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Fighting Climate Change and Unhealthy Air, California Wants to Electrify Trucks, Too

Union of Concerned Scientists

Compared to a baseline business-as-usual scenario, CARB estimates the ACF will reduce climate-warming emissions from the state’s truck fleet by more than 40 percent by 2050, equating to a reduction of about 300 million metric tons of carbon dioxide over this timeframe. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

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Capping Oil and Gas Emissions: We Have the Framework, Now Where Do We Go From Here? 

Enviromental Defense

However, it is a much-awaited step in the right direction as the federal government moves to cap greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the highest polluting industry in Canada. The draft regulations will then be followed up with final rules, so that the emissions cap is active by the start of 2025. The framework is by no means perfect.

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IPCC: Limiting warning to 1.5°C is almost beyond reach?

A Greener Life

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C They set out the state of climate mitigation and impacts in a report released on Monday the 4th of April. It was sombre reading.

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Tightening the Net

Legal Planet

But total emissions of greenhouse gases are around 50Gt of CO 2 ‘equivalents’. Delivering large removals would likely drive up costs of food and energy, exacerbating food insecurity and fuel poverty. Recent policy debate has highlighted the need for strong quality and accountability standards for carbon removals.

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U.S. Pushes Farmers to Develop A New Crop: Energy

Circle of Blue

The law provides $140 billion in tax incentives, direct loans, and grants to replace fossil fuels with cleaner renewable energy that lowers emissions of carbon dioxide. Gevo asserts its “farm-to-flight” project will release 80 percent less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than ethanol produced by a conventional plant.

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Explainer: China launches first national soil survey in 40 years

A Greener Life

It will take almost four years to complete, with preparatory works and trials already underway and its conclusion scheduled for the second half of 2025. The soil is the largest terrestrial store of organic carbon. An increase of only a few percentage points would sequester huge quantities of carbon.

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Maryland is Leading the Transition to All Electric Buildings

Greenbuilding Law

There is a move toward all electric buildings as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. All electric building codes require that new construction and major renovations be powered by electricity rather than fossil fuels. The fossil fuel based economy has changed, but building codes didn’t.