Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

Black carbon (BC) from incomplete biomass and fossil fuel combustion is the most strongly light-absorbing component of particulate matter (PM) air pollution and a major climate-forcing emission. Air pollution mitigation efforts focusing on reducing combustion pollution are likely to have major benefits for climate and human health.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

Canada Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced that Canada plans to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030. Canada formally submitted its target, referred to as an Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2009

The Government of Alberta, Canada, through the Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI), is providing C$8.83 million) toward a $30-million underground coal gasification (UCG) project with Swan Hills Synfuels of Calgary. The deep formations could also store carbon dioxide after the coal is turned into gas. million (US$7.0

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2010

They also note that if the scale of analysis is that of the entire economy, the value commonly referenced for economy wide emissions is that oil sands constitute ~5% of Canada’s emissions. However, this only accounts for the processing that occurs in Canada and therefore excludes much of the refining and transport emissions.

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Green Car Congress

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. The Framework outlines actions that will grow the economy while reducing GHG emissions.

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Cars That Think

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. One type is the ultrasupercritical coal-fired steam power plant.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The pyrg is only known to live in 13 small isolated springs around Thacker Pass in Humboldt County, an area where Canada-based Lithium Americas plans to develop a lithium mine. The sedimentary-clay deposit at Thacker Pass will use similar mining techniques to many coal deposits.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Although China and India remain the world’s largest consumers of coal, a new University of Maryland-led study found that China’s sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 75% since 2007, while India’s emissions increased by 50%. Illustration: Chris McLinden, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The next round of UN climate negotiations begins in Cancun today. ” The authors go on to say that reducing the non-CO 2 pollutants can delay additional climate warming by several decades. Technology is already available to reduce these climate-forcing agents, and doing so would produce strong collateral benefits.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2011

Because this proposed project will cross into the United States from Canada, a Presidential Permit issued by the US Department of State is required for the project to proceed. stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts. Phase out of emissions from coal is itself an enormous challenge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2012

The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Black carbon is released into the atmosphere via incomplete combustion of carbonaceous fuel and is of major concern because of the impact on climate systems. Earlier post.). Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

—Leo Johnson, Partner, Sustainability and Climate Change, PwC. Resilience will become a watch word in the boardroom—to policy responses as well as to the climate. —Jonathan Grant, director, sustainability and climate change, PwC. Whatever the scenario, or the response, business as usual is not an option.

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Cars That Think

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. Why should IEEE be involved in combating climate change?

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Green Car Congress

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. —Sanderson et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The working group will establish a joint action plan on how to best utilize the parties’ complementary strengths in research and development, technologies, processes, equipment, logistics, industry coordination and policy advisory capacities to combat climate change and improve environmental performance.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2019

The project is supported by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs & Climate Policy, which has agreed to develop mechanisms and regulation that will help bring this new technology to full scale to support the low-carbon transition of the Dutch economy.

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Cars That Think

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. Rahman was the events general chair.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

Half of the consumers surveyed are in favor of candidates who support approval of the Keystone XL pipeline to transport oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast, and 46% say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who supports expanded offshore oil development in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The LCFS would essentially ban imports to California of fuels derived from unconventional sources such as oil sands from Canada, oil shale from the Western US, or domestic coal supplies that can be converted into transportation fuels. Tags: Climate Change Fuels Policy. . — NPRA President Charles T. LCFS Complaint.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Oil alternatives can also be water intensive: ethanol from non-irrigated crops is comparable to oil sands mining, and options like coal-to-liquids can use 10 barrels of water per barrel of product, according to IHS CERA. Tags: Canada Climate Change Fuels Lifecycle analysis Oil Oil sands. Conventional oil uses 0.1

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. Earlier post.). —Nduagu & Gates.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

A growing share of output comes from natural gas liquids (more than 18 mb/d in 2035) and unconventional sources (10 mb/d, largely from Canada and Venezuela). The largest increase in oil production comes from Iraq, followed by Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Kazakhstan and Canada. —WEO 2011. —WEO 2011. Other Findings from WEO 2011.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy with less of the carbon pollution that threatens our climate. We have to find ways to boost our efficiency so that we use less oil. And we have to do it quickly. —President Obama. New sources of energy. America gets one-fifth of our electricity from nuclear energy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Eight new Midwest corn ethanol pathways proposed by Archer Daniels Midland describe a new very efficient plant using varying combinations of natural gas, coal, and biomass for process fuel. Conversion of North American canola oil, extracted in Canada from Canadian-grown canola, to biodiesel. livestock feed) produced. soluble; and.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As the world’s most widely manufactured material, concrete—and especially the cement within it—is also a major contributor to climate change, accounting for around 6 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Other projects are cooking up climate-friendlier recipes for cements.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The primary energy fallacy is the assumption that all of the energy in all of the oil, gas and coal we burn today must be replaced. We don't need to replace it, we need to replace the unwasted energy services.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 27, 2023

Our children and their children and their children's children will be paying that price.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 9, 2024

Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Then, in 2009, I was recruited into Google’s effort to make renewable energy cheaper than coal (an initiative we called RE While that last project didn’t pan out as hoped, I learned a lot from it. I grew up in Ontario, Canada, which achieved a climate-friendly electric grid in the 1970s by deploying nuclear power plants.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 30, 2023

Canada is an economic powerhouse that is powering away from its hewer of wood and drawer of water economy.

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Driivz

MARCH 31, 2021

Renewable energy was the main source of energy before the discovery of oil, coal, and natural gas. With the increasing threat of climate change, renewable energy has slowly but surely regained is prominence. Iceland, Norway, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, and Austria were the global leaders in hydroelectric as of 2019.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? While utilities such as E.ON Cheers — Al Louard 11.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 17, 2024

In 2010, I was consulting to Canadian National Railroad, at the time with the legendary Hunter Harrison as CEO. It was one of many times my decarbonization proposals bounced off of organizations, something that’s been inordinately useful in helping me understand how hardcore businesses view the space.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 25, 2023

Governments shouldn't be rewarding firms that are actually emitting more CO2e just because they are making hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Although most countries have already revealed their opening emissions reduction proposals, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer pointed out Thursday that “ we still await clarity from industrialized nations on the provision of large-scale finance to developing countries for immediate and long-term climate action. by Jack Rosebro.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Integrating these sources helps mitigate climate change, reduce air pollution, and protect ecosystems. Climate Change Mitigation: By displacing fossil fuel-based energy sources, renewable energy integration contributes to global efforts to mitigate climate change.

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