Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals. THE APPROVAL PROCESS.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2011

Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. markets all remain in action as effective tools to leverage global climate action and as models to inform. Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). future agreements.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2011

Bringing developing countries into the carbon markets in order to encourage low carbon development, provide finance and make the most of mitigation opportunities. International climate negotiations can only go so far. It is simply not acceptable that major developed nations such as the US are not behind a global agreement.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. The IEEE Life Fellow spoke during a session addressing the role of technology in delivering an equitable, sustainable, and low-carbon resilient world. Some of them still need to be implemented, though, while others need to be improved.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Tuesday released a draft of far-reaching energy and climate legislation that targets job creation, promotes renewables and energy efficiency, and places limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. Carbon Capture and Sequestration. Clean Fuels and Vehicles. light duty vehicles—e.g.,

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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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Baua Electric

APRIL 21, 2024

Earth Day is now a global event each year, and over a billion people across 192 countries now take part in what is the largest civic-focused day of action in the world. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. The shift to eco-friendly electric mobility is underway globally.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

A new report by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides a comprehensive overview of methodologies for estimating air emissions from shipping; describes technological solutions; and analyses policy options for reducing carbon emissions and air pollution in this sector.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The formal acknowledgement of the Copenhagen Accord ended a particularly contentious and chaotic set of negotiations, ostensibly capping more than a decade of deliberations towards a framework to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions beyond the terms of the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. by Jack Rosebro.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

CALSEIA’s Executor Director Sue Kateley will be delivering her report on the newest renewable energy legal developments Sacramento. Sunpower Corporation’s VP of public policy, Julie Blunden, will be sharing her views on how incentives and laws shape & drive demand for solar energy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2020

I firmly believe the fight against climate change and how we use resources will decide the future of our society—and of the BMW Group. One of the ways the BMW Group is doing this is by defining a supplier’s carbon footprint as a decision criterion in its contract award processes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The current proposals by developed countries on the table for the upcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions do not yet suffice to limit global warming to a rise of 2 °C (based on a long-term 450 ppm concentration of GHG), according to a new report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) presented its proposals for December’s climate change talks to the UN Secretary General’s Summit on Climate Change in New York. The forum took place in the run-up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Copenhagen this December.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles has set the statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit for 2020 required by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 at 25% below 1990 levels, the maximum authorized by the Act, saying that measures already in place will get Massachusetts much of the way toward that goal.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2009

The major climate and energy bill introduced last week by House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Henry Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey— H.R. Do not preempt California’s legal authority to adopt and enforce its own mobile source emissions standards.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Moving goods by road consumes about 50% of all diesel produced; 80% of the global net increase in diesel use since 2000 comes from road freight. Trucks represent the fastest growing source of global oil demand. They account for 40% of the expected increase in oil demand to 2050 and 15% of the increase in global CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2009

Two ethanol trade groups—the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy—have filed a complaint in Federal District Court in Fresno, California, challenging the constitutionality of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The OAL ensures that agency regulations are clear, necessary, legally valid, and available to the public.

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My Energi

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For more than a quarter of a century the United Nations (UN) have been bringing together most of the earth’s countries for global climate summits, also known as Conference of the Parties (COPs). The annual event brings together almost two-hundred world leaders to discuss the world’s commitment to climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2009

The international airline industry is committed to achieving carbon-neutral growth by 2020, said Giovanni Bisignani, IATA’s Director General and CEO in his State of the Industry address at the 65 th IATA Annual General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit in Kuala Lumpur. Giovanni Bisignani. Giovanni Bisignani.

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My Energi

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For more than a quarter of a century the United Nations (UN) have been bringing together most of the earth’s countries for global climate summits, also known as Conference of the Parties (COPs). The annual event brings together almost two-hundred world leaders to discuss the world’s commitment to climate change.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 3, 2009

“Pack Up Your Toxic, Fossil Fuel Factory With Its Climate-Changing Products & Get Out of Town By 2020!&# Consider this fair and legal warning, world’s largest and most polluting oil company - I’m giving you 10 years to pack up and hit the road. Greenius Rules. I’m thinking not so much. Uncertainty.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

The city attorney asked me if I would dismiss my case if the city of Torrance would change their rules. I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. I want to change the industry here because I deal in a lot of cities, a LOT of cities. That’s spinning.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

Methane, the key constituent of natural gas, is a potent GHG with a global warming potential more than 25 times greater than that of carbon dioxide. EPA also is issuing draft Control Techniques Guidelines (CTGs) for reducing VOC emissions from existing equipment and processes in the oil and natural gas industry.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. In addition, the lack of relevant legal or industry expertise is increasingly worrisome. These are complex, intertwined and global issues well beyond the control of either CARB or the auto industry.”

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

Call it Peak ICE—the last hurrah of a technology that governments are ushering off the stage to combat climate change. You switch the mode on by dialing it up on the Ferrari’s dramatic steering wheel, which integrates a cool arc of LED lights on its carbon-fiber rim to cue drivers to shift. And don’t forget sound.

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Drive Electric

MAY 16, 2023

The Climate Change Commission’s analysis shows that by 2030 67% of cars entering the New Zealand market are EV. Table: Charging points per EV and kW per electric Light Duty Vehicle (LDV) in selected countries, 2021 This shortage in public charging infrastructure has been confirmed in the Climate Change Commission’s draft advice.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2018

But the evidence shows that freezing CAFE standards is hard to justify on economic, social, environmental, or legal grounds. We are researchers, not pundits, and so we hesitate to speculate. —The ICCT. There’s no justification for California to have its own standards.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The repeal package includes the “preamble,” which lays out the proposed legal interpretation, policy implications, and a summary of the cost-benefits analysis of the proposed repeal; and the “Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA),” an in-depth cost-benefit technical analysis. Comments should be identified by Docket ID No.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021-2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks (SAFE Vehicles Rule) initiated a process to establish a new 50-state fuel economy and tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions standard for passenger cars and light trucks covering MY 2021 through 2026. —Andrew Wheeler.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

BREAKING NEWS: CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD JUST RELEASED BLOCKBUSTER GREENHOUSE GAS REPORT OF STATE’S WORST POLLUTERS AND GLOBAL WARMERS. Click on the breaking news above and you’ll finally get to see the greenhouse gas numbers on our two local climate changing refineries that I’ve been demanding for a year now.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Earth continues to experience record-breaking temperatures caused by increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs). US intelligence and defense agencies say such environmental changes can lead to energy insecurity, water and food shortages, and social instability.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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