Carbon Offsets 101
Tags: CARBON dioxide mitigation; AIR pollution; GREENHOUSE gas mitigation; POLLUTION prevention; EMISSIONS (Air pollution); AIR pollution monitoring; CLIMATIC changes; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring
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- Advancing a Market for Zero-Energy Homes. Farhar, Barbara C. // Solar Today;Jan/Feb2008, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p24
The article reports that U.S. policymakers, businesses, and citizens are serious about addressing the global climate crisis through carbon-mitigation efforts. According to the Department of Energy, buildings account for 71% of electricity used in the country. The annual carbon dioxide emissions...
- The relationship between short-term emissions and long-term concentration targets. van Vuuren, Detlef P.; Riahi, Keywan // Climatic Change;Feb2011, Vol. 104 Issue 3/4, p793
The relationship between long-term climate goals and short/medium-term emission targets forms crucial information for the design of international climate policy. Since IPCC's 4th Assessment Report (AR4), a large number of new scenario studies have been published. This paper reviews this new...
- IS AEROSOL GEOENGINEERING ETHICALLY PREFERABLE TO OTHER CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGIES? SVOBODA, TOBY // Ethics & the Environment;Fall2012, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p111
As a strategy for responding to climate change, aerosol geoengineering (AG) carries various risks, thus raising ethical concerns regarding its potential deployment. I examine three ethical arguments that AG ought not to be deployed, given that it (1) risks harming persons, (2) would harm...
- The winds of change. // Money Marketing;2/12/2009, p52
The article reports on the implementation of regulations dealing with climate change in Great Britain. Considering the country's legislative backdrop, the Climate Change Act 2008 introduced a long-term and legally binding model to discuss about climate change, targeting for greenhouse gas...
- A Fine Act to Follow When it comes to renewable energy, Germany is the undisputed leader. Taylor, Jennifer; Kitchell, Valerie; Balabanowicz, Julia // Alternatives Journal;2008, Vol. 34 Issue 5/6, p18
The article discusses Germany's role in stimulating the renewable energy market and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), enacted in 2000, is said to be most effective in greenhouse gas mitigation. EEG was responsible for reducing 44 million tonnes of...
- Editorial. Ziesing, Hans-Joachim // Economic Bulletin;Sep2003, Vol. 40 Issue 9, p303
Under the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the European Union (EU) has undertaken to reduce its emission of six greenhouse gases by 8% from the reference year 1990 between 2008 and 2012. The EU is keeping to that target regardless of the fact that...
- Carbon Emissions on the Rise. Russell, James // World Watch;Jan/Feb2009, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p28
The article reports that carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion worldwide reached an estimated 8.2 billion tons in 2007, which was 2.8 percent more than in 2006 and 22 percent above the 2000 total. Fossil fuels account for about 74 percent of all C02 emissions and for roughly 57 percent of...
- Baring all for climate change. // Sustain' Magazine;2007, Vol. 8 Issue 5, p8
The article focuses on several people who have shed their clothes in the Swiss Alps to boldly cry out for help against global warming. More than 600 nude volunteers posed for renowned U.S. naked installation artist Spencer Tunick on the Aletsch Glacier. Tunick, who is known around the world for...
- Technology Policy and World Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the AMIGA Modeling System. Hanson, Donald A.; Laitner, John A. "Skip" // Energy Journal;Multi-Greenhouse Gas Mitigation, Vol. 27, p355
In this paper we examine the interaction between technology policy and its impact on the full basket of worldwide greenhouse emissions over the 21st century. The heart of the analysis is the Argonne National Laboratory's AMIGA Modeling System, a technology rich, general equilibrium model that...
