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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

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After a succession of carefully staged events for media and the public, we now know that the 2022 GMC Hummer EV will include at least two models: a sport utility truck (or SUT), with four doors and a short pickup bed, and a more conventional SUV.

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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KPMG International is hosting the event, in cooperation with the UN Global Compact (UNGC), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Urbanization: In 2009, for the first time, more people lived in cities than in the countryside.

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Failed Local Paper Put Out Of Its Misery - By Creative Greenius!

Creative Greenius

It’s not even cheap at twenty five cents an issue. They just posted a reply on their website : “ In an opinion piece by George Will published on February 15, 2009 in the Washington Post, George Will states “According to the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.”.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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Neil Adger and Jon Barnett lay out four “reasons for concern about adaptation” to climate change, to counter “what we perceive to be a widespread belief that adaptation will be smooth, cheap, and easy to implement.”. Synthesis Report From “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges, And Decisions”, 2009. [ BBC: 15 December 2009. [

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

November 16, 2009: 06:01 PM ET. who took part in the event. Despite a high upfront cost, operating an electric vehicle is cheap, costing 2.5 All stressed that plug-in technology already exists and just needs a push on the financial front from Congress.&#. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Although the recovery in the world economy since 2009 has been uneven, and future economic prospects remain uncertain, global primary energy demand rebounded by a remarkable 5% in 2010, pushing CO 2 emissions to a new high. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. billion, around 20% of the world’s population.

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