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CARMA - Carbon Monitoring for Action 

November 14, 2007 - We are pleased to announce the launch of the Carbon Monitoring for Action database at www.carma.org . CARMA provides the world's most ... detailed and comprehensive information on carbon emissions resulting from the production of electricity. Power sector emissions make up 25% of the global total, 40% of carbon emissions in the United States, and are a primary cause of global warming . CARMA is a product of the at the Center for Global Development , an independent and non-partisan think tank located in Washington, DC. November 14, 2007 - We set out to make CARMA.org an intuitive and easy-to-use (dare we say fun?) source of information. Although the database behind CARMA is massive, all of the information can be searched, sorted, parsed, and downloaded with just a few clicks or keystrokes. Here are 5 quick tips on how to do just that, ranging from the basics to the advanced. November 13, 2007 - By providing detailed estimates of carbon pollution facility by facility, CAR   [More...] [Less...]

Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost? 

EIA - Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the U.S. 2006-Carbon Dioxide Emissions 

This flash estimate is based on data published in the April 2008 Monthly Energy Review (MER). All 2007 data are preliminary. ( ) Note: These emission estimates ... are denominated in millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide (MMTCO2). To convert to carbon equivalent emissions, multiply by 12/44. Weather - Heating degree-days were up by 6.7 percent over 2006 - Cooling degree-days were up by 2.6 percent over 2006 - More energy was needed for both heating and cooling compared to 2006 When electric power sector emissions are considered as a whole rather than being attributed to the sectors that use electricity, they represent the largest source of energy-related CO 2 Direct-use emissions in the residential, commercial and industrial sectors, which do not include the emissions associated with the generation of electric power used by those sectors, have remained relatively flat since 1990 The resulting increase in carbon intensity of 0.5 percent was driven by a decrease in non-carbon generation:   [More...] [Less...]

Transport report final version 

1 Greenhouse gas emissions from transport Executive summary Main findings of transport report • Between 1990 and 20021, total UK greenhouse gas emissions ... declined 10 per cent from 777.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent to 696.5 million tonnes. The transport industries were one of the few exceptions to this downward trend as greenhouse gas emissions from the transport industries were 47 per cent higher in 2002 than in 1990. This is despite a 3 per cent fall in emissions since 2000, reflecting a downturn in the air transport industry following the reaction to terrorist attacks on September 11. The level of greenhouse gas emissions from non-transport industries in 2002 was 15 per cent lower than in 1990, reflecting fewer emissions from the manufacturing industries. • The UK transport industries were responsible for emitting the equivalent of 86.0 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2002 compared with 88.3 million tonnes in 2000 and 58.5 million tonnes in 1990. Greenhouse gas em   [More...] [Less...]

Does Rail Transit Save Energy or Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions? 

Far from protecting the environment, most rail transit lines use more energy per passenger mile, and many generate more greenhouse gases, than the average ... passenger automobile. Rail transit provides no guarantee that a city will save energy or meet greenhouse gas targets. While most rail transit uses less energy than bus- es, rail transit does not operate in a vacuum: transit agencies supplement it with extensive feeder bus operations. Those feeder buses tend to have low rid- ership, so they have high energy costs and green- house gas emissions per passenger mile. The result is that, when new rail transit lines open, the transit systems as a whole can end up consuming more energy, per passenger mile, than they did before. Even where rail transit operations save a little energy, the construction of rail transit lines con- sumes huge amounts of energy and emits large volumes of greenhouse gases. In most cases, many decades of energy savings would be needed to repay the energy cost of con   [More...] [Less...]