Reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission, particularly from industrial production, to combat global climate change is one of the biggest sustainable development challenge for the international community. Countries are adopting Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), low carbon development strategies and climate change policies to tackle issues of climate change and at the same time meet their development goals. At the global level, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
As emitter-in-chief Donald Trump pulls out of the Paris Climate Accord, the time has come for a top-down approach to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. Jack Close explains. Environmentalists are quick to sing out about New Zealand’s excessive greenhouse gas emissions – and rightly so. In the large part, we are a gas-guzzling, river-polluting, plastic-bag-wasting country. But the rules of international trade means cutting back on production in our worst-emitting industry probably won’t work
Greenhouse gas regulation (GHG) is one of the ways that eases climate change while keeping Canadian economy. They must consider mitigating greenhouse emission under the condition of rising energy production and greenhouse gas consistently (Tarnoczi & Driver, 2014). In addition, Canada is a third largest oil reserves, as well as ninth largest emitter in the world and approximately 25% of greenhouse gas is attributed to transportation (Figures, 2015). Therefore, the effort of people is needed for significant
In the United States, the two largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions are transportation and electricity. Although limiting the emissions from electricity will be important in the future, transportation would be much easier to fix now. Greenhouse gases such as methane, carbon dioxide, water vapor and nitrous oxide not only pollute the air we breathe, but they also store energy that could be causing climate change. These molecules trap heat from leaving our atmosphere which is believed to
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Resulting in Climate Change The Sun is responsible for all of the energy that enters the Earth’s atmosphere. The Earth 's energy is in balance when Earth emits the same amount of energy as it absorbs (Schneider, 1987). But today, the Earth is absorbing more energy than is what is being released due to increases in greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere (Herbert, 2007). Out of the total energy entering the Earth’s atmosphere, as seen in Figure 1, only 30% is being reflected
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is a cap and trade initiative set to regulate and reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from power generating facilities with an electrical capacity equal or greater than 25 electrical megawatts (RGGI, 2015). The drafting of this initiative started in 2003 when Connecticut (CT), Delaware (DE), Maine (ME), Massachusetts (MA), New Hampshire (NH), New Jersey (NJ), New York (NY), Rhode Island (RI), and Vermont (VT) showed interest in reviewing greenhouse gas emissions
Alexander Quach Word Count: 2509 The Obligation to Educate and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions I. Introduction Many people, particularly of the United States, do not know about climate change (CC), nor do they know about how they are personally contributing to it. When discussed, most strategies created to combat climate change discount the power of education in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (a contributor to CC). In this paper, I argue that climate change causes immense damage by
out that a better way to fight against the climate change and reduce the greenhouse gas emission is supporting “nuclear energy” (“Climate Change”). Nuclear generation is also one of the energy that is able to supply the world’s electricity. Additionally, the nuclear generation currently avoids the emission “over two billion tons of carbon dioxide each year” (“Climate Change”). It is an economic development and greenhouse gas emission reductions. Currently, many countries are planning to use nuclear
2.4 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Thailand’s recorded greenhouse gas emissions from the year 2011 were calculated to be 306 MtCO2 (Global Carbon Atlas, 2017). This amounted to just 0.84% of the global emissions for 2011, which ranked 23rd among all nations (Thailand, 2015). Broken down Thailand’s emissions were as follows, Energy 222.94 MtCO2, Industrial Processes 18.23 MtCO2, Agriculture 52.92 MtCO2, Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) 43.19 MtCO2 and Waste 11.43 MtCO2 (Figure 3). 3 Mitigation
pollution that a firm can release. One such law is the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, which in a nutshell, stipulates mandatory reporting of greenhouse gases released by certain firms. In regards to the program, what is it, and what is its purpose? How does this program relate to accounting, and