Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day.

Climate Change

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2012

A new report from MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change suggests that a tax on carbon emissions could help raise the money needed to reduce the US deficit, while improving the economy, lowering other taxes and reducing emissions. In the report— Carbon Tax Revenue and the Budget Deficit: A Win-Win-Win Solution?

Tax

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2014

The human health benefits associated with improvements in air quality related to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions improvements can offset 26–1,050% of the cost of US carbon policies, depending upon the type of policy, according to a new study by a team from MIT. Carbon-reduction policies significantly improve air quality.

MIT

Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2014

Black carbon emissions and BC emissions intensity per year. A study led by a team from Peking University has estimated that global black carbon (BC) emissions increased from 5.3 Black carbon has two deleterious effects on the environment. 2 , and that BC is an important warming species in addition to carbon dioxide and methane.

2007

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide (Gt CO 2 eq)—comparable to total current annual emissions from transport, estimated at around 6-7 Gt annually. The contribution of HFCs to climate forcing is currently less than 1% of all greenhouse gases. Climate and the Ozone Layer. W m -2 relative to 2000.

Climate

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2012

Geographical distributions of global BC emissions from motor vehicles in 1976 (A) and 2006 (B). Country-based mean values are shown for 1976 and 1° × 1° resolution was used for 2006. Researchers at Peking University have developed a new methodology to model black carbon (BC) emissions from diesel and gasoline motor vehicles.

Universal

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2019

New 2018 data from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) indicates that the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) continues to drive production of a growing volume of cleaner transportation fuels for California consumers. billion gallons of petroleum diesel have been displaced by clean, low-carbon alternatives. To date almost 3.3

Cleaner

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Liquid fuel consumption by end-use sector, 2006-2030. The global transportation industry firms lag behind ‘Global 500 Companies’ in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and setting reduction targets, according to a new report from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Carbon Disclosure Project Transport Report. Source: CDP.

Global

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Dairies produce about 25% of California’s methane emissions and have become targets of carbon regulations aimed to reduce climate change. Our 60 million gallon ethanol plant is capable of using biogas to replace petroleum natural gas to produce a lower carbon biofuel and generate additional Low Carbon Fuel Standard credits.

Renewable

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2020

They promote competitive sustainability and are necessary for green transport, clean energy and to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The measures that the Commission proposes will facilitate achieving climate neutrality by 2050. From 1 January 2026, those batteries will have to bear a carbon intensity performance class label.

Batteries

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

If a cap-and-trade program includes offsets, regulated entities have the opportunity to purchase the “emission credits” generated by carbon offset projects to help them meet their compliance obligations. In this way, offsets would complement the more traditional emissions trading that can occur between two covered sources.

Climate Change

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

These figures raise the pressing question of whether scarce government funds might be better allocated to move the United States towards a low-carbon economy. billion—are attributable to corn-based ethanol, the climate effects of which are disputed. Tags: Climate Change Fuels Policy. Adeyeye et al.

Renewable

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2009

from 2006 and 22% above such emissions in 1990. That represents a slight (0.06%) increase from 2006 and is still down 0.17% from the peak in 2005 of 2,003.6 in 2007, down 0.74% from 2006. The inventory also calculates carbon dioxide emissions that are removed from the atmosphere by sinks. Tg CO 2 Eq., Tg CO 2 Eq.,

2007

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

Projected growth in world carbon dioxide emissions. World carbon dioxide emissions are projected to rise from 29.0 billion metric tons in 2006 to 33.1 In 2006, non-OECD emissions exceeded OECD emissions by 14%. million barrels per day in 2006, increases to 13.4 Source: IEO2009. Click to enlarge.

2006

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity” is the first Canadian study to show regional impacts on employment and gross domestic product, and the first to comprehensively examine how Canada can meet a greenhouse gas reduction target for 2020 that goes beyond the federal government’s target. Tags: Canada Climate Change Policy.

Canada

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2009

Two ethanol trade groups—the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy—have filed a complaint in Federal District Court in Fresno, California, challenging the constitutionality of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). grams of carbon dioxide-equivalent per megajoule (gCO 2 e/MJ), compared to ARB’s range of 47.4

Carbon

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

The initiative is sponsored by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which established the disclosure and reporting framework used by 2,500 of the world’s largest companies to report carbon emissions. Ford has reported to the CDP on its successful efforts to reduce its carbon footprint since 2003.

Water

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. Renewable methanol is also a low-carbon feedstock for production of synthetic materials. —Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Group.

