Green Car Congress
AUGUST 19, 2019
A study by a team of researchers from China, the US and Germany suggests that future climate change may worsen air quality for more than 85% of China’s population, leading to an additional 20,000 deaths each year. and ozone exposure, respectively. and ozone exposure, respectively. Projected changes in mean annual PM 2.5
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
Significant climate anomalies 2008/2009. Source: Climate Change Compendium. The loss of ice from West Antarctica is estimated to have increased by 60% in the decade to 2006, and by 140% from the Antarctic Peninsula in the same period. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). meters above the 1990 level by 2100.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
The decrease in CO 2 equivalent emissions of ODSs (ozone-depleting substances: CFCs, halons, HCFCs, and others) may be offset by the projected increase in their non-ozone depleting substitutes (HFCs) (lines designated as HFC scenarios). The contribution of HFCs to climate forcing is currently less than 1% of all greenhouse gases.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 25, 2014
At the other end of the spectrum, a transportation policy with rigid fuel-economy requirements is the most expensive policy, costing more than $1 trillion in 2006 dollars, with health benefits recouping only a quarter of those costs. In 2011, 231 counties in the US exceeded the EPA’s regulatory standards for ozone, the main component of smog.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 3, 2010
while the US GDP is projected to grow by 40%, according to the fifth National Communication on US climate change actions submitted by the US Department of State to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The United States released previous Climate Action Reports in 1994, 1997, 2002, and 2006.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 17, 2010
At its meeting in Sacramento yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) endorsed the state’s cap-and-trade regulation. There are also provisions to develop international offset programs that could include the preservation of international forests.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 29, 2013
Tg CO 2 eq), after having increased by 43% from 1990 through 2006. The figure includes the direct effects and those indirect effects due to the production of tropospheric ozone and stratospheric water vapor.) Climate Change Emissions Natural Gas' a global warming potential of 21.
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