Carbon Equivalent

MMTCE = (million metric tons of a gas) * (GWP of the gas) * (12/44) (source: EPA)

READER VIEWS: ON RECYCLING, CONGRESSIONAL APOLOGIES, SYMPHONY ...  -  Oct 18, 2007
The Wichita Eagle,Recycling of solid waste in 2000 prevented the release of 32.9 million metric tons of carbon equivalent into the air. Wichita and Sedgwick County need to

European Commission Joins Methane to Markets Partnership  -  Sep 26, 2007
Environment News ServiceBy 2015, Methane to Markets has the potential to deliver annual reductions in methane emissions of up to 50 million metric tons of carbon equivalent.

Waste Energy projects can generate 2500mw of energy : ASSOCHAM – E&Y  -  Oct 11, 2007
India Infoline.com,...over next 30 years by nearly one-quarter for less than $25 per ton of carbon equivalent, with a substantial portion available at a very low cost.

Hill PHOENIX Joins EPA's GreenChill Program  -  Oct 8, 2007
Market Wire (press release)...design and service, and advanced refrigeration technologies could reduce refrigerant emissions by 1 million metric tons of carbon equivalent per year,

European Commission Joins Bush's Methane to Markets Partnership  -  Sep 25, 2007
Associated Content,Methane to Markets has a goal of reducing methane by 50 million metric tons of carbon equivalent (MMTCE), which is equal to enough energy to power 7.2

New trash program attracts EPA environment study  -  Oct 11, 2007
Providence Journal,The federal agency estimates that annual greenhouse gas emissions are reduced by .085 metric tons of carbon equivalent — the unit of measure used for

EPA Climate Programs Prevent Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Save Dollars  -  Sep 26, 2007
U.S. EPA.gov (press release),...(9/26/07) In 2006, EPA's climate protection programs prevented 70 million metric tons of carbon equivalent greenhouse gas emissions - up from 63 million in

Johnson Controls Refreshes Corporate Identity  -  Oct 1, 2007
Environmental Leader,EPA Releases Climate Protection Partnerships Report - In 2006, EPA's climate protection programs prevented 70 million metric tons of carbon equivalent

UPDATE 1-AirShares carbon fund plans IPO to raise $250 mln  -  Aug 14, 2007
ReutersThe fund will trade exchange-traded futures contracts for carbon equivalent emissions allowances eligible for trading under the European Union Emissions

OAS launches hemispheric freshwater initiative  -  Aug 15, 2007
Caribbean Net News,For the August meeting in Guatemala, approximately 36 tons of carbon equivalent from air-travel to Guatemala City was offset through the support of a

British kitemark for carbon offsetting by autumn  -  Jul 30, 2007
VNUNet.com,A polluter can buy emission credits from an accredited organisation that runs programmes to reduce the net volume of carbon and carbon-equivalent emissions.

Calculate your farm's carbon footprint  -  Aug 2, 2007
Farmers Guardian,...reading on the web and found that with existing farm records she had all the data she needed to estimate the carbon equivalent footprint for the farm.

Regional plants on 'dirtiest' list: Power plant officials say data ...  -  Aug 7, 2007
Electric Light & Power/ Utility Automation & Engineering T&D Magazine,If you've got one of those big plants, you have the carbon equivalent of 2 million Hummers. "There's nothing like a coal plant in terms of scale," Schaeffer

Park eyes climate change  -  Jul 21, 2007
Marquette Mining Journal,Pictured Rocks contributes an estimated net total of 400 metric tons carbon equivalent of greenhouse gases into the environment each year.

AMD Releases Global Climate Protection Plan  -  Jul 25, 2007
Environmental Leader,Further reduce normalized greenhouse gas emissions by 33 percent (as measured by carbon equivalent emissions/manufacturing index) by 2010 against a baseline

20 Countries, 600 Groups, Will Meet in China to Reduce Greenhouse ...  -  Aug 7, 2007
Autochannel (press release)By 2015, Methane to Markets has the potential to* *reduce annual methane emissions* *by up to 50 million metric tons of carbon equivalent* *- roughly equal

The Beginnings And Development Of Pressure Hull Welding Of United ...  -  Jul 19, 2007
Welding,In order to alleviate these problems, QT28, an electrode with a lower carbon equivalent, was introduced in 1956. This, the first fully quenched and tempered

Coal Bed Methane Global Market Potential  -  Aug 7, 2007
PRMinds (press release),...could be achieved by these projects are approximately 135 billion cubic feet (Bcf) per year (equal to 14.8 million tons of carbon equivalent per year).

Beyond carbon taxes  -  Apr 12, 2007
Grist Magazine,Require that agriculture and forestry at minimum be carbon neutral -- that is, sequester carbon equivalent to greenhouse emissions.

Forget Kyoto  -  Apr 11, 2007
National Review Online,The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that US carbon-equivalent emissions rose by 1.3 percent between 2000 and 2004. During the same period,

A Tale of Two Europes  -  Mar 28, 2007
National Review Online,Earlier this month, the European countries agreed, as Gore noted, to a 20-percent cut in carbon-equivalent emissions by 2020. It is an ambitious goal,

Vietnam tackles livestock methane emissions  -  Apr 12, 2007
Environmental Data Interactive,...runs the programme, says it has the potential to deliver annual methane emission reductions of up to 50m metric tons of carbon equivalent annually.

