Showing results for: greenhouse gas emissions management Articles
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Staff spotlight: environmental professional leverages industry experience to benefit clients
Christine Kurtz, a Managing Consultant in Trinity’s Minneapolis office, provides clients in the Upper Midwest with the benefits of her 18 years of experience in both industry and consulting. Christine spent over 16 years in industry prior to joining Trinity. She started out in research and development, moved into process engineering, and then found her passion in environmental management ...
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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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Global Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Legislation Invigorate the EHS Software Market
Are Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions an environmental management/sustainability issue or a business issue? It depends upon whom you ask—scientists and engineers or corporate executives. No matter the answer, anticipation of a new "carbon ecoomy" has ignited the environment, health & safety (EHS) software market. Lexicon Systems, LLC founder Jill Barson Gilbert interviewed executives at ...
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Greenhouse gas emissions from waste management-assessment of quantification methods
Of the many sources of urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, solid waste is the only one for which management decisions are undertaken primarily by municipal governments themselves and is hence often the largest component of cities’ corporate inventories. It is essential that decision-makers select an appropriate quantification methodology and have an appreciation of methodological ...
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ESG Reporting Frameworks: Prioritizing Water Challenges for Sustainable Business
When companies and their consultants oversee an ESG reporting framework, the main focus is clearly to positively influence environmental, social, and governance factors. Each category within these ESG programs have multiple metrics that organizations must track. Common ESG metrics for the environmental category are greenhouse gas emissions and waste management. For the social category, ...
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CO2 Gas Analyzers: A Key Player In The 2050 Carbon-Neutral Emissions Target
Globally climate change has become an urgent issue that requires strong measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve carbon neutrality goals. By 2050, as part of a joint effort by countries around the world, we all hope to reach carbon-neutral emissions targets. To achieve this goal, we need to rely on a variety of technologies and tools, among which gas analyzers will play a vital ...
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Raising the Stakes - A Survey of Public and Public-Private Fund Models and Initiatives to Mobilize Private Investment
WRI’s “Climate Finance” series—which includes a subseries on public financial instruments—tackles a broad range of issues relevant to public contributors, intermediaries, and recipients of climate finance—that is, financial flows to developing countries to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change impacts. Raising the Stakes—the ...
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Establishing a global carbon market
In its 2007 publication Policy Directions to 2050, the WBCSD proposes an outline for a post-2012 international framework. It features four key elements: The establishment of a quantifiable long-term (50-year) trajectory for the management of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Global cooperation to accelerate energy technology development and deployment and enable the rapid transfer of ...
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Correcting the world`s greatest market failure: climate change and the multilateral development banks
Correcting the World’s Greatest Market Failure: Climate Change at the Multilateral Development Banks is a new analysis by the World Resources Institute that examines the challenges of mainstreaming climate change at the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). In the lead up to the 2005 G8 Gleneagles Summit, WRI analysis found that climate change had been considered in less than 20 percent of the ...
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ALLCOT Group joins Climatecoin to start the testing of ClimateTrade, its blockchain carbon credits platform
– ClimateTrade already allows peer-to-peer transactions thanks to the CO2 token and will be tested by a select group of corporations and governments. – The official presentation will take place in December during COP24. Alexis L. Leroy, founder and CEO of ALLCOT Group, and José Lindo, CEO of Climatecoin, have signed an agreement to promote the use of blockchain in the face of ...
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The US and The Kyoto Protocol: A possible hybrid approach carbon emissions mitigation
Stepping Into The 21st Century With Mandatory Greenhouse Gas (GHG) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions Reporting In The United StatesOne hundred and eighty one nations have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol. Several countries including Afghanistan which the United States is of course working with closely as they try and form a stable democracy have yet to take a formal position on the Kyoto ...
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Sustainable development: the options
Global warming is considered in the context of options for achieving sustainable development. There is some uncertainty over global warming processes, so the Climate Change Convention struck the right balance. The Earth Summit reinforced the concept that economic development and environmental management are interdependent, and resources to solve environmental problems must be targeted carefully. ...
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3 Beginning steps to designing a national greenhouse gas reporting program
A number of programs that require businesses to report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have emerged in the past decade at the regional, national, and sub-national levels. Most of these programs operate in developed countries, but some developing countries are also showing an interest in adopting mandatory emissions disclosure programs. Establishing these programs is a resource- and ...
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Baystate Health alleviates their environmental ailments
Client Name: Baystate Health Client Need/Driver: Baystate Health previously contracted with another consulting firm to quantify emissions from their four largest campuses in order to ensure compliance with the State of Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act. As a voluntary exercise, Baystate decided to implement a system to manage entity-wide GHG emissions in order to establish ...
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Comparison of General Circulation Models: methodology for selecting the best GCM in Kermanshah Synoptic Station, Iran
General Circulation Models (GCMs) suggest that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases will have significant implications for climate at global and regional scales. Increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere leads to change in air temperature and precipitation. Temperature and precipitation are important parameters for water management, so the climate change studies on ...
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Do we need a standard to calculate “avoided emissions”?
Businesses are constantly reminded of the risks and challenges of climate change, most recently with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fifth assessment report (AR5). Extreme weather events like flooding, wildfires, and droughts are challenging our infrastructure and disrupting our supply chains. But with risk comes opportunity. One such opportunity is providing goods and ...
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An intelligent vehicle management system for reducing greenhouse gas emission - a case study of hybrid vehicle engine
In this paper, a genetic algorithm based vehicle management system is proposed to determine 'green' components of a new vehicle engine so as to reduce the greenhouse gases emission level. The proposed system is developed using genetic algorithm (GA) to define the appropriate sets of components for the development of vehicle engine. The novel idea of this paper is to develop a system that ...
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A 3-scope emissions solution
In September, Bullfrog Power launched the availability of green fuel for businesses across Canada. Bullfrog Power’s green fuel is an earth-friendly, renewable alternative to liquid fossil fuel, allowing climate-conscious businesses in Canada to reduce the environmental impact of their transportation. By combining Bullfrog Power’s green natural gas, green electricity and green fuel ...
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Intelex enhances software solution with powerful new 5.1 release
TORONTO—In the spirit of its commitment to ongoing innovation and continual improvement, Intelex Technologies Inc., a global provider of environment, health, safety and quality (EHSQ) software solutions, is proud to announce Intelex 5.1, the latest version of Intelex’s industry-leading software. Featuring significant platform enhancements, a suite of new Power Tools, new modules and ...
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33 cities test new framework for community-scale greenhouse gas inventories
A growing number of countries and companies now measure and manage their emissions through greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories. Cities, however, lack a common framework for tracking their own emissions—until now. Thirty-three cities and communities from around the world started pilot testing the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emissions Pilot Version 1.0 (GPC Pilot Version ...
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