Estimating the
emissions from steam or chilled water delivered to buildings can be difficult because the generating plants often provide no operational information.
CO2
emissions from energy sector has the biggest share in total CO2
emissions in 2008
For example, the 2006 Hydro Quebec study Greenhouse Gas
Emissions from Transportation Options found that transport tailpipe
emissions account for 31 percent of total Canadian GHG
emissions but more than 50 percent of lifecycle
emissions.
Quality data on
emissions are essential to the development and implementation of a system intended to limit greenhouse gas
emissions.
Since putting a price on GHG
emissions necessarily imposes different costs on people in different circumstances, there is an argument for starting at a modest level and indicating that the price will escalate over time to the higher level required to achieve
emission objectives.
Noncompulsory policies, such as information provision (labels, advertisements) and modest subsidies, do not increase the cost of emitting greenhouse gases and therefore fail to cause substantial
emissions reductions.
The shipping industry is exempt from many international environmental regulations and protocols, but critics are now clamoring for more stringent standards and oversight of the industry's carbon
emissions.
According to the EEA(1), the 0.8% drop in EU15
emissions between 2005 and 2006, which contrasts sharply with an increase in GDP of 2.8% during the same period, proves that the EU has succeeded in further decoupling
emissions from economic growth.
The domestic chemical industry continues to make progress in reducing environmental emissions--other than carbon dioxide--according to the Canada's Chemical Producers' Association (CCPA)'s recent 2005 Reducing
Emissions Report.
The biggest development challenge in meeting
emissions requirements?
EC set to include airlines in existing
emissions trading scheme.
According to Yale University's Climate Initiative (YCI), this Ivy League school in New Haven, Connecticut produced greenhouse gas
emissions of 285,000 metric tons in 2002, more than 32 developing nations.