'Preserve peat bogs' for climate  -  Mar 28, 2007
BBC News,British bogs store carbon equivalent to about 20 years' worth of national industrial emissions, the Trust says. But two centuries of damage in some regions

CO2 emissions: UK leads the way in setting binding carbon targets  -  Mar 16, 2007
Energy Business Review...how current and future UK governments plan to reduce the UK's carbon dioxide emissions below the 1990 levels of 160 million tonnes of carbon equivalent.

White House Council on Environmental Quality Recognizes ...  -  Mar 21, 2007
Business Wire (press release),Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 64700 metric tons of carbon equivalent, which is equal to removing 51317 cars from the road for a year.

Full Text  -  Mar 29, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)...included and excluded in the Kyoto Protocol and the method by which emissions of different gases are placed on a common "carbon-equivalent" scale (5).

Biofuel plant project awaits ministry’s approval  -  Mar 25, 2007
Daily Times,It has been highly successful and by March 1 this year, it earned 0.5 million tonnes of carbon equivalent credit. The Landhi Cattle Colony project aims to

Environmental Resources Trust Selects APX as Technology Provider ...  -  Mar 15, 2007
American Digital Networks (press release),The ERT Registry Program has registered more than 30 million metric tons of Carbon equivalent verified emissions reductions (VERs), and transferred more

UD recycled poundage at 85742 with 4 days to go  -  Apr 3, 2007
UDaily,This effort, Cross noted, decreased greenhouse gas emissions by 8016 metric tons of carbon equivalent--a step similar to removing approximately 6362 cars

St. Lawrence Cement Lauded for Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions  -  Mar 29, 2007
CCNMatthews (press release),EPA estimates that the goals announced to date through Climate Leaders will prevent more than 11 million metric tons of carbon equivalent emissions per year

Environmental Resources Trust Selects APX as Technology Provider ...  -  15 Mar 2007
American Digital Networks (press release),The ERT Registry Program has registered more than 30 million metric tons of Carbon equivalent verified emissions reductions (VERs), and transferred more

Carbon rationing: good intentions, poor politics  -  Mar 10, 2007
Green Left Weekly,Better yet, instead of auctioning permits, reduce the red tape a bit more, and simply charge a carbon (equivalent) tax. From: Comment & Analysis, Green Left

EU project to protect tropical peatlands  -  Mar 12, 2007
Cordis News,Tropical peatlands are found mainly in Southeast Asia, and store up to 70 billion tonnes of carbon, equivalent to 3% of total global soil carbon.

Ships? Planes? Who's counting the carbon?  -  Mar 7, 2007
Grist Magazine,...(Yes, the tax should be global, but in the interim we can adopt the suggestion from France to levy carbon-equivalent fees on imports from non-taxing

Canada emissions trade seen worth C$12 bln: CIBC  -  Mar 13, 2007
Reuters Canada,He based the C$12 billion figure on a minimum price of C$30 per ton of emissions and 2004 figures showing 410 megatonnes of annual carbon-equivalent

Statoil and Pemex Sign Deal to Reduce Carbon Emissions  -  Mar 5, 2007
OilVoice (press release),The aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two million tonnes of carbon equivalent from the Tres Hermanos field by 2018 through reduced flaring.

CLIMATE TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE INDUSTRY JOINT SEMINAR ON SUCCESSFUL ...  -  Mar 10, 2007
Earth Negotiations Bulletin,...resulting in energy savings of 2.8 million tons of carbon equivalent, and carbon dioxide emission reductions of 1.8 million tons of carbon equivalent.

Lifford Wine Agency Leads the Environmental Way  -  Mar 5, 2007
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse),In their average life span of 80 years, they will continue to recapture carbon, equivalent to eight times the amount Lifford will generate this year.

Imperial: Prize boosts nanotech development  -  Mar 2, 2007
Science Business (subscription),A hundred megatonnes of carbon-equivalent emissions could be saved each year by implementing more energy-efficient solid-state lighting technologies

7 reasons why nuclear is good  -  Mar 2, 2007
Finance24,The graph below shows the range of emissions of greenhouse gases in grams of carbon equivalent per kilowatt-hour for different energy sources.

New Report Reflects A Growing Awareness Of The Technological ...  -  Feb 15, 2007
Business Wire (press release),...could be achieved by these projects are approximately 135 billion cubic feet (Bcf) per year (equal to 14.8 million tons of carbon equivalent per year).

A fiery try to save the Amazon  -  Dec 19, 2006
DetNews.com,...according to conservative estimates -- trees storing the carbon equivalent to the annual emissions of California and New York state combined.

Planting plan to ease emissions  -  Dec 17, 2006
Stuff.co.nz,...to lower agricultural emissions – especially methane and nitrous oxide – which make up about 50 per cent of New Zealand's carbon-equivalent pollution.

Warmer and warmer  -  Dec 12, 2006
Times of Malta,...agree, because of the unimaginable amount of greenhouse gasses (nearly six billion tonnes of carbon equivalent) being generated by the United States and

Do Not Giggle  -  Dec 1, 2006
Grist Magazine,When all the carbon-equivalent math is said and done, livestock produce more of the world's human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions than cars,

Uganda: Why Emulate a Cannibal Who Eats His Children?  -  Oct 3, 2006
AllAfrica.com,...fixed at $ 81. To remove 7100 hectares, we will release 3,905,000 tones of carbon equivalent to a loss of sh585,164,250,000! This is ...

Super Boiler concept eyes high efficiency, cost savings  -  Sep 27, 2006
Reliable Plant Magazine,At the same time, the technologies would curb environmental emissions by nearly 2.7 million metric tons of carbon equivalent annually. ...