Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2013

kWh—approximately 2–4 times current retail costs—for emission-free alternatives to fossil fuel electricity due to the cost of health impacts from fossil fuel electricity, according to a new analysis by a pair of researchers at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Energy and Climate Change Office, Region 9.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. The KPMG research finds that the external environmental costs of 11 key industry sectors jumped 50% from US$566 to US$846 billion in 8 years (2002 to 2010), averaging a doubling of these costs every 14 years. Source: KPMG.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

The study determined that ozone levels in some major US cities are increasing by that amount, due in part to climate change. The annual averages of ozone levels in study areas were between about 10 and 25 ppb.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Maersk Container Industry (MCI) is calling for tougher enforcement of European environmental legislation designed to protect the Earth’s ozone layer and help prevent climate change. We urge the European Commission to ensure enforcement of existing EU legislation regarding insulation foam in reefer containers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2009

Speaking at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change (ISCCC), which opened today in Copenhagen, Yale University president Richard Levin announced that the university’s new Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI) will be led by Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, who has headed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

The data sets pledged by the companies will provide the public and private sectors with new tools to manage curb space in order to reduce congestion and emissions that cause climate change; improve the efficiency of city streets by making it easier for everyone to get around; and save lives by preventing traffic crashes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

The high emission-reduction efficiency of DPFs provides important public health benefits and climate change co-benefits associated with the reduction of black carbon emissions from diesel engines. In California alone, DPFs have been used to successfully retrofit more than 55,000 on-road and off-road vehicles since 2002.

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JUNE 3, 2010

while the US GDP is projected to grow by 40%, according to the fifth National Communication on US climate change actions submitted by the US Department of State to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The United States released previous Climate Action Reports in 1994, 1997, 2002, and 2006.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2013

Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) is awarding $6.6 The 7 awards bring the total number of GCEP-supported research programs to 104, with total funding of approximately $125 million since the project’s launch in 2002.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 The seven awards bring the total number of GCEP-supported research programs to 117 since the project’s launch in 2002. The new funding will be shared by six Stanford research teams and an international group from the United States and Europe.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2019

Emissions from transportation sources were relatively constant from 2002 through 2007, declined through 2013, then increased by 9.0 The transportation sector represents tailpipe emissions from on-road vehicles and direct emissions from other off-road mobile sources. It does not include emissions from petroleum refineries and oil production.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

to installation in the Aqua satellite, launched in 2002. is a key amplifier of the effects of climate change, efforts to. NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument prior. Source: NASA. Click to enlarge. The findings were presented by climatologist Andrew Dessler of Texas A. San Francisco.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

Combining gravity observations recorded by the GRACE satellite missions with hydrological models to remove natural variability, the team concluded that the region lost groundwater at a rate of 54 ± 9 km 3 /yr between April, 2002 (the start of the GRACE mission) and June, 2008. The demand for agricultural products is intense.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2009

Jacobson first showed in 2000 that black carbon was the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide in terms of radiative forcing and, in 2002, that its control was the most effective method of slowing warming. Tags: Black carbon Climate Change Emissions Policy. Earlier post.). Geophysical Research Letters , Vol.

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JUNE 26, 2009

Since 2002, the average annual increase was almost 4%. Steel production, particularly, showed a smaller worldwide increase of 2% in 2008, versus about 8% in the years since 2002. Tags: Climate Change Emissions. Emissions increased by 1.7% in 2008, against 3.3% In a press release on EDGAR 4.0,

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JUNE 30, 2009

These regulations were authorized by the 2002 legislation Assembly Bill 1493 (Pavley). Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. In September 2004 the California Air Resources Board (ARB) passed regulations to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) from new passenger vehicles starting in 2009.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

California’s vehicle GHG standards—authorized by AB 1493 (Pavley) in 2002, first approved in 2004, and extended in 2012—are delivering fuel consumption and CO 2 reductions. Since its launch in 2011, the regulation has generated a multitude of unique approaches for cleaner fuels.

