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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The contribution of HFCs to climate forcing is currently less than 1% of all greenhouse gases. However, levels of HFCs are rising as they replace HCFCs—HFC 134a, the most popular type, has increased in the atmosphere by about 10% per year since 2006. Climate and the Ozone Layer. Climate-friendly HFCs.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Significant climate anomalies 2008/2009. Source: Climate Change Compendium. Shifts in the hydrological cycle resulting in the disappearance of regional climates with related losses of ecosystems, species and the spread of drylands northwards and southwards away from the equator. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 28, 2014

California’s Climate Protection Strategies do not help meet NAAQS Standards. If the near zero technologies outlined in this paper are developed in the time frame described herein, they will dramatically enhance the state’s ability to meet air quality standards and climate protection objectives. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 6, 2010

This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. Transaction Costs.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

The report for the Department for Transport is based on a survey module included in the Office for National Statistics’ Opinions (Omnibus) survey which has been carried out each August since 2006. It found that 65% of respondents spontaneously selected emissions from road transport as a cause of climate change. Source: DfT.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

I’ve never seen climate controls in any other car that were placed on the steering wheel for easy control. The other is the hybrid battery (nickel-metal in the Gen2), responsible for the charge and supplying the cabin with electricity, including the climate control. Very practical. The cabin has lots of cubbyholes and is very spacious.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Making this battery technology more sustainable demands a consideration of the environmental and economic costs of extraction and transport of raw materials, manufacture, and increasingly of materials recycling and reuse at the end of a battery’s life. — Nature Materials editorial.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Although most countries have already revealed their opening emissions reduction proposals, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer pointed out Thursday that “ we still await clarity from industrialized nations on the provision of large-scale finance to developing countries for immediate and long-term climate action. by Jack Rosebro.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

kWh—approximately 2–4 times current retail costs—for emission-free alternatives to fossil fuel electricity due to the cost of health impacts from fossil fuel electricity, according to a new analysis by a pair of researchers at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Energy and Climate Change Office, Region 9.

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JULY 28, 2017

Cap-and-trade is a market-based regulation that is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from multiple sources in the most cost-effective way possible. Through the cap-and-trade program, the state has launched California Climate Investments. California is on track to achieve its 2020 goal.

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

The new tools are designed to be used by policy makers, governments, the scientific community, and the public via a dedicated Forest Carbon Tracking portal , and were introduced at the UNFCCC climate summit in Copenhagen. 1986-2006 deforestation, in red, alongside earlier. Tags: Climate Change Policy.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

In his January 2015 inaugural address, California Governor Jerry Brown identified five key climate change strategy “pillars,” which recognize that several major areas of the California economy will need to reduce their emissions to meet California’s ambitious climate change goals. Source: 2030 Target Scoping Plan Discussion Draft.

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MARCH 11, 2014

From March 2006 he was engaged in Plug-in Hybrid vehicle planning and development, and, in 2007, became planning and development leader for the Prius Plug-in project. Eliminating the need for a humidifier allowed Toyota to simplify the structure of the fuel cell system, making it lighter, smaller and more cost-effective.

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MARCH 23, 2024

s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. The Sustainable Web Design Community Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was established in 2013, while the Green Web Foundation began in 2006 as a way to understand the kinds of energy that power the Internet. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The awards come from FY2012 funds via FTA’s National Fuel Cell Bus Program, which has provided nearly $90 million since 2006 to speed the development of fuel cell technology. Over the period of that program, fuel cell lifetimes (in transit operations) have more than doubled while costs have declined by 50%. 238,987.

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JUNE 20, 2010

Minister of Transportation Since 2006, the province has also provided more than $24 million in rebates for more than 14,000 conventional hybrid vehicles through its Alternative Fuel RST Rebate Program. The government envisions having one out of every 20 vehicles (5%) driven in Ontario to be electrically powered by 2020.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

This deadline applied to heavy-weight vehicles with 2005 to 2006 model year engines and to at least one vehicle (any model year) in small fleets (i.e., Installing DPFs on diesel vehicles is one of the most cost-effective ways to comply with California’s regulations to reduce particulate matter (PM) emissions from the existing diesel fleet.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

This “fuel market rebound effect” can undermine climate change mitigation strategies, even to the point where efforts to reduce GHG emissions by increasing the supply of low-carbon fuels may actually result in increased GHG emissions. —Hill et al. 2016.07.035.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

The program is designed to provide covered entities the flexibility to seek out and implement the lowest-cost options to reduce emissions. Each year, the total number of allowances issued in the state drops, requiring companies to find the most cost-effective and efficient approaches to reducing their emissions.

