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JANUARY 16, 2013

the distribution of black carbon in the atmosphere and determine its role in the climate system. Black carbon (BC) is the second largest man-made contributor to global warming and its influence on climate has been greatly underestimated, according to the first quantitative and comprehensive analysis of this pollutant’s climate impact.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Mining giant Rio Tinto will invest around $1 billion over the next five years to support the delivery of its new climate change targets and a company objective for net zero emissions from operations by 2050. Enhance resilience to physical climate risks.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. The United States buys power from Canada.

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MARCH 13, 2025

IEEE continues to raise its visibility as a trusted voice on mitigating the effects of climate change. Climate Change Conference (COP29). Then in December, IEEE and the International Telecommunication Union held a symposium on achieving climate resilience.

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AUGUST 5, 2023

These great masses store enough water to raise global sea level by 65 meters should they melt entirely. Although neither ice sheet is expected to melt completely anytime soon, their incredible scale makes even small changes consequential for the future of our planet. Thomas Teisberg, an electrical engineering Ph.D.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Billions of tons of carbon trapped in high-latitude permafrost may be released into the atmosphere by the end of this century as the Earth’s climate changes, further accelerating global warming, a new computer modeling study indicates. The control simulation on the left did not include permafrost processes. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 6, 2018

in 2007 to exceed 14% of the 2016-level worldwide GHGE by 2040, accounting for more than half of the current relative contribution of the whole transportation sector, according to a new study from McMaster University in Canada. Based on our regression fit, the exponential growth has a midpoint of 7.3% —Belkhir and Elmeligi (2018).

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MAY 5, 2022

The IEEE Board of Directors formed an ad hoc committee on climate change in February to coordinate its response to the global threat. Rahman: Its charter is to develop a cross-IEEE strategy to synchronize and guide the organization’s response to changes in the global climate. IEEE is here to listen to them.

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APRIL 2, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. Effects of BC on climate, as compared to GHGs. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JULY 1, 2009

New research shows that the amount of carbon stored in frozen soils in the Arctic and boreal regions of the world is more than double previous estimates and could, if emitted as carbon dioxide and methane, lead to a significant increase in global temperatures by the end of this century. Global Biogeochem. Charles Tarnocai, Josep G.

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JANUARY 7, 2012

Geographical distributions of global BC emissions from motor vehicles in 1976 (A) and 2006 (B). In addition to a reduction in uncertainty, their new model can be used to develop a global on-road vehicle BC emission inventory with spatial and temporal resolution, the researchers suggest. Credit: ACS, Wang et al. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Vehicles sold to fleet owners in various countries worldwide including the USA, Australia, Canada and China will be included in the WCP. Emission reduction calculations are based on an UNFCCC (United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention) approved methodology.

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JUNE 3, 2010

while the US GDP is projected to grow by 40%, according to the fifth National Communication on US climate change actions submitted by the US Department of State to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The United States released previous Climate Action Reports in 1994, 1997, 2002, and 2006.

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MAY 28, 2009

An understanding of the rate of carbon release is necessary to estimate the strength of positive feedback to climate change, a likely consequence of permafrost thaw. Melting Greenland Ice Sheets May Threaten Northeast United States, Canada. Permafrost. Ted Schuur, University of Florida and lead author of the study. Vogel et al.

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MAY 16, 2016

Canada’s Globe and Mail reports that as part of a more C$7-billion (US$5.4-billion), Canada’s Globe and Mail reports that as part of a more C$7-billion (US$5.4-billion), The Globe and Mail obtained a copy of the currently confidential 57-page Climate Change Action Plan, which lays out a strategy from 2017 to 2021.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

The International Energy Agency (IEA) last week launched the 2011 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO), the current edition of its annual flagship publication assessing the threats and opportunities facing the global energy system out to 2035. While there is still time to act, the window of opportunity is closing. —WEO 2011.

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JULY 25, 2011

A new study by researchers from Canada, Norway and China indicates that warming in the Arctic is revolatilizing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that have accumulated in sinks such as water and ice. Their paper appears in the journal Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/nclimate1167.

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AUGUST 31, 2009

What we’re not breathing is clean air, because the smoke from the La Canada-Flintridge fire, about 38 miles from here, is still making air quality hazardous and people in the L.A. So not only is climate change-driven drought cutting our fresh water supply, but the way we use water here also adds to our greenhouse gas emissions.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Global benefits from full implementation of measures for reduction of short-lived climate pollutants in 2030 compared to the reference scenario. The climate change benefit is estimated for a given year (2050) and human health and crop benefits are. for 2030 and beyond. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JULY 6, 2011

US and Swiss researchers have modeled two climate scenarios with very high carbon emissions—above the A1F1 scenario, currently representing the upper bound of predicted carbon emissions in the IPCC work—to investigate the resulting climate change implications.

