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Low Carbon Economy is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in low carbon economy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of low carbon economy. Al…
Surender Kumar, Amsalu W. Yalew
The fast growing literature on economic impacts of climate change is inclined to assessing the impacts on agricultural production and productivity and on human health. The economic impacts of climate change however, go beyond these sectors. In this paper, we…
Wei Zhang, Zhongxin Wu
This paper establishes the framework of low-carbon auditing based on the current environment of China which is a developing country. A comprehensive system of low-carbon auditing should be composed by low carbon related laws compliance auditing, low-carbon co…
Mildred Lemus Perez, Manuel Rodriguez Susa, Mario Pellerano, Arnaud Delebarre
This work considers the possibility to transport CO 2 in an adsorbed phase and analyzes its cost as a function of transported quantities, transport conditions and transportation means. CO 2 adsorption capacities of 6 different adsorbents, comprising 4 activat…
Houming Fan, Guosong Dong, Xiaonan Zhang, Xiaohua Li, Xia Liang
Constructing low-carbon green oil port is not only beneficial to change the present situation of Chinese oil port which has pollution problems and many risks, but also to increase the economic efficiency and improve the ability of sustainable development of l…
Gonzalo Fernandez-Sanchez, Fernando Rodriguez-Lopez
With the new Technical Code for Construction and Energy Certification (application of the EPBD in Spain) energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions are now taken into consideration during building’s operating phase. There is no doubt that this is a step…
Robert Lundmark, Fredrik Pettersson
The purpose of this study is to analyze how market and policy uncertainties affect the general profitability of new investments in the power sector, and investigate the associated investment timing and technology choices. We develop an economic model for new…
Corina Amalia Macarie, Adina-Elena Segneanu, Ionel Balcu, Raluca Pop, Georgeta Burtica, Vasile-Daniel Gherman
Two different methods, namely simultaneous saccharification and fermentation and two-stage hydrolysis and fermen- tation have been used for the conversion of the cellulose into bioethanol. Both aerobic and anaerobic conditions were employed in order to obtain…
Andreas Oberheitmann
The history of the Eastern Islands in the Pacific with an increasing over-utilization of natural resources reminds us of the mistakes modern societies are making and the question is obvious whether the Earth is suffering from an Eastern Islands Syndrome, in o…
Guoliang Liu, Hans Liu
Most old residential and commercial buildings in China are not insulated or not to new standards. This is true even in regions with very cold winters or regions with very hot summers. The insulation in new buildings is very poor relative to North American sta…
Ye Qian, Jian-Cheng Bin
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is an arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol allowing developed countries with a greenhouse gas reduction commitment to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries as an alternative to more expensive em…
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