Integrating policies for renewables and energy efficiency: Comparing results from Germany, Luxembourg and Northern Ireland

Lukas Kranzl, Energy Economics Group, Vienna University of Technology,Austria
Anselm Brakhage, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Germany
Pedro Gürtler, Association for the Conservation of Energy, UK
Jacky Pett, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UEA, UK
Mario Ragwitz, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Germany

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How to reduce greenhouse gasses - Burn them

Heating a tropical swim paradise with cow manure

Many people think that greenhouse gas emissions refer only to CO₂ that is created by burning fossil fuels. But there are other greenhouse gasses as well. Methane, for example, is a more harmful greenhouse gas, trapping twenty times more heat than CO₂. Methane is estimated to be responsible for 9% of the global warming phenomenon. One of the major sources of methane is livestock manure.

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