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A new report from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change shows the importance of all major nations taking part in global efforts to reduce emissions—and in particular, finds China’s role to be crucial. C change by the end of the century. Without China, we miss that mark by about 1 °C. 2012.04.007.
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 climatechange. —PCAST letter to the President. The six key components are: 1.
Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climatechange as soon. Parties to this second period will turn their economy-wide targets into quantified emission limitation or reduction objectives and submit them for review by 1 May 2012. Green Climate Fund.
A schematic model showing the links between climate events and outcomes of national security concern, highlighting the roles of exposure and vulnerability. The National Research Council of the US has released a report examining the potential for climatechange to pose or to alter security risks for the United States over the next ten years.
Projected changes in summer mean usable capacity of power plants in the US and Europe for the SRES A2 emissions scenario for the 2040s (2031–2060) relative to the control period (1971–2000). A study published in Nature ClimateChange suggests that thermoelectric power plants (i.e., Source: van Vliet et al. Click to enlarge.
Demonstrating that the use of different time scales, reference dates, and statistical approaches can generate highly disparate results in climate reports, scientists at the University of Alaska Anchorage argue that careful use of these tools is critical for correctly interpreting and reporting climatic trends in Alaska and other polar regions.
Because of methane leakage from the natural gas infrastructure, a shift to natural gas vehicles from gasoline or diesel vehicles could lead to greater radiative forcing of the climate—i.e., Recent reports in the scientific literature and popular press have produced confusion about the climate implications of natural gas.
The EOR Initiative is facilitated by the Great Plains Institute (GPI) and the Pew Center on Global ClimateChange. The fiscal struggles facing federal and state governments combined with a challenging political climate demand new ideas for US energy policy. The slate of recommendations is expected to be released in early 2012.
the final version of the proposed First Update to the ClimateChange Scoping Plan (First Update). Achieving our long-term climate goal and 2032 ozone standards will require a much deeper penetration of ZEVs into the fleet. The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has released. The draft version was released in February.
Tax rates were below the low-end estimate of climate costs (EUR 30/tCO 2 ) for 97% of emissions. The report assesses the magnitude and coverage of taxes on energy use in 2015, and considers change between 2012 and 2015. Comparing taxes between 2012 and 2015 yields a disconcerting result.
decrease in 2012 from 2011. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks , which is submitted annually to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on ClimateChange, presents a national-level overview of annual greenhouse gas emissions since 1990. from 1990 to 2012. The Inventory of U.S. Source: EPA. Tg CO 2 Eq.
Diplomats were recalled from their hotels to block the move, and Rasmussen instead called a brief adjournment following intervention by UK Energy and Climate Secretary Ed Miliband, as well as Australian and US officials. by Jack Rosebro. The relative valuation of potential emissions offsets (e.g.
Daimler AG has received top marks for disclosure of its climate protection measures aimed at combating climatechange, receiving the maximum 100 points in the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP’s) “Climate Disclosure Leadership Index” and an “A” rating in the “Climate Performance Leadership Index”.
The US National Science Foundation has issued a solicitation for Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction using Earth System Models (EaSM). NSF anticipates funding of $35,000,000 to $39,000,000 in FY 2012 and FY 2013, pending availability of funds, to be awarded to an estimated 7 to 12 projects. —NSF EaSM solicitation.
Taylor 2012. Policies incentivizing the private sector to push to develop innovative “clean” technologies are likely to play a key role in achieving climate stabilization. —Taylor 2012. Taylor (2012) Innovation under cap-and-trade programs, PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1113462109. and NO 2 regulation in the US in 1970.
Although viewed as a potential target in the global effort to reduce climatechange, atmospheric black carbon particles absorb significantly less sunlight than scientists have predicted, according to a new study by an international team of researchers, published in the journal Science. —Cappa et al. Earlier post.).
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Three kinds of activity will be supported in FY 2012: Genomics-empowered plant research to tackle fundamental questions in plant and agricultural sciences on a genome-wide scale; Development of tools and resources for plant genome research including novel technologies and analysis tools that will enable discovery; and.
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting research suggestions for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Annual Research Plan in the form of brief conceptual descriptions that address specified research gaps and support the Board’s ongoing regulatory and policy priorities. The deadline to submit research concepts is 31 January 2012.
The EEA report ‘ Electric vehicles from life cycle and circular economy perspectives ’ reviews current evidence on electric cars’ impacts on climatechange, air quality, noise and ecosystems, compared with conventional cars. The EEA has also published a new briefing on the environmental and climate impacts of transport.
Published in the journal Nature ClimateChange , the new analysis shows fossil fuel emissions increased by 5.9% Global CO 2 emissions since 2000 are tracking the high end of the projections used by the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange, which far exceed two degrees warming by 2100. parts per million.
