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JANUARY 15, 2015

Dan Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, and member of the California Air Resources Board, has been appointed the 2015 chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Executive Committee, which provides independent scientific advice to the nation on transportation issues.

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JULY 24, 2011

The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford recently published a report recommending that individual governments take more action to curb their own greenhouse gas emissions and put pressure on other governments to do the same. International climate negotiations can only go so far.

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MAY 19, 2016

The International Transport Forum (ITF) at the OECD has launched a major global initiative towards carbon-free transport. Transport activity currently contributes 23% of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, with the share expected to rise.

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MAY 23, 2022

An international team of researchers has shed light on one way new particles are forming in the upper troposphere. All of the scientific uncertainty around climate change relates to clouds in one way or another, said Wang’s advisor and co-author Neil Donahue, professor in chemistry. —Mingyi Wang.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Although viewed as a potential target in the global effort to reduce climate change, 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. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Early in September, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced it would consider in a 23-24 October meeting amendments to the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulation that would modify the requirements for intermediate volume manufacturers (IVMs) selling into the state to allow them more time to come into the market. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 16, 2024

However, according to the World Resources Institute , “EVs need to account for 75 percent to 95 percent of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 in order to meet international climate goals aimed at keeping global warming to 1.5 Rapson, a professor at the University of California, Davis. “It degrees C (2.7 degrees F).”

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Production of rice—the world’s most important crop for ensuring food security and addressing poverty—will be thwarted as temperatures increase in rice-growing areas with continued climate change, according to a new study by an international team of scientists published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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APRIL 24, 2018

Proposed modifications to the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard and recent revisions to existing federal tax credits create a substantial near-term opportunity to permanently sequester biogenic CO 2. The role for CO 2 removal envisioned in stringent climate change mitigation scenarios cannot be overstated. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

California’s global warming legislation requires reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. These models are not suited for the policy analysis demands in the era of global climate change, she concludes. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 1, 2009

The bill also directs the President to work with the relevant Federal agencies and California to harmonize, to the maximum extent possible, the federal fuel economy standards, any emission standards promulgated by EPA, and the California standards for light-duty vehicles. trucks, construction machines, ships and planes.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Emission reduction wedges for California in 2050. Institute of International Studies, University of. California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National. California has also. Net mitigation cost to California came in at 1.3% Williams et al. Click to enlarge. Laboratory. For example, switching.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Lew Fulton, Co-Director, NextSTEPS Program at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis. Increasingly efficient conventional combustion-engine vehicles will be key in moving towards a low carbon future, according to the GFEI.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (Grand Forks, ND) will complete an initial engineering design for a hybrid capture system and estimate associated costs for retrofitting the Red Trail Energy ethanol plant. DOE Funding: $1,500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $405,328; Total: $1,905,328.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

tank-to-wheel-based fuel efficiency metrics, is the most promising policy option for future climate policy regulation of the road transport sector, according to a new study developed under the direction of Professor Ottmar Edenhofer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Creutzig, F., Flachsland, C., McGlynn, E.,

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This has resulted in underestimation of the indirect land use change emissions from many biofuels derived from palm oil, the study concluded. The study was conducted for the International Council on Clean Transportation ( ICCT ), which wished to assess the greenhouse gas emissions associated with biodiesel production. Southeast Asia.

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MAY 20, 2022

Larson worked as a power engineer for Hughes Aircraft , IBM , the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International ), and other companies. where his father was a physics professor at the University of the Pacific. Larson moved back to California to continue his education in “warmer weather,” according to his oral history.

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MARCH 30, 2012

SDAV is a collaboration tapping the expertise of researchers at six laboratories: Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Sandia national laboratories and in seven universities: Georgia Tech, North Carolina State, Northwestern, Ohio State, Rutgers, the University of California at Davis, and the University of Utah.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. Julia Steinberger, University of Klagenfurt.

