Green Car Congress

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% by Jack Rosebro.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

A paper by researchers at the University of Minnesota, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , projects GHG mitigation strategies for Minnesota, which has adopted a strategic goal of 80% emissions reductions below 2005 levels by 2050. Complete transition to corn-based ethanol for personal vehicles (7% reduction).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2014

Under previous NFPA code requirements from 2005, none of the existing gasoline stations could readily accept hydrogen. LH2 reference station: 3500-15,000 gallons (13,250-56,780 liters) (910-1300 kg) LH2 storage (200-300 kg/day capacity, 1-2 dual hose dispensers); 18,000 ft2 (1,672 m2) station site with 15,000 ft2 (1,394 m2) of open space.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Based on these sensor data and determination of the vehicle’s own position with reference to information from a digital map, an autonomously driving vehicle analyses the available free area for driving and plans its own route. These environment features were previously entered on a digital map. PROMETHEUS.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2011

As an example of the benefits, the developers say that the fuel-alcohol blend methods can expand the HCCI operating load range by about 10% to about 30% than the loads achieved when using a reference gasoline without encountering unacceptable engine noise, metallurgical stress, or elevated NO x emission levels. Lü et al. 2007.01.002.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2011

Our interactions with friends, families and coworkers affect the way we make decisions, how we value the environment, and how our lifestyle relates to our purchase decisions. Will they save the environment? financial incentives or disincentives) and providing functional information about the product or behavior (Jackson, 2005).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

IPCC reference emissions scenarios, 2000—2100. The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change. “We

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), entitled Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 , highlights new research that identifies some events thought likely to occur in longer-term time horizons as already happening or set to happen far sooner than had previously been thought. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

The five warmest years since the late 1880s, according to NASA, are in descending order 2005, 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2006. At the same time, the difference in temperature between 1998 and the cooler 2008 year, which was affected by a La Niña, does not show an overall cooling trend; 2008 was still the tenth warmest year on record.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By See our frequent comments at our news archive.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Based on calculations by the International Energy Agency (IEA), 75% of the growth in the world’s energy demand from 2005 to 2030 will come from developing countries. During the 4 th COP, developed nations began to emphasize the issue of the lack of enabling environments as a barrier to technology transfer.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions 244

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APRIL 10, 2010

That agreement calls for a program that will cover nearly 90 percent of the region’s greenhouse gas emissions when it is fully implemented (commonly referred to as an economy-wide program). The program will reduce emissions fifteen percent below 2005 levels by 2020. Member jurisdictions are moving forward with program implementation.

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