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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Noting the references in scientific and policy literature to the need for fast-action mitigation to help avoid DAI and abrupt climate changes, the authors define “fast-action” to include regulatory measures that can begin within 2–3 years, be substantially implemented in 5–10 years, and produce a climate response within decades.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The proposed expansion of sugarcane production is within the area that can be legally converted.

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APRIL 9, 2018

The C2CNT team uses low-energy, low-cost technology developed in the Licht lab located at GW’s Virginia Science and Technology Campus to transform carbon dioxide into widely useful and highly valued products—carbon nanotubes. We have solved that problem by inexpensively transforming the CO 2 into a valuable product. Stuart Licht.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As part of the multi-faceted agreement, SGI received milestone payments for achievements in developing technology related to algal-based biofuels and related products. The development partnership has continued over the years. —Viridos’ CEO, Dr. Oliver Fetzer. —Vijay Swarup, vice president of Research and Development at ExxonMobil.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per region. Global emissions of CO 2 have increased by 45% between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tonnes in 2010 despite emission reductions in industrialized countries during the same period. Global CO 2. Source: JRC. Click to enlarge. Indexed global CO 2.

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JUNE 28, 2018

Using China as a model, the team compared emissions data from 180 cities across the country, looking at the industrial make-up of each city, its socioeconomic profile, and the types of energy produced and consumed. Total CO 2 emissions of 182 Chinese cities. Shan et al. 6, eaaq0390 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaq0390.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Emissions from consumption of oil products are projected to increase by 2%, largely because of the continued rebound of domestic aviation since the COVID-19 pandemic. parts per million, 51% above its pre-industrial level. Emissions from gas are projected to rise by 4.7% Atmospheric CO 2 concentrations have increased on average 2.4

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NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Estimating the magnitude of costs associated with future climate change impacts is very uncertain. —Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe. The recognized benefits of industrial facilities, including manufacturing products, employment and tax revenues, are not addressed in the report.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The project uses a 25,000-liter photobioreactor within a pilot-scale algal biorefinery to recycle carbon dioxide and other airborne industrial pollutants into algal biomass that can be further converted into sustainable products, including renewable biofuels and biomaterials.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As the world grapples with the pressing issue of climate change, it is evident that we need swift action to avert its worst impacts. EVs have the potential to make a significant difference by reducing carbon emissions and transforming the automotive industry.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

Global CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production reached a new all-time high in 2013, according to the annual report “Trends in global CO2 emissions”, released by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the European Joint Research Centre (JRC). The consumption of oil products increased by 1.7%

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AUGUST 31, 2020

(BIT:ENI) recently unveiled what has been hailed as the most ambitious climate pledge yet by an oil supermajor. Yet, its natural gas output will still comprise 85% of its total production by the end of the forecast period. Eni has announced plans to cut down its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% over the next three decades.

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JUNE 1, 2010

An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. Tags: Catalysts Climate Change Emissions Fuels Solar. Sandia has been working on “Sunshine to Petrol” technologies for a number of years.

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APRIL 11, 2012

Conventional thermal decomposition production of lime (left) versus STEP direct solar conversion of calcium carbonate to calcium oxide (right). The majority (about 60%) of those CO 2 emissions result from the production of lime. The majority (about 60%) of those CO 2 emissions result from the production of lime.

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MAY 7, 2019

The Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership, a World Bank initiative, notes that billions of cubic meters of natural gas are flared annually at oil production sites, wasting valuable energy resources and contributing to climate change by releasing millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

GTI led a team of engineers and scientists to produce a blueprint for converting an existing biomass facility into an RNG production site, using the wood waste feedstock and some of the existing infrastructure. A biomass power plant in Stockton, California, was the host site for the engineering design effort. Source: GTI.

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APRIL 13, 2014

In essence, the technology is an ‘industrial lung’ which takes advantage of CA’s capacity for the highly efficient capture and release of carbon dioxide in natural systems, adapted to industrial gas effluent streams. Emissions of dangerous by-products are zero. CO 2 Solutions’ process. Click to enlarge. Nathalie J.M.C.

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APRIL 11, 2019

The grant will allow CRI to accelerate efforts to commercialize large scale production plants, expanding the market for ETL technology and use of renewable methanol in Europe. CO 2 is available in abundance in high concentration in many industrial processes and thermal power plants (here CRI focusing on geothermal power and waste to energy).

