Global warming potential

Saira Guillen 4600 Cullen Boulevard Houston, TX 77004 June 30, 2015 Deborah Salvo, Ph.D. Cullen College of Engineering University of Houston 4800 Calhoun Rd. Houston, TX 77004 RE: Proposal Dear Dr. Salvo: The enclosed recommendation report compares green roofs and white roofs, which I informed you of in my previous letter. The information in this report includes the cost analysis, which examines the installation, maintenance, and replacements costs of each roof type. In addition, the report examines

Sometimes we, as humans, don’t realize how much we use our resources. This project opened my eyes to how much we waste every day. The resources and how we use them on a day-to-day basis make up our carbon and water footprint. I used the two websites http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/calculator and http://waterfootprint.org/en/resources to calculate my impact on the world. The results definitely made me think about how I use my resources. For the two online calculators, I put in information such

Environmental and Resource Efficiency Improvement Plan Introduction The Environmental Resource Efficiency Plan (EREP) program is developed for One Stop Computers (trading for Asia Pacific region) to encourage carbon reduction of their product portfolio, improve the protection of human health and the environment and demonstrate responsibility of safe use of chemicals in the industry. AHM Consultancy is based in Hobart Tasmania and understands the challenges and complexity of creating Environmental

Global warming influences every country in the world adversely. In order to relieve this issue, in 1997, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) formulated and enacted Kyoto Protocol in Japan. At the beginning, more than 150 countries joined the conference. After that, other countries ratified Kyoto Protocol in succession. Until now, there are about 192 countries have already ratified the protocol. The United States, however, chose to drop out in 2001 after becoming one of the

environment plays an integral part of offering and sustaining livelihoods to billions of humans around the globe. Without rain, food security is adversely threatened, meaning that humans’ most vital need could be affected. Recently, the issue of global warming has caught many nations’ attention as carbon emissions significantly cause it. Greenhouse gas emissions around the world have been somehow unavoidable, but countries have sought methods to mitigate the inevitable outcomes. While it often seems

Third to First World Problems As a country develops the infrastructure for the country, must be established or develop at a rate fast enough to compensate for the countries growth. If the basic service infrastructure does not develop at a fast enough rate or is not established properly, people that are in poorer communities or of a lower class are over looked or mistreated in the way the service is constructed around them. One of the most visible ways this can be seen is the development of waste

A recent declaration has been made in June of 2015, by the G&7 nation leaders in favour of supporting the decarbonisation of the global economy by the end of the turning century. The leaders of these top 7 industrial countries have put forward the common goal of working towards a zero-carbon based global economy, which is said to eventually benefit the global society as a whole. The question brought up in this situation is as stands, how will changing to a decarbonized economy affect the way the

Title: Compare and contrast the contributing factors of climate change and argue that there is a need for more economically developed nations to take the lead. Nations around the world have been contributing to climate change by damaging natural environments and releasing greenhouse gases and there is a need for more economically developed nations. There are different contributing factor, but the majority of these contributions are from the more economically developed nations. Although the less

Memorandum From Harshit Jayaswal Date October 07, 2015 Subject Briefings on EPA’s Clean Power Plan: How state emission budgets were established, and legal (reasonableness and fairness) issues. This memo is my interpretation on the readings of EPA’s clean power plan specific to how state budgets where established and legal issues emphasizing the fairness and reasonableness towards the states. 1.0 Overview The clean power plan was adopted by the EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) on August

environment and global climate, and consumers are beginning to filter their shipping options based not only on price, but a shipping company’s carbon footprint as well. The table below displays the amount of CO2 (in grams) emitted per metric ton of freight and per km of transportation: Air plane (air cargo), average Cargo B747 500 g Modern lorry or truck 60 to 150 g Modern train 30 to 100 g Modern ship (sea freight) 10 to 40 g Airship (Zeppelin, Cargolifter ) as planned 55 g Global shipping is currently