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MAY 8, 2013

A frequently quoted estimate of the global methane hydrate resource is 20,000 trillion cubic meters, or about 700,000 trillion cubic feet. Clearly, methane hydrate has a significant role in the global carbon cycle, and it is gaining recognition as an important player in global climate processes and climate change.

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MARCH 27, 2010

The Asian monsoon circulation provides an effective pathway for pollution from Asia, India, and Indonesia to enter the global stratosphere, according to a new international study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. William Randel.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Better Place, which is an active participant in the global standards bodies, is demonstrating charge spot standards’ compliance with the world’s two leading charging connector standards—IEC 62196 and J1772—in Frankfurt. Continental, Intel and Microsoft. TÜV Rheinland.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The declaration is not legally binding and is focused on a global level. Signatories by category: Governments: Austria; Azerbaijan; Cambodia; Canada; Cape Verde; Chile; Croatia; Cyprus; Denmark; El Salvador; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Slovenia; Sweden; United Kingdom.

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APRIL 14, 2014

The transportation sector accounted for approximately 19% of global black carbon emissions in the year 2000, according to the report. Road transportation accounted for 9% of global black carbon, with diesel engines responsible for nearly 99% of those emissions. Climate Change Diesel Emissions Fuels Health Policy'

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JULY 19, 2022

Airbus and a number of major airlines—Air Canada, Air France-KLM, easyJet, International Airlines Group, LATAM Airlines Group, Lufthansa Group and Virgin Atlantic—have signed Letters of Intent (LoI) to explore opportunities for a future supply of carbon removal credits from direct air carbon capture technology.

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JUNE 9, 2013

A global phase down of HFCs could potentially reduce some 90 gigatons of CO 2 equivalent by 2050, equal to roughly two years worth of current global greenhouse gas emissions. Left unabated, HFC emissions growth could grow to nearly 20 percent of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, a serious climate mitigation concern.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Geoengineering is the process of deliberately manipulating the Earth’s climate to counteract the effects of global warming, while SRM is a type of geoengineering that seeks to reflect sunlight by various means to reduce warming. The study found that public awareness of geoengineering is broad.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This was agreed by: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey,the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union, as well as Ethiopia, Spain, Senegal, Brunei, Kazakhstan, and Singapore.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2020

BASF is launching the pilot platform reciChain in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, as a response to plastic waste. According to a report produced by Deloitte for Environment and Climate Change Canada , Canada disposed of nearly 3.3 —Marcelo Lu, President, BASF Canada.

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APRIL 24, 2023

As part of the agreements, Caterpillar and NMG have mapped the development, and testing of equipment and infrastructure at the company’s Matawinie Mine in Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Québec, Canada. NMG owns a 100% interest in the Matawinie graphite property located in Saint-Michel-des-Saints, 150 km north of Montréal, Québec.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Global surface temperatures continue to. Source: State of the Climate in 2010. Worldwide, 2010 was one of the two warmest years on record, according to NOAA’s just-released 2010 State of the Climate report. Source: State of the Climate in 2010. rise, as 2010 was one of the two warmest. years on record.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

Inefficient fossil fuel subsidies encourage wasteful consumption, distort markets, impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to deal with climate change. Many countries are reducing fossil fuel subsidies while preventing adverse impact on the poorest.

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MAY 24, 2009

A new report from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)— The Canadian Oil Sands: Energy Security vs Climate Change — claims that prudent greenhouse gas regulations can limit emissions from Canadian oil sands while still enabling robust development of the energy resource.

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DECEMBER 10, 2016

Canada’s First Ministers (The Prime Minister of Canada and the provincial and territorial premiers) issued a joint communiqué and released the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change following the First Ministers’ Meeting.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Previously, there was not a cost-effective method for preventing and eliminating greenhouse carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, which is causing global warming. There is building consensus that unchecked climate change can lead to a planetary extinction event. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 1, 2009

Ocean acidification is an important climate change challenge and is expected to cause massive corrosion of coral reefs and dramatic changes in the makeup of the biodiversity of the oceans, and to have significant implications for food production and the livelihoods of millions of people. units since the pre-industrial period.

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