Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Chicago’s new CAP aims to remedy those problems and chart an equitable path to cut the city’s carbon emissions by at least 60 percent by 2040. Residential, commercial and industrial buildings account for nearly 70 percent of Chicago’s carbon footprint. Building Retrofits. Building Decarbonization.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

This is a big subsidy for fossil fuels and a step in the wrong direction, when the government could have chosen to support clean technologies, help customers save money long term, lower capital costs, and cut carbon emissions. Heat pumps are cheaper to operate and also provide air-conditioning and heating in one unit.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 25, 2023

According to the report, the transportation, electricity and residential heating and cooling sectors are responsible for almost 75% of Connecticut’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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Greenhouse Cooling Electricity Carbon Emissions 130

Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

One reason to save energy is to limit carbon emissions from the energy we use. But energy conservation is important for reasons that go beyond the direct effect on emissions. If cooling your house gets cheaper because you’re more energy efficiency, you might decide you can afford to keep your house even cooler.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On the other end of the electric grid, advanced technologies can help reduce the amount of energy that is required for basic services like lighting, heating, and cooling. However, there is a big piece of this puzzle that is missing. Utilization of these efficiency technologies severely lags the adoption of renewable energy. Today in Energy.

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A Greener Life

JULY 28, 2021

Trees produce shade, but they also cool the air through transpiration. A building shaded by trees has lower air conditioning costs, which also reduces both direct heat and carbon emissions. Trees remain the best place to start for cooling the city. The best time to plant a tree, as they say, is twenty years ago.

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Cooling Carbon Emissions Regulations 98

Physics World

JUNE 28, 2021

The device uses waste heat from the solar cell for desalination, thereby cooling the solar cell. However, current desalination systems can be expensive and energy hungry, producing significant carbon emissions. It also produces no concentrated brine as waste, cutting its potential environmental impact.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In the EU’s carbon market, EU ETS , the cost of emitting a tonne of CO2 on Monday the 20 th of February, became close to breaching 100 euros at 98.30 Forecasts of cool weather and expectations of lower wind power output had driven up demand for more fossil-fuel produced energy.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Extreme heat is not just an abstract notion: if we can’t cool our bodies enough, we’re in danger of neurological failure, organ failure and even death, with the risks highest for children and the elderly. Overall, cement accounts for 3% of the world’s carbon emissions. Where are they most likely? Wood you believe?

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Google officials say their data centers need more water to cool the equipment, but neither the city nor Google will say exactly how much more. The root cause of the issue is global climate change, which can only be addressed by rapidly curbing carbon emissions. Google claims the water-use data is a trade secret.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Nearly a third of our current carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions come from burning fossil gas for electricity, home heating and other uses! BONUS – COOL TECH ALERT! The companies selling fossil gas want you to believe that our electrical grid needs gas-plants because they can be fired up quickly to meet spiking demand.

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Natural Gas Carbon Dioxide Electricity Air Pollution 111

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

creating ice in off peak periods to supply cooling in peak periods. Efficiency programs are the best and cheapest way to reduce carbon emissions because they both lower energy costs and carbon emissions. As the U.S. creating heat that is stored in materials like ceramic bricks to supply heat on cold days.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

This balance describes how much energy is being reflected back into space versus how much is being absorbed by our atmosphere; a positive change in the balance indicates that we’re taking more energy in (net warming) and a negative balance indicates that we’re reflecting more energy out (net cooling).

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2023

It transports warm surface water from the tropics to the North Atlantic, where it cools down and sinks to deeper layers. The AMOC also plays a vital role in regulating the global climate by controlling the distribution of heat and carbon dioxide.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The US puts a dollar figure on the damage caused by carbon emissions, but new research finds it’s too low, meaning the benefits of reducing emissions are being underestimated. Effectively, SCC indicates what price society should be willing to pay now to avoid the future damage of today’s carbon emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

For example, it may lead you to improve your building’s insulation, or switch your home heating system to an electric heat-pump, which also provides cooling in the summer. If you’re a homeowner or building manager, do an energy audit and consider investing in energy efficiency or home retrofit options that are most effective for your place.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Due to the heat challenges in the Gulf, extensive air conditioning systems have been required to keep the stadiums cool. And as Qatar’s energy system is mainly fossil fuel-based, the emissions per unit of energy used are considerably higher than they would have been in most other countries.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Some context is helpful, especially for those just getting their arms around measuring and reducing GHG emissions: Scope 1 GHG emissions are “direct emissions” that occur from sources that are controlled or owned by an organization (e.g.,

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A Greener Life

JULY 21, 2022

And with gruelling heatwaves becoming more common , the nights can be sweltering, with no cooling breeze to relieve the discomfort. We must cut carbon emissions – or future summers will be long, hot and sleepless. By Stephen Burt. Sleeping at the height of summer can sometimes feel impossible. First published in.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

The transport sector alone is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions from energy use globally, with up to 40% of this coming from urban areas (Coalition for Urban Transition, 2019). Green spaces actively cool down urban areas by mitigating the ‘heat-island’ effect in which urban areas are hotter than their surroundings (Foster, 2020).

