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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Now, new analysis by researchers at Duke University and the University of Leeds finds that reducing fossil fuel emissions steadily over coming years will prevent millions of premature deaths and help avoid the worst of climate change without causing the large spike in short-term warming that some studies have predicted.

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AUGUST 27, 2009

Representation of damage from climate change avoided by adaptation, and damage not be adapted to (‘residual damage’) over the longer term. The amount of money on the table at Copenhagen is one of the key factors that will determine whether we achieve a climate change agreement. Source: “Assessing the costs.”

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APRIL 4, 2009

The European Commission has published a white paper—“ Adapting to climate change: Towards a European framework for action ”—outlining the framework of a two-phase strategic approach to help the EU cope with the impacts of climate change. European Commissioner for the Environment Stavros Dimas.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Population growth, limits to arable land and fresh water, and climate change have “ profound implications ” for the ability of agriculture to meet this century’s demands for food, feed, fiber, and fuel while reducing the environmental impact of their production. Resources. ” —Federoff et al. Fedoroff, D.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The International Seabed Authority is currently developing regulations to govern the exploration and exploitation of the mineral resources of the international seabed (known as “the Area”). Reflect the risks to the deep-sea environment. The deep ocean is a complex environment that provides numerous ecosystem services.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

The model, which incorporates data from more than 30 peer-reviewed studies, shows that at present, the cheapest energy storage mechanism is pumped-storage hydroelectricity, where water is pumped to a higher elevation with spare energy, then released to harvest the energy when needed. —senior author Iain Staffell. 2018.12.008.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

I also want the organization to be globally recognized as a force for change. This year, I chartered four ad hoc committees: climate change, innovative funding models, president-elect campaign pilot program, and multimedia-based digital reality technologies. For example, IEEE is now engaged closely with the U.N.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

A new NSF-funded study by authors from Yale Law School, the University of Oklahoma and George Washington Law School presents correlational and experimental evidence showing that cultural cognition also shapes individuals’ beliefs about the existence of scientific consensus. —Dan Kahan. —Dan Kahan. —Dan Kahan.

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JUNE 2, 2014

Black carbon has a negative impact on the environment and on human health. They also presented the performance of a prototype GPF on removing BC particles from a selected GDI vehicle at various conditions. For their study, the Environment Canada/MECA team used two midsize sedans and two compact vehicles. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 16, 2023

Its technical societies and its councils, sections, and regional groups offer educational events and resources at every level to support technical professions and prepare the workforce of tomorrow. From 2 to 8 April, IEEE is highlighting resources available to students, educators, and technical professionals with IEEE Education Week.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Meeting the needs of the increasing number of people on the planet presents a challenge for reducing total GHG burden. Accordingly, reducing obesity may have considerable benefits for both public health and the environment. Their open-access study is published in the journal Obesity , the flagship journal of The Obesity Society.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

The findings are presented in an open-access paper in Nature Communications. Due to the rapid economic growth in the study period, China invested a large amount of resources into infrastructure construction for advancing the urban living environment. In 2018, the country has 19% of the total BUA of large cities in the world.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2012

A team led by researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is presenting a new explanation for the long-range airborne transport (LRT) of polluting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); a paper on the work is published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Credit: ACS, Zelenyuk et al. Click to enlarge.

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“Making public charging more economical in rural and remote locations means more public charging stations will be built and EV driving will become more accessible to more Ontarians, benefiting both the environment and the local economy.” With over 83 percent of Canada’s electricity coming from non-emitting sources (e.g.,

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APRIL 14, 2021

But a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland warns that introducing salt into the environment—whether it's for de-icing roads, fertilizing farmland or other purposes—releases toxic chemical cocktails that create a serious and growing global threat to our freshwater supply and human health.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

The review is the latest product of WHO’s Health in the Green Economy initiative, which is considering available evidence on health impacts from climate mitigation strategies for key economic sectors, as reviewed by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The results of the study were published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. —First author Associate Professor Steve Yim, from NTU’s Asian School of the Environment, who holds an appointment at LKCMedicine. g/m 3 /year) showed the highest increase worldwide, with South Korea presenting the largest increase for both pollutants.