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MAY 7, 2009

The results weaken the applicability of the simplest version of the Iron Hypothesis as a geo-engineering approach to climate change. Tags: Climate Change Geoengineering. Their study reveals that most of the carbon from lush plankton blooms never reaches the deep ocean. —Jim Bishop.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 14, 2009

Established in 2002 under Senate Bill 1078 and accelerated in 2006 under Senate Bill 107, California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) is one of the most ambitious renewable energy standards in the country. But setting a standard ain’t the same thing as keeping a standard. It’s time to triple our clean energy use.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

The much smaller amount of global CO 2 emissions from gas flaring did not change significantly in 2011, with the largest increases occurring in the United States and Russia, and the largest decrease occurring in Libya. Since 2002, annual economic growth in China accelerated from 4% to 11%, on average. tonnes per capita.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

In 2002 when she was just a freshman California Assemblywoman, this former school teacher worked with Bluewater Network (which later merged with Friends of the Earth ) to author the Assembly Bill that made California the first state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in automobiles. One voice really can change the world.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2012

A climate mitigation policy that focuses on CO 2 emissions supports an increase in the fraction of diesel cars because passenger cars equipped with diesel engines emit on average 15% less CO 2 per kilometer than vehicles with gasoline engines with a similar power output.

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JUNE 14, 2010

We’re now in the crisis CalCars knew, when we began in 2002, would some day arrive. (We That’s too long to wait to improve energy security, protect our economy, and address climate change. When he proposes steps to improve oil industry safety, we hope he won’t say, “Let’s make sure this never happens again.”

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

On the other hand, rising electricity demand, concerns about fossil fuels, greenhouse gases, and climate change, and the challenges of managing intermittent renewable energy have all created new justifications for bidirectional EV power. At the moment, the auto industry does not have a clear interest in V2G.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

GoinGreen was founded in 2002 with the mission to minimize the effects of climate change by encouraging carbon-neutral motoring. The company pioneered electric vehicles (EV) in the UK with the G-Wiz, an EV designed in California and manufactured in India by the Indo-Reva Electric Car company.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Despite its progress however, it seems there is still an uphill battle to be fought both in terms of changing the perception of and reliance on fossil fuels – with a new study highlighting the startling gap between Federal subsidies for fossil fuels and renewable energy. Why is so much money dedicated to fossil fuels?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2013

From 2002 to 2011, the team conducted four flight missions in regions of North America and Central America where cirrus clouds often form. Froyd says knowing what particles are absent in clouds is just as important as knowing what’s present: Such information, he says, can be crucial in developing accurate models for climate change.

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MAY 2, 2018

To find out, Rice and colleagues analyzed data from 1,522 Boston-area children born between 1999 and 2002 whose mothers had enrolled in a long-term study called Project Viva, which was established to examine how behavioral and environmental factors—such as sleep and eating habits or exposure to pollution—impact children’s health.

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Plug in America

DECEMBER 17, 2020

My ex and I got solar at home on his birthday in 2002, then our first EV, the RAV4, a couple months later, on the winter solstice. Finally, I was doing something that could really make a dent in climate change. Won’t ever forget the feeling, from my head to my toes, of driving without a tailpipe.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Ruppert "The End of Oil", by Paul Roberts "High and Mighty: The dangerous rise of the SUV", by Keith Bradsher, 2002 "High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis", by Julian Darley "The Hype about Hydrogen", by Joseph J. com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm htm Advocates of the Th!

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2023

For that reason, Electrical Business magazine named him one of the 10 most influential executives in 2002, as well as its 2004 CEO of the Year. Climate change as an engineering problem De Geus says engineers must take responsibility for more than the technology they create. “I

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

As Toyota learned with the introduction of the Prius and its efforts on the 2002 RAV4 EV, O’Brien said, it is difficult to force technology adoption by consumers. O’Brien was speaking at the California Air Resources Board’s ZEV Technology Symposium in Sacramento, California. But, RAV4 EV sales did not exceed several hundred units in total.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

UNEP produced its first Global Mercury Assessment in 2002 and a subsequent study in 2007. Global climate change may also complicate the response of global ecosystems to mercury emission reductions, through its profound effects on many aspects of the movement and chemical transformations of mercury in the environment.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 19, 2009

The Institute of Science in Society (SiS) which published the research says that climate policies that focus exclusively on carbon sequestration could be disastrous for all oxygen-breathing organisms including humans. Simultaneously, oxygen levels in the world’s oceans have also been falling.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By 2002, BYD had become one of the top four manufacturers worldwide - and the largest Chinese manufacturer - in each of the three rechargeable battery technologies (Li-Ion, NiCad, and NiMH), according to a Harvard Business School case study of the company. "Its a completely different business model."

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Green Cars News

MAY 13, 2009

New roads built in the UK since 2002 have lead to an increase in carbon emissions of 10,000 more than was originally forecasted by the government. “This environmental disaster shows that the Government’s concern about climate change is little more than greenwash.&#. .

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