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Onya

OCTOBER 10, 2019

An estimated 10,000 people gathered in Perth for the Global Strike 4 Climate rally, demanding government and businesses commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2030. Look for ways to keep your home cool in the summer without an air conditioner. Part of a global collaboration. Install a programmable thermostat.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

Yang Fuqiang thinks it is unreasonable to make energy-producing provinces such as Inner Mongolia solely responsible for cutting carbon emissions. If it benefits, it has to help cut carbon. Yet the industry still causes pollution and carbon emissions.

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

Those critical challenges will require inventive and practical solutions, which is why automotive manufacturer Toyota has teamed up with The Electrochemical Society (ECS) to award a series of research fellowships focused on the development of green-energy technologies that reduce both pollution and carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

The project is reducing emissions and Phoenix Contact’s carbon footprint. It complements Phoenix Contact’s Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power (CCHP) system, which generates about half of the facility’s electric requirements. In total since its construction, the Resource Center has grown and donated nearly 10,000 lbs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 11, 2022

We are at a game-changing moment for all of humanity, as climate science tells us exactly where we’re headed if we don’t reduce carbon emissions urgently. Extreme weather such as flooding, droughts, extreme heat, and more intense storms, worsened by climate change, hits low-income communities hardest.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

It led to severe disinvestment in urban communities of color, which—because of the lack of funds—have relatively little vegetation and few, if any, public parks, which help keep neighborhoods cool. The Phoenix climate action plan includes the creation of “cool corridors” consisting of canopied vegetation to form shaded pedestrian corridors.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2022

As the state moves toward all-electric buildings, replacing older gas-powered furnaces and air conditioning units with heat pumps can reduce carbon emissions and indoor air pollution while increasing efficiency, comfort and resiliency, especially as extreme heat events increase.

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Cooling 2030 Electricity Natural Gas 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When it’s dangerously hot outside and you don’t have air conditioning or can’t afford to pay for it, where do you go to cool off? Often, when we see pictures of a cooling center or an emergency shelter, we see people gathering in spaces they usually don’t gather and in spaces where there is little to occupy them.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2023

From freezer upgrades in labs to geothermal heating and cooling at Johnstown, the winner will move the University of Pittsburgh toward its carbon neutrality goal. Excessive food waste and dying soils are having a profoundly negative global impact, notably in creating extreme atmospheric carbon levels.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

If we can slow warming a bit, even if we end up in the same place ultimately due to carbon emissions, that gives us more time to prepare for what’s coming down the road. Many of the steps needed to cut emissions have low or even negative cost (meaning that they actually save money).

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A Greener Life

JULY 20, 2022

And at the same time, the facts of our failure as a society to deal with the problem have been demonstrated by the ever-growing carbon emissions. And even with ever-increasing and sophisticated green technology, we are not making a big enough dent in bringing emissions down. The future generation.

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Climate Change Cooling Carbon Emissions 2019 98

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Previous research shows urban trees have significant positive benefits for both cities and their residents including slowing stormwater runoff, reducing energy use, reducing carbon emissions, boosting student achievement, and reducing crime. In Philadelphia, urban trees address a wide variety of goals for multiple city agencies.

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Conservation Natural Sciences Carbon Emissions Cooling 113

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. If there isn’t enough water or the incoming water is too hot, plants can be put to reduced capacity or be forced completely offline, increasing the risk of blackouts.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

Since 2010, WCU has cut energy costs by millions of dollars, lowered per capita carbon emissions by more than a third, and significantly reduced the environmental impacts of its campus operations.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The root cause of the issue is global climate change, which can only be addressed by rapidly curbing carbon emissions. Restoring trees along deforested riverbanks, for example, can shade the ecosystem and cools the river during extreme heat. The most straightforward solution is to limit overfishing.

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Climate Change Conservation Politics Natural Resources 306

Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2021

This week’s episode features research on the carbon emissions of dam reservoirs, officials in Taiwan battling an unusually severe drought, and an investigation by USA Today that found a patchwork of regulations for cleaning U.S. Underground pipe networks, which reach 800,000 people in Gaza, have burst. water towers and tanks.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

It also incorporates both a warm and a cool period during the oscillation - both of which impact upper atmospheric winds (10). In more recent times, Krakatoa in the East Indies cooled the planet's temperature rise and halted sea level rise for at least two decades, and that was one volcano - albeit an intense one (20).

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