Assessing “dangerous climate change”: Required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature

J Hansen, P Kharecha, M Sato, V Masson-Delmotte… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate
data. We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple …

[HTML][HTML] The role of natural gas and its infrastructure in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, improving regional air quality, and renewable resource integration

MA Mac Kinnon, J Brouwer, S Samuelsen - Progress in Energy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The pursuit of future energy systems that can meet electricity demands while supporting the
attainment of societal environment goals, including mitigating climate change and reducing …

Methane leaks from North American natural gas systems

AR Brandt, GA Heath, EA Kort, F O'Sullivan, G Pétron… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Natural gas (NG) is a potential “bridge fuel” during transition to a decarbonized energy
system: It emits less carbon dioxide during combustion than other fossil fuels and can be …

Trends in global CO2 emissions. 2012 report

JGJ Olivier, JAHW Peters, G Janssens-Maenhout - 2012 - osti.gov
This report discusses the results of a trend assessment of global CO2 emissions up to 2011
and updates last year's assessment. This assessment focusses on the changes in annual …

[图书][B] Fundamentals of gas shale reservoirs

R Rezaee - 2015 - books.google.com
Provides comprehensive information about the key exploration, development and
optimization concepts required for gas shale reservoirs Includes statistics about gas shale …

Path dependence, innovation and the economics of climate change

P Aghion, C Hepburn, A Teytelboym… - Handbook on green …, 2019 - elgaronline.com
It should be self-evident that innovation is a critical aspect of climate change policy–the costs
of reducing emissions will depend on the trajectories of costs of clean technologies relative …

Asserting the climate benefits of the coal-to-gas shift across temporal and spatial scales

K Tanaka, O Cavalett, WJ Collins, F Cherubini - Nature climate change, 2019 - nature.com
Reducing CO2 emissions through a shift from coal to natural gas power plants is a key
strategy to support pathways for climate stabilization. However, methane leakage in the …

Life-cycle comparison of greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption for coal and shale gas fired power generation in China

Y Chang, R Huang, RJ Ries, E Masanet - Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
China has the world's largest shale gas reserves, which might enable it to pursue a new
pathway for electricity generation. This study employed hybrid LCI (life cycle inventory) …

[HTML][HTML] Fugitive emissions of methane from abandoned, decommissioned oil and gas wells

IM Boothroyd, S Almond, SM Qassim, F Worrall… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study considered the fugitive emissions of methane (CH 4) from former oil and gas
exploration and production wells drilled to exploit conventional hydrocarbon reservoirs …

The natural gas supply chain: the importance of methane and carbon dioxide emissions

P Balcombe, K Anderson, J Speirs… - ACS Sustainable …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Natural gas is typically considered to be the cleaner-burning fossil fuel that could play an
important role within a restricted carbon budget. While natural gas emits less CO2 when …