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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

ºF) above pre-industrial levels to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, and that global GHG emissions would have to peak around 2020 and then sharply decline by 50% to 85% by the year 2050. AR4 also affirmed that warming would have to be held to no more than 2 ºC to 2.4 ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

During a House Financial Services Committee hearing in October 2019, Representative Maxine Waters D-Calif.) Waters said, “That’s not a commitment.” dollars (or other currencies, as Amazon is a global business) on demand. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer. Not far behind, in terms of monthly spending, are Twitch and LinkedIn.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. We were not told of any rainwater harvesting plan, so I guess most of the water is coming by pipeline. The paint shop alone requires about one lakh litres of makeup water every day. 95% of the water is recycled. Some of the packs go through a water immersion test.

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