Climate Change and Renewable Energy

Cap and trade schemes (or emissions trading systems, ETS)

Caps and Trade or Emission trading is a market-based approach to control pollution by providing economic incentives for reducing the emissions of the pollutants.” In this, a limit is set on each party that emits such harmful toxins in the environment and a permit needs to be bought that specifies that limit. If in any case, the limit needs to be increased then the owner-party of the permit has to pay extra. Through such capping, a way can be found to best meet the environmental and economic policy targets. Through better regulation and book-keeping of the bigger industries can be done, who is one of
the prime suspects in causing pollution.

Green House Gas Inventory

In this, the annual calculation of greenhouse gas emissions is done and then its compliance is checked with national and international policies. Be it production-based to consumption-based, each category of emission is checked and reported. The most stubborn greenhouse gases include Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, and Fluorinated gases. This helps in understanding the best direction in which mitigation efforts, strategies, further progression in controlling the greenhouse gases should be evolving. Through this local and national level plans can be set up that point towards more efficient use of energy technologies and increase awareness among the communities about the risks of climate change.

Climate modeling

Climate modeling helps in predicting how average conditions will change in an area over a long period of time. Such models follow a qualitative approach and use the software in which oceans, lands, and atmospheric conditions and interactions can be created to predict those coming changes. Through these research works, hypothesis, thesis, can get the edge they need in proving their point and also helping information of better basic structures if any drastic conversion were going to occur.

Through such high-end research work, not only future conditions but past scenarios of the earth’s climate can also be understood. By using mathematical models for such modeling, the accuracy for it increases tons, thus making this process more reliable.

Crop modeling

Just like climate modeling, crop models are also a mathematical way of representing how a plant grows and interacts with its surroundings. By simulating seasons, soil nourishment, pest attacks,watering, the needs of a particular plant can be understood. Such models can easily cause variations in all such conditions that are required by the crop to grow healthy and see the effects that it goes through under different circumstances. Such models are beneficial for agriculture as they help in exploring the inter-relations between the crop, weather, surrounding resources, and much more and understand the current and future impact of climate change on them.

Renewable Energy

Renewable energy comes from naturally renewing but flow-limited sources; renewable resources are nearly limitless in terms of length but have a finite amount of energy per unit of time.

A renewable energy source is one that may be used indefinitely and does not deplete the environment. Additionally, when the word "green energy" is used, it typically refers to renewable energy sources as well. It refers to energy sources that are not as harmful to the environment as the most regularly utilized non-sustainable ones. Some of the examples of renewable energy are Biomass, Woods, Wind, Geothermal, Solar, Ethanol, Biodiesel and Hydropower.