Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2024

Replacing gasoline with electricity greatly reduces the carbon emissions from driving. Based on where electric vehicles (EVs) have been sold, driving the average EV in the US produces global warming emissions equal to a hypothetical 94 mile per gallon gasoline car, or less than a third of the emissions of the average new gasoline car.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A study from Harvard found that in 2018, eight million people died from fossil fuel pollution—that’s 1 in every 5 deaths. In our analysis , UCS used the social cost of carbon to estimate the avoided costs of damages due to reducing carbon emissions. trillion under the net zero pathway.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Ross involves Prop 12, adopted by California voters in 2018. Also, unlike carbon emissions from out of state, out-of-state farming practices don’t cause any harm to people here. Cases involving issues like this one are hard to predict because they tend to scramble the usual ideological alliances. National Pork Producers v.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

This is a big subsidy for fossil fuels and a step in the wrong direction, when the government could have chosen to support clean technologies, help customers save money long term, lower capital costs, and cut carbon emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Since 2018, per-capita public transit service levels in municipalities across Ontario have been cut, on average, by 18%. While provincial and federal funding has poured into battery and assembly plants to build electric vehicles in Ontario, little has been done to actually help Ontarians get their hands on affordable electric vehicles.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As a versatile, colourless molecular energy carrier with great potential to decarbonize multiple sectors and help reach net-zero emissions, there has been a renewed interest in improving and expanding hydrogen production with minimal or zero impact to the environment.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Decision text of COP26 completed the Rulebook by resolving sticky issues on fundamental norms related to carbon emission markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (PA). The Rulebook sets out the functioning of international carbon markets to support global cooperation on ambitious emission reductions.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Building roads creates carbon emissions, and also leads to more carbon emissions from people driving on them. Although the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) has failed to release updated cost estimates, in 2018 the cost of building the highway was estimated to be over $6 billion dollars.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Last year, my UCS colleagues working on climate science and corporate accountability found, in a peer-reviewed study , that 37% of the area burned in western North America since 1986 is attributable to the carbon emissions of just 88 fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers. That 37% equates to 19.8

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Since the journey itself on existing roads only takes about 25 minutes it’s difficult to see how the government came up with that number, but regardless an expert panel estimated in 2018 that the average saving to people’s drive-times would only be between 30-60 seconds across the region. We’re in a climate emergency.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Since the establishment of the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production in the 2018 Farm Bill, federal funding has been substantially below its authorized level, limiting the capacity to support this burgeoning sector. Yet, these local efforts are frequently hindered by restrictive policies and inadequate financial backing.”

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But when the PC government was elected in June 2018, it cancelled those incentives. In Q2 of 2018, the last quarter with incentives, 3 per cent of vehicle sales were EVs. In Q4 of 2018, the first quarter with no Ontario incentives, EV sales dropped to just 1 per cent of vehicles sold. .” What happened? Marie, Ont.,

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A blue Arctic is of such importance to China that in 2018 the country declared itself a ‘near Arctic state.’ The blue Arctic is a key site of economic activity for all the littoral Arctic states, and indeed for others such as China. Open Arctic sea lanes dramatically shorten shipping times from China to Europe.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. In particular, the Dutch national supercomputing facility SURF does not produce any carbon emissions because it uses 100% renewable power produced by wind or solar in the Netherlands.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 11, 2021

I haven’t published regularly since 2018… Since my last blog post here I have trained for a technical degree in green buildings and renewable energy, interned as an Energy advisor for the healthcare sector and started a job as an energy manager for local communities. November 2018.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Storage costs decreased almost 70 per cent between 2015 and 2018 and are expected to keep falling significantly. Efficiency programs are the best and cheapest way to reduce carbon emissions because they both lower energy costs and carbon emissions. Construction worker installs new energy-efficient windows.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

Many carbon organic compounds are known or suspected of having direct toxic effects on humans, ranging from carcinogenesis to neurotoxicity. The study finds that total carbon emissions from the tar sands alone are more than the total reported across all industries for 2018.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

With zero tailpipe emissions, EVs present the potential to reduce air pollution and adverse health impacts and burdens on Pennsylvanians and their communities. -- Greenhouse gas reductions – climate change caused by greenhouse gas (including carbon) emissions is one of the most significant challenges we face today.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The US also works with electric vehicle manufacturers VinBus and VinFast, as well as Vietnam’s largest electric utility, to support the country’s goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The US Agency for International Development works with Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturers, such as VinFast, to reduce emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Natural gas had the same problems during a cold weather event in 2014 and the polar vortex in 2018. It is also worth noting that these nuclear plants are providing this reliable, around-the-clock power without releasing carbon emissions.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

