Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

A new report commissioned by the World Bank, and prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Climate Analytics, provides a snapshot of recent scientific literature and new analyses of likely impacts and risks that would be associated with a 4 °C global warming within this century.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A drought, flood or any severe weather event in another country puts these food imports at risk. However, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, such as Kenya, actually face far less risk as they are not as heavily networked in the global economy and are relatively self-sufficient in food production.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2012

While the contiguous United States just experienced the fourth warmest winter on record, the globe experienced its 22 nd warmest February since record keeping began in 1880, according to the latest State of the Climate report from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. 2012 selected climate anomalies and events.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Although most countries have already revealed their opening emissions reduction proposals, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer pointed out Thursday that “ we still await clarity from industrialized nations on the provision of large-scale finance to developing countries for immediate and long-term climate action. by Jack Rosebro.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2019

The most important new services and functions of the EQC planned for market launch include: Pre-entry climate control: This ensures that the vehicle interior is already at the desired temperature on departure. A sophisticated system with a heat pump and electric heater boosters pre-climatizes the interior.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, according to the first major study of evapotranspiration on a global basis. —Jung et al. millimeters per year per decade. Jung et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. 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). Source: KPMG.

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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. The pumps tap into vast stores of groundwater that lie not too far underground and cover much of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The EQC will offer intelligent services and functions focused on electromobility; those planned for market launch include: Pre-entry climate control. Deformation elements are installed between the frame and the battery, and these are able to absorb additional forces in the event of a severe side impact.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2009

A combination of reducing deforestation on land, allied to restoring the coverage and health of these marine ecosystems could deliver up to 25% of the emissions reductions needed to avoid dangerous climate change. Credit: Riccardo Pravettoni, UNEP/GRID-Arendal. Click to enlarge. Wider Benefits.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2009

The planet’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, breaking the previous high mark established in 1998 according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. Notable global developments and events for the month included: El Niño persisted across the equatorial Pacific Ocean during July 2009.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2012

A schematic model showing the links between climate events and outcomes of national security concern, highlighting the roles of exposure and vulnerability. The shaded area corresponds to the event-exposure-vulnerability model form the IPCC. Core features of the climate change situation are known with confidence.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. The UN Executive Board has no power to order the removal of credits from the market, even in the event of misconduct by a validator or verifier. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Some parts of South Australia saw night temperatures above 41 ºC (106 ºF) before sunrise, an event that “ appears to be without known precedent ”, according to Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). David Jones, head of the BOM’s National Climate Centre. ºF) on 28 January. We’ve never seen a day like that.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Furthermore, this would also deliver a net annual reduction of at least 200 MtCO 2 e from short-lived climate pollutants in 2030 (using GWP-100 values). Climate benefits in the near-term (estimated using a GWP-20) are more than three times as large given the rapid benefits that the control of black carbon provides.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Reliance grows on a small number of producers: the increase in output from Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is over 90% of the required growth in world oil output to 2035. Despite the priority in many countries to increase energy efficiency, global energy intensity worsened for the second straight year. —WEO 2011.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Kumasi, Ghana’s second city On a Tuesday afternoon, Africa World Airlines flight 108 landed promptly at Kumasi’s small, immaculate airport. The climate is tropical, and the lush road in from the airport was dotted with round mud huts interspersed among the houses and fields of grazing cattle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2011

Other environmental concerns have pushed ahead of climate change on a global average basis. There are many possible reasons for declines in concern about climate change/global warming. In the face of other pressing concerns, a public ‘caring capacity’ for climate change has been tested. Source: Nielsen. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“I fully anticipate we’re going to keep a lot of pressure on that cobalt production,” Ted Miller, head of energy storage strategy and research at Ford, said at a mining event in South Africa. But the next administration could also reverse course and step up climate ambition.

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