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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. Assuming the offset is legitimate—i.e.,

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AUGUST 22, 2017

If current rates of decline continue through 2020, the state will need to reduce emissions at a rate of 4.97% each year in the decade between 2020 and 2030, and produce even steeper declines in the period from 2030 to 2050, if it is to meet current climate goals. But the effects of these efforts seem to be reaching a plateau.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

Reducing emissions of black carbon soot and ground-level ozone would quickly make a considerable dent in the climate change problem and would also contribute to public health and protect crop yields, according to an essay in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Tags: Climate Change Emissions. Earlier post.) Foreign Affairs.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

as compared to 1990 emissions, to be achieved between 2008 and 2012. as compared to 1990 emissions, to be achieved between 2008 and 2012. ” —Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, introducing his proposal to forgo efforts to establish a binding climate treaty at the Copenhagen climate summit.

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AUGUST 27, 2009

Representation of damage from climate change avoided by adaptation, and damage not be adapted to (‘residual damage’) over the longer term. Parry co-chaired the IPCC working group on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation between 2002 and 2008. Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change”. Source: “Assessing the costs.”

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MAY 14, 2018

The rapid growth in South-South trade reflects a fragmenting of global supply chains whereby early-production stages of many industries have relocated from countries like China and India to lower-wage economies, a trend that has accelerated since the global financial crisis in 2008. —Prof Guan.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

The green mobility objective proposes four different quantified targets to be achieved by 2030 and 2050, one for each of four key dimensions: climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, air pollution, physical inactivity and noise pollution. from 2008–2012. from 2008–2012. Non-Annex I countries averaged 4.8%

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JULY 7, 2015

Yet vegetation on marginal lands is often limited by water availability, and we lack a clear understanding of water demands by these perennial cropping systems in comparison to what they would replace, and how their water use will respond to climate variability and change. … —Hamilton et al.

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MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. According to the recently finalized Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2008 , net US GHG emissions in 2008 were down 2.7%

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JUNE 29, 2012

Since this program began in 2008 there have been more than 7,500 passenger cars and more than a thousand trucks or buses that have received incentives through the Air Quality Improvement Program. The program is designed to accelerate the number of ultra-clean vehicles sold in California and help establish a sustainable market.

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JUNE 7, 2011

The trial will monitor how NExBTL performs in trucks covering long distances and carrying heavy loads under a variety of climatic conditions. A fleet of 14 standard Mercedes-Benz trucks and buses in Germany have used 100% NExBTL since mid-2008 and have driven over 1 million kilometers to date.

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APRIL 3, 2019

concluded in a 2008 paper published in Science that the emissions associated with ethanol production and combustion exceeded the emissions associated with producing and combusting an energy-equivalent quantity of gasoline. Lewandrowski et al. Background. Quantifying the GHG profile of corn ethanol has been contentious since Searchinger et al.

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MARCH 6, 2014

million (US$11 million) available each year. Under the MoU, the UK and China will each commit £10 million of matched resources over the next three years and there will be approximately £6.6 The agreement, is the latest collaboration in a series of joint research programmes stretching over the last five years.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

overall from 2008 to 2035. CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector are projected to remain at 33% of the total in 2035, but increase from 1,925 million metric tons in 2008 to 2,115 in 2035. trillion cubic feet in 2008 to 23.3 per year, or 8.7% Biofuels meet most of the growth in the liquid fuel supply. Source: EIA.

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APRIL 13, 2014

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a policymaker’s summary of Working Group III’s (WG III) latest report showing that despite a growing number of climate change mitigation policies, annual anthropogenic GHG emissions grew on average by 1.0 WG III Summary for Policymakers. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 29, 2009

The report’s authors, Max von Bismarck and Anuradha Gurung from the World Economic Forum, and Chris Greenwood and Michael Liebreich from New Energy Finance, argue that “ enormous investment in energy infrastructure is required to address the twin threats of energy insecurity and climate change.

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MAY 10, 2011

Up to 77% of the world’s energy supply could be met by six key renewables by mid-century under the most optimistic scenario if backed by the right enabling public policies, according to a new report by more than 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Source: SRREN. Click to enlarge.

