This paper analyses the combination of taxes and subsidies as an instrument to enable a reduction in CO2 emission. The objective of the study is to compare recycling of a CO2 tax revenue as a subsidy for biomass use as opposed to traditional recycling such as reduced income or corporate taxation. A model of Denmark's energy supply sector is used to analyse the e€ect of a CO2 tax combined with u...

1 Background Global warming has been getting more serious and made many countries consider measures for reducing CO2 emissions (IPCC 2015). For this reason, global warming is an urgent issue to address through effective CO2 emission reduction policies. Considering global CO2 emissions in 2013 by sector, the second largest volume comes from the transportation sector, which accounts for 23% of th...

Global climate change due to CO2 emissions is an issue of international concern that primarily attributed to fossil fuels. In this study, Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used for analyzing world CO2 emission based on the global energy consumption. Linear and non-linear forms of equations were developed to forecast CO2 emission using Genetic Algorithm (GA) based on the global oil, natural gas, coal, a...

In the transport field, much attention is given to estimation and mitigation of CO2 emission. Much prior research has estimated CO2 emission using aggregate data on total energy consumed or average vehicles kilometres travelled (VKT), while not considering the influence on emission of factors that operate at a more resolved functional level, such as the neighbourhood-scale built environment (e....

Cloud computing provides computing power and resources as a service to users across the globe. This scheme was introduced as a means to an end for customer’s worldwide, providing high performance at a cheaper cost when compared to dedicated high-performance computing machines. This provision requires huge data-centers to be tightly-coupled with the system, the increasing use of which yields hea...

Electric power generation system development is reviewed with special attention to plant efficiency. While higher efficiency is well understood to be economically beneficial because of fuel savings, its effect upon reduction of all plant emissions without installation of additional environmental equipment, is less well appreciated. As CO2 emission control is gaining increasing acceptance,effici...

Energy conservation and greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement have been included in the national development strategy of China, however, the rigidity in command-and-control, absence of market-mechanism and arbitrariness in assignment of abatement burden across regions have caused unnecessary losses in both economic efficiency and social equity. In this paper, we established an Inter-Regional CGE model...

The need to quantify air emissions from animal feeding operations (AFOs) with relative ease and reasonable certainty continues to rise. Exploration of practical means to reduce air emissions also calls for less sophisticated but reasonably dependable methods to quantify the treatment effect. Although mobile air emissions monitoring units (MAEMUs) capable of precise and real-time emission measur...