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Road Transport Vehicles for Hauling Uncomminuted Forest Energy Products in Sweden
Published 2013-01-01“…Forestry residues as a renewable energy source are becoming increasingly competitive to fossil fuels. An important issue, however, is effective transportation solutions for this type of material. …”
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Carbon Sequestration and Storage by Gainesville’s Urban Forest
Published 2012-03-01“…In addition, decomposing trees and mulch, tree maintenance activities, and improperly placed trees that cause shading in winter can also result in emissions of CO2, so it is important for communities to reduce fossil fuel emissions and manage for and preserve large, healthy trees to maximize the amount of CO2 sequestered by an urban forest. …”
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A Worthy Heir: Donald Trump, the Republican Party and Climate Change
Published 2018-09-01“…The article underscores the high degree of continuity between President Trump’s approach to climate change and the environmental policies implemented by his Republican predecessors since Ronald Reagan, which have revolved around a preference for market solutions over government regulations, deep mistrust of environmental multilateralism, efforts to increase fossil fuel production on public lands, and attempts to restrict access to environmental and climate data.…”
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Du carbon lock-in au nuclear lock-in : les verrous spatiaux aux changements de politique nucléaire en Suède
Published 2017-11-01“…Energy geographers have shown that the difficulty encountered by modern societies to decrease their fossil fuel consumption could be explained by the influence of spatial path dependencies, also called carbon lock-in. …”
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A gestão ambiental nas paisagens da bacia do Araripe no Estado do Ceará
Published 2016-12-01“…Sedimentary deposits of this important geological unit possess great mineral potential and a huge fossil richness. Different uses of the natural resources can be found in the region, mainly agriculture, tourism, mining and urban expansion, which causes many environmental impacts and disturbance on natural dynamics. …”
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Sustentabilidade e economia verde, limites e potencialidades da gestão sustentável
Published 2016-01-01“…Therefore, we investigated the communication documents released by companies linked to the productive network of green plastic, a product that has the same physical properties of conventional plastic, but is derived from a non-fossil raw material (ethanol). The content analysis points to the expansion of the scope of the documents and their target audience, but also demonstrates the limits and the increasing relevance of the concept of integrated sustainability to the business for the corporaret strategy. …”
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Electrosynthesis of ethylene glycol from biomass glycerol
Published 2025-01-01“…Nevertheless, its production is heavily reliant on fossil fuels, resulting in substantial CO2 emissions. …”
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A web-based tool for the sizing of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems in Ecuador
Published 2025-01-01“…This energy source has the potential to re-duce greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil fuels. The research project focused on the development of a web-based tool for sizing photovoltaic systems in Ecuador. …”
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Models and Methods for Planning Hydrogen Supply Chain Systems
Published 2024-01-01“…Hydrogen is becoming an important candidate for replacing fossil fuels in the future energy economy. As such, efficient hydrogen supply chain system planning and the promotion of its large-scale civilian and commercial applications are needed. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Renewable Energy Transition in Europe
Published 2024-11-01“… The transition to renewable energy is pivotal for the European Union (EU) in its efforts to combat climate change and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. This article examines the challenges and opportunities associated with the EU's target of achieving at least 42.5% renewable energy consumption by 2030. …”
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Shifting Continents and a Devonian Lake Full of Fish: The Extraordinary Geological History of the Shetland Geopark
Published 2021-06-01“…Devonian rocks deposited on the resulting landscape contain fossil faunas – vertebrate, invertebrate and plant - representing an early terrestrial ecosystem, elements of which have been correlated to similar Devonian deposits across northeast Scotland. …”
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Renewable Energy, Environment and GDP in High-Income Countries: Evidence from Europe
Published 2023-01-01“…The ARDL methodology was applied to data collected from high-income countries in Europe in the period 1990–2020.The results showed that there was a positive and strong effect of renewable energy on reducing CO2 emissions in the long term, but its effect in the short term was weak. Fossil energy and economic growth positively affected the increase in emissions. …”
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Colonial and Postcolonial Logistics
Published 2018-11-01“…In particular, it focuses on Zambia (Northern Rhodesia at time of British domination), a landlocked country located in the centre of Southern Africa, whose historical evolution, since it was conquered at the beginning of the twentieth century, is deeply intertwined with the discovery, extraction and export of copper and with the import of fossil fuel. In the first part, I introduce the concept of ‘colonial logistics’ intended as the modification and rationalisation of territories for military and political domination, and extraction and export of resources. …”
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Chondrites isp. Indicating Late Paleozoic Atmospheric Anoxia in Eastern Peninsular India
Published 2014-01-01“…Monospecific assemblage of marine trace fossil Chondrites isp. in contemporaneous claystone beds in the upper Barakar succession from two Gondwana basins (namely, the Raniganj Basin and the Talchir Basin) in eastern peninsular India signifies predominant marine incursion during end early Permian. …”
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Carbon Sequestration and Storage by Gainesville’s Urban Forest
Published 2012-03-01“…In addition, decomposing trees and mulch, tree maintenance activities, and improperly placed trees that cause shading in winter can also result in emissions of CO2, so it is important for communities to reduce fossil fuel emissions and manage for and preserve large, healthy trees to maximize the amount of CO2 sequestered by an urban forest. …”
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An Approach for Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Catalytic Production of Methyl Ethyl Ketone
Published 2022-01-01“…Considering the high cost of fossil fuels to achieve optimal energy consumption, thermal coupling with the Fischer–Tropsch reaction was employed. …”
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Emissions Trading as a Guiding Instrument for an Effective and Efficient EU Climate Policy in Transport
Published 2021-10-01“…Abstract The European Union’s top climate policy objective is to fully decarbonise its member states’ economies by 2050, i. e. to achieve climate neutrality in all sectors that currently still depend on fossil fuels. This is fully reflected in the EU Commission’s political agenda under the heading “European Green Deal”. …”
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Lutte contre le changement climatique et maîtrise de la demande d’énergie : introduction au dossier thématique
Published 2017-07-01“…The aim is to reduce greenhouse gases, through multi-level actions: reducing the use of fossil energy sources, developping renewable energies, efficiency and energy sobriety. …”
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The Energy Potential of Agricultural Biomass in the European Union
Published 2023-12-01“…The study identifies biomass as a vital energy source for the EU's energy independence and reducing fossil fuel reliance. It also highlights the necessity for future research on improving biomass conversion technologies and policy development for integrating agricultural biomass into the energy framework, considering the unique aspects of each country's agricultural sector.…”
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Agronegócio sucroenergético e desenvolvimento no Brasil
Published 2019-05-01“…The objective was to take advantage of international discussions on sustainable development and to offer the world market the ethanol - a non-fossil fuel - as an alternative to oil. The government also stimulated the internal consumption of this agrofuel, which at present is the main destination of Brazilian ethanol. …”
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