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JUNE 15, 2012

hour fine particle standard of 35 µg/m 3 , which was set in 2006. and PM 10 identical to primary standards to provide protection against other effects, such as ecological effects, effects on materials, and climate impacts. . Other aspects of the proposed rulemaking include: Retaining the existing 24?hour million, to $5.9

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JANUARY 21, 2017

Assembly Bill 32, signed in 2006, set California’s initial goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and directed CARB to develop a climate change scoping plan—to be updated every five years—detailing specific measures needed to reach the target. Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Reduction Strategy.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Bergerson and Keith pay particular attention to CCS, showing how divergent views about its cost effectiveness emerge from divergent choices about the scale of analysis. In Alberta, for example, CO 2 emissions from coal-fired electric power exceed emissions from oil sands and the costs of reducing emissions from coal electricity are lower.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

We’ve seen a considerable reduction in solar panel costs, but that is exactly why there is reason to be optimistic. With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh

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DECEMBER 24, 2015

With support from the Energy Department, its national laboratories and private industry have already achieved significant advances in fuel cell and hydrogen technologies, resulting in reduced costs and improved performance.

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MAY 9, 2015

These proposed requirements will provide near-term NO x , particulate matter, and GHG emissions reductions to help meet nearer term air quality, climate, and petroleum targets. This would provide flexibility for transit agencies to plan for expanding a zero emission bus fleet and associated infrastructure in a more cost-effective manner.

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APRIL 6, 2009

gigatons) between 2006 and 2030, fueled by a growing number of cars on the road (from 730 million to 1.3 The McKinsey team analyzed more than 25 discrete abatement measures across five regions, calculating their abatement potential and resource costs. Roads toward a low-carbon future.

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APRIL 17, 2010

X PRIZE’s Energy & Environment Prize Group intends to catalyze a new era of clean, renewable, cost-effective energy with minimal impact on the climate and environment. Areas of consideration include breakthroughs in climate change, water resource management, energy distribution & storage, clean energy, energy efficiency/use.

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JULY 23, 2015

A total of 87 new BEV and PHEV production cars were presented worldwide between 2006-2013. The study found that activities of international car manufacturers in the field of electrified vehicle concepts (XEV) worldwide increased significantly for the first time from 2006 and especially from 2009 onwards. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 2, 2009

Canada has committed to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by 20% from 2006 levels by 2020. In remarks reported by The Canadian Press, Minister Prentice said that allowing for different standards in each state and province makes automakers less competitive and affects the cost and choices available to car buyers. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 12, 2009

will jointly offer Vaperma’s Siftek polymer membrane technology, which is designed to lower energy consumption for reduce operational costs and emissions in the energy-intensive ethanol production process. UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, and Vaperma , Inc. Siftek technology. Source: Vaperma. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 12, 2013

2015) formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC), coal consumption will be limited to 3900 million metric tons (MMT) by 2015, which will present a challenge given the tremendous increase in coal use within the last 5 years (2300 MMT in 2006 and 3200 MMT in 2010). —Huo et al.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

After 150 years without much happening around electric vehicles, Tesla set off a spark in 2006 that triggered a chain reaction of rapid growth and change. Deloitte forecasts that by 2022, the costs of ownership for EVs will be comparable to their combustion-engine counterparts. Most of the time, evolution moves slowly.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

The design of the California cap-and-trade program allows linkage with programs established by partner jurisdictions in the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) to create a regional market system. The cap-and-trade program gives sources flexibility to make the most cost-effective choices about when and how to reduce emissions.

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JULY 15, 2023

We just hope we can do it in time to be a major part of the solution to the climate crisis.” These properties provide the possibility to design smaller, less complex, and lower-cost fusion systems that are quicker to build and easier to take apart for maintenance.” Department of Energy (DOE) and the agency’s lead fusion coordinator.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The Eurovignette directive was adopted in May 2006 as a harmonized EU framework for charging heavy goods vehicles on European highways. Member States would also have to submit a cost/benefit analysis and an action plan setting out their measures to reduce congestion before applying the charge.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Her team created a suite of low-cost medical devices, the NEST360 newborn tool kit, to improve neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. Richards-Kortum returned to Texas with a new mission: designing medical equipment for clinics in underserved communities that could withstand harsh climate conditions and be easily repaired.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Transportation sources accounted for approximately 40% of all GHG emissions in the US in 2006; medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (above 8,500 gross vehicle weight rating) represent about 22% of the transportation emissions, up from 15 percent in 1990, according to the EPA. The net cost analysis assumed an average price of $2.50

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