U.S. Public Support to Climate Change Initiatives?

The Obama Administration Climate Action Plan is enforcing goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions below 2005 levels by 2020, regulating both stationary and mobile sources of pollution. As energy-related carbon dioxide emissions account for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions, the plan proposed carbon pollution standards for both new and existing plants. Impacts related to upgraded regulations have been projected as both favorable and not, with public and political opinions showing support among some groups and among other interests a concern. The purpose of this chapter is to analyze factors predicting which groups are supportive and non-supportive on setting stricter carbon dioxide emission limits on coal-fired electricity generating power plants. This topic is explored using multivariate regression analysis and individual level data. Findings suggest that comprehension of the policy area and individual financial situation are the most important factors in predicting support for stricter emission limits.

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U.S. Public Support to Climate Change Initiatives?

Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability - Handbook of Research on Green Economic Development Initiatives and Strategies ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0440-5.ch026 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 605-624

Author(s):

Mary Schmeida ◽

Ramona Sue McNeal

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Action Plan ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽

Change Initiatives ◽

Gas Emissions ◽

Climate Action ◽

Emission Limits

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Farming Facts

Eating Earth ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199391844.003.0006 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Lisa Kemmerer

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Gas Emissions ◽

Animal Products ◽

Plant Foods ◽

Dietary Choice ◽

Ocean Environment ◽

Carbon Dioxide Co2

Cheap meat, dairy, and eggs are an illusion—we pay for each with depleted forests, polluted freshwater, soil degradation, and climate change. Diet is the most critical decision we make with regard to our environmental footprint—and what we eat is a choice that most of us make every day, several times a day. Dietary choice contributes powerfully to greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) and water pollution. Animal agriculture is responsible for an unnerving quantity of greenhouse gas emissions. Eating animal products—yogurt, ice cream, bacon, chicken salad, beef stroganoff, or cheese omelets—greatly increases an individual’s contribution to carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions. Collectively, dietary choice contributes to a classic “tragedy of the commons.” Much of the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide (CO2) is absorbed by the earth’s oceans and plants, but a large proportion lingers in the atmosphere—unable to be absorbed by plants or oceans (“Effects”). Plants are not harmed by this process, but the current overabundance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes acidification of the earth’s oceans. As a result of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, the “acidity of the world’s ocean may increase by around 170% by the end of the century,” altering ocean ecosystems, and likely creating an ocean environment that is inhospitable for many life forms (“Expert Assessment”). Burning petroleum also leads to wars that devastate human communities and annihilate landscapes and wildlife—including endangered species and their vital habitats. Additionally, our consumption of petroleum is linked with oil spills that ravage landscapes, shorelines, and ocean habitat. Oil pipelines run through remote, fragile areas—every oil tanker represents not just the possibility but the probability of an oil spill. As reserves diminish, our quest for fossil fuels is increasingly environmentally devastating: Canada’s vast reserves of tar sands oil—though extracted, transported, and burned only with enormous costs to the environment—are next in line for extraction. Consuming animal products creates ten times more fossil fuel emission per calorie than does consuming plant foods directly (Oppenlander 18). (This is the most remarkable given that plant foods are not generally as calorically dense as animal foods.) Ranching is the greatest GHGE offender.

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Development of Low Carbon Cities: Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Energy Facilities in Irkutsk City

Energy Systems Research ◽

10.38028/esr.2021.01.0002 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 9-16

Author(s):

E. Maysyuk

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Current Trend ◽

City Management ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Gas Emissions ◽

Urban Energy ◽

The City

Decrease in greenhouse gas emissions is a current trend in solving the climate change problems. The concept of low-carbon cities is extensively discussed nowadays. It aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through integrated mechanisms and measures, which comply with socio-economic development and city management. Since a considerable part of the population lives in cities, the utmost goal of the study is to analyze the situation with emissions of the main greenhouse gas, i.e., carbon dioxide, in the urban environment. The major sources of carbon dioxide emissions are stationary energy facilities of different capacities burning fuel. The paper considers the city of Irkutsk as an example of the populated area included in the study on low carbon cities under the auspices of the Social and Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific of the UN - UNESCAP. The first stage of the studies involved assessing the current carbon dioxide emissions from energy facilities of the city through the calculation of carbon dioxide emissions from boiler houses and the city cogeneration plant for 1990. The findings revealed the potential of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from energy facilities in Irkutsk. The paper suggests the basic directions and measures to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from the urban energy facilities.

