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GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

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Gas-flaring countries and trends. A newly released GE study — Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations —estimates that 5% of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning or “flaring” unused gas each year, despite some progress on the flaring issue. Click to enlarge.

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Michelin brings back Challenge Bibendum event as Movin’On

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Michelin then hosted a second Challenge Bibendum in 2000. This event drew a field of 32 electric, hybrid, fuel cell, diesel and natural gas powered vehicles from nearly all the world’s major vehicle manufacturers and top design houses. Regulatory and policy incentives. Safe, clean and effective mobility for all.

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

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Asia accounted for about 20% of the world’s energy consumption in 2000, 27% in 2007, and is expected to rise above 40% by 2050. The draft report compares the potential outcomes for Asia under two competing scenarios: the Asian Century and the Middle Income Trap. Energy consumption.

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Reducing Black Carbon Emissions and Ground-Level Ozone Would Provide Immediate Benefit Against Climate Change

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Ramanathan and Jessica Seddon Wallack, director of the Center for Development Finance at the Institute for Financial Management and Research in Chennai, India. A recent study reported that ozone’s damage to crop yields in 2000 resulted in an economic loss of $14-26 billion annually. million cars from the road.

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Australia PM Gillard announces carbon pricing plan; transport fuels exempt, but lowered fuel tax credits to bring carbon price to some businesses

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Under the scheme, around 500 of the largest emitters in Australia—facilities that have direct greenhouse gas emissions of 25,000 tonnes of CO 2 -equivalent per year or more (excluding emissions from transport fuels and some synthetic greenhouse gases)—will need to buy and surrender to the Government a permit for every tonne they produce.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ].

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How to plan energy resilience for EV charging stations

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This form of resilience is increasingly critical—over the 20 years following 2000, the frequency of major outages increased by 67%, with expectations for further increases due to extreme weather conditions. Solar On-site solar power systems are a potent renewable energy solution, often offering good return on investment.

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