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Carbon Dioxide Equivalent – Applications for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Business Bureau

While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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The quest for cleaner air

Envirotec Magazine

The impact of poor air quality The release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is well known to contribute to climate change, with carbon dioxide and methane being the subject of many global and national mitigation strategies that aim to break the vicious cycle of global warming. trillion, equivalent to 6.1 Accessed 03.03.23

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Carbon offsets alone won’t make flying climate-friendly

Grist

In the presence of the sun’s rays, nitrogen molecules set of a chain of reactions that produce ozone and destroy free-floating atmospheric methane. Some of these reactions, like the methane destruction, help cool the Earth. Clouds form and then fade, and molecules like ozone get destroyed by chemical processes within months. (In

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Nitrous oxide levels are on the rise

Envirotec Magazine

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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Fenceline Community Groups in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Celebrate Mounting Victories

DeSmogBlog

Robert Taylor and Sharon Lavigne with Pat Bryant protesting in front of the Louisiana State Capitol on June 3, 2019. Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas. James Parish would violate the EPA’s standards for soot and ozone-forming nitrogen dioxide.

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

In addition, in 2019 the UK introduced the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) standard which makes it mandatory for large companies operating in the UK to annually report their energy and carbon emissions. In addition, a 2018-2019 Fortune 500 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report calculated that the F500 was responsible for 13.34

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As Alarm Over Plastic Grows, Saudis Ramp Up Production in the US

DeSmogBlog

By the end of 2019, Aramco would go through with a far more limited IPO, in which 1.5% On clear nights, he says, he can see the flares burning, releasing a gas cocktail of carbon monoxide and methane. Ozone is an ingredient in smog and a respiratory irritant. Credit: Julie Dermansky. Credit: Adam Schultz via Wikimedia Commons.