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    Ahmad Abdulrahim Professor Rayan ENG 114 Dec.3.2014 Air pollution Air pollution continuously affects the world in ways that are both invisible and visible. Human beings have a tendency of forgetting how harmful air pollution can be. Therefore, there is less attention about the future impacts such as global warming, health problems, damages of the ecosystem and natural habitats being destroyed. The least amount of effort that is being put into ensuring the future of the earth is better in order for

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    A cap-and-trade program sets a maximum level of pollution, and distributes emission permits among firms that produce emissions (Carbon Tax, 2013). The purpose of which is regulation of specific emissions by stationary and mobile sources, and setting a specific level which all emitters are re-quired to meet. Cap-and-trade possibly has less of a direct economic component to it than the other alternatives to reducing emissions described due to the ability to trade permits versus the expendi-ture of resources

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    Since the global financial crisis in 2008, the society’s trust in organizations has suffered a great loss due to the irresponsible actions of the organization. As the organizations are entrusted significant power among the society, people are increasingly care about the behavior of the organization, in other words, the society consider the organizations should take the responsibility to make an effort to improve the society, environment and economic. For example, the World Business Council for Sustainable

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    about one degree Celsius. Since human existence the Earth’s temperature has fallen within this narrow range; however, for the first time in our history we have pushed above our historical temperature range due to emittance of anthropogenic carbon emissions. Scientists are uncertain of how much warming humanity can tolerate before experiencing the most destructive and dangerous effects of climate change, but most believe that two degrees Celsius is a good starting point to aim for. Thus, the stated

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    website BC Air Quality, the bar chart depicts the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by various means of commuting. Context BC Air Quality created the figure by acquiring data from Transport Canada’s Urban Transportation Emissions Calculator. It is intended to be used by the general public: parents, young adults, students and teachers, as a resource that graphically compares the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by common methods of transportation. The graph promotes environmentally

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    & Krueger, 2016). It will cause a decrease in taxi companies’ revenue due to sharing the market with Uber (Rahel, 2016). Due to more cars on the road, traffic can be negatively affected and might result in congestion. It also leads to higher CO2 emission (Rogers, 2015). Government regulations and restrictions such as licenses are used to protect the taxi industry from competition (Petropoulos, 2016). Uber does not require its drivers to hold particular licenses, which has caused the actual value

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    increasing carbon emissions are not only harmful to the environment but also create several negative externalities such as damaging crops and higher health costs. For this reason, carbon pricing would help to shift these costs back to those who are responsible. Beale proposes two options for carbon pricing,, a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system. A carbon tax is simpler as the government sets a price for greenhouse gas emissions. A cap-and-trade system is more complex as allowable emissions are capped

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    against environmental challenges through policies and enforcement of laws. For example, on July 16th, 2015, the European Parliament 's Environment Committee voted in support of a broad measure to fight air pollution and strengthen laws to reduce emissions for member states. A report that came out the same period showed that the death rate caused by air pollution was at 10, 000 per year – twice the rate that was previously known

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    issues. As evidenced, the increase in productivity and resource use in order to increase strategic competitive advantage in the international marketplace, has resulted in the agricultural industry being the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand. According to Oram (2007), New Zeeland farmers effectively have two choices if they aim to continue to be competitive within their industry: “remaining commodity producers by driving productivity far harder by, for example, increasing

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    to note that disposal of materials is important for the environmental profile of electricity generated from wind power plant. Climate changes are contributed by the equivalent amount of CO2 emissions during each of the phases. The life cycle GHG emission factor is used as an index to evaluate the GHG emission characteristics from a global warming point of view. Honda et al [5] report provides an equation that’s generally used to evaluate the amount of greenhouse gas emitted across the entire life

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