Carbon, Climate Change and Information

Kia EV6 achieves product carbon footprint certification from the Carbon Trust

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2021

Kia EV6 ( earlier post )has achieved product carbon footprint certification and ‘ Carbon Measured ’ label from the global climate change and sustainability consultancy the Carbon Trust, becoming the first Korean vehicle manufacturer to achieve the certificate.

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Study: 25% EV adoption would save US $17B annually from avoided climate change & pollution damages

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

A new study led by researchers from Northwestern University projects that if electric vehicles replaced 25% of combustion engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution.

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New carbon sink models must consider forest degradation and age

Innovation News Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Learn why forest degradation must be used to inform predictive carbon sink models to develop effective climate change mitigation strategies. The post New carbon sink models must consider forest degradation and age appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Study finds limited evidence that carbon tax rebates have increased public support for carbon pricing

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In a study published in Nature Climate Change , an international research team reports finding limited evidence that individual or household rebates have increased public support for carbon taxes in Canada and Switzerland. —Mildenberger et al. Background.

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Report finds says “negative emissions technologies” need to play a large role in mitigating climate change

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, “negative emissions technologies” (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play a significant role in mitigating climate change, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change? In fact, some 74 percent of those polled indicated they were already “proud of what [they are] currently doing” to combat climate change. For instance, recent U.S.

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California and China expand partnership on climate change

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

and China’s top climate official, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Vice Chairman Xie Zhenhua, signed an agreement on climate change—the first between the NDRC and a subnational entity. The NDRC oversees China’s efforts to address climate change and much of the government’s economic strategy.

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Study finds steelmaking by electric arc furnace in US produces up to 75% less carbon emissions

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Steel produced by electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmakers in the US has a carbon intensity that is approximately 75% lower than traditional blast furnace steelmakers. Using an established, proven steelmaking process, EAF producers are making steel at far lower carbon-intensity levels than traditional steelmakers around the globe.

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How Engineers Can Help Protect Earth From Worsening Climate Change

Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

Fortunately, we still have a narrow window of opportunity to alter the Earth’s climate path, and I believe we can do it. Climate change is a global societal crisis that is causing devastating consequences. Deforestation is contributing to climate change. We need to address the crisis now in a sustainable way.

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Ford sets target to become carbon-neutral globally by 2050

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2020

Ford Motor Company intends to achieve carbon neutrality globally by 2050, while setting interim targets to address climate change challenges more urgently. Carbon neutrality refers to achieving zero carbon emissions by balancing such emissions with carbon removal. Ford is investing more than $11.5

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GM achieves perfect scores on climate change data disclosure and performance in CDP report

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

General Motors for the first time achieved perfect scores on both climate change data disclosure and performance submitted to CDP , the world’s only global environmental disclosure system. The CDP program enables management of greenhouse gas emissions and risks and opportunities associated with climate change.

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DOE launches major 10-year project to use high performance computing for climate change research; ACME

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2014

The project, called Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy ( ACME ), is designed to accelerate the development and application of fully coupled, state-of-the-science Earth system models for scientific and energy applications. Biogeochemistry: How do biogeochemical cycles interact with global climate change?

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Study links increased black carbon pollution to increase in cases of lung adenocarcinoma worldwide

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

g/m 3 ) increment of black carbon is associated with a 12% increase in LADC incidence globally. Black carbon is a pollutant that is classified as under PM 2.5. Our findings pinpoint the necessity and urgency to reduce air pollutant emissions especially black carbon. micrograms per cubic meter (?g/m In North America, a 0.1 ?g/m

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PCAST suggests 6 key components for climate change strategy to President Obama; adaptation and mitigation

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to President Obama describing six key components the advisory group believes should be central to the Administration’s strategy for addressing climate change. —PCAST letter to the President. The six key components are: 1.

