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... - each credit equals one tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent. But more than half of the 773 million credits issued so far went to two controversial project types that cut industrial gases - mostly ...
2. The ugly side of solar panels
(Reports/Life Cycle Assessment)
...  researchers bring into account 3 scenarios. One is based on the average European energy mix, another on the average American energy mix (which is about 45% more CO2-intensive). A third scenario uses ...
... big-time in the fight against global warming - it overtook the US as the main greenhouse gas polluter in 2007, approaching 8 billion metric tons of CO2 in 2009 - over 20% of the world’s total. Previous ...
4. Carbon Footprint of Various Groceries
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Via Ecofriendly Company, 27-04-2010 The following table lists the carbon footprint of some groceries. This is according to GEMIS research published by the German News Tagesschau. All values in ...
5. Carbon Footprint of beef
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... This news is also significant to many canteens and restaurants. The employees favourite: steak as a climate killer? 51% (study by Worldwatch Institute) of all CO2 emissions worldwide are caused by the ...
6. Carbon Footprint of french fries
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... oil in the canteen and served. All this transforms a single kilo of potatoes (140g CO2) into a real climate-killer (5700g CO2). To-date unfortunately, an official CO2 stamp nationwide still doesn’t ...
... 175 kg of CO2 to your climate account.” This could well be the voice of the captain on a short-haul flight sometime in the near future.   The extent to which air-traffic is responsible for ...
... basis of the greenhouse gas emission (expressed as a weight of equivalent CO2 emission) which is the only common indicator between all tools (except OGIP) from the same materials (e.g. brick) and from ...
... an embodied energy saving of 65,700 gigajoules - equivalent to a saving of 6440 tonnes of CO2 emissions or 12,800 return flights from Christchurch to Auckland. •   The target ...
10. The effect of Aerosol particles
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... about how well aerosols - which can be flushed out of the atmosphere by rain in a month or less - could fight long-lived warming effects from carbon dioxide. "The CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere ...
... low expectations for the summit." 2. Will China and India follow? Historically, the U.S. may be the world's biggest carbon emitter — responsible for more than a quarter of the man-made CO2 ...
Recently, I had a read through EGE's website. Actually a quite good and informative site. EGE is a dutch carpet manufacturer. Since I had a couple of questions in terms of sustainability (sure I had), ...
... by the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington, Embodied Energy and CO2 Coefficients for NZ Building Materials, retrieved 2 March 2009 from http://www.victoria.ac.nz/cbpr/documents/pdfs/ee-co2_report_2003.pdf ...
... greener products will often offset higher costs elsewhere in their production. Cement is a good example. Chemical reactions during its creation emit large amounts of CO2, and energy is needed to heat ...
... big is the carbon market created just by companies on the S&P 500? The report found that if a carbon price of $28.24 were applied to each metric ton of CO2 emitted by companies in the S&P, as well as their ...
... lead to make a new screen, saved mining of new lead and reduced CO2 emissions from the recycling process (by lowering the melting temperature of the glass). Jo Knight of charitable consultancy Zero Waste ...
It just happened that I had to make myself familar with the Kyoto Protocol and it's implications for New Zealand. If you are interested in it, a good resource is at The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ...
18. Global warming proof undeniable
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New Zealand Herald, Monday May 11, 2009 Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva, responds to a recent article by Chris de Freitas questioning global warming. ...
19. Kiwis solve global warming riddle
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... by Victoria University Antarctic research centre director Tim Naish, found seas were warm enough to melt a large chunk of Antarctica's ice when atmospheric CO2 was only slightly higher than it is today. ...
from Earth2Tech by Justin Moresco The construction industry may be global, but standards for green buildings are not. That’s starting to change, however, as this week green building councils in Australia, ...
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