INTRODUCTION Since carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is accumulating rapidly because of burning fossil fuel‚ coal‚ oil and natural gas for power generation‚ transportation‚ industrial and domestic uses‚ our earth has been facing global warming‚ sea level rising‚ flooding and other adverse changes which damage to our ecosystem. To address this challenge‚ we need to find out other alternative ways that do not produce carbon dioxide or that reduce the release of enormous amount of carbon dioxide gases
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ABSTRACT We are in debt to Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and other green house gases for our presence on earth. As they help in stabilizing temperatures to levels sustainable for organic life – by what is known as green house effect. In modern times burning of fossil fuels like coal‚ oil‚ and natural gas combined with fast deforestation has led to unprecedented level of green house gas emission. Here came in to existence the concept of Carbon Emission Trading developed during the Kyoto Protocol in 1997
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Carbon Nanofibers Carbon nanofibers can simply be known as nanostructures with bonded carbon atoms that has a molecule composed entirely of carbon in shape of hollow sphere‚ ellipsoid or tube. The layers are usually wrapped up to form carbon nanotubes. Nanotubes are usually constructed with length-to-diameter ratio of up to 132‚000‚000:1. Basically‚ carbon nanofibers can be used very commonly in future as the technology for it is really taking its shape. It can be used for sensors‚ bone growth‚
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Carbon Cycle Living organisms are significant in the recycling of numerous elements contained in an ecosystem. One of the elements is carbon. Carbon is nonmetal‚ forms over ten million different compounds‚ found in minerals‚ oceans‚ and is the main component of biological compounds. So how do living organisms and their biochemical reactions contribute to the recycling of carbon? Carbon moves through the ecosystem in a cycle‚ in which the living organisms take and release
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sINTRODUCTION What are Carbon Credits? A carbon credit (often called a carbon offset) is a financial instrument that represents a tonne of CO2 (carbon dioxide) or CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent gases) removed or reduced from the atmosphere from an emission reduction project‚ which can be used‚ by governments‚ industry or private individuals to offset damaging carbon emissions that they are generating. How are Carbon Credits used? Carbon credits are associated with either removing existing CO2 or
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND POLICY Contents Carbon Cap and Trade Carbon Offsets Carbon Taxes Clean Development Mechanism Climate Change and Food Situation Dealing with the Uncertainty about Climate Change Double Dividend Economics of Forest Carbon Sequestration as a Climate Change Mitigation Strategy Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) International Climate Treaties and Coalition Building Carbon Cap and Trade G Wagner‚ Environmental Defense Fund‚ New York‚ NY‚ USA; Columbia University’s
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Econ 339: Topic #6 Cap and Trade or Carbon Tax Wade Wong 25967118 Catherine Douglas Econ 339 University of British Columbia November 28 2012 The progress of technology change has increased dramatically around 1960-2012‚ a lot has been changed for the better of the world‚ and some technologies do not share the same path. Many of them are disembodied technology as process of production‚ methods‚ and labour efficiency has been vastly improved. On the other hand because most production or technology
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Carbon and Its Compounds Carbon: Introduction Atomic Number: 6 Electronic Configuration: 2‚ 4 Valence electrons: 4 Property: Non-metal Abundance: Carbon is the 4th most abundant substance in universe and 15th most abundant substance in the earth’s crust. Compounds having carbon atoms among the components are known as carbon compounds. Previously‚ carbon compounds could only be obtained from a living source; hence they are also known as organic compounds. Bonding In Carbon: The Covalent Bond
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http://www.ucar.edu/communications/gcip/m2ccycle/m2pdf.pdf The Carbon Cycle Importance of Carbon Cycle Carbon (C) is the fourth most abundant element in the universe and is found in all living substances as well as in many inorganic materials and is also the key element for life. The carbon cycle is the exchange of carbon among three reservoirs or storage places: the land‚ the oceans‚ and the atmosphere The atmosphere has the least amount of carbon‚ followed by the land with it plants and animals‚ also
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Research Topic The introduction of a carbon tax in Australia would have implications for economic and environmental sustainability. Obviously in the longer term the aim of the tax is to promote environmental sustainability but in the short term there will be implications for economic sustainability for a range of businesses and households. Using a range of current sources including reports and newspaper articles discuss the short and longer term implications of a carbon tax for the tourism and hospitality
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