Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Rio Tinto has committed to invest $10 million with the world’s largest steel producer China Baowu Steel Group over the next two years in low-carbon steelmaking projects and research. This investment with our partners at China Baowu is an important step in our climate partnership. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2011

The top graph depicts CTL in a no policy scenario; the bottom graph, for CTL in a world climate policy scenario. However, the viability of CTL becomes quite limited in regions with climate policy due to the high conversion cost and huge carbon footprint. Credit: Chen et al., 2011 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. According to the 12 th Five-Year Plan of the China Coal Industry (2011? While the increases in PM 10 and PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

Natural gas does not offer climate benefits compared to gasoline and diesel, and many biofuel pathways do not, either. Drivers of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles rely too much on the gasoline engine for this pathway to be a long-term climate solution, the ICCT said. Source: The ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest iron ore producers, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China Baowu Steel Group (China’s largest steel producer) and Tsinghua University to develop and implement new methods to reduce carbon emissions and improve environmental performance across the steel value chain.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2012

A new report from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change shows the importance of all major nations taking part in global efforts to reduce emissions—and in particular, finds China’s role to be crucial. Without China, we miss that mark by about 1 °C. C change by the end of the century.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

Fuel-cycle SO 2 emissions of EVs compared to those of gasoline ICEVs and HEVs in China, current (left) and future (right). The study examined the fuel-cycle CO 2 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs in China in both current (2008) and future (2030) periods and compared them with those of conventional gasoline vehicles and gasoline hybrids.

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Coal Gasoline-Electric Gasoline Pollution 291

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2012

The Seattle City Council unanimously passed Resolution 31379 stating Seattle’s opposition to the transportation of coal through Seattle. There are currently four coal exports under permit review in the Northwest that collectively could increase US coal exports by 150 million tons of coal annually.

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Seattle Coal Transportation Washington 260

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The findings are outlined in three new papers published in Earth System Science Data , Environmental Research Letters , and Nature Climate Change. The decline of coal use in the European Union and United States is overshadowed by surging natural gas and oil use around the world, according to the researchers. over 2018 emissions.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more. In Poland and China, for example, an EV would need to be driven 78,700 miles to break-even. This is not to imply in any way that electric vehicles are worthless.

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Climate Change Climate San Diego Emissions 133

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Growth in oil use, particularly aviation, and coal use are behind most of the increase in 2022. —Glen Peters, a Research Director at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research. CO 2 emissions from coal use are expected to grow 1.0% [0.2% The decline in 2020 of -5.2% increase in 2021. Turmoil in energy markets.

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Global Emissions Carbon Coal 221

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Tax rates were below the low-end estimate of climate costs (EUR 30/tCO 2 ) for 97% of emissions. The report found that the share of emissions taxed above climate costs increased from 46% in 2012 to 50% in 2015, and rates exceed €50 per tCO 2 for 47% of emissions in 2015, compared to 37% in 2012. —“Taxing Energy Use 2018”.

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Climate Change Climate Tax Energy 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Although China and India remain the world’s largest consumers of coal, a new University of Maryland-led study found that China’s sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 75% since 2007, while India’s emissions increased by 50%. Note the decrease in size of the purple region over northeastern China. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

Countries such as China, India and Brazil, which have no Arctic territories, are now seeking admission to the Arctic Council as permanent observers. Many non-Arctic countries are interested in the Arctic as the “canary in the coal mine” that can teach them about how climate change will impact their own states.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

Ozone is formed through a chemical reaction that occurs when sunlight interacts with nitrogen oxides and other organic compounds that are generated by coal-burning, vehicle exhaust and some natural sources. The team studied 89 healthy adults living in Changsha City, China, for one year. 2017.2842.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

China now burns half of the world's coal, according to newly-released data that appears to correct previous government estimates. This latest data shows that China has been burning up to 17 percent more coal annually than its government previously reported.

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Coal China Carbon Climate Change 60

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).

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Obama Cleaner Climate Fuel Economy 249

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. y) in China’s rural Yunnan province, where biomass fuels are commonly used. —Jill Baumgartner. —Baumgartner et al.

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Carbon Emissions Motor Motors 275

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2012

gigatonne gap between CO 2 emissions calculated on the basis of the two publicly available official energy data sets from China: one national, the other provincial. Differences in reported coal consumption in coal washing and manufacturing are the main contributors to the discrepancy in official energy statistics, they found.

