposure to lower ozone levels over longer durations. ...
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Hotel Fuerte El Rompido signs an agreement with ALLCOT to offset its emissions
Fuerte el Rompido, a four-star hotel in the province of Huelva (Spain), has signed an agreement with Allcot to offset its emissions from 2015. So, Fuerte el Rompido shows its commitment to fighting climate change. Last year, Fuerte El Rompido generated 995 tCO2e (tonnes of CO2 equivalent). These emissions came largely from the consumption of electricity and propane. The latter is widely used as a ...
By ALLCOT
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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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Offsets in the international emissions market: Do buyers get what they pay for?
This paper analyses buyer preferences in the context of the market for emissions trading under the UNFCCC. The purpose of this paper is to investigate pricing of offsets (Certified Emissions Reductions or “CERs” under the UNFCCC) (through an empirical survey of two segments of the authorized CER buyer market) to understand the relationship between buyer preferences for CER carbon offsets in the ...
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FIFA Word Cup - Case Study
Coca Cola, sponsor of the FIFA World Cup, in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE), certified the three-day visit of the Cup to Greece as a Climate Neutral Event. Included within the calculations of the emitted greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the transportation of the World Cup trophy, the press conference that took place on the 10th of April, and the promotional ...
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High sensitivity CO2 monitor for CO2 geological sequestration efficiency monitoring
Canadian prosperity is currently linked to revenue generated from processes that produce large volumes of greenhouse gasses as a by-product. Under evidence that the human fingerprint on our planet is in direct correlation to global climate change, the monitoring and control of greenhouse gas emissions has become a subject of recent focus among many sciences. Recently, legislation has been imposed ...
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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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Efficiency’s role in carbon cap-and-trade
We hear a lot about how efficiency will play an increasingly important role as the United States undertakes efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. But how does that play out in a practical sense under cap-and-trade programs?The Offset Quality Initiative provides insight in a new white paper on greenhouse gas ...
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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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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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Idrica committed to reducing the carbon footprint of its employees’ business trips
Idrica has always had a proactive attitude towards the environment and is committed to combatting climate change. In 2022, Idrica managed to offset 100% of the carbon footprint of its employees’ business trips, as part of its environmental goals. Its ally in this task was its partner travel agency, Bizaway, the firm that arranges all the company’s business trips and estimates the ...
By Idrica
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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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Regulation update: EPA announces final National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) rule
BSI's Experts Corner: Home for insights from BSI’s practice directors and industry experts on digital trust, environmental, health, safety, security, and sustainability. March 6, 2024 - As announced on February 7, 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is lowering the primary annual National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for fine particulates (PM2.5) from 12 to 9 ...
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What is sustainable air quality?
For 40 years or more, air quality policy has been based on the paradigm of the air quality standard as a uniform criterion of acceptable environmental degradation, built on the foundations of the precautionary principle. However, developments in health science have undermined some of the underlying assumptions of this paradigm whilst technological emission controls have been offset by growing ...
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The emerging Canadian carbon market: New fundamentals and opportunities
Steps have recently been taken by the Ontario government to implement a cap and trade system in Ontario, and by the Canadian federal government to facilitate trading of offset credits for greenhouse gas ('GHG') emissions.Ontario introduced enabling legislation on May 27, 2009 (Bill 185) to amend the Environmental Protection Act (Ontario) to allow the provincial government to establish a cap and ...
By McMillan LLP
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Year One – A review of British Columbia’s carbon tax
On July 1, 2008 British Columbians saw gas prices rise by 2.34 cents per litre and on July 1, 2009 gas prices increased again by an additional 1.17 cents. This is a result of the carbon tax introduced by the B.C. government in July of 2008 as part of its Climate Action Plan. The Climate Action Plan commits the Province to a 33% reduction of greenhouse gas ('GHG') emissions by 2020. B.C.'s carbon ...
By McMillan LLP
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