carbon emissions Articles
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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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Carbon annuities and their potential to preserve tropical forests and slow global warming: an application for small-scale farmers
Carbon annuities have been suggested as a means for rewarding landowners for preserving forests and sequestering carbon. Although this is an intuitively appealing approach, the benefits of the sequestration activities have not been compared with the opportunity cost of preserving the forest. This paper represents an initial attempt at analysing how large carbon annuities must be to induce a ...
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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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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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Carbon costs and savings of Greenways: creating a balance sheet for the sustainable design and construction of cycling routes
A modal shift to cycling has the potential to reduce carbon emissions in the transport sector. However, the carbon footprint of constructing new cycling routes, particularly greenways, has not been previously considered and has the potential to negate carbon savings of the modal shift of many commuters. This paper, using a case study of a greenway in Ireland, describes a methodology for ...
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Carbon footprint calculator
Calculate your emissions – for small and medium-sized businesses Carbon-And-More offers a cool Carbon Footprint Calculator designed by experts for non-experts. Our Carbon Footprint Calculator has been created to help businesses manage and report their company’s carbon emissions. The Carbon Footprint Calculator is focused on SMEs (Small and Medium Size Enterprises) and is featured ...
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A web-based open emissions calculator
Many organisations and governmental agencies offer online calculators to calculate the carbon footprint of industrial activities. Furthermore, airline companies offer online tools to estimate carbon footprint and promote the purchase of carbon offsets in order to make the trip carbon neutral. This paper presents a free online emissions calculator that computes various emissions-related statistics ...
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Beyond CO2lonialism: the potential for fair trade certification to embrace voluntary carbon offsets
Carbon offset projects are a short-term solution to a long-term problem. Some offset projects cause immediate harm to the people and environment of developing countries while others provide questionable returns in terms of actual carbon capture and storage. Finally, carbon offset projects create barriers to industrialisation for developing countries. All of these challenges must be addressed if ...
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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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Aviation industry reaches agreement to manage carbon emissions
Airline CEOs and experts from around the world, meeting at the International Air Transport Association (Iata) annual general meeting, in Cape Town, have agreed on a global approach aimed at reducing carbon emissions in the airline industry. The 240 Iata member airlines have endorsed a resolution, which will provide governments with a set of principles on how to establish procedures for a single ...
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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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Financing Carbon Emission Reduction From SMEs To Governments
Everybody is aware that governments and corporations all around the world have made commitments to become net zero. The term net zero has three limbs: Calculate the carbon footprint. Reduce GHG emissions to a minimum. Offset the residual emissions. That seems fairly straight forward on the surface of it but misunderstanding abounds about the Scope 3 emissions that should be included in ...
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The Dyson effect: carbon "offset" forestry and the privatisation of the atmosphere
This paper examines the increasingly fashionable view that vast tree plantations are a viable way of mitigating the climatic effects of industrial carbon dioxide emissions. It argues that this approach to global warming is based on bad science, enlarges rather than reduces richer societies' ecological footprint, and reinforces neo-colonialist structures of power.Keywords: carbon sinks, ...
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A Smooth Transition To Net Zero Requires A Strategic Plan
In the recently released IPCC report “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”, one of the conclusions was that “multiple climate hazards will occur simultaneously, and multiple climatic and non-climatic risks will interact, resulting in compounding overall risk and risks cascading across sectors and regions.” The IPCC doesn’t ...
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Carbon Neutrality is Shaping the Fleets of the Future
Achieving carbon neutrality is becoming an increasingly popular goal. Between countries announcing carbon neutrality goals in the next decade and some of the world’s largest companies like Lyft, DHL, Ikea, BMW, John Deere, and Daimler making bold commitments about achieving carbon neutrality, reducing carbon emissions is becoming an essential part of operations. According to ...
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What is net zero and how is it achieved?
Here at EcoCooling, we have been talking a lot about net-zero carbon recently, with an increasing number of businesses announcing their commitment to becoming net-zero in line with the UK’s legislated commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. With the NHS being one of the latest high profile organisations to announce its commitments to being carbon net zero, we delve into ...
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China readies national carbon market to fight climate change
BEIJING (AP) - At first, the numbers and company names flashing on a big board in Beijing's financial district suggest a booming market. A closer look indicates otherwise: The scrolling list rotates the same dozen or so trades, all from last year. The lights from the Beijing Environment Exchange - one of seven pilot markets in China for trading carbon - raises questions for the country as it ...
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Data center energy efficiency, renewable energy, and carbon offset investment best practices
Learn how to green your organization’s energy consumption, and achieve both energy savings and public relations benefits with this comprehensive guide. Get actionable advice on energy sustainability from green pioneers in IT. Many IT firms with large data centers and other energy intensive operations are adopting cutting-edge strategies to reduce their substantial energy costs and ...
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Eaton`s 2030 Sustainability Strategy - Case Study
Eaton has organized its sustainability strategy under four pillars: Engagement, Customer solutions, Footprint, and Doing Business Right & Transparency. Notable commitments under these pillars include: Committing to sharing minority & gender pay equity results and ensuring no human rights violations from key suppliers Reducing carbon emissions from operations by 50% Achieving carbon ...
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Essential sustainability KPIS for SMBS
Key sustainability KPIS all SMBS should look at Sustainability KPIs for SMBs is the topic of this article. There is no question that sustainability management, also known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), is a mainstream discipline in large businesses. Research shows that the vast majority of the fortune 500 companies now disclose a CSR report. But what about SMBs? Do SMBs share the ...
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