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Emissions Gas China Climate Change 218

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 1, 2024

continued] The post USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling appeared first on CleanTechnica. For a decade I’ve been tracking the exponential expansion of wind, solar, and to a lesser extent hydro electricity generation.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 23, 2017

During negotiations for the Paris Climate Treaty signed last fall, a major concern among critics was whether the carbon emissions of China's sprawling and inefficient energy sector could be reined in. With China, the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the resulting low gas prices, as well as clean air and climate policies, will promote further switching to gas from other more polluting energy sources, such as oil and coal. India is planning to almost double the length of its gas transmission grid, while China will grow its gas network about 60% by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2012

BC emission map of China at 0.1° × 0.1° East and West China are separated by a dashed line from Qiqihar, Yinchuan, to Kunming. A new black carbon (BC) emissions inventory from China found BC emissions levels in 2007 of 1,957 Gg BC—higher than reported in earlier studies. for year 2007. Major emission areas are marked.

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2007 Carbon China Emissions 271

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2017

This was the result of growing renewable power generation, switches from coal to natural gas, improvements in energy efficiency, as well as structural changes in the global economy. The decline was driven by a surge in shale gas supplies and more attractive renewable power that displaced coal.

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Economy 2016 Emissions Global 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to President Obama describing six key components the advisory group believes should be central to the Administration’s strategy for addressing climate change. Both approaches are essential parts of an integrated strategy for dealing with climate change.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2022

Sparkz will be focused on creating a strong and diverse workforce capable of competing against foreign batteries made in China and securing the supply chain. This agreement is a win-win for the laid-off coal miners who will work in this facility, their families and their communities. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Given the more energy-intensive nature of mining along with the requirement for emissions-intensive shipping of mine site concentrate to China for refining, this perhaps comes as no surprise. The high emissions intensity of refining concentrate to lithium carbonate or hydroxide, in part driven by China’s power grid mix and reliance of coal.

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Emissions CO2 Production Power Grid 459

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

The result will be renewables eating up more and more of the existing market for coal, gas and nuclear. Coal emerges as the biggest loser in the long run. However, coal consumption was also up, growing for the first time since 2013. Coal’s share in primary energy in 2017 fell to 27.6%, the lowest since 2004.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2011

In an interview with Xinhua, Zhang Guobao, former head of China’s National Energy Administration, said that the country intends to increase the proportion of non-fossil fuels in overall primary energy use to 11.4% The country should try to trim that dependency by promoting the use of cleaner fuels, he said.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2018

The study, involving researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and colleagues in China and the United States, investigated how complex supply chains are distributing energy-intensive industries and their CO 2 emissions throughout the global South.

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Emissions Global CO2 2004 170

Creative Greenius

JULY 9, 2009

While the finely tailored and pampered leaders of the G8 met in Italy to talk the issue of climate change to death and do nothing tangible about it, activists with a more realistic sense of urgency started to take the necessary action to start cutting greenhouse gases right now.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This tectonic shift, while it will take decades instead of the seconds of the Christchurch cataclysm, will be more broadly disruptive. We can manage it wisely or foolishly, yet it will still occur.

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New Zealand Climate Climate Change Building 104

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

million Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) ( DE-FOA-0001285 ) for a new technical track under the US-China Clean Energy Research Center ( CERC ) that addresses water-related aspects of energy production and use. This US investment will be matched by an equivalent effort in China, bringing the total bilateral investment to $50 million.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Decreased use of coal in China is the main reason behind the 3-year slowdown. This is a great help for tackling climate change but it is not enough. The projection for 2015 is based on available energy consumption data for China and the USA, as well as on forecast economic growth for the rest of the world. Jackson et al.

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Carbon Global Emissions Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The commitment was made as part of wider efforts by the global energy industry to ensure that natural gas continues to play a critical role in helping meet future energy demand while addressing climate change. —Mark Radka, Head of UN Environment’s Energy and Climate Branch.

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Gas Emissions Industrial Industry 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2009

The MIT Energy Initiative has released a new report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. There is no credible pathway toward prudent greenhouse gas stabilization targets without CO 2 emissions reduction from existing coal power plants. We may not see a strong CO 2 price signal for many years.

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Coal MIT CO2 Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Global sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions peaked in the early 1970s and decreased until 2000, with an increase in recent years due to increased emissions in China, international shipping, and developing countries in general, according to a new analysis appearing in the open access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

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