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Real-time space observations can now keep watch over ‘super emitter’ power plants

Frontiers

Researchers show for the first time that this is already possible with data from existing satellites and instruments like NASA’s OCO-2 and OCO-3 (attached to the International Space Station), both designed to measure emissions at much larger spatial scales.

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Pittsburgh's PNC Bank To Power Operations With Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

This collaboration with Constellation is an exciting next step toward meeting our environmental goals of reaching 100% renewable purchased electricity by 2025 and reducing carbon emissions and energy use 75% by 2035.” Investing In Renewables Since 2014, PNC has invested nearly $2.3

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

Black carbon’s lifetime is on the order of days to a couple weeks, which is about 0.004% of the lifetime of other pollutants like CO 2 (which has a lifetime of 300 – 1000 years). This means that if we focus on limiting black carbon emissions, we will see very fast improvements in our atmosphere and health. link] Evans, M.,

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IMO Fails Duty to Protect Climate and the Arctic

Ocean Conservancy

The easiest is to slow the vessel down, reducing both fuel consumption and carbon emissions. Plenty of other tweaks are on offer, including the installation of wind shipping technology that can cut emissions by 20% or more. On the average ship, there are many ways to improve this. C warming scenario.

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Analysis: Can Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon this decade?

A Greener Life

The region will need to change its industrial structure and energy mix to meet national carbon targets, requiring policy and financial support from central government. Energy authorities in Inner Mongolia are aiming to connect 50 gigawatts of renewable power to the grid by 2025. billion) over the three years 2014–16.

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Analysis: How Costa Rica reversed deforestation and raised millions for conservation

A Greener Life

The potential for trees to capture carbon emissions through photosynthesis seems crucial to the recent upsurge. million tonnes of CO2 between 2014 and 2015. In 2020, for example, the country received US$54 million from the Green Climate Fund, in recognition of proving to have captured 14.7

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A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest

Law Columbia

The petitioner in this case requests that the NPCC be updated according to the best available science and the IPCC’s sixth assessment report ( Climate Change 2021 ) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by the Brazilian government consistent with a 1.5 o C global warming scenario. Background: Regression in Brazil’s NDC.