This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
and China’s top climate official, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Vice Chairman Xie Zhenhua, signed an agreement on climatechange—the first between the NDRC and a subnational entity. The NDRC oversees China’s efforts to address climatechange and much of the government’s economic strategy.
Population growth, limits to arable land and fresh water, and climatechange 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. ” —Federoff et al. —Federoff et al.
If SCE Won’t Tell The Truth About ClimateChange Why Should We Trust Them About Anything? After my volunteer stint was over I stayed for the presentation and workshop. The workshop was very well attended with over 130 local people showing up.
ARB will hold a one-day workshop to discuss ARB staff’s preliminary thoughts and sources of information upon which to base the proposed standards and test procedures on 18 May, 2010, in El Monte, California. This is the second technical workshop for the LEV III rulemaking. The workshop will be webcast.
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is holding a public workshop 23 March in Sacramento (and via webcast) to discuss regulatory concepts for prohibiting the use of internal combustion engines to power transport refrigeration units (TRU) on trucks, trailers, shipping containers, and railcars for extended cold storage.
In response to the ongoing discussion about the reliability of the UN IPCC and the climate reports, a group of 55 leading Dutch scientists working in the field of climatechange, energy and the environment wrote an open letter. Errors in the IPCC climatechange report are being seized by some to discredit climate science.
The California Energy Commission staff will conduct a public workshop on 15 December to discuss three grant solicitations to be funded by the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Program (Program). A minimum of $46 million will be available from the three solicitations.
The paper outlines three high-level solutions, based on the workshop discussion, to the challenges of electric vehicle market development: Educate consumer, the media and elected officials through a simple an effective outreach campaign about the benefits of electric vehicles. non-plug-in) in the US.
ARB will hold three evening workshops throughout the state to hear input from the public as this rulemaking process advances. ARB has held four public technical workshops on the proposed rulemaking since 2010; a fifth is scheduled for 19 July. The second workshop focused on staff’s initial proposal for. These are: 2 March 2010.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) released a new report evaluating how climatechange may affect the environmental conditions measured and used in mathematical modeling for oil-spill trajectory analysis in the Arctic region. —BOEMRE Director Michael R. Click to enlarge.
As part of C40 cities’ commitment to reduce GHG emissions and share best practise, the City of Hong Kong will host a workshop on Electric Vehicles in November 2010.
Climatechange is partly a technical problem, in that it has well defined quantitative dimensions. underlying the technical problem means that climatechange is more profoundly an adaptive. challenge, requiring changes in attitude, values and behavior on an unprecedented scale. Yet the human dimension.
The Green Idea City movement has been slowly building since the Hermosa Beach City Council embraced it at its January goal-setting workshop, as then-Mayor Michael DiVirgilio outlined in his March article in the Daily Breeze. Read the rest of the story on Hermosa Beach Patch.com.
Speaking at the International Scientific Congress on ClimateChange (ISCCC), which opened today in Copenhagen, Yale University president Richard Levin announced that the university’s new Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI) will be led by Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, who has headed the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC) since 2002.
The agreement calls for cooperative measures including the exchange of strategies and information on pollution control systems, collaboration on research and joint workshops and trainings. The NDRC oversees efforts to address climatechange and much of the government’s economic strategy.
When the nation addresses the growing danger of climatechange, as I believe it must and will, California’s climate plan will serve as the model for a national program. ARB staff held dozens of public workshops on every aspect of the cap-and-trade program design, and hundreds of meetings with stakeholders.
The joint statement will be submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on ClimateChange (UNFCCC) ahead of December's climate policy negotiations in Copenhagen. 360ppm is the level at which reefs “ cease to be viable in the long term ,” according to coral reef specialist Professor John E.N. Jack Rosebro.
The Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology Program’s Investment Plan allocates $176 million over the next two years to stimulate green transportation projects and encourage innovation to help meet the state’s aggressive climatechange policies. Tags: ClimateChange Hydrogen Plug-ins Policy.
Our relationship started about a month ago when we spent an evening together carpooling to a UCLA workshop on communication climatechange that we both participated in. ClimateChange: The State of Current Knowledge - 2005. And we were running a “Sharing Nature With Children&# workshop in the park.
In a stroke of serendipity, the City Council’s goal setting workshop took place on January 30 fresh on the heels of our round of initial meetings. Everyone we spoke to quickly shared the same vision and saw the better future that it proposes for Hermosa Beach. 1 city headed for carbon neutral, 87 more to go.
That means new jobs, cleaner water and air—and a working model for other states, and the nation, to use as we gear up to fight climatechange and make our economy more competitive and resilient. decision following a public workshop process. —ARB Chairman Mary D. mechanisms. In essence, under the compensation.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded 2015 Climate Leadership Awards to 16 organizations and one individual representing a wide array of industries from finance and manufacturing to retail and technology for showing what the agency said was exemplary corporate, organizational, and individual leadership in response to climatechange.
