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Report: Toyota to make hybrid car parts in China to boost sales

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The BBC reports that Toyota is planning to manufacture key components for its hybrid cars outside Japan for the first time. However, China, which produces more than 95% of the world’s rare earth supplies, has imposed strict production and export quotas on these elements, citing environmental concerns.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ÂșC Guardrail Obsolete?

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Although conference leaders soon found a workaround and suspended only the agenda point in question, the proposed amendment split the normally unified G77 + China bloc of developing countries, with least developed countries supporting the amendment and emerging economies firmly against it. BBC: 15 December 2009. [ 4 ] Richardson et al.

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

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February also saw the publication of a Los Angeles Times interview with US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu ( earlier post ), in which he voiced concern that the effects of climate change could decimate California’s agriculture as well as its urban water supplies. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) and 5.0%.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

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I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. The burnt air is filtered and the hot air is supplied to the paint oven at 100 degree Celsius. On the threat from China for raw material supplies for Ola’s cell manufacturing China controls the processing of raw material, not the raw material itself.

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