greenhouse gas News
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Sink or Swim? given the political reality of climate change policy, what do we do now?
The environmental community at the international level and here in Washington DC is coming to terms with failure. It is well accepted that global action to address greenhouse gas emissions is largely being held up by inaction in the United States. And so, U.S. legislative failure has been functionally equivalent to global failure. You will be hard pressed to find someone with high hopes for an ...
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BusinessWeek asks Michael Gillenwater why GHG auditing is one of “20 small businesses of the future”
Doing a greenhouse gas audit is endlessly complicated, because so much of our daily lives, from heating to transportation to food, involve contributing to climate change. As policy shifts to stop impending environmental degradation, the jobs will follow. Michael Gillenwater is an expert in greenhouse gas measurement and co-founder of the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute. "There are going to be ...
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GHGMI committee on professional competency requirements prepares for fall standards push
Earlier this summer GHGMI convened a group of international experts to examine and systematically address the question of competency in greenhouse gas management. This Institute-initiated “Committee on Professional Competency Requirements” (the Committee), a top priority of GHGMI’s professional programs has since begun to lay the groundwork for the realization of the ...
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Deadline approaching for GHG survey
The second annual GHGMI-Sequence Staffing Greenhouse Gas/Climate Change Workforce Needs Assessment Survey will close this month. If you have not already completed a response we invite you to take part in this industry-defining needs assessment by filling out the online survey at www.greenhousegassurvey.com. As a quality assurance measure, the survey is by invitation only for leading GHG / ...
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GHGMI at the Asian Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) regional workshop on GHG inventories and accounting
The first regional workshop on GHG inventories and accounting took place at the 5th Asian Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) hosted by ADB and USAID on June 21, 2010 in ADB’s headquarters in Manila. GHGMI’s Gao Pronove presented at the workshop and shared GHGMI’s experience as the leading training provider for GHG accounting, verification, and management. The ACEF website features all of ...
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What will break the climate policy log jam? And what do we do in the meantime?
Earlier this month the European Environment Agency (EEA) released a report (http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/progress-towards-kyoto/) detailing Europe’s progress towards emission targets set under the Kyoto Protocol. Europe’s relative success in limiting its emissions can be explained by a number of factors, which could monopolize this entire post (and more), but for the purposes ...
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GHGMI’s Michael Gillenwater at Wilson Center China environment forum event
On Oct 1 GHGMI Dean Michael Gillenwater participated in a panel discussion, “Taking Stock of Carbon Emissions: Policies, Strategies, and Tools for the U.S. and China” at the Woodrow Wilson Center International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Michael’s presentation focused on the broader issues of measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) of greenhouse gas emissions, ...
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U.S. EPA and Japan’s ministry of environment hold workshop on climate change efforts
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Japan’s Ministry of Environment (MOEJ) and Japan’s Institute for Global Environmental Strategies met May 11-12 to exchange information and expand collaboration on key climate change issues. The two-day workshop brought together representatives from EPA, MOEJ, and the U.S. State Department, as well as a number of non-governmental organizations, to review ...
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Australia on track to meet Kyoto protocol target
Australia’s Kyoto target is to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the 2008-2012 period to 108 per cent of 1990 ...
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Generating the future: UK energy systems fit for 2050
Achieving the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 will require the biggest peacetime program of investment and social change the UK has ever ...
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Air & Waste Management Association offers students environmental tools and essay contest for Earth Week
To promote Earth Week and environmental education in the classroom, the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) is offering its Environmental Education Resource Guides and other learning tools to K-12 classrooms. A&WMA also announces its Second Annual High School Essay Contest, “Greenhouse Gas Management Actions: What Can Students Do?” “As an Association of environmental professionals, we ...
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Innovative approach for transportation related carbon offsets announced
CN Modal Shift Protocol to help British Columbia meet greenhouse gas emissions ...
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Professional climate change training classes coming to your town…”GHG LIVE”
Today, the GREENHOUSE GAS MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE and KOELNMESSE, INC. announced “GHG LIVE”, a series of workshops, training classes and job fairs related to the emerging, regulated low carbon economy. The event series will kick off in North America in 2010 (detailed schedule to be announced in February). The conference series will consist of 1, 2 and 3 day LIVE workshops, providing ...
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Who is building our global GHG MRV infrastructure?
Sometimes it feels quite lonely here at GHG Management Institute headquarters. Toiling away trying to do what we think is needed to support the future of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation policy. While most people who pay attention to the issue are obsessed with the politics of the moment, we work away behind the scenes thinking about and building infrastructure for the long-run. Indeed in ...
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EU greenhouse gas emissions lowest to date
The EU's environmental agency says the 27-nation bloc's greenhouse emissions in 2011 were the lowest since it began monitoring them in 1990. The European Environment Agency says greenhouse gas emissions dropped 3.3 percent compared to 2010, and were 18.4 percent below 1990 levels. It cited a milder winter in 2011 as the main reason for the drop. Agency director Jacqueline McGlade said Wednesday ...
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Thai energy sector pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with COP21 agreement.
China ranks number one emitter of greenhouse gas while Thailand, the energy sector in particular, has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 % over the next 15 years in compliance with COP21 agreement, a seminar at SETA 2016 was told. In the seminar entitled “Sustainable Pathway to Low Carbon Energy Societies” organized by Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization ...
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U.S. Cities Struggle to Hit Climate Change Targets
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (ENS) - 'The 355 U.S. cities in 49 states that have committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions will miss their goals unless they redouble their efforts,' says John Bailey, author of a new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 'Lessons from the Pioneers: Tackling Global Warming at the Local Level.' The report praises the signatories to the U.S. Mayors' ...
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EPA Publishes 20th Annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its 20th Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks today, showing a two percent increase in greenhouse gas emissions in 2013 from 2012 levels, but a nine percent drop in emissions since 2005. Total U.S. greenhouse emissions were 6,673 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2013. By sector, power plants were the ...
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Putting GHG capacity building on the needs map
This blog is not strong on subtlety. Whether you’re a committed reader or a casual “skimmer,” you have likely gleaned that we use this forum to highlight our vision for greenhouse gas measurement and management. Central to this vision, and at the heart of the Institute’s mission, is the critical need to build the capacity to measure, report, and verify GHG emissions. If ...
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EPA shifts greenhouse gas permitting to Texas
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave Texas authority over greenhouse gas permitting on Tuesday, ending a long, often bitter battle between the federal agency and the state. EPA's administrator in Dallas, Ron Curry, said he signed the paperwork earlier Tuesday delegating authority over the program to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. It comes after months of negotiations ...
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