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WHO: 9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air; 7M deaths per year

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2018

New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that 9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants. Updated estimations reveal a death toll of 7 million people every year caused by ambient (outdoor) and household air pollution. Ambient air pollution alone caused some 4.2 g/m 3 (for PM 10 ) and 10 ?g/m

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Study finds farms a major source of fine-particulate air pollution

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

Emissions from farms outweigh all other human sources of fine-particulate air pollution in much of the United States, Europe, Russia and China, according a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters , a journal of the American Geophysical Union. Pollutants other than ammonia should probably be targeted for abatement, Paulot said.

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UNICEF: 300M children worldwide breathing air exceeding WHO pollution guidelines by 6x or more

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Almost one in seven of the world’s children, 300 million, live in areas with the most toxic levels of outdoor air pollution—six or more times higher than international guidelines set by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO)— according to a new UNICEF report. No society can afford to ignore air pollution.

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IEA: 7% increase in total energy investment could cut premature deaths from air pollution in half by 2040

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2016

A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that energy policy choices backed by a 7% increase in total energy investment through 2040 could cut premature deaths from air pollution roughly in half by 2040. Under such a scenario, premature deaths from outdoor air pollution would decline by 1.7 million annually.

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Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Marine shipping fuels will get cleaner in 2020 when a regulation by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) requires a decrease in the allowable amount of sulfur in fuel oil from 3.5% Now, a new open-access study published in Nature Communications quantifies these health benefits and finds cleaner shipping fuels will result in a 3.6%

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UNEP: export of used cars to developing world creating significant environmental problems

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the United States and Japan to the developing world are of poor quality, contributing significantly to air pollution and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

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Study finds some improved cookstoves may emit more black carbon pollution than traditional mud cookstoves

Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

They did the test in real homes as part of Project Surya, which quantifies the impacts of cleaner cooking technologies in a village in India. Singh, Tanveer Ahmed, Nithya Ramanathan, and Veerabhadran Ramanathan (2012) Real-Time Assessment of Black Carbon Pollution in Indian Households Due to Traditional and Improved Biomass Cookstoves.

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5 African nations push for cleaner diesel fuel from European suppliers

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 9, 2016

DON'T MISS: Why Africa gets filthiest diesel fuel: little. Because of lax emissions standards, traders import fuel to these countries that is too dirty for sale elsewhere. But now a handful of African nations are taking a stand against this.

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LanzaTech collaborating with Swayana to convert waste gases from ferroalloy production to ethanol

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

In a 2007 paper presented at the XI International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry (Infacon XI), a team from the US EPA, the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT), and SINTEF Materials and Chemistry (Lindstad et al. In all cases, however, the production of ferroalloys is energy-intensive.

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WHO report urges greater attention to improved land use, rapid transit, cycling and walking to achieve health co-benefits from transport GHG emissions mitigation

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Among the other key messages of the report: Potential health gains of a shift from private motorized transport to walking, cycling and rapid transit/public transport include reduced cardiovascular and respiratory disease from air pollution, less traffic injury and less noise-related stress. million people annually.

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Sasol embarking on feasibility study on a US gas-to-liquids facility in Louisiana

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

GTL transportation fuel is cleaner burning than conventional diesel with a roughly comparable, and potentially lower, greenhouse gas profile, Sasol says. GTL fuels are virtually free of sulfur and aromatic compounds and reduce emissions of particulates, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and other pollutants and will improve air quality.

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UNEP and partners launch Global Initiative for Resource-Efficient Cities; role of public transport

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners have launched a new initiative that aims to reduce pollution levels, improve resource efficiency and reduce infrastructure costs in cities across the world. Up to 80% of the world population is expected to reside in cities by 2050.

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Noco-Noco and Greenfuel sign MoU for Li-Ion battery longevity technology – ET Auto

Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

Greenfuel will also spearhead marketing and sales activities in India and Africa, catering to a diverse range of applications including Drone as a Service (DaaS) and Battery as a Service (BaaS) for solutions such as battery swapping.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. Most of the world’s hydrogen comes from deeply polluting methods.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Renergie works closely with host countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa and the relevant MDB to find a suitable private sector partner. Renergie is in the process of transferring its proven renewable energy technology worldwide by working closely with developing countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

The other goal, of course, is the system’s ultimate purpose: to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by channeling funds into cleaner technologies. Renergie is in the process of transferring its proven renewable energy technology worldwide by working closely with developing countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.

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WHO: 9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air; 7M deaths per year

Study finds farms a major source of fine-particulate air pollution

UNICEF: 300M children worldwide breathing air exceeding WHO pollution guidelines by 6x or more

IEA: 7% increase in total energy investment could cut premature deaths from air pollution in half by 2040

Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs

UNEP: export of used cars to developing world creating significant environmental problems

Study finds some improved cookstoves may emit more black carbon pollution than traditional mud cookstoves

5 African nations push for cleaner diesel fuel from European suppliers

LanzaTech collaborating with Swayana to convert waste gases from ferroalloy production to ethanol

WHO report urges greater attention to improved land use, rapid transit, cycling and walking to achieve health co-benefits from transport GHG emissions mitigation

Sasol embarking on feasibility study on a US gas-to-liquids facility in Louisiana

UNEP and partners launch Global Initiative for Resource-Efficient Cities; role of public transport

Noco-Noco and Greenfuel sign MoU for Li-Ion battery longevity technology – ET Auto

Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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