Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas and one of the main stratospheric ozone depleting substances on the planet. Widely known as “laughing gas”, used for its anesthetic effects, nitrous oxide (N2O) is also regarded as the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane.

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Climate change Ozone Methane Asia 124

Grist

JULY 18, 2024

One study published in 2016 found that instituting the cap on sulfur emissions in 2020 would prevent at least 570,000 premature deaths over the following five years. Luckily, when combined, the greenhouse gases methane and ground-level ozone warm the planet as much as aerosols cool it.

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Pollution Cooling Ozone Methane 110

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. Stratospheric ozone depletion – The stratospheric ozone layer in the atmosphere filters out ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun.

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Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Taylor, a retired general contractor, was driven to form the community group in 2016 after learning that the U.S. Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas. Because of those methane leaks, consuming more natural gas spurs ever-faster and more dramatic climate changes.

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Building Energy Monitoring Health Law Home Energy Monitoring 98

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Paris Climate Agreement opened for signature on Earth Day (22nd of April 2016), at the UN headquarters in New York. A carbon dioxide equivalent is a standard unit for counting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regardless of whether they’re from carbon dioxide or another gas, such as methane.

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Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

In January 2016, Mohammed bin Salman, then the deputy crown prince, announced that Aramco would be open for the first time in history to an initial public offering, or IPO; 5% of its shares would be made available on international financial markets. Altogether, between 2016 and 2020 the company’s facilities in the U.S.

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Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 98

Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

The year 2016 ranks as the warmest on record. While CO 2 may be the greatest contributor to climate change, other gases such as methane and nitrous oxide are also responsible for creating the greenhouse effect, therefore, solutions must also focus on the reduction of these gases. In June of 1988 James E.

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