World urbanization prospects: The 2018 revision, online edition. Department of Economic and Social Affairs PD New York, NY, 2018). Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Farmers struggle to break into booming carbon-credit market. PLoS ONE 13 , e0192822 (2018). Scale Carbon Emissions.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

Today the Flood Management Program combines the efforts of more than 15 City agencies as well as state and federal partners, and it is led by the City’s Floodplain Manager who was hired in 2018. Their work is an important part of the City’s long term commitment to reduce citywide carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The decision to ditch coal was the biggest single action of its time to cut carbon emissions in North America. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Electricity Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Historical and Forecast.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In July 2022, the High Court of England and Wales in R (Friends of the Earth Ltd and Others) v Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy found that the UK Government’s plans to cut carbon emissions were inadequate and breached national law.

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Vermont Law

MAY 3, 2019

In November 2018, thousands of protestors donned with yellow vests stormed the streets of Paris, France with the intent of protesting French President Emmanuel Macron’s fuel tax increases. While demonstrators protested other policies, Macron’s carbon tax policies initially caused the yellow vest riots. [1]. By Andrew Dinwoodie.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For example, hydrogen sulphide emissions near the village of Kenkiyak, close to the CPNC-AMG field were 13 times over the maximum permissible concentration, according to field reports from independent journalists cited below. In 2018, journalists reported that 92.1% of residents in Kenkiyak experienced unhealthy living conditions.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

That was the provocative question posed by David Coley, a physicist at the University of Bath , UK, to an audience at the headquarters of the Institute of Physics (IOP) shortly before it relocated to its environmentally sound premises at King’s Cross, London, in 2018. Overall, cement accounts for 3% of the world’s carbon emissions.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

Reusing venues and replacing fossil fuel with renewable energy use is essential to cutting emissions at a large sporting event. Approximately 95% of venues for the Paris Games will be pre-existing or temporary facilities, and this factor alone is expected to reduce carbon emissions by one million tonnes compared to new buildings.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

An Energy Foundation China report published at the forum shows that Inner Mongolia’s emissions are still growing quickly, with the highest per-head emissions in the country, at the equivalent of 22.8 tonnes of CO2 in 2018. If it benefits, it has to help cut carbon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 17, 2025

Reducing carbon emissions is another significant benefit of avoiding the burning of fossil fuels with offshore wind. In fact, in some parts of the country, offshore wind may become the largest zero-carbon generation source for cutting power plant carbon emissions and achieving net-zero carbon emissions across the economy.

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Manning Law

APRIL 4, 2021

In 2018, Parliament enacted the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act , S.C. Parliament passed the GGPPA based on an international consensus that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global climate change. Countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Transport trucks transfer raw coal in pits as deep as 200 meters at the East Junggar Basin on July 4, 2018 in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous of China. Basic reasoning suggests the manufacturing shift must have added to solar’s carbon intensity.

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Cresforum

JUNE 8, 2020

The legislation empowers farmers to be part of the climate solution on a voluntary basis and creates options for people and companies to offset carbon emissions without mandates. In September 2018, CRES was the first to introduce the voluntary framework to address climate change problems.

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Cresforum

JUNE 8, 2020

The legislation empowers farmers to be part of the climate solution on a voluntary basis and creates options for people and companies to offset carbon emissions without mandates. In September 2018, CRES was the first to introduce the voluntary framework to address climate change problems.

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Conservation Climate Change Clean Energy 2019 40

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Marcelo Mena, himself a former Minister for the Environment (2017–2018), “water scarcity must be tackled through inter-sectoral coordination. The whole world values the reduction of carbon emissions and the protection of the environment. Today, selling green products is more successful than selling grey products.”.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

As I have spent some sleepless nights since the latest IPCC report on how Mankind has to halve its carbon emissions by 2030. As we shall see, this is already currently happening, it is the moral thing to do, the best economic choice, and the fastest and easiest way to halve our emissions. A moral imperative.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 6, 2020

Hausfather admits my claim, “Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s” — is true, but then adds that it "overstate[s] the long-term success that rich countries have had"? And, again, he imagines me to be saying something I am not saying.

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