Suh, S. 2008: An integrated accounting and analytical framework for corporate
GHG emission reporting and product carbon footprint: a review, World Resources Institute (WRI).
GHG emissions are required by no less than 3 regulations and all three are tabulated: a.
GHG emission reporting CDX; b. Annual emissions reports for large discharges required by state SIP's, Title V and CAA, and c. monthly / quarterly / annual fuel use reporting requirements.
Besides how does one then convert Quad BTU back into GtC or GtCO2 or MtOe or PgC or TW electricity supply in their own minds for comparison with other energy use and
GHG emissions reports (without losing the plot)?
Not exact matches
Suncor
reports that it has cut its greenhouse - gas
emissions (
GHGs) per barrel by 45 % over the same period.
Walmart does not disclose
GHG emissions from its international marine shipping activities; it does estimate
emissions from all «upstream transportation and distribution» — which includes marine shipping, trucking, air freight and rail freight — in its 2014 Carbon Disclosure Project
report.
Probably the most discussed aspect of the NGP
Report (see this excellent discussion on CBC's The 180 beginning at around the seven minute mark) is the JRP's treatment (or lack thereof) of «upstream» greenhouse gas
emissions (
GHGs), and specifically the apparent asymmetry between the JRP's decision to consider the need to open markets for projected increases in oil production — the vast majority of which would uncontrovertibly be from the oil sands — but not the
GHGs associated with this projected growth.
Today, with great praise from industry, a new
report, commissioned by the Alberta Government, on oilsands
GHG emissions was released.
This
report, by Jacobs Consultancy, assesses the degree to which oilsands
GHG emissions compare to other sources of crude entering the European Union.
The
report considers alternative investments of $ 5 billion, particularly in green economic development that would also reduce our
GHG emissions and our reliance on fossil fuels.
Carbon footprints as shown in the
report refer to greenhouse gas (
GHG)
emissions per unit of product and thereby allow assessments at that level.
California Vineyard Greenhouse Gas
Emissions: Assessment of the Available Literature and Determination of Research Needs - A summary
report of a literature review used to determine what was known about California vineyard
GHG production and sequestration potential.
FrieslandCampina, Fonterra, and Arla have all refuted the
GHG emission amounts calculated by GRAIN, claiming that the conversion factor used in the
report is inaccurate.
The global dairy sector contributes 4 % to global
GHG emissions with an estimated 2.7 % coming from global milk production, processing, and transportation, according to a
report conducted by the FAO in 2007.
The
report contributes to the growing pool of evidence that reducing
GHG emissions can take place while sustaining and contributing to sectorial and economic growth.
The
report is based on the JRC's
Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), which is not only unique in its space and time coverage, but also in its completeness and consistency of the emissions compilations for multiple pollutants: the greenhouse gases (GHG), air pollutants and
Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), which is not only unique in its space and time coverage, but also in its completeness and consistency of the
emissions compilations for multiple pollutants: the greenhouse gases (GHG), air pollutants and
emissions compilations for multiple pollutants: the greenhouse gases (
GHG), air pollutants and aerosols.
A new
report by the National Research Council finds that in terms of the scale of
GHG emissions reductions required to mitigate anthropogenic climate change, the U.S.
The member states of the European Union
report their
GHG emissions and removals to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the European Commission annually.
In a draft of the first Review
Report for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), the staff of the California Air Resources Board (ARB) notes that the harmonization of LCFS programs globally will be important «for ensuring that global
GHG emission reductions actually result from these programs».
ACRP
Report 11: Guidebook on Preparing Airport Greenhouse Gas
Emissions Inventories provides a framework for identifying and quantifying specific components of airport contributions to greenhouse gas emissio
Emissions Inventories provides a framework for identifying and quantifying specific components of airport contributions to greenhouse gas
emissionsemissions (
GHG).
This
report evaluates how states and local areas might contribute to
GHG emission reduction through transportation planning.
Remembering this EIA
report only covers * energy use * and not total
GHG emissions from all sources combined.
If you look at my original comments regarding stopping the increase in
GHG emissions within five years, to be followed by steep reductions to near zero
emissions within ten years, you will see that I have in fact cited, and quoted, sources — beginning with the IEA's recent
report.
There is a
report from the energy and resources group at UC Berkeley (/ / www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1748-9326/1/1/014004/) w which details possible
GHG emissions per MJ of final fuel.
In the PR, I included a general comment that
GHG emissions were the main cause of rapid global warming based on an enormous number of well documented
reports and evidence.
According to the Fifth Assessment
Report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global
GHG emissions in 2050 need to be reduced by no less than 41 to 72 per cent compared to the
emissions in 2010.
Concentration at stabilization including
GHGs and aerosols (2008 = 395 ppm) Peaking year of CO 2
emissions Change in CO 2
emissions in 2050 (percent of 2000
emissions) 2.0 -2.4350-400445-4902000-2015 − 85 to − 50 2.4 -2.8400-440490-5352000-2020 − 60 to − 30 2.8 -3.2440-485535-5902010-2030 − 30 to +5 3.2 -4.0485-570590-7102020-2060 +10 to +60 4.0 -4.9570-660710-8552050-2080 +25 to +85 4.9 -6.1660-790855-11302060-2090 +90 to +140 Data from: IPCC, 2007: Synthesis
Report.
