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DECEMBER 15, 2022

The funds will support the deployment of thousands of zero-emission trucks, school buses and transit buses to deliver clean air benefits to communities hit hardest by the impacts of pollution from medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. 97 million for emerging opportunities such as aviation, locomotive, marine vessels and vehicle-grid integration.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Alfa Laval, DTU Energy, Haldor Topsoe, Svitzer and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping are entering into a joint project to accelerate the development of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology. Alfa Laval, a marine supplier with more than a century of expertise, will head the development initiative.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Carbon cycle. The report estimates that carbon emissions equal to half the annual emissions of the global transport sector are being captured and stored by marine ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes and seagrasses. Blue carbon sink. Credit: Riccardo Pravettoni, UNEP/GRID-Arendal. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

While that report projected vessel activity, it did not explore the environmental impacts of increased shipping in terms of air emissions or the potential climate impacts from increases in short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon. Click to enlarge. ships diverting from prior routes to Arctic routes.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The finding could further complicate attempts to model climate change. The team showed that the effect of aerosols on the climate since industrialisation depends strongly on what the atmosphere was like before pollution, when aerosols were produced only from natural emissions. —Carslaw et al. —Professor Carslaw.

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JULY 5, 2017

Leading shipowners and operators, classification societies, engine and technology builders and suppliers, big data providers, and oil companies have signed up to a new Global Industry Alliance (GIA) to support transitioning shipping and its related industries towards a low carbon future. Ricardo UK Ltd; Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.;

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. Click to enlarge. —Comer et al.

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Oil Panama Emissions Fuel 283

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APRIL 21, 2011

Scientists from the US, Norway, Russia, Germany, Italy and China are participating in a study examining the potential role of black carbon, or soot, on the rapidly changing Arctic climate. The Arctic climate is changing faster than some scientists expected. Black carbon is contributing to this warming.

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MAY 3, 2023

announced that its subsidiary SoCal Biomethane will supply renewable natural gas (RNG) as facilitated by renewable fuels marketer Anew Climate to FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system to produce carbon-negative hydrogen and electricity for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.’s Anaergia Inc.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2012

When airborne particles (green) form before PAHs adhere, both the pollutants and particles dissipate quickly, as shown in the top row. But when the particles form in the presence of pollutants, which is what likely happens in nature, the longer-lasting particles enable the long-range transport of the pollutants (bottom).

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Pollution Transportation Range Escape 244

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

The new ICCT study combines global ship operations (AIS) data with detailed vessel characteristics for more than half a million ships to estimate GHG emissions and air pollution from shipping at high resolution (1° x 1°) on an hourly basis for the years 2013 to 2015. —Dan Rutherford, the ICCT’s program director for marine and co-author.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

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. Shipping-induced global temperature change in 2050 using different parameterizations of Indirect Aerosol Effect (IAE).

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting proposals for a project to provide assistance in developing and implementing assessment and mitigation activities for diesel sources of black carbon in the Russian Arctic. Previous research on black carbon and climate overlooked that topic. Jacobson, Ph.D.

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EPA Diesel Carbon Russia 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals. THE APPROVAL PROCESS.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions 255

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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. Red areas are those where waters are under-saturated in aragonite and so hostile to shell formation by marine organisms, with darker color indicating greater under-saturation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Tuesday released a draft of far-reaching energy and climate legislation that targets job creation, promotes renewables and energy efficiency, and places limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. Carbon Capture and Sequestration. Clean Fuels and Vehicles.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

New clean fuel regulations in California and voluntary slowdowns by shipping companies substantially reduce air pollution caused by near-shore ships, according to a new NOAA-led study published online in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Black carbon (BC) EFs were reduced by 41%.

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Pollution Fuel California Emissions 199

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.

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Climate Change Climate Emissions 2008 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Daphne Technology, a Swiss startup that has developed multi-pollutant reduction technology—a “green converter”—targeting the maritime industry, has secured strategic investments from Shell Ventures, Trafigura, AET and Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures.

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Energy Pollution Emissions Convert 221

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

For example, IDTechEx expects that lithium-metal and solid-state batteries, axial flux motors, and carbon fiber materials will play an important role in eVTOL markets. Upcoming IMO policy includes an ‘Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI)’ and the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII). Electric Vehicles in Construction - 1 GWh.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

Veron of the Center for Marine Studies, University of Queensland. In addition to temperature-induced bleaching, coral reefs in many parts of the world are under stress from overfishing, destructive fishing, coastal pollution, and sedimentation. Jack Rosebro.