In California, reductions in emissions of black carbon since the late 1980s—mostly from diesel engines as a result of air quality programs—have resulted in a measurable reduction of concentrations of global warming pollutants in the atmosphere, according to a study examining the impact of black carbon on California’s climate.
While representatives of the palm oil industry have protested that the EPA findings are too harsh, correcting the analysis to reflect the more up-to-date information on the destruction of peatland suggests that palm oil biodiesel could be more climate-damaging than fuel from the Canadian oil sands. Miettinen, J., Hooijer, A., Tollenaar, D.,
—Leo Johnson, Partner, Sustainability and ClimateChange, PwC. Resilience will become a watch word in the boardroom—to policy responses as well as to the climate. —Jonathan Grant, director, sustainability and climatechange, PwC. nuclear war, radical climatechange before 2050).
Shipping-induced global temperature change in 2050 using different parameterizations of Indirect Aerosol Effect (IAE). A recent study by an international team calculated that shipping causes a net cooling of climate across all parametrizations of the indirect aerosol effect (IAE) and scenarios throughout the period 1900?2050.
The Air Resources Board will consider the proposed regulations at its regular meeting on 28 June 2012. Linking with Québec is a significant advance in California’s efforts to fight climatechange and steer our economy toward a clean energy future. Just last month Mexico also passed climatechange legislation.
In 2012, according to the EIA, carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption (in million metric tons of carbon dioxide) dropped to 5,267 MMT, the lowest level since 1990 (5,039 MMT). ClimateChange Emissions' Source: EIA. Click to enlarge. Sankey diagrams. Top: US Energy Flow, 2013 (quadrillion Btu). Source: EIA MER.
A report issued today by the National Research Council recommends that the US set a measurable domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions budget in the range of 170 to 200 gigatons of CO 2 -equivalent (eq) for the period 2012 through 2050. Fri, Chair, Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future ClimateChange.
Credit: Marston (2012), Photo credit: Daniel Stein/Istockphoto.com.Click to enlarge. Our results will have a significant impact on our understanding of the oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere and have wide ranging implications for pollution and climatechange. —Marston (2012). Welz et al. Carl Percival. Welz et al.
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 ClimateChange Office, Region 9.
A new generation of climate models will be needed to address a wide spectrum of climate information needs. Despite much recent progress in developing reliable climate models, there are still efficiencies to be gained across the large and diverse US climate modeling community, the report suggests. Source: NRC.
Québec Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Pierre Arcand, announced the adoption of the Regulation respecting the cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emission allowances, which is based on the rules established by the Western Climate Initiative (WCI). —California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary D.
Based on the average allowance price, Lufthansa anticipates total additional charges of €130 million (US$168 million) for 2012. In 2012, 82% of the necessary certificates for airlines will be free allocations; an additional 15% of the certificates must be purchased by the airlines, with 3% held back for new airlines.
An annual ' tracking the progress of California Climate Investments, released by the California Air Resources Board and the California Department of Finance, finds that nearly $1.4 Projects funded to date are achieving the overall goal of California Climate Investments by reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 36.5 To date, $9.3
An Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) paper published in Computers & Geosciences outlines a process that might help to determine the relative importance of population increases vs. climatechange. Our work establishes a new method to couple geographic information system data with global climate outputs and statistical analysis.
An international team examining the total warming impact of 25 major synthetic greenhouse gases (SGHGs) has concluded that without additional limits on SGHG use, the resulting increase in warming could outweigh the climate benefits gained thus far from phasing down chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
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The UN ClimateChange Conference in Cancun, Mexico, ended on Saturday with the adoption of a package of decisions that set all governments more firmly on the path towards a low-emissions future and support enhanced action on climatechange in the developing world, according to the UN Environment Programme.
Cutting the amount of short-lived, climate-warming emissions such as soot and methane won’t limit global warming as much as previous studies have suggested, according to a new study from the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Md., —Smith and Mizrahi. —Smith and Mizrahi.
Brazil’s Minister of Environment Izabella Teixeira and Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) President Luciano Coutinho announced the launch of a new credit line to support projects focused on greenhouse gas reduction and climatechange solutions. million) in 2012. The remaining R$200 million (US$116.2)
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.
The current proposals by developed countries on the table for the upcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions do not yet suffice to limit global warming to a rise of 2 °C (based on a long-term 450 ppm concentration of GHG), according to a new report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).
Shale gas in particular has grown rapidly, from less than one percent of US production in 2000 to 34% in 2012, and projections show strong production growth continuing for the foreseeable future. In this paper, we focus on the implications of growing shale gas production for the climate. —Newell and Raimi.
The California Energy Commission unanimously adopted a 2012-2013 Investment Plan Update to increase the use of green vehicles and alternative fuels. Funding priorities through the AB118 program support fuel and vehicle development to help attain the state’s climatechange policies. Smith, Charles, Jim McKinney (2012) 2012?2013
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