carbon emissions

A major international study says palm oil plantations reduce plant and animal diversity, and do little to reduce carbon emissions.

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Kahn and Glaeser also estimated the difference in carbon emissions between cities and suburbs for 48 MSAs.

 I've again converted that to gallons of gasoline.  (See the last post for their methodology and caveats.)

Nashville, surprisingly, tops the list:

Back in March, I wrote about economists Matthew Kahn and Ed Glaeser's work comparing carbon emissions among metropolitan areas.

Among other things, they estimated how carbon emissions from driving vary across metropolitan areas.

 The variation in gasoline use is just as interesting, though.  Kahn and Glaeser did not explicitly calculate this, but I did the simple arithmetic to convert their estimates of carbon emissions to estimates of gasoline use.

 

Measures to cut UK carbon emissions by 80% looks set to cover aviation and shipping, heading off a rebellion by MPs.

Ed Miliband commits the UK government to cutting carbon emissions by 80% - up from a 60% target - by 2050.

Plus: Carbon emissions pollute oceans with noise; Suntech expanding; and could oil shortage eclipse financial crisis?

Chris O’Connor, vice president of IBM’s software group, is one of three executives in charge of making Big Blue as green as possible.

IBM has a project called Big Green that’s about 16 months old. Like many technology vendors, IBM set a big commitment to reduce carbon emissions, become more efficient and dramatically raise computing capacity.

The government has made "very poor progress" on reaching its own carbon emissions-cutting targets, MPs say.

The US state of Georgia blocks construction of a new coal power plant based on concerns over carbon emissions.

Remember my post today about McCain’s $5,000 a car tax break giveaway to the auto manufacturers who make and sell zero-carbon emissions cars?

If so, do you recall how I said it was a bad idea, and that he should instead be proposing giving consumers tax breaks because incenting consumption is the only way we can make sure that this sub-industry is sustainable and therefore viable?