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Net Carbon Dioxide Emission from An Eroding Atlantic Blanket Bog

10.21203/rs.3.rs-991712/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rebekka Artz ◽

Mhairi Coyle ◽

Gillian Donaldson-Selby ◽

Ross Morrison

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Co2 Emissions ◽

Global Climate ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽

Gas Emissions ◽

Special Cases ◽

Blanket Bog ◽

Projected Changes

Abstract The net impact of greenhouse gas emissions from degraded peatland environments on national Inventories and subsequent mitigation of such emissions has only been seriously considered within the last decade. Data on greenhouse gas emissions from special cases of peatland degradation, such as eroding peatlands, are particularly scarce. Here, we report the first eddy covariance-based monitoring of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from an eroding Atlantic blanket bog. The CO2 budget across the period July 2018 to November 2019 was 147 (+/- 9) g C m-2. For an annual budget that contained proportionally more of the extreme 2018 drought and heat wave, cumulative CO2 emissions were nearly double (191 g C m-2) of that of an annual period without drought (106 g C m-2), suggesting that direct CO2 emissions from eroded peatlands are at risk of increasing with projected changes in temperatures and precipitation due to global climate change. The results of this study are consistent with chamber-based and modelling studies that suggest degraded blanket bogs to be a net source of CO2 to the atmosphere, and provide baseline data against which to assess future peatland restoration efforts in this region.

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Seasonal and diurnal methane and carbon dioxide emissions from the littoral area of the Miyun Reservoir in Beijing, China

Marine and Freshwater Research ◽

10.1071/mf17114 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 69 (5) ◽

pp. 751 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Gang Li ◽

Hongli Li ◽

Meng Yang ◽

Ting Lei ◽

Mingxiang Zhang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Co2 Emissions ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Co2 Flux ◽

Closed Chamber ◽

Gas Emissions ◽

Littoral Zones ◽

Littoral Area

Reservoirs have been regarded as hot spots for greenhouse gas emissions since the 1990s. However, there is scant research about littoral zones of reservoirs. In the present study, static closed chamber and gas chromatograph techniques were used to measure methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) flux in the littoral area of a temperate reservoir from 2009 to 2010. The littoral area comprises three zones, namely supralittoral, eulittoral and infralittoral. The patterns of CH4 and CO2 emissions from these three littoral zones were significantly different during the sampling periods, with the eulittoral zone having the highest CH4 flux and the supralittoral zone having the highest CO2 flux. Temperature and biomass correlated with CH4 and CO2 emissions. Measurement of CO2 emissions after removing vegetation varied in each zone and according to time of sampling. A large littoral area of the reservoir sampled herein will be submerged and converted to a pelagic area with deep standing water after the South to North Water Transfer Project is completed, in 2050. The results of the present study suggest further research and monitoring are needed, and should focus on likely effects of extreme climate events and the effects of human-mediated factors on greenhouse gas emissions.

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Construction of the Decision Method Based on Energy Saving and Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.962-965.1437 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 962-965 ◽

pp. 1437-1443

Author(s):

Hui Qin Dong ◽

Hong Lin ◽

Chao Huang ◽

Ji Sun

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Power Plant ◽

Energy Saving ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Topsis Method ◽

Gas Emissions ◽

Carbon Productivity ◽

Igcc Power Plant

This paper intends to improve the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method in view of the traditional TOPSIS method and combines with the current development of Chinese enterprises. By determining the index weights and attributes, it also constructs a new enterprise decision-making method which based on energy saving and greenhouse gas emissions. According to the survey's raw data, this paper not only calculates the energy levels of conventional coal-fired power plant in North China and an integrated gasification gas-steam combined cycle (IGCC) power plant, but also computes their carbon dioxide emissions. The results show that under the same circumstances, the energy consumption of IGCC power plant is lower than that of the conventional coal-fired power plants, has less carbon dioxide emissions, lower carbon intensity and higher carbon productivity. On the basis, using the improved TOPSIS method, the paper calculates the numerical superiority of two schemes and sorts of them, verified the correctness of this construction method.

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REDUCING TOTAL ENERGY COSTS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL OPERATIONS IN AGRICULTURE - A WAY TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TO THE ATMOSPHERE

Vestnik of Kazan state agrarin university ◽

10.12737/2073-0462-2021-43-47 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 43-47

Author(s):

Kamil Khafizov

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Total Energy ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Energy Costs ◽

