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Study: expanding Brazilian sugarcane for ethanol could reduce global CO2 emissions by up to 5.6%

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Mb d −1 of crude oil by 2045 under projected climate change while protecting forests under conservation and accounting for future land demand for food and animal feed production. of crude oil consumption and 1.5–5.6% The proposed expansion of sugarcane production is within the area that can be legally converted. Gigatons yr −1.

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Denbury Undertakes Midwest CO2 Pipeline Feasibility Study

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The feasibility study is expected to determine the most likely pipeline route, the estimated costs of constructing such a pipeline, and review regulatory, legal and permitting requirements. A third proposed gasification plant with which Denbury has a CO2 purchase contract, was also selected by the loan guarantee program.

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Study Finds Government Mandates Superior to All Other Biofuels Policies, But Mixing With Subsidies Causes Adverse Effects; The Argument for a Direct CO2 Tax

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For example, adding a biofuel subsidy with a consumption mandate fails to increase ethanol consumption but instead subsidizes oil consumption. The gap between the intercept of the ethanol supply curve and the oil price creates large deadweight costs that may overwhelm any external benefits.

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ITF: measures to decrease road freight CO2 emissions

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Trucks represent the fastest growing source of global oil demand. They account for 40% of the expected increase in oil demand to 2050 and 15% of the increase in global CO 2 emissions. Trucks will even surpass passenger cars as the major oil consumers.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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ºF) above pre-industrial levels as well as the long-term stabilization of greenhouse gases at a 350 ppm CO2 equivalent. In particular, Prentice seeks to shield Alberta’s emissions-intensive oil sands operations from the effects of emission reductions. “ Internationally, we reject legally binding emissions.

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New Study Finds Flaw in Carbon Accounting for Bioenergy, Another Contends That Indirect Land Use Change Emissions for Biofuels Will Be Up To Twice Direct Land Use Change Emissions

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Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct.

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Hey, Torrance City Council! Was That $80,000 Check You Took From Exxon A Bribe? Hush Money? Or Did You Just Sell Your Soul?

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Councilman Furey pledging his allegiance to fossil fuels, global warming and more CO2. Maybe Exxon money is the reason there wasn’t a single elected official or city worker in Torrance who would tell the city’s citizens how much CO2 that Exxon refinery was pumping into our atmosphere for the past two years.