The
report clearly states that the first - best option for preventing climate change is stopping
GHG emissions, and that neither the development of CDR approaches nor the development of Albedo Modification approaches will change this finding.
In very general terms, this is because the agreement does not legally bind the US to any new commitments that it does not already perform under the UNFCCC (an international climate treaty signed and ratified by the US in 1992), such as fulfilling requirements to monitor and
report on
GHG emissions.
In its latest
report, the IPCC said: «Net negative
emissions can be achieved when more
GHGs are sequestered than are released into the atmosphere (e.g., by using bio-energy in combination with carbon dioxide capture and storage).
Above: the projected
emissions gap in 2030 in the UNEP
report shows that countries are not planning to make the necessary
GHG emissions reductions to avoid overshooting our carbon «budget», meaning that large - scale CDR would be necessary to fill the gap and prevent climate change.
The
report includes
emissions tracking data from 2010, which shows Oregon has been able to arrest the growth of
GHG emissions so far and to meet its first state goal.
«Countries can already
report their
emissions or removals of
GHG in wetlands using the tier 1 or default method,» Hergoualc» h points out.
8 percent respectively of total
GHG emissions in CO2 equivalent and total CO2
emissions of the
reporting Annex I Parties.
The NIRs contain detailed descriptive and numerical information and the CRFs contain summary, sectoral and trend tables for all greenhouse gas (
GHG)
emissions and removals, and sectoral background data tables for
reporting implied
emission factors and activity data.
[14] Stephen D. Eule, «UNFCCC
Report on Country Pledges and Global
GHG Emissions: Gon na Take You Higher,» U.S. Chamber of Commerce, http://www.energyxxi.org/sites/default/files/UNFCCC%20Analysis%20of%20INDCs%20FINAL.pdf (accessed February 23, 2016).
SACRAMENTO, CA, November 7, 2017 - The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International, is proposing updates to the ACR Standard, which details ACR's requirements and specifications for the quantification, monitoring, and
reporting of project - based
GHG emissions reductions and removals, third - party verification, project registration, and issuance of offsets.
They
report in Environmental Research Letters that they examined 740 different production systems for 90 different foods, to calculate levels of land use, greenhouse gas
emissions (
GHGs), fossil fuel energy use, the nutrient runoff that leads to eutrophication or «dead zones» in lakes and rivers, and the potential for acidification of the waters.
The proposed Keystone XL pipeline for transporting oilsands - derived crude to Gulf Coast refineries would have «no material impact» on US greenhouse gas (
GHG)
emissions, according to a new Insight
report by IHS CERA.
Dinneen charged that ARB made no attempt whatsoever in the FSOR to respond to the
reports by NERA Economic Consulting submitted by RFA on the issue of timing of
GHG emissions.
This analytical
report aims to show how broadband can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas (
GHG)
emissions, as well as mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.
Methodologies and data available for quantifying
GHG emissions from peatlands and organic soils are summarized and practical solutions are given concerning measuring,
reporting and verification (MRV) and accounting.
The main objective of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories is to develop and refine a methodology for the calculation and
reporting of national
GHG emissions and removals.
The WGI
report is based on a new type of scenarios of future anthropogenic
emissions called Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), which include a mitigation scenario leading to a very low climate forcing, two stabilization scenarios and one scenario with very high
GHG emissions.
IPCC - 37: IPCC 37 will consider two methodology
reports: the «2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands»; and the good practice guidance on estimating
GHG emissions and removals from land use, land - use change and forestry under the Kyoto Protocol.
Requires the President to: (1)
report to Congress, by January 1, 2017, and biannually thereafter, on the effectiveness of the distribution of
emission allowance rebates in mitigating carbon leakage in eligible industrial sectors: (2) establish, if there is no multilateral agreement on reducing
GHGs in force by January 1, 2018, an international reserve allowance program for each eligible industrial sector unless the President determines and the Congress concurs that the program, or inclusion of a sector within that program, would not be in the nation's economic or environmental interests.
Targets adopted by companies to reduce greenhouse gas (
GHG)
emissions are considered «science - based» if they are in line with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature increase below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial temperatures, as described in the Assessment
Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
This analytical
report provides an analysis of how Mexico could significantly reduce its
GHG emissions without hindering economic growth.
This activity
report presents the conclusion of the Third FAO Regional Workshop on Statistics for Greenhouse Gas (
GHG)
Emissions.
It shows the status of
reporting of
GHG inventories by Annex I Parties in 2010, and provides a summary of the latest available data on the
GHG emissions and removals for the period 1990 — 2008 of parties included in Annex I to the Convention.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
reports that for climate stabilization to occur, industrialized countries need to reduce their
GHG emissions by roughly 85 % by 2050.