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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. The Green Climate Fund set up in Cancun marked one way in achieving this.

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MARCH 21, 2011

is hosting “Adapting to Climate and Energy Challenges: Options for US Maritime Forces,” on 29-30 March, an in-depth symposium covering how changes in climate and energy availability may impact the US Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md.,

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The model that will be further developed as part of an NSF-funded project to track how chemicals get to remote Arctic environments. Once they mix with other chemicals, it’s unknown what danger they could pose to animals and humans, especially in concert with climate change stressors in the Arctic. Friedman and Noelle E.

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MAY 19, 2016

The preliminary results of the project will be presented at the next ITF Summit in May 2017. It is anchored in the ITF’s Corporate Partnership Board, the organization’s platform for discussions with the private sector. The work will be completed by 2018/19, in time for the first round of reviews of the COP21 decarbonization targets in 2020.

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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. Resources. —Professor Carslaw.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The climate change benefit is estimated for 2050 and human health and crop benefits are for 2030 and beyond. Black carbon and tropospheric ozone are harmful air pollutants that also contribute to climate change. Global benefits from full implementation of the identified measures in 2030 compared to the reference scenario.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Eads, Charles River Associates, was presented at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in Washington DC on 25 January 2011. The GFEI, launched in early 2009, is a partnership of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), International Energy Agency (IEA), International Transport Forum (ITF) and FIA Foundation.

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MAY 27, 2010

The calculates future global aviation emissions of carbon dioxide and NO x from air traffic under four of the IPCC/SRES (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change/Special Report on Emissions Scenarios) scenarios: A1B, A2, B1, and B2. Tags: Aviation Climate Change Emissions. Owen et al. Bethan Owen, David S. Technol. ,

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MAY 10, 2024

The increase in global energy demands, diminution of fossil fuels , and its harmful effects on the environment have attracted the use of lignocellulosic biomass as an alternative sustainable source for chemicals, materials, and liquid fuels. Currently, biomass contributes 10% (5 x 10 -19 kJ) to global energy consumption.

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JANUARY 27, 2018

Aerosol impacts on cloud processes via this pathway are known as aerosol indirect effects, referred to as aerosol-cloud interaction in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. Aerosol impacts are a key uncertainty in understanding the current and future climate as well as extreme weather.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7 Relying almost exclusively on oil for transportation hurts our air, our health, and our environment. billion by 2050.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As the second-most populous country in the world and one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels, India is making significant strides in adopting electric vehicles (EVs) as a solution to combat climate change and reduce air pollution. Moreover, electric autos contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.

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JULY 30, 2010

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied 10 petitions challenging its 2009 determination that climate change is real, is occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities, and threatens human health and the environment. Four other independent reviews came to similar conclusions.

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APRIL 2, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. BC influences climate through multiple mechanisms. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

A number of factors are pushing Saudi Arabia to raise its crude-oil production capacity, but the wide range of potential outcomes suggests that such an increase is a risky strategy for the kingdom and the global environment, according to a new article by an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. —Krane (2017).

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MAY 29, 2014

Electric school bus fleets with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities are cost-effective with today’s technology, and could save schools money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving public health, according to a new study by a team at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE).

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

This is an increase 100 times faster than any change in acidity experienced in the marine environment over the last 20 million years, giving little time for evolutionary adaptation within biological systems, the report says.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its Grid Energy Storage report to the members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. At present, the report noted, the US has about 24.6 The report was commissioned at the request of Senator Ron Wyden, Committee Chairman. GW (approx. Industry acceptance.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

As glaciers and climate change occurred, their populations were pushed south. How much of the variation in the plant traits are driven by genetics or the environment or the interaction between genes and the environment? Interest in developing genomic resources for P. Tom Juenger. —Tom Tom Juenger. hallii var.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2009

Transport emissions could double their current relative net contribution to global warming by 2100, according to a new study by researchers at the Oslo-based Centre for International Climate and Environment Research (CICERO) in Norway. Atmospheric Environment , 43, 39, 6260-6270. million (US$12.6 doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.05.025.

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