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Nuclear Energy Brinkmanship in Ukraine

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Ukraine is launching a counteroffensive to retake occupied territory, including Zaporizhzhia. In a simulated fallout map produced by Ukraine’s national weather service and posted Sunday, a radiation plume spreads northwest and reaches Poland and Lithuania within 72 hours.

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Mitsubishi Motors to supply 635 Outlander PHEVs to National Police of Ukraine

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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) announced that through its local importer and distributor MMC Ukraine, MMC will supply the National Police of Ukraine with 635 units of the Outlander PHEV. The supply stems from an emissions trading agreement signed by a number of Japanese companies with the Government of Ukraine.

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Mitsubishi Motors delivers 635 Outlander PHEVs to Ukranian police; largest PHEV fleet order yet for MMC

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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) delivered 635 Outlander PHEV vehicles to the National Police of Ukraine on 25 May through its local importer and distributor MMC Ukraine. The vehicle order stems from an emissions trading agreement signed by a number of Japanese companies with the Government of Ukraine.

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

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—Glen Peters, a Research Director at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research. to 3.2%], primarily due to an increase in international aviation, but oil use remains below 2019 levels and have not fully recovered from the COVID19 pandemic in 2020. Turmoil in energy markets. growth) for coal, but decline by 2.3%

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Global CO2 emissions stalled for the third year in a row

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Global GHG emissions continue to be dominated by fossil carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, which however show a slowdown trend since 2012, and were stalled for the third year in a row in 2016. Emissions from international transport (aviation and shipping) contribute another 3% to the total global GHG emissions. below the levels in 2005.

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10 Graphs That Sum Up the State of AI in 2023

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This “model of the month,” Perrault says, was something new for the team, which is increasing data gathering done internally, rather than relying solely on studies published by others. “We We have plenty of ideas for other things we should tackle, but the flexibility to do original work is limited by funding,” he continued.

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The U.S.-China Chip Ban, Explained

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In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, the U.S. This announcement is perhaps the most expansive export control in decades,” says Sujai Shivakumar , an analyst at the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington. This is not the first time that the U.S. Previously, the U.S

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