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NTNU study finds ships’ and spare parts’ contribution to offshore wind power lifecycle impacts has been underestimated

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Components: WT = wind turbine; Fnd = foundation; EC = electrical connections, including substation; Inst = installation; IOo = input-output, other; Mnt = Maintenance, excluding replacement parts; RP = replacement parts; EOL = end-of-life. ships and spare parts”—to the total life cycle impacts of offshore wind power.

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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

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This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. Assuming the offset is legitimate—i.e.,

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Kinder Morgan and Neste partner on major renewable fuels logistics project in US

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The scope of work also includes the installation of a new boiler for heating tanks and railcars and infrastructure improvements for rail, truck and marine movements. This clearly shows the positive role America’s existing energy infrastructure can play in creating a sustainable future and fighting climate change.

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Study measures the effect of regional change in clouds caused by ships’ emissions; masking GHG warming

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Past attempts to measure this effect from ships had focused on places where the wind blows across the shipping lane, in order to compare the “clean” area upwind with the “polluted” area downstream. F), a change that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects would have significant societal impacts. C, or 1.8

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CMA CGM creates US$1.5B fund to accelerate energy transition in shipping and logistics

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The CMA CGM Group has already begun to respond to climate change by using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a transitional maritime fuel. It is committed to enabling these facilities to generate enough carbon-free electricity (wind, solar, biomass-fueled, hydrogen-fueled) to become energy self-sufficient.

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Study Provides Evidence That Low-Level Clouds Act as Positive Feedback to Climate Change

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Other climate variables used in the analysis are sea surface temperature (SST), sea-level pressure (SLP) from the Hadley center, and vertical velocity, surface winds, and lower tropospheric static stability (potential temperature at 700 mb minus surface temperature) from the ERA-40 reanalysis. a positive feedback). Science Vol.

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Leading UK scientists set out resource challenge of meeting EV targets by 2050

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Last month, the Committee on Climate Change published a report— Net Zero: The UK’s Contribution to Stopping Global Warming —which concluded that “net zero is necessary, feasible and cost effective.” Dr Bramley Murton, Associate Head of Marine Geosciences at the National Oceanography Centre.