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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

These clean energy technologies are pivotal to Brazil’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting its international climate commitments. Additionally, the environmental benefits of biofuels are debated, particularly regarding the energy required for production and potential competition with food crops.

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Viewpoint: These new energy solutions do more than generate power

A Greener Life

This rapid growth plays a vital role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Recent research shows that converting even a small portion of the croplands currently used for biofuels into ecologically designed solar farms can significantly boost energy efficiency and enhance ecosystem services. In 2016 alone, 12.65

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California Climate Policy: A Preliminary Report Card

Legal Planet

California has done well in terms of total emission reductions – about a 10% reduction from 2009 to 2019. Electric power related emissions went down about 40% from 2009 to 2019. Total direct transportation emissions in 2019 were about the same as those a decade earlier. What’s the Overall Verdict?

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How Green Tech Helps Create Sustainable Mobility in Cities

Earthava

However, one of its most pressing current challenges is reducing the carbon emissions from transportation, a sector that is one of the highest contributors to greenhouse gases. In the US alone, the transportation sector contributed 29% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019. A great example is a biofuel.

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i].

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CARB Attempts to Contain LCFS Credit Prices

Clean Energy Law

On November 21, 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed Resolution 19-27 , approving several amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program designed to foster stability in the LCFS market and promote access to electric vehicle (EV) transportation for disadvantaged and low-income communities in California.

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Tackling Agricultural Methane: Monitoring and Policy Strategies

Legal Planet

In a previous blog post , I briefly reviewed some of the innovative strategies to reduce methane emissions from agricultural livestock and rice operations, which have the potential to combat a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. This appears to be the only national level agricultural methane target currently in law.