GHG emissions Articles
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Greenhouse Gas Verification Programme
Greenhouse Gas verification programme in the aluminum industry 1. BUSINESS CHALLENGE Over the past decade, the aluminum companies operating in Quebec have voluntarily achieved significant reductions in their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In 2002, the Aluminum Association of Canada and the Government of Quebec signed a covenant to voluntarily reduce an additional 200,000 tons of GHG ...
By EEM Inc.
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A new approach to climate change: ideas beyond carbon emissions
Climate change is considered one of the greatest challenges in the relationship between humans and nature. One general belief is that this latest process of climate change is being accelerated (or even caused) by human greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. Based on that, almost all suggested actions to cope with the problem are about reducing GHG emissions. Therefore, on this essay, the purpose is to ...
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Harmonising equity and efficiency in allocating global post-Kyoto GHG emissions
In this paper, a non-parametric efficiency analysis approach is presented for determining Greenhouse Gases (GHG) tradable emissions allowances for all countries. The approach has two steps: expansion and contraction. In the expansion step and given its population, each country is projected on the efficient frontier and a maximum GDP and associated energy and GHG emissions levels are computed. ...
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Bottom line on regulating greenhouse gases under the clean air act
How can the EPA regulate GHGs? Doesn’t the Clean Air Act only apply to air pollutants? An April 2007 Supreme Court decision (Massachusetts v. EPA) ruled that GHGs are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The court instructed the EPA to decide whether GHG emissions endanger public health and/or welfare, or if current science is too uncertain to make a reasonable judgment. In response to the ...
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How do developments in the South affect climate change?
Despite the provisions of the UNFCCC, some developed countries, the United States in particular, are insistent that their actions are contingent on "meaningful participation" by developing countries. This paper explores the developments - social and economic - in the South that would influence GHG emissions and identifies those developments that are essential to a long-term solution of ...
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`Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions,` presented at the 2007 ARIPPA Annual Tech Conference
Presentation Objective Brief Background on Gr Gas (GhG) emissions Domestic and international policydevelopclimate change Best practices in greenhouse gas inventorying! ...
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Economic feasibility of carbon emission reduction in electricity generation, a case study based on Sri Lanka
The main purpose of this paper is an assessment of economic feasibility in reducing carbon dioxide emission of electricity generation in Sri Lanka. The paper shows that the present annual green house gas (GHG) emission with respect to electricity generation in Sri Lanka is about 2.8 million metric tons. The identified total GHG emission reduction potential in electricity generation is about 37 ...
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Carbon Footprint for Major Oil Refining Company in Abu Dhabi
Anticipating Future Legislative Requirements In 2011, WKC assisted a major oil refining company in the UAE with an extensive programme to quantify their entire organizational GHG emissions in a systematic manner. The project was developed in anticipation of future legislation related to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reduction in the UAE, opportunities offered by the Clean Development Mechanism ...
By WKC Group
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Rice-related greenhouse gases in Japan, variations in scale and time and significance for the Kyoto Protocol
The contribution of rice production to the three major greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O in 1990, the base year of the Kyoto protocol is investigated for Japan. For the CO2 assessment, we use a top-down life cycle approach, CH4 is assessed using the Japanese GHG emission inventory and N2O is assessed according to the ratio of rice area divided by the total area of agricultural soils. In total, ...
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The impact of technology and structure change on GHG emissions in China: an analysis based on LMDI model
This paper analyses the changes in the amount of carbon in GHG emissions from China' energy consumption between 1994 and 2008 with LMDI techniques to examine the economic factors that determine carbon emissions. The results show that the changes of economic scale, population, the number of households, and the urban-rural dual structure tend to increase carbon emissions; the changes of the ...
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Uncertainties Pervade GHG Emission Reduction Projects
James Wintergreen and Elizabeth Delaney outline the difficulties encountered in assessing the likely quantity and value of emission reductions from a potential CDM ...
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The role of driving in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and oil consumption
Transportation represented 71 percent of oil consumption and 31 percent of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the United States in 2008. Therefore, federal transportation policy presents an opportunity to reduce both oil consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This report explores whether technology improvements alone can achieve oil consumption and GHG emissions reduction targets ...
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Key trends and drivers in greenhouse gas emissions in the EU in 2015 and the past 25 years
Publication Created 31 May 2017 Published 01 Jun 2017 Topics: Climate change mitigation This briefing summarises the main findings of the EU’s 2017 greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory submission under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and of the EEA’s analysis of GHG emission trends in the EU between 1990 and 2015. It is underpinned by a more ...
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Application of an optimisation model to studying some aspects of Russia's economic development
The global climate change is one of the most important and disputable problems in the modern world. The Kyoto Protocol is an effort of the international community to control environmental impacts. To study pros and cons of Russia's participation in this initiative, different integrated assessment models for evaluating greenhouse gases (GHG) reduction policies can be engaged. In the present paper, ...
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Time and scale in Life Cycle Assessment: the case of fuel choice in the transport sector
Life Cycle Assessments (LCA, including Well-to-Wheel studies) that are to support decisions that strive to change large technical systems need to consider time and scale related factors, which are given little attention in standard LCA procedures. Here, we address three issues and provide examples from the case of alternative fuels. First, shifting time frame gives room for technical development ...
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World Greenhouse Gas Emissions in 2005
World Greenhouse Gas Emissions in 2005 is a comprehensive view of global, anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The chart in this working paper is an updated version of the original chart, which appeared in Navigating the Numbers: Greenhouse Gas Data and International Climate Policy (WRI, ...
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Dietary choices and greenhouse gas emissions – assessment of impact of vegetarian and organic options at national scale
This study quantifies the sources of agricultural GHG emissions and explores the impact of diet on GHG emissions in Finland. The emissions associated with production of basic food items were quantified for four diet options. For current average food consumption, emissions from soil represent 62% of the total. The emissions due to enteric fermentation contribute 24%, and energy consumption and ...
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Addressing market failures in the CDM: A funding-based approach
The CDM was designed to utilize the power of the market to efficiently reduce GHG emissions and promote sustainable development. Unfortunately, market failures resulting from information asymmetries and lack of product homogeneity are preventing the CDM from efficiently allocating resources. The result is that long-term projects, such as public transit projects and renewable electricity ...
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Greenhouse gas emission trends and projections in Europe 2011
This report presents an overview of the progress made by the EU, its Member States and other EEA member countries towards their GHG emission targets. It first assesses current progress towards targets under the Kyoto Protocol (KP), mainly based on historic GHG emissions data for the first three years of the KP's five-year first commitment period (2008–2012). The following chapter summarises ...
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Analysing the levels of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions from land use, land use change and forestry activities on Annex I countries ability to meet Kyoto targets
This study analyses the 1990 and current Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions data from Annex I countries and assesses the impacts of LULUCF (Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry) activities of countries in meeting their Kyoto targets. In a 'business-as-usual' scenario for the period 1990-2010, the total GHG emissions, excluding LULUCF activities of Annex I Parties, would decrease by 3.7%, whilst a ...
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