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Performance standards can also help accelerate the deployment of low-emissions cement, steel, plastics, and other carbon-intensive products.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
What can we do during the coming decades? We must start with the recognition of fundamental realities. We used to consider a 2°C increase in average global temperature as a relatively tolerable maximum, but in 2018 the IPCC lowered that to just 1.5°C—but by 2020 we have already added two-thirds of that maximum preferable temperature rise. Moreover,
... See moreVaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
the mean global value taken from studies that employed reasonable discount rate and value of life assumptions is less than $25 per ton of CO2.10
Bjørn Lomborg • Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
an abatement function and a damage function. The abatement function specifies the cost of reducing emissions to a given level.
J. Doyne Farmer • Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
Together, furnaces and water heaters account for a third of all emissions that come from the world’s buildings.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
The numbers regarding Koch Industries’ pollution were incontrovertible. In 2012, according to the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory database, which documents the toxic and carcinogenic output of eight thousand American companies, Koch Industries was the number one producer of toxic waste in the United States. It generated 950 million pounds of hazardou
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