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Making Information Tech Greener Can Help Address the Climate Crisis

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivered its starkest warning ever. The IPCC concluded that human influence has unequivocally warmed the planet and changed weather patterns. At the same time, it noted, there is still a window in which humans can alter Earth's climate path. GREENING OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

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SK invests in Fulcrum BioEnergy to accelerate production of low-carbon fuel from waste

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2021

has been expanding investments in green businesses and technologies to achieve its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in response to global climate change. plans to enhance its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) portfolio with its investment in Fulcrum. Founded in Pleasanton, Calif.,

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Polestar announces goal of climate-neutral car by 2030

Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Questions around the long-term carbon-storage capacity of forests and soils remain, as a forest might be logged, devastated by fire or altered by climate change. By pushing ourselves to create a completely climate-neutral car, we are forced to reach beyond what is possible today. Offsetting is a cop-out. Polestar 2.

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EPA Climate Change Adaptation Plan sees likely increase in tropospheric ozone, with more difficulty in attaining NAAQS in many areas

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Among the many climate-related vulnerabilities that can impact its mission, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cites a likely increase in tropospheric ozone pollution as potentially making it more difficult to attain National Ambient Air Quality Standards ( NAAQS ) in many areas with existing ozone problems.

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System Integration: Toward informed decision making for the energy transition

Innovation News Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

To make the transition toward a carbon-neutral energy system, novel renewable energy technologies are developed around the world. The post System Integration: Toward informed decision making for the energy transition appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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US National Research Council reiterates need for action in US to limit magnitude of climate change; final volume in Americas Climate Choices

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Illustration of the steps in an iterative risk management approach for addressing climate change. From: America’s Climate Choices. This trend cannot be explained by natural factors such as internal climate variability or changes in incoming energy from the sun. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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LLNL report lays out technology pathways for California to become carbon-neutral and then -negative by 2045; 3 pillars of negative emissions

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have identified a suite of technologies to help California to become carbon-neutral—and ultimately carbon-negative —by 2045. The key finding of this report is that carbon neutrality is achievable. —“Getting to Neutral”.

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Optimus Technologies closes $17.8M Series A to advance Vector System for heavy-duty engines on 100% biodiesel

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2023

User interface to provide the driver with system information including operational status, fuel level and alerts. Optimus Technologies’ Vector System also can be built into new engines as they are manufactured, leveraging the foundational diesel engine for the transition to a low-carbon future.

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Measuring AI’s Carbon Footprint

Cars That Think

JUNE 26, 2022

As the AI community grapples with its environmental impact, some conferences now ask paper submitters to include information on CO 2 emissions. Several software packages estimate the carbon emissions of AI workloads. Powering the GPUs to train the smallest models emitted about as much carbon as charging a phone.

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DOE intends to award $4M for projects to optimize safe, secure, and verifiable carbon storage

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced its intention to make $4 million in federal funding available for cost-shared research and development of tools and methods to optimize safe, secure, and verifiable carbon dioxide storage. ( DE-FOA-0002401 ).

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Garnaut Climate Change Review issues first of 8 update papers in 2011; reaffirms decision-making framework and need for mitigation efforts

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

As commissioned by the Australian Government in 2010, the Garnaut Climate Change Review, led by Professor Ross Garnaut, has issued the first of a series of papers scheduled for this month and next updating the 2008 Climate Change Review. wrong if the premises, information or logic leading to them are wrong.

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Nine states and DC to design regional approach to cap greenhouse gas emissions from transportation

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

All the participating jurisdictions are members of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI), a regional collaboration of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia that seeks to improve transportation, develop the clean energy economy, and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

The document is a detailed draft technical review of potential environmental impacts associated with the segment of the pipeline in the US, including: impacts from construction, impacts from potential spills, impacts related to climate change, and economic impacts. What Keystone XL would carry. MMTCO 2 e annually.

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Oxford launches research program to identify high-carbon sectors and assets that could become stranded

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment launched a new four-year research program to help businesses and policy-makers identify high-carbon sectors and assets that could be significantly devalued or written off—i.e, — Rt Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change.

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Singapore introducing stiff new feebate scheme for low carbon cars

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Singapore will implement a new Carbon Emissions-Based Vehicle Scheme (CEV) on 1 January 2012, providing rebates to qualified new cars, taxis, and imported used cars with low carbon emissions, and imposing an equivalent surcharge on higher emitting vehicles.

