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Gower's "Climate Tracker" leaked carbon emission data, Long Steel ranked among Taiwan's top ten pollution sources

In the second episode of Gower's Climate Mirror, the world's dirtiest pollution source has been replaced? Among the major carbon emitters named in 2022, who has improved? Who's worse off? Climate TRACE is currently the world's most detailed independent global greenhouse gas emissions database. Among the 500 dirtiest carbon emission sources in the world in 2022, 7 are from Taiwan. Image source: Taken from the official website of Climate TRACE. Do you still remember that at COP27 last year, former US Vice President Al Gore opened the climate mirror "Climate TRACE"? It integrates data from satellites, remote sensing and other public and commercial data, and uses AI to calculate the carbon emissions of the world's 72,612 dirtiest power plants, refineries, oil fields, steel plants, cement plants, airports and other 20 major industries. Spread out on a world map, it claims to be the most detailed independent global greenhouse gas emissions database available. Gall is back in 2023. This time it was even more violent. The number of pollution sources exposed exploded from more than 70,000 to 352 million, an annual increase of 4,400 times. It included cities, fishing ports, road traffic, rice fields, field burning, etc., and the time span of national-level carbon emission data was It has also been extended to 2015. The closest thing to a true global carbon emissions database "It's really powerful," Gower said. “We are participating in this COP specifically for this year’s global stocktake,” he pointed out. “Climate TRACE is currently the only independent, comprehensive source of accurate data that can be used to take stocktakes.” In fact, Climate TRACE also

2024-05-28

Climate change is a salary and pension thief! Global per capita income in 2050 will be 19% less

do you know? Climate change is a salary and pension thief! The latest research in the internationally authoritative journal Nature estimates that climate change is expected to cause annual economic losses of US$38 trillion in 2049. In 2100, losses may double again. How big a loss is $38 trillion? It is roughly more than twice the annual GDP of the entire European Union, 1.5 times the annual GDP of the United States, or nearly 30 times the GDP of Taiwan in 2023. This paper studies the economic impact of climate on more than 1,600 regions around the world over the past 40 years, such as how changes in average annual temperature affect changes in economic growth rates, and then uses computer simulations to predict future trends. The results found that compared with the "no warming" scenario, climate change will cause global per capita income to decrease by 18.8% in 26 years. Although almost all countries face economic losses, the biggest losses are those that are the poorest, have the lowest historical cumulative carbon emissions, and are least responsible for carbon emissions. The study estimates that the income losses of the world's poorest countries are 61% higher than those of the richest countries; the income losses of countries with the lowest historical carbon emissions are 40% higher than those of countries with the highest historical carbon emissions. "These phenomena once again highlight the widespread injustice of climate shocks," the paper said. From a regional perspective, wealthy North America and Europe will suffer the least damage, with per capita income expected to decline by 11%; Southeast Asia and East Asia, where Taiwan is located, are expected to decrease by 19%, slightly higher than the global average; the worst-affected areas are South Asia and Africa, where income will decrease by more than 22%. This is just looking at lost income, but climate change also increases other costs of living

2024-05-16

The role of recycled material verification in the development trend of international plastic tax

Origin of Plastic Tax In recent years, plastic reduction has always been an important topic on the international negotiation table. Although there has been a temporary slowdown due to the impact of COVID-19, now after the epidemic, plastic restriction and plastic reduction issues have returned to the forefront, especially in 2024. The Global Plastics Treaty, established in 2016, will be legally binding on countries around the world and is expected to pose a new wave of challenges to the plastics industry. In response to the impact of COVID-19 on the global industry, the European Union launched the NextGeneration EU economic recovery plan in 2020. The new plastic tax is one of the important measures to increase the EU's overall budget and will be levied starting in 2021. The basis for the collection is based on Eurostat data, based on the total amount of non-recycled plastic packaging waste in member states in the previous year, and is levied at a rate of 0.80 euros per kilogram. Taxation is expected to generate an annual tax injection of approximately 6 billion euros (Detailed Figure 1). Figure 1: EU Plastic Tax Collection Rate Current Status of International Plastic Taxes Regarding the EU plastic tax levied from 2021, the response strategies adopted by EU member states vary according to the direction of national management policies. Some countries have responded to the EU plastic tax. Tax introduces the country's domestic taxation and fee system. This article explains the UK and Spain, which have implemented relevant tax and fee systems, and compiles a comparison table as follows:

2024-05-15

Grab carbon dioxide from the air! The world's largest carbon capture factory in Iceland captures carbon emissions from 8,600 vehicles a year

The world's largest Direct Air Capture (DAC) factory "Mammoth" was opened in Iceland on the 8th. It can remove 36,000 tons of carbon dioxide every year, which is equivalent to reducing the carbon emissions of 8,600 cars. Compared with the current largest factory of the same type, it is eight times larger. It is not easy to increase production capacity and reduce costs. In 2021, Swiss startup Climeworks launched the direct air capture factory "Orca". The Oka factory is located in Iceland and can capture 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year. The captured carbon dioxide was handed over to Icelandic partner Carbfix for carbon storage. At that time, it was the world's largest direct air capture and storage (DAC+S) plant. "Oka" comes from the Icelandic orka, which means "energy". Shortly after the opening of the Oka plant, Climeworks immediately began construction of the Mengma plant and completed it within two years. The Mengma plant can capture 36,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year, nine times that of the Oka plant. Slowing down carbon emissions will not help, and many experts are pinning their hopes on carbon-negative technologies. The commonly heard term "carbon capture" is to separate, compress, and then store carbon dioxide emitted from thermal power plants and factories; "direct air capture" is to intercept carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Foreign media use "giant air purifiers" and " Carbon dioxide vacuum cleaner" description. The Guardian explained that the factory first uses powerful fans to suck air into the collector, and then uses alkaline filters to absorb carbon dioxide. When the filter is filled with carbon dioxide, the collector

2024-05-15

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