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CO2 Mariner Climate Change London 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The two areas suffer from some of the worst air quality in the country due to a number of factors, such as meteorology, geography, climate and weather. These new SIPs demonstrate that, by 2024, pollution will be reduced to the level needed to attain the 1997 8-hour ozone standard of 0.08 Earlier post.). For the SJV to attain 0.08

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Ozone EPA Pollution 2002 236

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JUNE 17, 2009

Widespread climate-related impacts are occurring now in the US and are expected to increase. It is clear that climate change is happening now. The observed climate changes we report are not opinions to be debated, they are facts to be dealt with.This is a dynamic process. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States.

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Climate Change Climate Global United States 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

A new report by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides a comprehensive overview of methodologies for estimating air emissions from shipping; describes technological solutions; and analyses policy options for reducing carbon emissions and air pollution in this sector.

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Emissions Pollution Climate Change Transportation 199

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The team, which includes researchers from Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota, seeks to identify a framework of carbon mitigation strategies that would minimize conflicts with food security and clean energy production priorities. Murray State University. David White.

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Water Puerto Rico West Virginia Energy 150

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JUNE 14, 2016

All the while, Russell and her team used instruments installed on board to continuously measure pollutants such as carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxides (NO x ), organic and black carbon aerosols, and engine performance to characterize differences between conventional and renewable fuels.

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Renewable Diesel Emissions Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

About a third of the airborne lead particles collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia, a finding that underscores the far-flung impacts of air pollution and heralds a new way to learn more about its journey across vast distances. Tamalpais, in Marin County. One site was on Mt. —John Christensen.

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Asia Transportation Insight San Francisco 199

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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. Tonnes CO 2 e/capita. Credit: ACS, Kennedy et al.

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Emissions Global Gas Los Angeles 199

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AUGUST 29, 2009

million (US$19 million) in research funding for 28 projects in four key areas of sustainable development: Carbon Capture and Utilization; BioEnergy and BioFuels; Sustainable Construction; and Sustainable Materials. Carbon Capture and Utilization. Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has awarded S$27.5

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Singapore Grant Waste Cheap 240

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Well-to-Propeller GHG emissions results for marine alternative fuels. While renewable energy, particularly solar and wind, may have some potential to mitigate carbon emissions, this is not seen as a viable large-scale alternative for commercial shipping. Source: DNV GL. Click to enlarge. —“Alternative Fuels for Shipping”.

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Alternative Fuels Fuel Gas-Electric Mariner 231

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JANUARY 23, 2024

According to Royal Caribbean, the ship, which is registered in the Bahamas, also sets a new standard for sustainability with the use of energy-efficient technology designed to minimize the ship’s carbon footprint and move closer to the company’s goal of introducing a net-zero ship by 2035. “We as a viable marine fuel.

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Climate Mariner Miami Water 52

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

Up to 77% of the world’s energy supply could be met by six key renewables by mid-century under the most optimistic scenario if backed by the right enabling public policies, according to a new report by more than 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Wind energy, including on- and offshore systems.

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Renewable Supplies Global Energy 218

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JULY 10, 2009

Through a recent modeling experiment, a team of NASA-funded researchers have found that future concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmosphere and of nitrogen in the soil are likely to have an important but overlooked effect on the cycling of water from sky to land to waterways. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Ozone Water CO2 MIT 186

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

The committee is not aware of any published studies that include measured emissions of air pollutants from open-pond cultivation. Potential effects on local climate. Another resource that could limit the amount of algal biofuels produced is land area and the number of suitable and available sites for algae to grow.

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Production Water Fuel Emissions 257

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Sulfur aerosols impact human health, ecosystems, agriculture, and global and regional climate. grid by sector for use in coordinated climate model experiments. Sulfur dioxide forms sulfate aerosols that have a significant effect on global and regional climate. Emissions were distributed on a 0.5° Credit: Smith et al.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Eliza Strickland: Man-made climate change is already reshaping our planet, and carbon emissions aren’t coming down fast enough to stave off real disaster in the decades to come. It’s often called geoengineering in the popular press, but the preferred term is climate intervention. Transcript. Kelly Wanser : Thank you, Eliza.

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Climate IDEA Mariner Carbon 69

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change. What steps must California now take to meet the state’s climate goals beyond 2020? Recommended transportation actions beyond 2020.

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