Renewable

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

EU countries with CO 2 -based taxation policies by year since 2006. By April last year, sixteen Member States had CO 2 -related taxation, up from fourteen in 2008, eleven in 2007 and nine in 2006. Cars with emission above 160 gCO 2 /km accounted for 23% of the market, compared to 39% in 2006 and to 80% in 1995. Data: ACEA.

Tax

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

All conclude that while carbon losses from biomass replacement and land clearance are considerable, it is the large and sustained CO 2 emissions from drained peat that contribute most to overall emissions and biofuel carbon debts. greatly reducing or stopping carbon inputs to the peat from biomass. —Page et al.

Oil

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2010

Sweden has striven to increase the share of biofuels in transport, and liquid biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are currently exempt from energy and carbon tax. Germany scrapped its tax break on biofuels in Germany in 2006, and at the end of 2009 Norway announced plans to scrap a tax exemption for biodiesel.

Sweden

Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2015

They used the EPA US 9-region national database (EPAUS9r) with the MARKet Allocation (MARKAL) energy system model to develop emissions scenarios and spectral nudging to downscale global climate to the regional scale over the US. The GISS ModelE2 provides the initial and boundary conditions to a regional climate model for the years 2006?2010

Climate Change

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2018

LA=Los Angeles basin, CV=Central Valley, OC=Organic Carbon, EC=Elemental Carbon. Urban and Suburban Southern California: Concentrations of organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) decreased significantly in both the urban and suburban areas of Southern California. Click to enlarge.

California

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

Under Assembly Bill 32 passed in 2006, California must reduce its emissions to 1990 levels (431 million metric tons) by 2020. The state’s latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory shows that California emitted 429 million metric tons of climate pollutants in 2016—a drop of 12 million metric tons, or three percent, from 2015.

2004

Green Car Congress

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.

EPA

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. below their 2006 levels. from 2014.

California

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

California’s annual statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventory is an important tool for establishing historical emission trends and tracking the state’s progress toward the goal set by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32). Carbon intensity has dropped 23% from the peak in 2001, and declined an average of 1.9%

California

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2018

The 2017 Compliance Report for the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) shows 100% compliance with the regulation. It was originally developed to support a return to 1990 levels of climate-changing gases by 2020, as required by AB 32, the 2006 landmark climate bill. million metric tons of climate-changing gases.

2017

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2009

million the US Department of Energy recently awarded to carbon capture and storage research projects, $5.9 Also, any displacement argument must take into account the overall continual increases of demand of energy to make certain that within a relative time frame important to climate change the displaced energy source remains displaced.

Oil

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2009

An unusual bowl-shaped molecule that pulls carbon dioxide out of the air may provide new possibilities for dealing with global warming. Tossell of the University of Maryland notes in the new study that other researchers (Brooks 2006) discovered the molecule—a macrocyclic amidourea—while doing work unrelated to global climate change.

CO2

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2011

Utilizing biofuels as a substitute for heavy fuel oil in the current (2006) global shipping fleet would result in strong reductions in sulfate aerosol of up to about 40-60%, according to a new study by a team from Germany and Hawaii. —Righi et al.

Hawaii

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

These include the Low Carbon Fuel Standard; progress on SB 375 (anti-sprawl bill); the forthcoming Advanced Clean Cars program to be considered by the Board later this year (the Advanced Clean Cars program is slated for a December 2011 board meeting); and cap-and-trade.

California

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The cap-and-trade program also works in concert with other measures, such as standards for cleaner vehicles, low-carbon fuels, renewable electricity and energy efficiency, and complements and supports California’s existing efforts to reduce smog-forming and toxic air pollutants. Click to enlarge.

California

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2009

As areas with permafrost thaw and more old carbon is released, the carbon balance changes. Permafrost thaw will make potentially significant contributions to atmospheric concentrations of carbon more rapidly that previously thought, according to a new study published in the 28 May issue of the journal Nature. Click to enlarge.

Climate Change

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

Mitloehner said that focusing on meat and dairy is not only scientifically inaccurate, but also distracts society from embracing effective solutions to global climate change. It read: “ The livestock sector is a major player, responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO 2 e (carbon dioxide equivalents).

Global

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2010

While oil sands emissions have more than doubled from 1990 to 2006, the absolute increase in emissions from oil sands over the same period is less than the absolute increase in Canadian electric or transportation sector emissions, and far less than the increases in these sectors on a North American basis, they note. Click to enlarge.

Oil-Sands

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Between 1990 and 2010, according to the report, there was a 29% increase in radiative forcing—the warming effect on our climate system—from greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide accounted for 80% of this increase. After a period of temporary relative stabilization from 1999 to 2006, atmospheric methane has again risen.

2010