Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation greenhouse gas
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- initialism
greenhouse gas
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Examples
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Twenty percent of our local GHG is from air travel.
Update: Parks Chief’s Travel Expenses For March and April Totaled $7,140 « PubliCola 2010
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Replacing coal with nuclear would put a dent in GHG emissions, sure, but it would just kick the problem down the road a decade or so.
Matthew Yglesias » Arctic Seabed Methane Stores Destabilizing 2010
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Even more ambitious groups of states - led by us radical New Englanders and those West Coast hippies - have committed to long-term GHG reduction targets.
Dan Worth: Sox Win World Series! Mike Lowell Wins... 2 Hybrids? 2008
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State actions taken to date are not likely to meet short-term GHG emissions reduction targets, which in themselves are modest.
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This action enables the company to better focus its efforts on ensuring fair and equitable treatment of the transportation sector and its consumers and on expanding opportunities for greater near-term GHG reductions through increased use of natural gas.
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/4/2010 Project Evaluation: 6 Weighted Scores • Investment per annual GHG reduction - higher short term GHG reduction = higher score • Investment per lifetime GHG reduction - favors longer lasting, high reduction projects • Operating impact - Lower impact, higher score The most favorable projects will have highest scores 15 Potential Projects for Evaluation •
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This action enables the company to better focus its efforts on ensuring fair and equitable treatment of the transportation sector and its consumers and on expanding opportunities for greater near-term GHG reductions through increased use of natural gas.
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This action enables the company to better focus its efforts on ensuring fair and equitable treatment of the transportation sector and its consumers and on expanding opportunities for greater near-term GHG reductions through increased use of natural gas.
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/4/2010 Project Evaluation: 6 Weighted Scores • Investment per annual GHG reduction - higher short term GHG reduction = higher score • Investment per lifetime GHG reduction - favors longer lasting, high reduction projects • Operating impact - Lower impact, higher score The most favorable projects will have highest scores 15 Potential Projects for Evaluation •
Recently Uploaded Slideshows mikehamby 2010
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However, ambitious mid-term GHG reduction targets from developed countries are still lacking and finance mechanisms to tackle climate change in the developing world have not been properly established.
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