There is a growing consensus that human beings must cut greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate global warming and the resultant impacts on the environment. However, production optimisation has rarely taken this issue into consideration, often leading to environmentally unsustainable operation decisions. This paper presents a lot sizing batch optimisation model for a stochastic make-toorder produc...

Abstract: As earth climate warms rapidly, the problem of carbon emissions has become a universal concern, the study of the factors involving carbon emissions will be the basis in finding the way to the reduction. LMDI established a framework to study the change in emission intensity and its mechanism. Using the extend Kaya Identity to decompose the driving factors into energy structure, energy ...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: Q53 Q55 M40 C33 Keywords: CO2 emissions R&D expenditures IFRS adoption European manufacturing firms TAR model This study examines the impact of research and development (R&D) expenditures on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions prior to and under the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards at the firm level within the manufacturing s...

| Automotive emissions are severely regulated. Since 1980, a three-way catalyst (TWC) has been used to convert harmful emissions of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and oxides of nitrogen into less harmful gases in order to meet these regulations. The TWC's e ciency of conversion of these gases is primarily dependent on the mass ratio of air to fuel (A=F ) in the mixture leaving the exhaust manif...

Food is a major contributor of greenhouse gases in the world. Changing what you eat to a less greenhouse gas intensive diet can have a major impact on the greenhouse gas emission. While campaigns and efforts about changing diets directed towards individuals have a potential to reduce total greenhouse gases, efforts directed towards institutional producers of meals have much greater potential to...

This paper provides an overview of China’s climate mitigation policy related to the forestry sector, with a special focus on the development of carbon forests which are established to mitigate climate change. A total of 3.5 million ha of carbon forest were planted in the past decade. In recent years, the number of Voluntary Emission Reduction forest carbon projects has increased rapidly. The ma...

The extension of the waste input-output (WIO) model to analyze households’ sustainable consumption patterns is presented in this article. We estimate direct and indirect emission loads induced by household consumption by the WIO model. The WIO model is much more suitable for the analysis of sustainable consumption than the conventional input-output model because it can deal with the disposal st...

In this paper, optimal generation expansion planning (GEP) is investigated considering purchase prices, profits of independent power producers (IPPs) and reliability criteria using a new method based on hybrid coded Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). In this approach, optimal purchase price of each IPP is obtained by HCGA and reliability criteria are calculated by PSO...