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Georgia Tech study projects potential mixed impacts of climate change policies on air quality

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The GISS ModelE2 provides the initial and boundary conditions to a regional climate model for the years 2006?2010 The CT1 and CT2 scenarios, applied economy-wide and in nominal dollars, are intended to represent an upper and lower end of carbon tax options. CT1 begins in 2015 at $20 per ton CO 2 and reaches $90 per ton in 2050.

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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

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If a cap-and-trade program includes offsets, regulated entities have the opportunity to purchase the “emission credits” generated by carbon offset projects to help them meet their compliance obligations. In this way, offsets would complement the more traditional emissions trading that can occur between two covered sources.

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California ARB releases discussion draft of plan to cut GHG by 40% by 2030

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In his January 2015 inaugural address, California Governor Jerry Brown identified five key climate change strategy “pillars,” which recognize that several major areas of the California economy will need to reduce their emissions to meet California’s ambitious climate change goals. Click to enlarge.

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California ARB: GHG emissions fell below 1990 levels for first time in 2016; down 13% from 2004 peak; transportation emissions up 2%

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Under Assembly Bill 32 passed in 2006, California must reduce its emissions to 1990 levels (431 million metric tons) by 2020. The state’s latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory shows that California emitted 429 million metric tons of climate pollutants in 2016—a drop of 12 million metric tons, or three percent, from 2015.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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His work promotes clean-tech solutions for climate sustainability, and his six-point solution to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the electric power sector is being implemented in varying degrees in more than 100 countries. Rahman has published more than 160 journal papers with over 20,000 citations.

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US EIA Projects World Energy Use to Grow 44% Between 2006 and 2030, CO2 Emissions Up by 39%

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Projected growth in world carbon dioxide emissions. World carbon dioxide emissions are projected to rise from 29.0 billion metric tons in 2006 to 33.1 billion metric tons in 2015 and 40.4 In 2006, non-OECD emissions exceeded OECD emissions by 14%. million barrels per day in 2006, increases to 13.4

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Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

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million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. Renewable methanol is also a low-carbon feedstock for production of synthetic materials. —Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Group.

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