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Oladikpo Gatien Agossou and Sofiane Amziane
Gypsum board is a building material known for its various qualities and functional characteristics, including its low density, fire resistance, thermal insulation, moisture regulation, and decorative appeal. However, it is important to consider the envir...
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Nicholas Davison, Aaron Brown and Andrew Ross
Pig manure currently results in sizeable greenhouse gas emissions, during storage and spreading to land. Anaerobic digestion and hydrothermal carbonisation could provide significant greenhouse gas mitigation, as well as generate renewable heat and power ...
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Cristiana Tudor and Robert Sova
The European Union (EU) has positioned itself as a frontrunner in the worldwide battle against climate change and has set increasingly ambitious pollution mitigation targets for its members. The burden is heavier for the more vulnerable economies in Cent...
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Kort Bremer, Lourdes S. M. Alwis, Yulong Zheng, Frank Weigand, Michael Kuhne, Reinhard Helbig and Bernhard Roth
The paper presents an investigation into the durability of functionalized carbon structures (FCS) in a highly alkaline concrete environment. First, the suitability of optical fibers with different coatings?i.e., acrylate, polyimide, or carbon?for the FCS...
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Denys Yemshanov, Daniel W. McKenney, Emily Hope and Tony Lempriere
Burning forest biomass from renewable sources has been suggested as a viable strategy to help offset greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the energy generation sector. Energy facilities can, in principle, be retrofitted to produce a portion of their energy ...
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Nicola Clerici, Kristian Rubiano, Amr Abd-Elrahman, Juan Manuel Posada Hoestettler and Francisco J. Escobedo
Periurban forests are key to offsetting anthropogenic carbon emissions, but they are under constant threat from urbanization. In particular, secondary Neotropical forest types in Andean periurban areas have a high potential to store carbon, but are curre...
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Rehan Khodabuccus and Jacquetta Lee
There is a limited penetration of housing which offsets all operational carbon emissions within UK housing developer portfolios. This paper develops a balanced approach to zero carbon housing design from both architectural and national house builder pers...
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Mike Greig,Gary Bull
Forest carbon management is rapidly evolving in British Columbia. The province is perhaps the most active jurisdiction on this front in Canada as it seeks to meet the requirements of its new suite of greenhouse gas legislation, regulations, and policies ...
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Jakub Kronenberg and Joanna Mieszkowicz
Corporate marketing departments use trees and forests for advertising and public relations (PR). Trees and forests constitute a tangible symbol of the environment, reinforced by the growing awareness of the role that trees play in preventing climate chan...
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Derek H. Lynch, Rod MacRae and Ralph C. Martin
About 130 studies were analyzed to compare farm-level energy use and global warming potential (GWP) of organic and conventional production sectors. Cross cutting issues such as tillage, compost, soil carbon sequestration and energy offsets were also revi...
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