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APRIL 23, 2015

The projects contributing to the 10 million ton milestone are part of DOE’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (RCSP) Initiative and the Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) Major Demonstrations programs. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. The ICCS program—representing a $1.4

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Schematic of a new catalyst made of copper nanoparticles that converts carbon dioxide to multicarbon products (ethylene, ethanol, and propanol). All those products contain two to three carbon atoms, and all are considered high-value products in modern life. Credit: Dohyung Kim/Berkeley Lab). Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

These include technical and operational improvements and advances in the production and use of sustainable alternative fuels for aviation. It has taken a great deal of effort and understanding to reach this stage, and I want to applaud the spirit of consensus and compromise demonstrated by our Member States, industry and civil society.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). Controlling the electrolysis conditions results in a range of product. C2CNT and cement.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2018

automotive and energy industries. The analysis addressed every aspect of the vehicle and fuel life cycles, including manufacturing, end-of-life disposal (recycling and scrappage), and vehicle operation, as well as fuel feedstock production and transportation, fuel production, and fuel distribution. 350 g CO2 e/mi for ICEVs and

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APRIL 29, 2013

In its recently released Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 – 2011 ( earlier post ), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that methane (CH 4 ) emissions from the field production of natural gas have declined by 36% from 2007 to 2011 (from 83.1 Field production. a global warming potential of 21.

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MARCH 18, 2017

With the appropriate policies, and large amounts of shale reserves, natural gas production in the United States could keep growing strongly in the years to come. Market forces, technology cost reductions, and concerns about climate change and air pollution were the main forces behind this decoupling of emissions and economic growth.

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MARCH 22, 2019

By the mid-2020s, EIA projects that the industrial sector will again become the largest consumer of natural gas, using natural gas as a feedstock in chemical industries, as lease and plant fuel, for industrial heat and power applications, and for liquefied natural gas production.

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JULY 25, 2013

In the Reference case, all the growth in liquids use is in the transportation and industrial sectors. To satisfy the increase in world liquids demand in the Reference case, liquids production increases by 28.3 To satisfy the increase in world liquids demand in the Reference case, liquids production increases by 28.3

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

E&B has no limit on the amount of their product they think it’s safe to burn. No maximum amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gases their product will be allowed to produce. There are no bigger cowards then the people who work for the oil, coal and gas industries. No foreign terrorist could ever do us more harm.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

The launch of the study— Scientific Synthesis of the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biological Diversity —was prepared in collaboration with the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and marked Oceans Day during the current climate change negotiations in Copenhagen.

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MARCH 27, 2017

This decline occurred despite growth in real gross domestic product (GDP) of 2.6% In 2015, the difference in emissions between the transportation and industrial sectors widened as transportation sector CO 2 emissions increased while industrial sector CO 2 emissions declined. from 5,405 MMmt in 2014. from 2014 levels.

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JULY 20, 2012

CO 2 per capita emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production from the top 5 emitting regions. tonnes per capita—within the range of 6 to 19 tonnes per capita emissions of the major industrialized countries. The United States remain one of the largest emitters of CO2, with 17.3 Click to enlarge. tonnes per capita.

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MAY 13, 2019

Let’s be clear what this means for us: a fundamental transformation of our company within less than three product cycles. At the same time we want to significantly reduce CO2 emissions per vehicle. Mercedes-Benz is also striving to achieve carbon-neutral production, starting with Factory 56 in Sindelfingen. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

APRIL 8, 2021

The lawsuit covers a number of concerns from several sectors such as agriculture, energy, industry, and buildings. Expressing its support to the DUH, Tesla Brandenburg listed ten specific steps that the federal government could take that would allow the country to accelerate its fight against climate change.

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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. Nearly 90% of automotive aluminum is recovered and recycled.

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APRIL 24, 2009

Emissions of two of the most important climate change gases increased last year, according to a preliminary analysis for NOAA’s annual greenhouse gas index, which tracks data from 60 sites around the world. Total global concentrations topped 386 ppm, compared to 280 ppm before the industrial revolution began in the 1800s.

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Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

On longer timeframes, the refrigerant in your air conditioner will leak into the atmosphere where it, too, will absorb sunlight, possibly even more than CO2 2 , and heat the planet long after the blades of your air conditioner’s fan have stopped spinning. If, like 60 percent of the U.S. This year, the U.S. Still, in the U.S.,

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

And so it is that I resigned from my position as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for CBS EcoMedia effective the first of this month and I will now be devoting my full time to working on climate change response with the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group, the South Bay Bicycle Coalition and 350.org.

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