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Study finds transport, residential heating main sources of black carbon in Russian Arctic

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

According to a new international study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 38% of black carbon in the Russian Arctic originates from transport and 35% from residential heating sources, while open fires, power plants, and gas flaring are responsible for only 12%, 9%, and 6% respectively. —Zbigniew Klimont.

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California Energy Commission approves $2.9B investment for zero-emission transportation infrastructure

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

15 million zero- and near-zero-carbon fuel production and supply. $15 15 million for low-carbon fuels. $10 . $97 million for emerging opportunities such as aviation, locomotive, marine vessels and vehicle-grid integration. $15 10 million for workforce development.

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NCAR-led study finds COVID-19 lockdowns temporarily raised global temperatures due to reductions in aerosols

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

While aerosols tend to brighten clouds and reflect heat from the Sun back into space, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have the opposite effect, trapping heat near the planet’s surface and elevating temperatures. Aerosol emissions have major health ramifications.

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Electric Company Too Scared To Tell Truth About Climate Change

Creative Greenius

JUNE 26, 2009

If SCE Won’t Tell The Truth About Climate Change Why Should We Trust Them About Anything? Overall it was a good workshop with lots of solid basic information for people who don’t know much about solar but are considering a solar electric system.

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Black carbon linked to increased cardiovascular risk; exacerbated by co-exposure to motor vehicle emissions

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

Black carbon (BC) from incomplete biomass and fossil fuel combustion is the most strongly light-absorbing component of particulate matter (PM) air pollution and a major climate-forcing emission. We wanted to identify the pollution sources that most impact human health to help inform these pollution control efforts. 1317176111.

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Exxon/Mobil Guilty of Climate Change Coverup. Now Ordered Out of Torrance 3 Years Sooner.

Creative Greenius

JULY 1, 2009

But now that I’ve found out they’re still lying and covering up their role in climate change and the size of their own carbon footprint, I’m going to have to get tougher with them. I initially gave Exxon/Mobil till 2020 to get out of Torrance and clean up their toxic mess here in my town.

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European Commission Provides Framework for Strategic Approach to Climate Change Adaptation

Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2009

The European Commission has published a white paper—“ Adapting to climate change: Towards a European framework for action ”—outlining the framework of a two-phase strategic approach to help the EU cope with the impacts of climate change. European Commissioner for the Environment Stavros Dimas.

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Deloitte forecasts clean hydrogen market to hit US$1.4T per year by 2050

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2023

In the report, Deloitte uses clean hydrogen to encompass both green hydrogen— produced from renewable electricity via electrolysis—and blue hydrogen—produced via natural gas coupled with carbon capture and storage. Overall, this outlook shows clean hydrogen delivering crucial carbon emission reductions.

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DOE’s Carbon Utilization and Storage Atlas estimates at least 2,400B metric tons of US CO2 storage resource

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2012

The United States has at least 2,400 billion metric tons of possible carbon dioxide storage resource in saline formations, oil and gas reservoirs, and unmineable coal seams, according to a new US Department of Energy (DOE) publication.

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California ARB and NOAA Collaborating in $20M Research on Interaction of Air Pollution and Climate Change; One Atmosphere Approach

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

Schematic diagram of the trade-offs between the implications for regional air quality and global climate change of new policies for management of the atmosphere. In the CalNex 2010 study outlined here, NOAA researchers are studying several issues at the heart of the coupled air quality and climate change problems.

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Audi awards $100K to Caltech to support development of new CliMA climate model

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2020

This model is intended to be capable of “zooming in” to examine detailed regional information as well. The consortium is pursuing an aggressive timeline, with hopes to have the new climate model running within the next five years. Source: CliMA.

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UK government launches first Hydrogen Strategy

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

The UK government has launched a Hydrogen Strategy intended to create a thriving low-carbon hydrogen sector—blue and green—in the UK over the next decade and beyond. The investment will help industries to develop low carbon alternatives for industrial fuels, including hydrogen, which will be key to meeting climate commitments.

