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MARCH 25, 2010

in collaboration with Grütter Consulting , has launched a program to monetize the carbon emission reductions associated with Cummins Westport (CWI) and Westport HD natural gas engines. Westport and CWI natural gas powered vehicles sold since 1 January 2009 will be eligible for carbon credits based on an agreed price per tonne.

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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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JANUARY 5, 2023

Canada Nickel Company announced that its latest test work results support the incorporation of carbon capture and storage into the Crawford Project.The company’s In-Process Tailings (IPT) Carbonation process is a novel method for accelerated carbon capture and storage. IPT Carbonation – Crawford Nickel Project.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

The many new and expanded strong policy initiatives and green targets in China’s 12 th Five year Plan, released on 5 March 2011, provide “ clear evidence ” that China’s low-carbon policies remain global best-in-class, according to a new report from DB Climate Change Advisors (DBCCA). —DBCCA.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) has approved draft new mandatory regulations to cut the carbon intensity of existing ships. The draft amendments to the MARPOL convention would require ships to combine a technical and an operational approach to reduce their carbon intensity.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

From: Geoengineering the Climate (2009) Click to enlarge. Unless emissions of carbon dioxide can be greatly reduced—i.e., Geoengineering and its consequences are the price we may have to pay for failure to act on climate change. Preliminary overall evaluation of the geoengineering techniques considered in the report.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2009

The UK’s Department for Transport has published a strategy designed to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from the transport sector by around 14% (17.7 Transport currently makes up 21% of all UK domestic carbon emissions. Using market-based measures to encourage a shift to lower carbon transport.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Its expanding production is driving rainforest destruction and massive carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new study led by researchers at Stanford and Yale universities. Using these leases in combination with land cover maps, the team estimated future land-clearing and carbon emissions from plantations. Kimberly M.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 3, 2009

“Pack Up Your Toxic, Fossil Fuel Factory With Its Climate-Changing Products & Get Out of Town By 2020!&# You think HE’s working very hard to end our nation’s sick addiction to carbon based fuels that kill people and destroy our civilization? Greenius Rules. I’m thinking not so much. Uncertainty.

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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. Vogel et al.

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JUNE 29, 2012

Information on the rebate project, including an application and required documents, list of eligible vehicles, and real-time funding status is available at www.cvrp.energycenter.org.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

As heads of state convened, an abbreviated document was hurriedly produced to minimize sticking points and shopped around among leaders of developed countries. The accord will not become an official United Nations document unless unanimous approval is secured. by Jack Rosebro. Emissions Reduction Targets Shuttled To The Side.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Although a lightweight steel vehicle has a lower production phase environmental impact, those initial gains are erased by higher energy use and carbon emissions during the steel vehicle’s use phase, the study found. Source: Sujit Das, ORNL. Click to enlarge. —Sujit Das.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Technical Support Document for the Findings. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. EPA’s proposed GHG standards for light-duty vehicles would reduce GHG emissions by nearly 950 million metric tons and conserve 1.8 billion barrels of oil over the lifetime of model year 2012-2016 vehicles, according to EPA analysis.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The commitment was made as part of wider efforts by the global energy industry to ensure that natural gas continues to play a critical role in helping meet future energy demand while addressing climate change. —Tim Gould, Head of Supply Division, World Energy Outlook, IEA.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2019

All oxygen-dependent organisms on the planet produce carbon dioxide as a result of metabolic processes necessary to sustain life. Total carbon dioxide production from any species is linked to the average metabolic rate, the average body size and the total number of individuals of the species. —Magkos et al. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

The UK Transport and Business Secretaries launched the Government’s vision for cutting carbon from road transport over the next five years. Cutting road transport CO 2 emissions is a key element to tackling climate change. 100 million for the TSB Low Carbon Vehicle Integrated Delivery Programme. £20 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2009

The proposed cause or contribute finding concludes that that the combined emissions of CO 2 , CH 4 , N 2 O, and HFCs from new motor vehicles and motor vehicle engines contribute to the atmospheric concentrations of these key greenhouse gases and hence to the threat of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The document is intended to guide the next decade of coordinated strategic planning in the state, bringing cleaner sources of electricity online, and supporting reinvigorated efforts to improve energy efficiency, developing new transmission infrastructure and ensuring the stability of the electrical grid. Alternative Fuel-Vehicle Rulemaking.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

Despite this, there is no consistent methodology allowing scientists to estimate potential CO 2 emissions that the deployment of such technologies could reduce—and this information is critically important for decision makers, for example, in the context of climate change agreements.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The agencies developed a comprehensive joint Technical Support Document (TSD) that provides a technical underpinning for each agency’s modeling and analysis used to support the proposed standards. Draft joint Technical Support Document (TSD). Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuel Efficiency Policy.

