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DLR: cleaner aircraft emissions reduce the climate impact of contrail cirrus

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Ulrike Burkhardt, Lisa Bock & Andreas Bier (2018) “Mitigating the contrail cirrus climate impact by reducing aircraft soot number emissions” npj Climate and Atmospheric Science volume 1, Article number: 37 doi: 10.1038/s41612-018-0046-4.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. Just accounting for miles driven , however, BEVs cars and trucks appear cleaner than ICE equivalents nearly everywhere in the U.S.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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This article discusses the process by which the UN approves carbon offsets and the flaws associated with this process. The other goal, of course, is the system’s ultimate purpose: to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by channeling funds into cleaner technologies. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation.

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Tsinghua/Argonne Study Finds That Mass Use of EVs in China Could Result in Higher CO2 and Criteria Pollutant Emissions Than Conventional and Hybrid Gasoline Vehicles Due to Coal-Fired Generation of Electricity

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Therefore, coordinated policies between these two sectors are needed to reinforce EVs’ progress toward a cleaner future. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es100520c. Tags: China Climate Change Electric (Battery) Emissions Hybrids Lifecycle analysis Plug-ins. Hong Huo, Qiang Zhang, Michael Q. Wang, David G.

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IEEE Young Professionals Talked Sustainability Tech at Climate Week NYC

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summit, held on 22 and 23 September, aimed to improve global governance and establish a pact for the future focusing on the climate crisis and sustainable development. Meher , the groups communications lead and one of the authors of this article.

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Making Information Tech Greener Can Help Address the Climate Crisis

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivered its starkest warning ever. The IPCC concluded that human influence has unequivocally warmed the planet and changed weather patterns. At the same time, it noted, there is still a window in which humans can alter Earth's climate path. In August the.

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Public Transit or Private Cars, It's All About the Fuel

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[The following is an article I wrote in Earth Island Journal last year to answer the question "Public Transit or Electric Car? " ] Greater support for mass transit and appropriate land use policies that make mass transit accessible are essential. There is no catalytic converter that can fully scrub the toxics that result from burning oil.