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ExxonMobil and Global Thermostat in joint development agreement to advance atmospheric carbon capture technology

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Advancing technologies to capture and concentrate carbon dioxide for storage and potential industrial use is among a suite of ExxonMobil research programs focused on developing lower-emissions solutions to mitigate the risks of climate change. This entire process is mild, safe, and carbon negative.

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UK auto industry warns anti-diesel agenda and slow uptake of EVs could mean missing 2021 CO2 targets; rising CO2 average in 2017

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The UK automotive industry warned that the current anti-diesel agenda combined with the ongoing slow take-up of electric vehicles could mean industry misses its next round of CO 2 targets in 2021, with negative consequences for the UK’s own climate change goals. to a new low of 165.4

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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

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“There’s definitely change on the horizon,” said Sinclair, who is a member of both the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Women of Electric Vehicles (WEV) , as well as EV Gals, a smaller, Bay Area-only group. And a lot of moms out there want to do their part around global climate change,” she continued.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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Remember when the dot.com bubble burst in 2000 and, seemingly overnight, some companies ceased making millions hand-over-fist? Increases in carbon dioxide concentration along with global surface temperatures are showing a decline in agricultural yields due to climate change. [

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ADB draft report says 3B Asians could become affluent by 2050; significant challenges

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The draft report identifies six key drivers of transformation in the region: technical progress; capital accumulation; demographics and the labor force; the emerging middle class; climate change mitigation and the competition for resources; and the communications revolution. Energy consumption.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

But the difference is that only a minority of Americans today can afford to buy a new car. in 2000 to 0.7 And my parallel there was the Internet bubble of 1994 to 2000, which I lived through, where a lot of people made predictions about the effects of the internet, almost none of which took place by 2000.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

But the difference is that only a minority of Americans today can afford to buy a new car. in 2000 to 0.7 And my parallel there was the Internet bubble of 1994 to 2000, which I lived through, where a lot of people made predictions about the effects of the internet, almost none of which took place by 2000.