Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. For example, West Africa was thought in 2005 to have minimal ASGM activity but is now recognized as an important source region. Use of coal for power generation and industry is increasing, especially in Asia.

Mercury 262

Mercury Emissions 2013 Global 262

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The accord calls for action to hold mean warming of the Earth’s surface to no more than 2 ºC above pre-industrial levels, but does not define reductions in greenhouse gases that might be employed to achieve that goal. All agreements would be legally binding, and would be subject to independent verification.

Climate 236

Climate Climate Change Tuvalu Obama 236

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Under the cap-and-trade system, industries regulated by it—the largest being power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement—are given limits on their total emissions, and companies can purchase emission reductions from others in lieu of reducing emissions themselves. 100% for some agricultural processes. Inadequate Oversight of DOEs.

Carbon 255

Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions 255

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

For example, a covered source (an entity in the power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement industries) can make reductions beyond its compliance obligations and then sell these reductions as credits to other covered sources. Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions from agricultural operations or specific industrial processes (GWP = 298).

Climate Change 218

Climate Change Climate Emissions 2008 218

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

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% ” [ 1 ].

Climate 236

Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions 236

Plug Me In

APRIL 9, 2024

I could almost taste Africa in the air, tajines everywhere you looked. A bus took me to Tarifa, and after a quick check-in, I was on the ferry crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, and just 36 hours after leaving Amsterdam, I was in Africa, a whole new world waiting to be discovered. A new look that I call ‘industrial chic.’

Mauritania 133

Mauritania Morocco United Arab Emirates Taxi 133

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

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. C to 2 °C above pre-Industrial Revolution levels.

Climate Change 244

Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions 244

Cars That Think

JULY 26, 2023

My primary appointment is at the law school where I teach legal philosophy. So it was from 1600 to 2014, about whether you’re allowed legally to go to war. And how does it relate to legal and ethical questions we have? It’s the famous example of solutionism as when Wired UK famously wrote, “You want to help Africa?

Legal 63

Legal Russia United States IDEA 63

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. They are looking at cutting the nation’s greenhouse gas output by targeting, in separate ways, three major sources of emissions: electric utilities, transportation and industry.

Gas 244

Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244