Gas Emissions ◽

Energy Unit ◽

Monetary Unit ◽

Reduce Carbon Dioxide

The article is devoted to the search for ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere when performing technological operations in agricultural production. It is proposed to calculate the efficiency of using machine and tractor units based on the methods of physical economics, when not a monetary unit is used as an indicator of efficiency, but an energy unit, which is an indirect indicator of saving or increasing emissions of carbon dioxide. It is substantiated that a decrease in total energy costs when performing technological operations for the production of grain and other crops directly leads to a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. Examples of computational experiments are given to identify the most optimal brand of a tractor and optimize the parameters of the working width and speed of the seeding machine-tractor unit K-5250 + Agromaster, leading to a decrease in total energy costs and, accordingly, to a decrease in carbon dioxide emissions and carbon sequestration from the air by reducing losses harvest

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Due to Power Consumption of Household Whitegoods Appliances

Energy & Environment ◽

10.1260/095830502762231304 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 833-850

Author(s):

Caleb Stewart ◽

Mir-Akbar Hessami

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Power Consumption ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Total Carbon ◽

Gas Emissions ◽

Household Appliances ◽

Actual Energy Consumption

This paper presents information related to greenhouse gas emissions due to the power consumption of the following household appliances: refrigerators, clothes washers, clothes dryers, freezers, and dishwashers; a possible extension to this analysis would include heaters and air-conditioners. Actual energy consumption data for the period 1993 to 1999 were used to estimate the total carbon dioxide emissions for 1994 to 2009 incremented at 5 years; these data can also be used to estimate the energy consumption of these appliances for 2008–2012 with reference to 1990 for reasons of comparison under the Kyoto Protocol. The total carbon dioxide equivalent emissions for the above household appliances show a peak of 29.6 mega-tonnes CO2 around 1999 with a decreasing trend post 1999 to 27.4 mega-tonnes CO2 in 2009. Details of the analysis for selected appliances show that refrigerators account for over half of total emissions, decreasing from 60.1% in 1994 to 51.6% in 2009. The aggregate trend activity was found to highly depend on the trend activity for emissions for refrigerators. The trend activity for freezers, clothes dryers and clothes washers is increasing for consecutive years from 1994 to 2009 defying the trend exhibited by refrigerators and dishwashers. The reason for this discrepancy is the relatively higher decreases in kWh/annum for refrigerators and dishwashers in contrast to other appliances. The energy consumption curves for each appliance take this differential into account. The energy consumption curve for refrigerators predicts a much faster decrease in kWh/annum than for other appliances thus causing the downward trend post 1999.

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Methane and carbon dioxide emissions during electric power production

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202133004002 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 330 ◽

pp. 04002

Author(s):

Denis Zastrelov ◽

Ekaterina Lukina ◽

Ekaterina Snetova

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Power Production ◽

Energy Sector ◽

Emissions Reduction ◽

Gas Emissions ◽

Electric Power Production ◽

The Russian Federation

The amount of greenhouse gas emissions in the “Energy sector” on the territory of the Russian Federation is presented. The estimate of potential for greenhouse gas emissions reduction in the energy sector is considered. Recommendations for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the “Energy sector” are provided.

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ASSESSMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM INTERNATIONAL AVIATION AND NAVIGATION FROM THE TERRITORY OF RUSSIA

Fundamental and Applied Climatology ◽

10.21513/2410-8758-2020-4-38-53 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 38-53

Author(s):

V.A. Grabar ◽

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Nitrous Oxide ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽

Civil Aviation ◽

Nitrous Oxide Emissions ◽

Total Emission ◽

Intergovernmental Panel ◽

Gas Emissions

The current intensive development of shipping and aviation is accompanied by an increase in anthropogenic impact on the environment and climate. According to the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) assessments, greenhouse gas emissions from international air and sea traffic are expected to increase by 2-3 times by 2050. Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions from international aviation and navigation from the territory of Russia for the period of 1990-2018 were estimated, the dynamics and the main drivers of emissions changes are analyzed, international comparisons are provided. The calculation was made in accordance with the methodology of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change based on the data from the Federal Air Transport Agency and IAA «Port News». Analysis of historical trends shows that greenhouse gas emissions dynamics during the reporting period for international sea and air shippingis almost the same. In 2018, the total emission of CO2, СH4 and N2O from international transport from the territory of Russia amounted to 47.0 million tons of CO2-equivalent, which is 2.7 times higher than in 1990. Carbon dioxide dominates in the component composition of the emissions, its share in the total emission amounted to 99.5%. Contributions of methane and nitrous oxide emissions were 0.1% and 0.4%, respectively. Shipping makes a major contribution to emissions. Russia's share of worldwide carbon dioxide emission from international water and aviation transport does not exceed 3.5%.Emissions from aviation and shipping have been largely driven by economy and international trade. Greenhouse gases emissions from international aviation and maritime transport are expected to decrease in the coming years related to IMO's banon high-sulfur fuel use and reduction of international air and sea traffic in the light of the spread of the coronavirus in 2020.

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