The Peak Oil Crisis: Copenhagen – Prelude to Extinction?
Although world oil production is likely to start declining in the next few years, followed by world coal production in another 20 or so years, neither of these are likely to reduce emissions enough for many decades to have much of [...]
Environment Canada released draft regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new vehicles beginning with the 2011 model year. Canada and the US are working towards a common North American approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by introducing aligned and progressively tighter regulatory requirements over the 2011-2016 model years. [...]
With concrete steps towards a globally-supported climate change initiative finally materializing, many investors have been considering the addition of a green energy ETF to their portfolios, speculating that mandates to reduce emissions will funnel investment dollars towards alternative energy technologies. Wind and solar power ETFs have seen significant cash inflows [...]
Just three months after the Euro 5 Norm for exhaust emissions went into force for all new car models, researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have demonstrated an engine that is already close to meeting the more stringent Euro 6 emissions standard. A research team headed by Prof. Georg [...]
The EPA's decision paves the way for new regulations on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and [...]
Volvo Technology Transfer’s subsidiary Terracastus Technologies has signed a Letter of Intent with Nordvästra Skånes Renhållningsbolag (NSR) to establish a joint company for upgrading biogas to a liquefied biogas (LBG). This upgrading venture will enable NSR’s plant in Helsingborg to reduce its annual carbon emissions by 40,000 tons, [...]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final endangerment finding on greenhouse gases (GHGs), concluding that greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten the public health and welfare of the American people. EPA also finds that GHG emissions from on-road vehicles contribute to that threat.
EPA’s final findings respond to [...]
by Jack Rosebro
Four greenhouse gas emissions trajectories: (1) business as usual, in gray; (2) current GHG reduction strategy, in red; (3) 450 ppm CO2/2 ºC warming, in black; and (4) 350 ppm CO2/1.5 ºC warming, (dotted line). Click to enlarge.The combined effect of the latest [...]
An "endangerment" finding by the Environmental Protection Agency could pave the way for [...]
We've been told about the environmental costs of motoring, industrial farming, long-haul flights, big oil, deforestation in the Amazon and buying sweat-shop produced, throwaway fashion. Some of us have taken this' [...]
A study by researchers at Tsinghua University characterizing the unregulated emissions and combustion characteristics of low-content methanol-gasoline blends has concluded that while engine-out methanol and formaldehyde, as unregulated emissions, increased almost linearly with the methanol content in the fuel, the conventional three-way catalyst (TWC) has a high conversion efficiency for those [...]
As North Sea gas supplies dwindle, the UK must face up to the consequences of buying from abroad.
The UK is facing wholesale transformation of its energy generating system. The closure of end-of-life nuclear and coal power stations is coinciding with ambitious commitments to reduce carbon emissions and the demise of [...]
The world’s leading heavy-duty vehicle and engine manufacturing companies are urging the close cooperation between policy makers in Europe, the United States and Japan to develop practical and effective fuel-efficiency measurement metrics, methodologies and regulations which would then be used all around the globe.
More than a dozen chief executives [...]
Total US greenhouse gas emissions in 2008 were 2.2% below the 2007 total, according to the just-released report by the US Energy Information Administration, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2008.
The [...]
Global accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has analyzed carbon emissions from 2000 to 2008 and concluded that the world’s “carbon emissions budget”, or ability to emit carbon dioxide while still maintaining a “fair chance” of limiting average global temperatures to no more than 2 ºC (3.6 ºF), is about 10% off [...]
MIT researchers are proposing a novel electricity generation process using natural gas and solid oxide fuel cells at high electrical efficiency (74%HHV) with zero atmospheric emissions. A paper on their work is in press in the Journal of Power Sources.
The system suggested by Postdoctoral associate Thomas Adams and [...]
TACKLING climate change will cost consumers the earth. Those who campaign for a green revolution are out to destroy our western lifestyles. Such are the cries of opponents of emissions cuts, and their message has political clout: a number of surveys, including one by New Scientist in 2007, have found [...]
The UK-based Optimum Population Trust says fast-rising population levels lead to growing emissions.
The website is urging wealthy people to offset their own CO2 emissions by funding contraception programmes. [...]
NEW DELHI/LONDON (Reuters) - China and other big developing nations rejected core targets for a climate deal such as halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 just five days before talks start in Copenhagen, diplomats said on Wednesday.
China, the world's top emitter, together with India, Brazil and South Africa demand [...]
Idaho state air regulators issued a permit on Monday said to be the first of its kind in the country requiring a proposed fertilizer plant to curb its carbon dioxide emissions.
The first permit, issued in February, did not require the proposed facility which would gasify coal to [...]
Under its newly-unveiled Genesis 2015 plan, the University of South Carolina will reduce CO2 emissions from its fleet of vehicles by 90% within five years.
The plan puts Carolina among the nation’s first campuses committed to reducing its dependence on petroleum by introducing alternative fuels to power the buses, cars, [...]
LONDON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Executives at supermajor Royal Dutch Shell are pulling back on their optimism for certain biofuels while others look to batteries as a way to cut emissions.
Biofuels made from corn and other sources were lauded as a way to cut greenhouse gas emissions. A link to [...]
Nuclear power may be the only technology capable of meeting our growing demand for energy while keeping emissions down. Devereaux Bell offers his opinion.
Coal can be dirty. Natural gas is fraught with security and supply problems. So whats left to make our light bulbs glow? How about the atom?
Granted, the [...]
