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The Importance of Life Cycle Analysis
...involved in downstream operations. The key issue is whether net emissions from the burning of biofuels on a cradle to grave basis are higher or lower than its fossil fuel...
Posted On 01 Apr 2021
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UN climate summit means business
...global consumption of fossil fuels. This is despite the undoubted achievement of COP21 in Paris in 2015. First step For years the COPs had been fractious and unproductive affairs, until...
Posted On 05 Nov 2017
Warming could exceed 1.5°C limit by 2026
...2026. Although global warming is driven by human behaviour – and in particular the prodigal burning of fossil fuels at an ever-accelerating rate to dump ever-greater quantities of carbon dioxide...
Posted On 19 May 2017
Electric vehicles have another record year, reaching 2 million cars in 2016
...for EV adoption and taxes on fossil fuels will continue to be important in the current phase of EV technology deployment to initiate and reinforce a positive feedback loop that,...
Posted On 07 Jun 2017
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Why Is Sustainability Crucial for Facilities Management?
...option, including fossil fuels. Solar, especially, is becoming more popular for individuals, residences and businesses, with the cost of electricity declining 26% year-on-year for concentrated solar power. Initial costs sometimes...
Posted On 10 Apr 2020
Climate change may increase California’s rain
...humans go on burning fossil fuels, then California might, after all, remain the Golden State. It will get warmer. But, against all predictions, it might also get wetter. A new...
Posted On 08 Jul 2017
Too hot to fly: rising heat may ground planes
...in the journal Climatic Change that, if humans continue to burn fossil fuels at an accelerating rate, and as average global temperatures creep up by the predicted 4°C above historic...
Posted On 14 Jul 2017
Climate change could devastate Asia’s economic gains
...change can exacerbate energy insecurity through continued reliance on unsustainable fossil fuels, reduced capacities of thermal power plants due to a scarcity of cooling water, and intermittent performance of hydropower...
Posted On 14 Jul 2017