GHG emissions

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If producers reduce the emissions intensity of oilsands production by a modest amount, production losses may total two billion barrels of oil between 2027 and 2040.


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Article notes fast-growing demand for energy from countries in the developing world.

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IEA report eschews revolutionary “all renewables” language and talks about energy production that is less polluting.


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Agreement includes a continued obsession with electric cars.


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The United Nation’s favoured approach would require massive wealth transfers and be wildly unpopular.


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Concentrations of two of the air pollutants of greatest concern have generally decreased across Canada since 2000.


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Since taking office, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has been very aggressive on the climate file. Attempting to remedy what she portrayed as a history of environmental negligence by her predecessors , the premier swiftly increased and expanded Alberta’s carbon tax, placed a hard cap on carbon dioxide emissions, set stiff targets for reducing methane emissions, declared an accelerated phase-out of coal power generation, and promised to replace much of that power with costlier wind or solar power generation.


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Researchers have found that the cost of improving household efficiency is more than twice the value of the energy savings.


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Environmentalists received an early Christmas present on November 12, when President Barack Obama and China’s President Xi Jinping issued a “joint announcement” over the control of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States and China.