A new report though shows that the shipping industry not only need not worry
about emission reduction programs increasing their costs; in fact, deploying methods to cut emissions could actually save the industry money: That's the word coming via WWF of the International Maritime Organisation.
Not exact matches
We've reduced those
emissions by
about 40 % since then despite growth in the coal sector, which, if we assume that
reduction is all due to CMM
programs, implies
about 0.1 trillion cubic feet of methane, so not your «trillions» but not insignificant.
Sound Transit has clearly declared two facts
about projected greenhouse gas
emission reductions related to its
program and ST3.
They concluded that «after the introduction of RGGI in 2009 the region's
emissions would have been 24 percent higher without the
program, accounting for
about half of the region's
emissions reductions during that time».
Many of us have been pretty well beaten
about the head and psychologically battered since the election of state and federal Liberal Coalition governments and their relentless dismantling of
emissions reduction legislation and the various
programs and measures that so many of us have fought so hard and so long to get off the starting blocks.
We're talking
about a very expensive
program that is swamped, every year's
reductions are swamped by one month's increase in Chinese
emissions.»
The Estimator
program also measured my potential
reduction in carbon
emissions: at least 4,735 pounds of CO2 each year,
about the same amount that the TerraPass flight calculator told me I produced on a recent round - trip flight between California and Chile.
I mentioned energy because of the «debate» on this thread in relation to a newspaper article
about the alleged ineffectiveness of the insulation
program regarding ghg
emission reduction.
An examination of morning and evening news
programs on ABC, CBS and NBC since Nov. 20 yielded zero mentions of the scandal, even in the Nov. 25 reports
about Obama going to Copenhagen to discuss the need for
emissions reductions.