The concept of "stabilization" of atmospheric CO(2) concentration is re-examined in connection with climate-change mitigation strategies. A new "zero-emissions stabilization (Z-stabilization)" is proposed, where CO(2) emissions are reduced to zero at some time and thereafter the concentration is decreased by natural removal processes, eventually reaching an equilibrated stable state. Simplified...

Energy consumption in residential buildings is one of the major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S. Most of the efforts to minimize these emissions contemplate on construction of new high performance green buildings rather than retrofitting the existing residential building stock, which has the greatest emission reduction potential. In this paper, rapidly increasing GHG emissi...

The desire for greener aircraft pushes both academic and industrial research into developing technologies, manufacturing, operational strategies providing emissions abatement. At time of writing, there are no certified electric passengers’ transport. This is due to the requirements lightness, reliability, safety, comfort, capability fast air transport, which not completely met by state-of-the-a...

To limit warming, action plans from countries and companies must be fair, rigorous transparent.

Although compliance with the European limit values for air pollutants has been achieved over large parts in Spain, some challenges remain for O3 on the maximum daily 8-hour mean and information limit values, for particulate matter on the PM10 annual and daily limit values and for NO2 on annual and hourly limit values. Transboundary transport of air pollutants has started to be recognized as a m...

In the last decade a rapidly growing interest in electrification of transport passenger cars could be noticed. The major motivation are the problems related to the use of fossil fuels in the transport sector such as crude oil dependency, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and air pollution. Electric vehicles (EV) are often presented as zero-emission vehicles. However, from a lifecycle CO2 perspecti...

Combating climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has become an obligation for countries that ratified the Paris Agreement. Saudi Arabia, as a member of Agreement, pledged to achieve net zero (NZE) 2060. This endeavor is challenging all countries. paper provides analysis and assessment measures NZE The reveals Arabia will reduce total 49.67 Mt CO2eq, whereas under business-as-...