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MAY 8, 2009

times as efficient as the internal combustion engine of the small SUV ICV for highway driving. Tags: Biomass Climate Change Electric (Battery) Emissions Fuels Power Generation. This is largely due to fact that the small SUV BEV has an electric motor that is 3.1 Campbell et al. Campbell, D. Lobell, C.

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JULY 23, 2009

Dr. Fulton was followed by Dr. Lee Schipper, Senior Research Engineer at the Precourt Institute of Energy Efficiency at Stanford University, who stressed the range of the problem of sustainable mobility and highlighted the need to deal with both carbon and traffic safety. Hybridization has however been a success.

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JULY 9, 2009

In a 2007 study, Winebrake and James Corbett from the University of Delaware (who is a co-author of the current study) concluded that pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths around the world each year. case and ~43,500 for the 0.1% S, premature deaths are reduced by ~41,200.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

PG&E ’s proposal is aimed at accelerating widespread EV adoption and combatting climate change by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions related to transportation. million zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2025, and zero-emission vehicle infrastructure able to support 1 million vehicles by 2020.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Therefore, improving saccharification efficiency is one of the major goals in developing an efficient, cost-effective biofuel industry.Plants go through a series of development stages over time in response to a variety of stimuli, both external and internal.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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JULY 28, 2014

Fuel cycle analysis (FCA)—or “well-to-wheels analysis”—is a type lifecycle analysis (LCA) that examines fuel products and their supply chains, and that has greatly influenced climate-related research priorities and public policies for transportation fuels. It has not been used to specify fuel regulations.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

However, a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University assessing the overall life cycle emissions associated with CO 2 -EOR sequestration under a number of different scenarios has concluded that “ without displacement of a carbon intensive energy source, CO 2 -EOR systems will result in net carbon emissions. Of the $21.6

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JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Fulton was followed by Dr. Lee Schipper, Senior Research Engineer at the Precourt Institute of Energy Efficiency at Stanford University, who stressed the range of the problem of sustainable mobility and highlighted the need to deal with both carbon and traffic safety. Hybridisation has however been a success.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Fuel cells had been promoted in some sectors as the best alternative to the internal combustion engine. Whitehead, J., & Washington, S.

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JUNE 23, 2012

Projected sea-level rise off California, Oregon, and Washington for 2030 (blue), 2050 (green), and 2100 (pink), relative to 2000, as a function of latitude. Sea levels off Washington, Oregon, and northern California will likely rise less, about 60 centimeters over the same period of time.

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MARCH 28, 2023

Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan boldly proclaims that electric vehicles will reach price parity with internal-combustion-engine (ICE) vehicles by 2025. The International Energy Agency predicts that EVs will make up more than 60 percent of vehicles sold globally by 2030. Technological change is hard, social change even harder.

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JULY 22, 2009

He identified three major themes in 2009 for renewable energy: “ Energy markets are undergoing their most fundamental changes since the 1930s; cap and trade is the most complex issue outside of health care; and schisms exist within the energy community that will grow stronger over time. Energy Markets in a State of Change.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2023

As University of Michigan professor emeritus and student of system-human interactions John Leslie King observes “People find ways to use systems for their own benefit not anticipated by designers and developers. A critical unanswered question is whether both society and government can successfully adjust to such a rapidly imposed change.

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AUGUST 19, 2011

One option for doing so, DeCicco suggests, could be a Land Protection Fund (LPF) for purchasing international forest carbon offsets in proportion to the ILUC emissions estimated to occur as a consequence of biofuel production. Climatic Change doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0164-z. —John DeCicco.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Simpson, Dallas, TX A shift away from fossil fuels is necessary if we are to mitigate climate change, but a serious electrician shortage in the U.S. A university education is often perceived to be the most desirable route out of high school. is proving to be one of the biggest barriers to reaching this goal.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

With its potential for societal, economic, and personal upheaval, climate change calls for tools that give us humans orders-of-magnitude more capability. My lab at the University of California, Berkeley, saw that point coming more than a decade earlier. Almost by definition, all technologies increase human abilities.

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