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Extreme E – Greenland Glacier – Legacy Programme

My Energi

Cities such as London, Shanghai, New Orleans, Sydney and Singapore would become swamps if we let the entirety if Greelands ice melt away. The greatest challenge is perhaps more about encouraging people to have a vested interest in the subject of global warming and climate change around their own busy lives.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Our 2020 study , published in Nature Climate Change , found that manufacturing a typical EV sold in the United States in 2018 emitted about 7 to 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide, compared with about 5 to 6 tonnes for a gasoline-fueled vehicle. An EV operated in Yunnan emits about 60 percent less.

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New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

Green Car Congress

The research team included members from the National University of Singapore; Stichting Deltares, The Netherlands; International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), Washington, DC; and the University of Leicester, UK. —Miettinen et al. There is a variance based on production method, etc.).

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