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Renault makes public its lifecycle study of Fluence ICE vs Fluence EV

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Quantifies the production of pollutant ozone (? water, and non-renewable energies (crude oil, coal.) Quantifies the quantity of energy (crude oil, coal.) Environmental impacts of the three types of Fluence (diesel, gasoline and electric) in the reference case. (EU Characterizes the acid substances increase (NO x , SO 2.)

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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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Bender is referring to the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury , a U.N. treaty named for a city in Japan whose residents suffered from mercury poisoning from a nearby chemical factory for decades. Mercury—it’s an intercontinental pollutant,” Bender says. “So So it required a global treaty.”

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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According to a report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the margin of error in measuring emissions by DOEs can be as high as: 10% for the cement and fertilizer industries; 60% for the oil, gas, and coal industries; and. REFERENCES. 100% for some agricultural processes. CONCLUSION.

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

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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The thousands of rocket launches needed to loft and maintain these space power stations would dump lots of soot, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants into the stratosphere, with uncertain climate impacts. It would take two or three of these giant satellites to replace one large retiring coal or nuclear power station.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history. as well as Honda Motor Co. Kwong asked.

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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

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Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal.