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Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions Engel Curve Dynamics

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
AbstractHousehold carbon dioxide emissions depend on the household's attributes and location. Wealthier suburbanites drive more and consume more energy at home. In recent years, affluent individuals have been more likely to purchase electric vehicles and install solar panels.
Robert Huang, Matthew E. Kahn
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Emissivity of carbon dioxide

Journal of Engineering Physics, 1975
This paper presents a new correlation for the emissivity of carbon dioxide gas, suitable for extrapolating existing nomograms to large optical thickness values and high temperatures.
S. P. Detkov, A. N. Beregovoi
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Emission rate of carbon dioxide while sleeping

Indoor Air, 2021
Humans emit carbon dioxide (CO2 ) as a product of their metabolism. Its concentration in buildings is used as a marker of ventilation rate (VR) and degree of mixing of supply air, and indoor air quality (IAQ). The CO2 emission rate (CER) may be used to estimate the ventilation rate.
Xiaojun Fan, Mitsuharu Sakamoto, Huiqi Shao, Kazuki Kuga, Kazuhide Ito, Li Lan, Pawel Wargocki   +6 more
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Demographic change and carbon dioxide emissions

The Lancet, 2012
Relations between demographic change and emissions of the major greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO(2)) have been studied from different perspectives, but most projections of future emissions only partly take demographic influences into account. We review two types of evidence for how CO(2) emissions from the use of fossil fuels are affected by ...
O'Neill, Brian C, Liddle, Brantley, Jiang, Leiwen, Smith, Kirk R, Pachauri, Shonali, Dalton, Michael, Fuchs, Regina   +6 more
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Carbon dioxide emission from bamboo culms

Plant Biology, 2016
AbstractBamboos are one of the fastest growing plants on Earth, and are widely considered to have high ability to capture and sequester atmospheric carbon, and consequently to mitigate climate change. We tested this hypothesis by measuring carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from bamboo culms and comparing them with their biomass sequestration potential. We
E. J. Zachariah, B. Sabulal, D. N. K. Nair, A. J. Johnson, C. S. P. Kumar   +4 more
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Power sector emissions under tightening carbon dioxide quotas

Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2020
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was passed by an original collection of 10 northeastern states and is the first cap-and-trade policy in the United States to specifically target carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity sector. We exploit the introduction of this policy and subsequent tightening of the carbon cap to assess how carbon ...
Travis Roach, R. Kaj Gittings
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Counting the Carbon: Assessing Qatar>s Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings Volume 2018 Issue 1, 2018
Climate change is the most pressing global environmental issue today, with a potentially devastating impact on human development. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, Qatar is ranked as the highest CO2 per capita emitter globally.
Mona Al-Asmakh, Nadya Al-Awainati
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Carbonation Sensors

Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 2007
Abstract The gases with higher heat capacities than those of O2 and N2 cause greenhouse effects. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main greenhouse gas associated with global climate change. At the present time, coal is responsible for 30–40% of world CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. There was a higher correlation between the amount of carbon dioxide emission
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Accounting for Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2013
The article discusses factors that influence accounting for carbon dioxide emissions. The process is said to involve determining the information that would be useful and the accountant's ability to make meaningful measurements. The World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WRI/WBCSD) developed a three-layer ...
Marland, Gregg, Buchholz, Thomas, Kowalczyk, Tammy   +2 more
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Forests Absorbing Carbon dioxide Emission

1995
In response to the issue of global warming the Dutch government has committed itself to achieve a stabilization of CO2 emissions at the 1989 levels by the year 1995 and a further reduction of 3 to 5% by the end of this century. Each sector in The Netherlands is expected to help in achieving this target.
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