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Rio Tinto and InoBat partner to explore full life-cycle lithium battery initiative

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2021

Rio Tinto’s Jadar project in Serbia, one of the largest greenfield lithium projects in development ( earlier post ), has the potential to produce approximately 55 thousand tonnes of battery grade lithium carbonate in Europe, one of the world’s largest growing electric vehicles markets.

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Better Carbon Sequestration With AI

Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

Transcript Eliza Strickland: Technology to combat climate change got a big boost this year when the US Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act , which authorized more than 390 billion for spending on clean energy and climate change. One of the big winners was a technology called carbon capture and storage.

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ACEA and PIK declare that by 2040 all new trucks sold need to be fossil-free

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Europe’s truck manufacturers have concluded that by 2040 all new trucks sold need to be fossil free in order to reach carbon-neutrality by 2050. Climate change is the most fundamental challenge of our generation. —Earth system scientist Johan Rockström of PIK.

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Kia EV6 achieves product carbon footprint certification from the Carbon Trust

Study: 25% EV adoption would save US $17B annually from avoided climate change & pollution damages

New carbon sink models must consider forest degradation and age

Study finds limited evidence that carbon tax rebates have increased public support for carbon pricing

Report finds says “negative emissions technologies” need to play a large role in mitigating climate change

Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

California and China expand partnership on climate change

Study finds steelmaking by electric arc furnace in US produces up to 75% less carbon emissions

How Engineers Can Help Protect Earth From Worsening Climate Change

Ford sets target to become carbon-neutral globally by 2050

GM achieves perfect scores on climate change data disclosure and performance in CDP report

DOE launches major 10-year project to use high performance computing for climate change research; ACME

Study links increased black carbon pollution to increase in cases of lung adenocarcinoma worldwide

PCAST suggests 6 key components for climate change strategy to President Obama; adaptation and mitigation

Making Information Tech Greener Can Help Address the Climate Crisis

SK invests in Fulcrum BioEnergy to accelerate production of low-carbon fuel from waste

Polestar announces goal of climate-neutral car by 2030

EPA Climate Change Adaptation Plan sees likely increase in tropospheric ozone, with more difficulty in attaining NAAQS in many areas

System Integration: Toward informed decision making for the energy transition

US National Research Council reiterates need for action in US to limit magnitude of climate change; final volume in Americas Climate Choices

LLNL report lays out technology pathways for California to become carbon-neutral and then -negative by 2045; 3 pillars of negative emissions

Optimus Technologies closes $17.8M Series A to advance Vector System for heavy-duty engines on 100% biodiesel

Measuring AI’s Carbon Footprint

DOE intends to award $4M for projects to optimize safe, secure, and verifiable carbon storage

Garnaut Climate Change Review issues first of 8 update papers in 2011; reaffirms decision-making framework and need for mitigation efforts

Nine states and DC to design regional approach to cap greenhouse gas emissions from transportation

State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

Oxford launches research program to identify high-carbon sectors and assets that could become stranded

Singapore introducing stiff new feebate scheme for low carbon cars

Study finds transport, residential heating main sources of black carbon in Russian Arctic

California Energy Commission approves $2.9B investment for zero-emission transportation infrastructure

NCAR-led study finds COVID-19 lockdowns temporarily raised global temperatures due to reductions in aerosols

Electric Company Too Scared To Tell Truth About Climate Change

Black carbon linked to increased cardiovascular risk; exacerbated by co-exposure to motor vehicle emissions

Exxon/Mobil Guilty of Climate Change Coverup. Now Ordered Out of Torrance 3 Years Sooner.

European Commission Provides Framework for Strategic Approach to Climate Change Adaptation

Deloitte forecasts clean hydrogen market to hit US$1.4T per year by 2050

DOE’s Carbon Utilization and Storage Atlas estimates at least 2,400B metric tons of US CO2 storage resource

California ARB and NOAA Collaborating in $20M Research on Interaction of Air Pollution and Climate Change; One Atmosphere Approach

Audi awards $100K to Caltech to support development of new CliMA climate model

UK government launches first Hydrogen Strategy

Rio Tinto and InoBat partner to explore full life-cycle lithium battery initiative

Better Carbon Sequestration With AI

ACEA and PIK declare that by 2040 all new trucks sold need to be fossil-free

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