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JANUARY 7, 2012

Geographical distributions of global BC emissions from motor vehicles in 1976 (A) and 2006 (B). Researchers at Peking University have developed a new methodology to model black carbon (BC) emissions from diesel and gasoline motor vehicles. An earlier global BC emission inventory by Bond et al. Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

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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OCTOBER 14, 2015

Addressing key global environmental issues such as climate change, water shortages, resource depletion, and degradation of biodiversity, the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050 aims to reduce the negative impact of manufacturing and driving vehicles as much as possible. Achieving sales of 1.5

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JULY 22, 2016

A report commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and prepared by Chuck Shulock finds that the California Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEV) regulations—also adopted by nine other states—requires a ‘tune-up’ to ensure the market expands well beyond current sale levels. Chuck Shulock. Background. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 25, 2009

GHG emissions for ATP shale (low and high cases) and conventional gasoline in grams of CO 2 e per MJ of final fuel delivered. These emissions are 1.5 times larger than emissions from conventionally produced gasoline. Full-fuel-cycle GHG emissions are estimated to be 129 g CO 2. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. These are ~1.5-1.75

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Currently, the data included in the Department of Energy’s US Life Cycle Inventory is based on three years, 1998 to 2001. This LCA project is based on US agricultural data for the 2001-2007 period. Hexane emissions at crushing facilities decreased over 70% compared to the 1998 data (going from 10.15 kg (for the 3.36 kilograms).

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Among the findings of the report, “HFC-134a phase-out in the Chinese light-duty motor vehicle sector”, was that, considering the social cost of CO 2 e, up to 1 trillion RMB in costs (US$150 billion) required to address climate change could be avoided through 2050 by transitioning to low-GWP alternative MACs. relative to HFC-134a and 98.6%

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

they use all the economic, environmental and social resources considered in a value-creating way. A carmaker creates positive (or negative) Sustainable Value if it earns a higher (or lower) return than its peers with its available economic, environmental and social resources. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The complexity of new and future vehicles—driven by the need for increasing fuel efficiency and decreasing emissions with ever-changing drive-cycle demands and environmental conditions—is adding unprecedented flexibility in design and driving the need for better simulation and more powerful computers, observed Dr. Robert M.

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JUNE 28, 2012

Principal investigators: Ming Xu, U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment; Xiaojun Hu, SJTU Energy Research Institute. The biomedical technology projects are: Development of a UM/SJTU microbial natural product diversity resource for collaborative drug discovery programs.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

I contributed the following to the World Wildlife Climate Witness site last week and it was published this morning. It also means a Hobson’s choice over the most critical needs for this increasingly precious liquid resource. By 2050 the law calls for us to reduce our emissions 80% below our 1990 levels.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Early in September, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced it would consider in a 23-24 October meeting amendments to the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulation that would modify the requirements for intermediate volume manufacturers (IVMs) selling into the state to allow them more time to come into the market.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Change in annual linear snow cover from 1990 to 2001. However, these observations are too incomplete to be used in climate models.) “ We may be underestimating the amount of black carbon by as much as a factor of four ,” Menon says. Resources. Black carbon alone contributes at least 30% of this sum. Menon et al. Fasullo, and D.

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MAY 16, 2009

The current paper expands this work to several scenarios that involve multiple charge opportunities per driving day, and advocates a well-to-wheel analysis of vehicle-based CO 2 emissions, rather than just tailpipe emissions, to inform several questions: What kind of plug-in vehicles will enable CO 2 reductions most effectively?

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

A study published earlier this year in the journal Nature Climate Change that cast doubt on whether biofuels produced from corn residue could meet federal mandates for cellulosic biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60% compared to gasoline ( earlier post ) has drawn critical response published as correspondence in the same journal.

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APRIL 21, 2014

Contribution of modeled CO 2 emissions from SOC to the life cycle of biofuel from corn residue. The findings cast doubt on whether biofuels produced from corn residue can be used to meet federal mandates for cellulosic biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 60% compared to gasoline. Error bars are ± one standard deviation.

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JULY 1, 2015

The California Air Resources Board released the latest edition of the state’s Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory , which shows that emissions fell by 1.5 Bar chart of 2000 to 2013 GHG emissions by category as defined in the Scoping Plan. The law set a target of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The low annual rate of global reduction of carbon emissions per unit of GDP needed to limit global warming to 2 °C—based on the probability assessments of the UN IPCC—is insufficient to achieve that goal, according to the latest Low Carbon Economy Index published by business consultancy PwC. per year through 2050.

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MAY 20, 2009

Energy-related CO 2 emissions declined by 2.8% US carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels decreased by 2.8% This is the largest annual decline in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions since EIA began annual reporting on greenhouse gas emissions. Transportation sector CO 2 emissions by fuel types (1990 to 2008).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Divergence of real-world CO 2 emissions from manufacturers’ type-approval CO 2 emissions for various on-road data sources, including an average estimate for private and company cars as well as all data sources. In total, these sources furnish fuel consumption and CO 2 emission data from more than half a million vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

Therefore drawing of conclusions from level 3 tests, further than the ones already drawn from level 1 and level 2 tests regarding the safe operation of the refrigerant R1234yf in MAC systems, is not appropriate, considering the definition of “safe product” in the General Product Safety Directive 2001/95/EC. … —JRC report.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 5, 2009

Our relationship started about a month ago when we spent an evening together carpooling to a UCLA workshop on communication climate change that we both participated in. I began our interview by asking Lillian about the early days of EPN which she helped found in 2001. What was your environmental priority in 2001 and what is it today?

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