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MAY 16, 2016

The Globe and Mail obtained a copy of the currently confidential 57-page Climate Change Action Plan, which lays out a strategy from 2017 to 2021. The document outlines contains about 80 different policies, grouped into 32 different actions. Canada’s Globe and Mail reports that as part of a more C$7-billion (US$5.4-billion),

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MARCH 16, 2021

The California Energy Commission (CEC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) released the first joint agency report and a summary document examining how the state’s electricity system can become carbon-free by 2045. California’s electricity mix is already more than 60% carbon-free.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Green areas indicate waters supersaturated with aragonite carbonate and favoring shell formation, with darker color indicating more favorable conditions. However, when CO 2 dissolves in seawater, it forms carbonic acid. Projected spread of acidification of the oceans from 1994 (left) to 2100 (right). Monaco Declaration. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

Because credits for air-conditioning improvements can be used to meet the EPA standards, but not the NHTSA standards, the EPA standards require that by the 2016 model-year, manufacturers must achieve a combined average vehicle emission level of 250 grams of carbon dioxide per mile. Final joint technical support document.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

This action will align US standards with the international carbon dioxide emissions standards already set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). —“Airplane Greenhouse Gas Standards Technical Support Document (TSD)”. turboprops) with a MTOM greater than 8,618 kilograms.

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DECEMBER 7, 2015

California has not taken full advantage of opportunities to increase its in-state production of biofuel, despite state policies that encourage biofuel consumption, according to a policy paper by the Climate Change and Business Research Initiative at the UCLA and UC Berkeley law schools. —Ethan Elkind, a co-author of the report.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The European Commission has adopted the European Energy Union package —a framework strategy for a resilient energy union with a forward-looking climate change policy. —Energy Union Framework Document. Energy Union Framework Document. Climate Change Emissions Europe Policy Regulations'

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

At COP26 in Glasgow, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the US Aviation Climate Action Plan , published by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which sets out to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from the US aviation sector by 2050.

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MARCH 28, 2011

The proposals are also intended to reduce Europe’s dependence on imported oil and cut carbon emissions in transport by 60% by 2050. The widely held belief that you need to cut mobility to fight climate change is simply not true. By 2050, key goals will include no more conventionally-fuelled cars—i.e.,

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AUGUST 25, 2011

Approval of the updated environmental analysis (known as the Functional Equivalent Document, FED) was also accompanied by a vote to re-approve the AB 32 Scoping Plan. The California Air Resources Board (ARB) approved an updated environmental analysis of the Scoping Plan.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

A new high-level white-paper from clean transportation industry group CALSTART shows that US companies that develop and manufacture high-efficiency, low-carbon technologies for heavy-duty vehicles are ready to support more efficient trucks and buses. —Bill Van Amburg, senior vice president of CALSTART.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are among the most common hydrophobic organic pollutants with well documented toxic effects on human health and the ecosystem. This synergy between PAHs and SOA particles has important implications not only for human health but also for climate change. —Zelenyuk et al.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Percent change in median CO2 by scenario relative to 2000. A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change concludes that “smart growth” combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities’ carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions significantly by 2050. Stone et al. 2009) Click to enlarge.

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Drive Electric NZ

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Drive Electric Submission: Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document. However, the draft ERP document, while containing some advanced thinking, does not present the plan in a holistic way. . In New Zealand’s fight against climate change, e-mobility is a low-hanging fruit, especially given our supply of renewable energy. .

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Tackling road transport energy use is vital to enhancing energy security and reducing carbon dioxide emissions globally. The policy recommendations in this document are a good place to start. Lower costs are ultimately passed on to consumers and reduce the overall cost of achieving energy security and climate change goals.

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JUNE 8, 2023

As a living document, the strategy is still deeply flawed, but less flawed than the first one. If the DOE updates it every six months, and there's as much movement each time, then by 2025 or 2026 it could be a good strategy.

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