Climate Change, Legal, Power and Waste

Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Saying that “ investment-grade climate change and clean energy policy is required to shift private sector investment from high-carbon to low-carbon assets ”, a group of 285 investors has urged governments and international policy makers to take new and meaningful steps in the fight against climate change.

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Alberta Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation Awarding C$37.5 Million in Funding for Renewable Energy Projects from Biofuels to Home Generation

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JUNE 16, 2010

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCMEC) Corporation is awarding more than C$37.5 million) to five Alberta-based renewable energy projects including waste to biofuels and energy, concentrating solar power, biogas and home generation. million (US$36.6 City of Medicine Hat , C$3 million (US$2.9

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Climate Change Corporation Renewable Climate

Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

Green Car Congress

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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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change.

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Ford, Ford Credit introduce sustainable financing framework prioritizing EV, clean production, community investments

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Net proceeds from sustainable financing will be invested and expended in four areas: Clean Transportation – Designing, developing and manufacturing zero-emissions transportation, focusing on battery-electric vehicles and the batteries that power them across the full range of design, development, manufacturing and end-of-life.

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Financing Ford Clean Cleaning

EEA says industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009; some 37% attributed to CO2

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NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Estimating the magnitude of costs associated with future climate change impacts is very uncertain. The report does not assess whether the emissions from industrial facilities are consistent with the legal permitting conditions for the operation of these plants.

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Pollution 2009 Europe Industrial

Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Under the cap-and-trade system, industries regulated by it—the largest being power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement—are given limits on their total emissions, and companies can purchase emission reductions from others in lieu of reducing emissions themselves. 100% for some agricultural processes.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions

Massachusetts sets state GHG emissions limit for 2020 at 25% below 1990 levels, releases plan with additional measures, including Pay As You Drive auto insurance

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

The 136-page Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020 contains a portfolio of established and new measures that reduce energy waste, save money, and stimulate the adoption of clean energy technologies, thereby creating jobs at the same time that they reduce GHG emissions. Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan.

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Massachusetts 2020 Emissions Auto

Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. The city attorney asked me if I would dismiss my case if the city of Torrance would change their rules. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time.

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Solar Installation California Building

Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. Coal burning emitted some 475 tonnes of mercury in 2010, the majority of which is from power generation and industrial use. Use of coal for power generation and industry is increasing, especially in Asia.

Mercury

Mercury Emissions 2013 Global

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. It’s about time we changed course. Reductions in Emissions.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. RGGI: A Case Study.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

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Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

Alberta Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation Awarding C$37.5 Million in Funding for Renewable Energy Projects from Biofuels to Home Generation

Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

Ford, Ford Credit introduce sustainable financing framework prioritizing EV, clean production, community investments

EEA says industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009; some 37% attributed to CO2

Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Massachusetts sets state GHG emissions limit for 2020 at 25% below 1990 levels, releases plan with additional measures, including Pay As You Drive auto insurance

Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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