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Improving the efficiency of coal-fired power plants
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ISBN: 1631175912 9781631175916 1631175904 9781631175909 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York

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Coal has long been the major fossil fuel used to produce electricity. However, coal-fired electric power plants are one of the largest sources of air pollution in the United States, with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from burning of fossil fuels believed to be the major contributor to global climate change. Regulations under development at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would impose new requirements on fossil-fueled (mostly coal-fired) power plants (CFPPs) to control GHG emissions. This book focuses on efficiency improvements to power plants, and discusses retrofits, technologies,


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Social cost of carbon estimates for regulatory impact analysis
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ISBN: 1634637089 9781634637084 9781634636919 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York

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Under Executive Order 12866, agencies are required, to the extent permitted by law, ""to assess both the costs and the benefits of the intended regulation and, recognizing that some costs and benefits are difficult to quantify, propose or adopt a regulation only upon a reasoned determination that the benefits of the intended regulation justify its costs."" The purpose of the ""social cost of carbon"" (SCC) estimates presented here is to allow agencies to incorporate the social benefits of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into cost-benefit analyses of regulatory actions that have small,


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Die Verknüpfung von Emissionshandelssystemen - sozial gerecht und ökologisch effektiv
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ISBN: 9783862197118 3862197115 9783862197101 3862197107 Year: 2014 Publisher: Kassel, Germany : Kassel University Press,


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When green growth is not enough : climate change, ecological modernization, and sufficiency
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ISBN: 077359633X 9780773596337 9780773596344 0773596348 Year: 2014 Publisher: Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press,


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Political economy of energy reform
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ISBN: 3940924415 9783940924414 9783940924407 3940924407 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin

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Climate change requires coordinated global responses. All nations, including major Gulf Arab oil producers, should implement policies to contain greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Yet all realistic scenarios point to the continuing global need for fossil fuels. The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) thus face a dilemma between continuing development and use of their fossil fuel endowments and increasing reliance on low carbon sources, such as nuclear, solar or wind. This book explores various facets of the dilemma._x000B_


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Geologically storing carbon
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ISBN: 1486302319 9781486302314 9781486302321 1486302327 9781486302307 1486302300 Year: 2014 Publisher: Collingwood, Vic.

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Carbon capture and geological storage (CCS) is presently the only way that we can make deep cuts in emissions from fossil fuel-based, large-scale sources of CO2 such as power stations and industrial plants. But if this technology is to be acceptable to the community, it is essential that it is credibly demonstrated by world-class scientists and engineers in an open and transparent manner at a commercially significant scale. The aim of the Otway Project was to do just this.Geologically Storing Carbon provides a detailed account of the CO2CRC Otway Project, one of the most comprehensive demonstr


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How Much Carbon Pricing is in Countries’ Own Interests? The Critical Role of Co-Benefits
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ISBN: 1498386342 1498306063 Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper calculates, for the top twenty emitting countries, how much pricing of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is in their own national interests due to domestic co-benefits (leaving aside the global climate benefits). On average, nationally efficient prices are substantial, $57.5 per ton of CO2 (for year 2010), reflecting primarily health co-benefits from reduced air pollution at coal plants and, in some cases, reductions in automobile externalities (net of fuel taxes/subsidies). Pricing co-benefits reduces CO2 emissions from the top twenty emitters by 13.5 percent (a 10.8 percent reduction in global emissions). However, co-benefits vary dramatically across countries (e.g., with population exposure to pollution) and differentiated pricing of CO2 emissions therefore yields higher net benefits (by 23 percent) than uniform pricing. Importantly, the efficiency case for pricing carbon’s co-benefits hinges critically on (i) weak prospects for internalizing other externalities through other pricing instruments and (ii) productive use of carbon pricing revenues.

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Greenhouse gas mitigation. --- Greenhouse gases --- Fossil fuels. --- Energy policy. --- Energy tax. --- Energy taxation --- Energy taxes --- Power resources --- Taxation --- Energy and state --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Fossil energy --- Fuel --- Energy minerals --- GHGs (Greenhouse gases) --- Heat-trapping gases --- Gases --- Abatement of greenhouse gas emissions --- Emission reduction, Greenhouse gas --- Emissions reduction, Greenhouse gas --- GHG mitigation --- Greenhouse gas abatement --- Greenhouse gas emission reduction --- Greenhouse gas emissions reduction --- Greenhouse gas reduction --- Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions --- Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions --- Pollution prevention --- Prices. --- Government policy --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Environmental Conservation and Protection --- Natural Resources --- Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities --- Redistributive Effects --- Environmental Taxes and Subsidies --- Energy: Government Policy --- Climate --- Natural Disasters and Their Management --- Global Warming --- Environmental Economics: Government Policy --- Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: General --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General --- Energy: Demand and Supply --- Prices --- Public finance & taxation --- Climate change --- Environmental management --- Carbon tax --- Greenhouse gas emissions --- Non-renewable resources --- Public expenditure review --- Fuel prices --- Taxes --- Environment --- Expenditure --- Environmental impact charges --- Natural resources --- Expenditures, Public --- China, People's Republic of

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