30 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) on Wednesday announced it committed to cut carbon dioxide emissions by at least 40 percent by 2030 while modernizing the EU's economy and delivering on jobs and growth for all European citizens. The European Commission wants the EU to lead the clean ...
constructing, operating, and maintaining a low-carbon energy system will itself require energy, with much of it derived from fossil fuels. This raises the concern that the transition may consume much of the energy available to society, and be a source of considerable emissions. Here we calculate...
In 2021, China's carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP dropped by 34.4 percent from 2012, and the share of coal in primary energy consumption fell from 68.5 percent to 56 percent during the period. Apart from reducing carbon emissions, China has also made significant strides in renewable ...
Measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions are often considered separately, in terms of electricity, heating, transport, and industry. This can lead to the measures being prioritised in the wrong sectors, and neglects interactions between the sectors. In addition, studies often focus on specific gr...
The figure shows the comparison of energy and CO2emissions intensity of different irrigation and pumping systems.aEnergy intensity is expressed as the ratio of the energy consumed by irrigation to the irrigated area in a country (GJ/ha).bThe energy intensity of each irrigation system (drip, spri...
This article examines the influence of renewable energy consumption, real GDP per capita, exports and imports on consumption-based CO2 emissions in Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2019 by employing the Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares Method (DOLS). The results reveal that renewable energy consumption has a ...
We found that the carbon emissions trading scheme effectively achieved the coordinated control of carbon dioxide and air pollutants, by improving the green production level of the pilot areas, reducing the regional industrial output, and promoting the upgrading of the industrial structure. In terms of...
Bruce G.Miller, inCoal Energy Systems, 2005 Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Carbon dioxide emissionsfrom energy use are shown inFigure 4-21, which provides CO2emissions by sector and fuel for 1990 and 2001 and projections up to 2025 [65]. Petroleum products are the leading source of CO2emissions from...
Microsoft is taking a leading role in carbon removal, investing in a number of large-scale projects as part of its work to be carbon negative by 2030 and to remove the equivalent of all its cumulative greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. “We’re investing in carbon removal because we think ...
Emissions trading scheme (ETS) has been adopted by an increasing number of countries and regions for carbon mitigation, but its actual effect depends on specific program design and institutional context. Before launching the world largest ETS, China expe