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Vehicle emissions target aims too low
Many vehicles adhering to the proposed Euro 5 benchmark - the EU's toughest ever emissions standard - would be considered too dirty for American roads. While it may be easy to dismiss the US as a global eco-villain, Europeans may have something to learn from their gas-guzzling cousins across The Pond when it comes to clean cars. Pressure group the European Federation for Transport ...
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Car and van makers continue to meet CO2 emission targets ahead of schedule
A new EEA report, 'Monitoring CO2 emissions from passenger cars and vans in 2013' presents final data for both vehicle types, updating preliminary data published earlier this year. The average passenger car sold in 2013 emitted 126.7 grams of carbon dioxide per passenger kilometre (g CO2/km), already below the legal threshold of 130 g CO2/km to be fully reached by 2015. Similarly, the average ...
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CO2 emissions from new cars see biggest fall in 2009
Average CO2 emissions from new cars sold in the EU dropped by 5% last year, the biggest annual fall ever recorded, a report published today by the European Commission shows. The Commission also adopted detailed rules to harmonise the monitoring of CO2 emissions from cars across the EU. Commissioner Hedegaard will report on these developments in this afternoon's meeting of the High-Level Group ...
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CO2 emissions from new vehicles in Europe continued to decrease in 2014
Vehicles sold in the European Union in 2014 were, on average, 2.5% more efficient than those sold the previous year, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The report, which updates the preliminary data published earlier this year, tracks progress towards CO2 emission targets for new passenger cars and vans. According to the EEA report Monitoring CO2 emissions from ...
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Climate change: projections show EU on track to meet Kyoto emission targets
The EU and most member states are on track to deliver on their Kyoto Protocol commitments for reducing or limiting emissions of greenhouse gases, the Commission's annual progress report on emissions shows. The latest projections from member states indicate that the EU-15 will achieve its 8% reduction target through a combination of policies and measures already taken, the purchase of emission ...
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Progress report shows EU on track to meet or over-achieve Kyoto emissions target
The EU is on track to deliver on its Kyoto Protocol commitments for reducing or limiting emissions of greenhouse gases, the Commission's annual progress report on emissions shows. The latest projections indicate that the EU-15 will meet its 8% reduction target under Kyoto; 10 of the 12 remaining Member States of the EU have also individual commitments under the protocol. It is projected that they ...
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Gore Slams Canada`s New Climate Plan as a `Fraud`
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada – Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has created a furor in Canada over the Conservative Government's new plan to impose mandatory greenhouse gas emissions targets on industry. The plan supercedes Canada's legally binding commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. In Toronto to present his global warming documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' at an environmental show on ...
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CARB’s New R4 Program Puts Spotlight on Refrigerant Reclaim
In July of 2020, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) proposed amendments to the California HFC regulation: “Prohibitions on Use of Certain Hydrofluorocarbons in Stationary Refrigeration, Chillers, Aerosols-Propellants, and Foam End-Uses Regulation.” These amendments set new emission reduction measures including GWP limits for refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment as ...
By Trakref Inc.
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The Ventsentinel - Alberta Innovates - Husky Chops Methane Challenge
The same technological gap that led us to create the Ventbuster®, has propelled us to discover other applications for our patent flow channel technology. Soon after the Ventbuster® was released in 2019 we were approached by many in industry to adapt their technology to meet a wider range of wellsite vents. Around the same time, Alberta Innovates (AI) tendered the Husky CHOPS Methane ...
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Welcome to a new world of non-contact temperature measurement
The SPOT R100 thermometer uniquely combines five different operating modes, including ratio setting, two single wavelengths, a multi-mode setting and duo setting. Ratio setting mode was specifically designed for metal heat treatment applications that require high-accuracy temperature measurement as a vital component of overall process control and product quality The versatile SPOT R100 offers ...
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Food Lion, Hill Phoenix, Sweetbay, Whole Foods, and Supervalu chill for the environment
EPA’s GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership announced its 2009 partner awards this week, and among the awardees are: Food Lion, Hill Phoenix, Sweetbay, Whole Foods, and Supervalu, the parent company of Bigg’s and Farm Fresh. An EPA cooperative alliance with the supermarket industry, the GreenChill Partnership works with supermarkets to reduce their emissions of ozone-depleting and ...
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Committee on Climate Change urge Scotland to slash emissions by 60% in 13 years
The Scottish Government should maintain its high ambition pathway towards greenhouse gas emissions reductions of at least 80% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says today. The Committee’s new report, Scottish emissions targets 2028-2032, recommends emissions reductions of 61% by 2030 in order to meet the requirements of the Climate Change (Scotland) ...
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Committee on Climate Change urge Scotland to slash emissions by 60% in 13 years
The Scottish Government should maintain its high ambition pathway towards greenhouse gas emissions reductions of at least 80% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says today. The Committee’s new report, Scottish emissions targets 2028-2032, recommends emissions reductions of 61% by 2030 in order to meet the requirements of the Climate Change (Scotland) ...
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Research reveals lack of emissions reduction targets for many FT 500 companies
The Ethical Corporation Institute has launched a new report on how the FT 500 are reporting their GHG emissions to stakeholders. The report is one of a collection of practical reports on climate change produced for the business community. ‘Corporate GHG emissions reporting 2008’ shows staggering inconsistencies in how companies calculate and verify their emissions, with the companies reporting to ...
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‘Fossils of the Day’ award for aviation and shipping bodies at COP 21
The presentation of the satirical Fossil of the Day award today in Paris to the UN bodies responsible for regulating international aviation and shipping emissions is just recognition of their totally inadequate contributions to fighting climate change, green group Transport & Environment has said. Emissions from planes and ships are the elephants in the climate talks room as they remain the ...
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Climate change: EU on track towards Kyoto target but efforts must be maintained, projections show
The EU is moving closer to achieving its Kyoto Protocol targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases but additional initiatives need to be adopted and implemented swiftly to ensure success. This is the conclusion of the Commission's annual report on progress towards meeting the Kyoto objectives. The latest projections from Member States indicate that measures already taken, together with ...
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Greater efforts to reduce ammonia emissions needed to meet air pollution targets
Levels of particulate matter (PM) in the atmosphere are linked to ammonia emissions. However, reducing ammonia emissions only as far as targets set out by the Gothenburg Protocol will not necessarily ensure compliance with EU PM limits, according to a new study. Greater reductions in ammonia emissions would reduce the number of days when PM limit values are exceeded, the researchers found. In ...
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C40 and ICLEI to Establish Global Standard on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Cities
The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, announced today at the C40 Cities Mayors Summit in Sao Paulo that the two organizations will establish a global standard for accounting and reporting community-scale greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that can be used across multiple platforms. This common approach will help local governments to accelerate ...
By C40 Cities
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Commission opts for binding 130g CO2 car target
The European commission will propose legislation forcing carmakers to cut average carbon dioxide emissions from all new cars sold in the EU to 130 grams per kilometre by 2012, it revealed on Wednesday. Its communication on reducing CO2 emissions from cars retains the EU’s longstanding target of achieving an average 120g/km by 2012, but it will be left to softer “complementary measures” to ...
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UK greenhouse gas emissions on track to hit Kyoto target
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has said that the UK is making progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but there is still much work to do. Provisional statistics published last week for total UK greenhouse gas emissions for 2007 showed a drop of two percent below the previous year, with 639.4 million metric tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent, down from 652.3 million metric tonnes in 2006. ...
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