Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, and Ola Borten Moe, Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy, signed a joint statement on cooperation in the energy sector. The statement outlines four main priorities for cooperation between Norway and Canada in the energy sector: General. Renewable energy.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The study will be part of a larger report in December that will stress the importance of implementing long-term monitoring of traffic related air pollution in Canada, and indicating that targeting high-emitting vehicles such as old trucks can provide a path towards improving near-road air quality. Jonathan M. Shairsingh, Robert M.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The Federal Cabinet of the Government of Canada approved the $11-billion Pacific NorthWest LNG Project following completion of a federal environmental assessment. The facility would liquefy and export natural gas produced by Progress Energy Canada Ltd. in northeast British Columbia.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2020

A study to advance regional understanding of the role hydrogen could play in the Maritimes’ energy transition is now underway as part of a collaborative effort being led by OERA and funded by Heritage Gas Limited, Liberty Utilities, the Nova Scotia Department of Energy & Mines and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In a study published in Nature Climate Change , an international research team reports finding limited evidence that individual or household rebates have increased public support for carbon taxes in Canada and Switzerland. Mildenberger, M., Lachapelle, E., Harrison, K. 12, 141–147 doi: 10.1038/s41558-021-01268-3.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

The report’s best estimate of direct climate influence by black carbon is about a factor of two higher than most previous work. This includes the estimates in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment, which were based on the best available evidence and analysis at that time. Bond et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

The document is a detailed draft technical review of potential environmental impacts associated with the segment of the pipeline in the US, including: impacts from construction, impacts from potential spills, impacts related to climate change, and economic impacts. What Keystone XL would carry. Draft SEIS.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

Billions of tons of carbon trapped in high-latitude permafrost may be released into the atmosphere by the end of this century as the Earth’s climate changes, further accelerating global warming, a new computer modeling study indicates. The control simulation on the left did not include permafrost processes. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Negative-carbon RNG is produced when carbon emissions are captured from dairies and turned into a transportation fuel, reducing the harmful effects on long-term climate change.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The pyrg is only known to live in 13 small isolated springs around Thacker Pass in Humboldt County, an area where Canada-based Lithium Americas plans to develop a lithium mine. Thacker Pass is the largest known lithium resource in the United States. Kings River pyrg ( Pyrgulopsis imperialis ) on substrate pebble (Photo: Lynne Buckner).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Canada can succeed economically while meeting targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to an economic modelling study commissioned by the Pembina Institute and the David Suzuki Foundation. The study indicates that Canada can implement much stronger climate policies than the US and still prosper economically.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2009

A new report from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)— The Canadian Oil Sands: Energy Security vs Climate Change — claims that prudent greenhouse gas regulations can limit emissions from Canadian oil sands while still enabling robust development of the energy resource.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2010

The parties proposing to develop the Mackenzie Gas Project are: Imperial Oil Resources Limited (IORL); Imperial Oil Resources Ventures Limited (IORVL); Shell Canada Limited as managing partner of Shell Canada Energy; ConocoPhillips Canada (North) Limited and ConocoPhillips Northern Partnership; ExxonMobil Canada Properties; and.

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Plug N Drive

MARCH 20, 2024

March 20, 2024, Toronto, Ontario – Plug’n Drive, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) across Canada, proudly announces the appointment of Ottawa-based Tracy Walden to the newly-created role of Vice President of Communications.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

The Government of Canada will introduce new regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the automotive sector under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA). Transportation accounts for approximately one quarter of Canada’s total GHG emissions. Environment Minister Jim Prentice made the announcement on Wednesday.

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JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. Short-lived climate pollutants.

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JUNE 2, 2014

In their study, the Environment Canada/MECA team used an aethalometer—an instrument that provides a real-time readout of the concentration of black carbon aerosol particles in an air stream—to measure real-time BC emissions; solid particles were measured using a European Union Particle Measurement Program compliant system.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Environment Canada released draft regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new vehicles beginning with the 2011 model year. Canada and the US are working towards a common North American approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by introducing aligned and progressively tighter regulatory requirements over the 2011-2016 model years.

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JULY 25, 2011

A new study by researchers from Canada, Norway and China indicates that warming in the Arctic is revolatilizing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that have accumulated in sinks such as water and ice. Their paper appears in the journal Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/nclimate1167.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

CNRC will contribute its extensive expertise in microalgae biology, cultivation, and bioprocessing, as well as provide selected algae strains to the project and on-site resources to manage and operate the pilot biorefinery.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

However, according to the World Resources Institute , “EVs need to account for 75 percent to 95 percent of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 in order to meet international climate goals aimed at keeping global warming to 1.5 But Canada might have a fight on its hands that mirrors what the U.S. degrees C (2.7 degrees F).”

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JULY 1, 2009

Tags: Climate Change Emissions.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Illustration: Chris McLinden, Environment and Climate Change Canada. This suggests that China is implementing sulfur dioxide controls beyond what climate modelers have taken into account. Purple depicts the highest concentrations while white depicts the lowest. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2009

An understanding of the rate of carbon release is necessary to estimate the strength of positive feedback to climate change, a likely consequence of permafrost thaw. Melting Greenland Ice Sheets May Threaten Northeast United States, Canada. Tags: Climate Change Climate models. Permafrost. Ted Schuur.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2013

Researchers in Canada and the US found that there was a 23% increase in demand for PEVs when buyers of conventional cars were offered a green electricity program together with an electric vehicle. The survey also revealed that when choosing PEVs or hybrid vehicles, car buyers are not motivated by climate change but by issues closer to home.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2012

By adopting this regulatory amendment, Québec has taken a major step in pursuing the deployment of further action within the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) to create an extensive carbon market in North America. Discussions with our counterparts in California are extremely positive. —Matthew Rodriquez.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2009

Organized by the California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Fuel Cell Partnership, National Hydrogen Association and US Fuel Cell Council, the tour will travel more than 1,700 miles and have 28 stops. Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols. million each to supplement the construction of hydrogen refueling stations.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Integrating these sources helps mitigate climate change, reduce air pollution, and protect ecosystems. Climate Change Mitigation: By displacing fossil fuel-based energy sources, renewable energy integration contributes to global efforts to mitigate climate change.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. The United States buys power from Canada.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2014

Black carbon (BC) from incomplete biomass and fossil fuel combustion is the most strongly light-absorbing component of particulate matter (PM) air pollution and a major climate-forcing emission. China Climate Change Emissions Health' —Baumgartner et al. Jill Baumgartner, Yuanxun Zhang, James J. 1317176111.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2013

Selected projects will be intended to support program goals to determine the (1) likelihood of methane hydrates as a potential energy resource and (2) their role in the natural environment. A frequently quoted estimate of the global methane hydrate resource is 20,000 trillion cubic meters, or about 700,000 trillion cubic feet.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Global benefits from full implementation of measures for reduction of short-lived climate pollutants in 2030 compared to the reference scenario. The climate change benefit is estimated for a given year (2050) and human health and crop benefits are. for 2030 and beyond. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2009

An analysis of sediment cores from an Arctic lake indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring there are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate change, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. Tags: Climate Change.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

Led by U-M’s Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute and supported by The Kresge Foundation with $600,000 in matching funds, the three-year project seeks to strengthen the science and decision-making necessary for more effective urban climate adaptation in the Great Lakes region, in both Canada and the United States.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Debate about the future of oil sands development is so contentious that even the name of the resource is disputed: proponents typically use oil sands while opponents use tar sands. However, this only accounts for the processing that occurs in Canada and therefore excludes much of the refining and transport emissions.

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