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. Ramanathan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

In contrast, project developers determine offset emission data by comparing the expected reduced, avoided, or sequestered GHG emissions against a projected, business-as-usual scenario (sometimes referred to as a counter-factual scenario). REFERENCES. CONCLUSION.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

But when people talk about payback, they refer only to the net dollars to the driver. Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. Please see our Plug-In Hybrids page Wheres the payback? Are the batteries recyclable?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Smart grid refers to a number of technologies aimed at gathering more data on the flow of electricity through the transmission grid. Along with other industry executives, IBMs Schurr spoke Wednesday morning about smart-grid technologies in Washington, D.C., at the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Video Web 2.0

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank, and author of “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming,” correctly states, “For almost 20 years, from Rio to Kyoto to Copenhagen, we’ve been wasting time, pursuing the failed strategy of cutting carbon-dioxide emissions. Scenario No.

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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. INTRODUCTION. Member jurisdictions are moving forward with program implementation.

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