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The interest in developing biofuels has rapidly increased during the last decades followed by a strong controversy about their sustainability. Diverting a large amount of land from agriculture to fuels, impacting forests and grasslands, loss of biodiversit ...

2008

Liberalization of the Electricity Market in Europe : An overview of the electricity technology and the market place

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The electric power industry in European Union is undergoing profound regulatory and operational changes. The underlying rationale behind these transformations is to move only highly monopolized vertically-integrated industry from a centralized operation ap ...

2008

Energy and greenhouse gas balances of biofuels: biases induced by LCA modelling choices

Edgard Gnansounou, Arnaud Dauriat, Luis Alberto Panichelli, Juan David Villegas Gomez

Estimating greenhouse gas (GHG) balances of biofuels is subject to significant biases stemming from modelling choices about system definition and boundaries, functional unit, reference systems and allocation methods. This paper investigates extent to which ...

2008

Estimating greenhouse gas emissions from indirect land-use change in biofuels production: concepts and exploratory analysis for soybean-based biodiesel production

Edgard Gnansounou, Luis Alberto Panichelli

Due to changes in carbon stock of soil and biomass, indirect land-use change (ILUC) has consequences on green house gas (GHG) balance of a biofuel that are not presently considered in evaluation of environmental merits of biofuels. Significant changes in l ...

National Institute of Science Communication; 1999 / NISCAIR2008

The feasibility of a world-wide tax on anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases: Levels and impacts of world-wide taxes on greenhouse gases

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle

A harmonized worldwide carbon tax, implemented at regional or national level, can be enforced only with an international collective action which takes into account inherent interests of all countries. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact ofthe ...

2007

CISBAT 2007

Centred on research and development in solar energy applications to the built environment, the international conference CISBAT 2007 once more highlighted a good number of interesting technological innovations. The scientific discoveries and developments pr ...

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Mode and Carrier Choice in the Quebec City - Windsor Corridor: A Random Parameters Approach

The Quebec City-Windsor corridor is the busiest and most important trade and transportation corridor in Canada. The transportation sector is the second largest contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the country. Governments around the world, incl ...

2007

Mode and Carrier Choice in the Quebec City - A Random Parameters Approach

2007

Mode and Carrier Choice in the Quebec City - Windsor Corridor: A Random Parameters Approach

2007

Shipper Mistrust of Rail Use: First Stated Preference Carrier Choice Survey for the Quebec City - Windsor Corridor

2007

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