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EV Central

JANUARY 19, 2024

French cars have frustrated the living hell out of me this past decade, and the Peugeot e-2008 GT is another one to add to my list. As tested, our e-2008 GT small SUV is over $67,000 to drive-away in Queensland. Day 1: Bonjour, mon ami 2024 Peugeot e-2008 GT. Bonne chance, e-2008. I should want to own one.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Unusually high temperatures in the Arctic and heavy rains in the tropics likely drove a global increase in atmospheric methane in 2007 and 2008 after a decade of near-zero growth, according to a new study. Starting in mid-2007, scientists noticed La Niña conditions beginning, waning and then intensifying in early 2008. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Valeo and Michelin signed a letter of intent to coordinate the development of electric and rechargeable hybrid vehicle systems such as the drive train, engine and battery cooling management, climate control, lighting, energy management and tires. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The darker shading represents model simulations with the best-estimate climate sensitivity (3 °C). The lighter shading shows the range for the 68% cumulative probability interval for climate sensitivity from the literature (2.0–4.9 Credit: Nature Reports CLimate Change. GtC in 2008. Tags: Climate Change Policy.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles has set the statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit for 2020 required by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 at 25% below 1990 levels, the maximum authorized by the Act, saying that measures already in place will get Massachusetts much of the way toward that goal.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The company’s prototype pyrolysis system ( earlier post ) can be tailored to the amount of feedstock available and thus can be deployed in close proximity to stands of beetle-killed timber. The project is working with Cool Planet Energy Systems, which is based out of Greenwood Village, Colorado.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Most climate models have suggested that evapotranspiration, which is the movement of water from the land to the atmosphere, would increase with global warming because of increased evaporation of water from the ocean and more precipitation overall. —Jung et al. millimeters per year per decade. Jung et al.

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APRIL 13, 2011

The study also found that shows that water use for algae cultivation is much less if algae are grown in the US regions that have the sunniest and most humid climates: the Gulf Coast, the Southeastern Seaboard and the Great Lakes. imported in 2008 for transportation fuels, and it could be grown on land roughly the size of South Carolina.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Daimler acknowledged that up to now, the more climate-friendly chemical was set to be used worldwide in the automotive industry and was previously perceived to be safe. The main objectives of the Directive are: the control of leakage of fluorinated greenhouse gases with a global warming potential (GWP) higher than 150 in MACs; and.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

The UK needs to implement a step change to reduce carbon emissions, the first annual report from the Committee on Climate Change concludes. What we have proposed is achievable and affordable but action needs to be taken now if we are to make our contribution to combating climate change.”.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Globally there has been an increasing focus on low or zero emission powertrains, driven by climate concerns. Firstly, ensuring supply security, which will depend on expanding the feedstock availability for ethanol production. Similarly, a few months ago, FCI had suspended supply of rice to distilleries to ensure rice availability.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Molecules called Criegee intermediates—carbonyl oxides—are important atmospheric reactants, but only indirect knowledge of their reaction kinetics has been available. However, until 2008 no gas-phase Criegee intermediate had been observed, and rate coefficients derived from indirect measurements spanned orders of magnitude.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The decade from 1999 to 2008 was the warmest in the Arctic in two millennia; Arctic temperatures are now 2.2 °F This incongruity provides evidence of human influences on climate change, says Kaufman. C) warmer than in 1900. to the industrial revolution, according to Kaufman.

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MARCH 6, 2010

UNICA sees that situation as ironic: while fossil fuels move freely around the world, renewables, capable of positively impacting climate change, are blocked, at a time when the world repeatedly declares it is concerned about climate change. In 2008, Brazil produced an estimated 565 million metric tons of sugarcane, which yielded 31.3

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JANUARY 30, 2009

USDA and DOE are issuing a joint funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for several types of projects aimed at increasing the availability of alternative renewable fuels and bio-based products. These projects will be among many Obama Administration investments that will help strengthen our economy and address the climate crisis.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

Combining gravity observations recorded by the GRACE satellite missions with hydrological models to remove natural variability, the team concluded that the region lost groundwater at a rate of 54 ± 9 km 3 /yr between April, 2002 (the start of the GRACE mission) and June, 2008. Tiwari et al.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The 36-inch Alberta Clipper Pipeline will carry up to 450,000 barrels of oil sands crude per day—with ultimate capacity of up to 800,000 bpd available—from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Canada to refineries in the US. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) was published 5 December 2008. US State Department.

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DECEMBER 24, 2015

These research and development efforts have helped reduce automotive fuel cell costs by more than 50% since 2006 and by more than 30% since 2008. At the same time, fuel cell durability has quadrupled and the amount of expensive platinum needed in fuel cells has decreased by 80 percent in the last decade. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 18, 2017

The effects of the redox-layer on the electrochemistry of iron are, first, the contribution of secondary electrochemical reactions and, second, the moderation of the available electrode surface area. — Dr. Hermann Tempel from Jülich’s Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-9). —Weinrich et al. 2017.10.023.

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AUGUST 31, 2009

I contributed the following to the World Wildlife Climate Witness site last week and it was published this morning. Meanwhile our long term drought, now its its third year with no end in sight, means less available water to fight the fires with. c) 2009 by Joe Galliani - This afternoon's view from my studio's patio.

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