This could be accomplished through interventions such as community workshops to repair electronics and appliances or “tool libraries” where tools can be borrowed only when needed. C40 is a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climatechange. This research was made possible thanks to Citi Foundation.
We need the Benjamin to pay for certified instructors to teach bike safety classes to elementary school kids and to conduct rules of the road and safe biking workshops for adults. We need the scratch to pay for printing up rules of the road booklets and to offer free bike parking corrals at major events throughout the South Bay.
The statute, subsequently amended by AB 109, authorizes the Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help attain the state’s climatechange policies. The deadline to submit proposals is 21 February 2012; CEC is holding a proposal workshop on 27 January.
The analysis and results of the study will be shared with all such participants in a series of interactive workshops. Participants already enrolled in the study include OPEC, BHP Billiton, Statoil, Maersk, Lubrizol, Infineum and Fluor Corporation. Kevin J Lindemer LLC is an affiliation of independent energy industry experts.
It collects insights held at a workshop organized by the International Transport Forum in June 2018 in Paris and features the results of a survey among experts. However, achieving climatechange targets will also require the widespread adoption of solutions that are not yet fully developed, whether in logistics or technology.
ARB staff held public workshops throughout the state in May and July, and ARB staff provided an update to the Board in June. Tags: ClimateChange Emissions Land use Policy. Proposed Regional Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets for Automobiles and Light Trucks Pursuant to Senate Bill 375.
He is the quintessential modern explorer, for whom every big mission has a purpose, which generally boils down to environmental and climate-change awareness. Bertrand Piccard [center] and Raphal Dinelli [left] stand inside the wooden frame of an aircraft at a workshop on the Atlantic coast of France.
For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climatechange, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. At community events Hampel runs a free hands-on bike tune-up workshop.
Since the end of 2018, the company has been conducting CO 2 workshops together with its suppliers to agree on effective measures. As electric cars are more energy-intensive to manufacture than models with combustion engines, Audi has set itself the long-term goal of decarbonizing the supply chain.
Administration objectives for meeting national goals include catalyzing economic growth, reducing emissions of carbon dioxide that can lead to climatechange, and strengthening national security by reducing dependence on foreign energy supplies.
Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer – Deputy Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and ClimateChange. Connie Hedegaard – former EU Commissioner for Climate Action. The members of the Group’s Sustainability Council are: Prof.
And to help kick it all off for you, after the jump I’ll offer up the first ever Greenius Weekend Update: There will be plenty of time very soon enough to be overwhelmed with the crushing hard backhand of climatechange and budget reality.
The report was developed using computer modeling and incorporates existing studies; the state’s energy, climate, equity and public health priorities; and information gathered through a yearlong series of public workshops throughout the state.
Meanwhile, it has been indicated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) that reduction of tropospheric ozone would be effective in suppressing short-term rises in temperature, suggesting that the simulator could be useful in exploring strategies for limiting climatechange.
ERTOC User Requirements Workshop slides. Javed Akhtar, John Bailey, David Weatherby, Siraj Ahmed Shaikh, David Ireland, Daniel Payne, Luke Antins and Dave Barker (2012) Efficient and Reliable Transportation of Consignments (ERTOC). International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL) doi: 10.4018/jal.2012040104. 2012040104.
Environment and ClimateChange Canada will publish a discussion paper in February 2017 to help guide consultations consisting of meetings, workshops, and technical-working groups that will help inform the development of Canada’s clean fuel standard.
He also conducts workshops for teachers from all around California on how to start effective programs in solar electricity. I wanted to share this message from Brian Hurd, a solar installation instructor and president of Hands on Solar, Inc., who started the first program in the state for inner city students. Dan Jacobson. Thanks, Brian Hurd.
Hall (2016) “ Boundary Layer Ingestion Propulsion – Benefit, Challenges, and Opportunities ” 5 th UTIAS International Workshop on Aviation and ClimateChange. Preliminary Assessment of the Boundary Layer Ingestion Benefit for the D8 Aircraft ” Applied Modeling & Simulation Seminar Series.
Activities include networking events, seminars, and workshops. For any of our events, we can access this list of amazing people, who we can ask to give talks and offer workshops and seminars, Ye says. We wanted them to come up with a solution to climate-change-related problems and showcase their business ideas and models.
Worldwide, the car fleet is set to triple by 2050, with serious implications for the global effort to address climatechange unless reducing transport emissions and improving fuel economy become an urgent global priority, warns the GFEI. Cross-country flows of used cars. GFEI capability building efforts.
Challenges include climate-change threats to human infrastructure and habitats; cyberwarfare by state and nonstate actors attacking energy sources and health care systems; and the global water crisis, which is compounded by the climate crisis.
I bring a passion that’s driven by my sense of urgency over our climatechange crisis. And what it takes is a week of reviewing the six hours of taped presentations and all the PowerPoints and related links from the April 29 California Energy Commission’s AB 811 Staff Workshop.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content