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Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

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Many countries, cities, companies, and individuals have made pledges to reduce emissions, and it is stark reminder that despite all this rhetoric, global fossil CO 2 emissions are more than 5% higher than in 2015, the year of the Paris Agreement. parts per million, 51% above its pre-industrial level. for oil, 1.1% for cement.

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Pike Research forecasts global biofuels market to double by 2012 to $185.3B

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growth in the industry over the next decade, Pike expects production volumes to fall short of an estimated 71.8 continue to pour into the industry. Commercial airlines and the US military continue to emerge as key drivers of industry. growth, signaling growing demand and attracting new investment into the industry.

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3 Years Of Painful Cuts Sets Oil Markets Up For Serious Supply Crunch

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Oil companies are making painful cuts to spending, which will translate into much lower production than expected in the years ahead. The problem is that, unlike many other industries, resource extraction is extremely volatile, with supply responses very delayed. Of course, these figures are not inevitable.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Perspective by The Townsend Company. mpg by 2016. Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? Would a CAFE-type standard for renewable energy generation companies in the USA not also be appropriate? RPS policies as of March 2011. Source: DSIRE. Source: EIA.

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Pike Research forecasts global biofuels market value to double to $185B by 2021

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drive increased investment in the industry, the report finds. After healthy growth over the past decade, the global biofuels industry is entering a new era marked by feedstock flexibility, product neutrality, and sustainability, the report notes. A more robust growth is expected. Pike expects ethanol production to maintain its.

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Pike Research forecasts worldwide grid energy storage spending to reach $22B by 2021, down from 2010 forecast of $35B

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“Contributing to the short-term over-capacity issue is that manufacturers rushed to build out capacity ahead of demand to (a) capture stimulus funding and (b) try to drive scale to reduce cost. “In the near-term, we expect to see some consolidation in the battery industry, with a few leaders taking the lead.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

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Veteran automakers, oil companies, and federal and state governments have been both the prime movers and obstacles to plug-in cars in the past and they remain so today. In the past industry ultimately called the shots. The other carmakers domestic and foreign have less firm but well press-released plans for plug-ins. Such as the $1.1

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