Human Cost of Climate Change
Electric Cars are for Girls
OCTOBER 26, 2019
Polar bears aside, what is the human cost of climate change? Do you ever think about how climate change will affect you and me?
Are electric cars tackling climate change?
Innovation News Network
OCTOBER 28, 2022
EIP's Kate Munro discusses how the current cost-of living crisis coupled with a desire to tackle climate change, has encouraged consumers to buy and use electric cars. The post Are electric cars tackling climate change? appeared first on Innovation News Network.
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Study: 25% EV adoption would save US $17B annually from avoided climate change & pollution damages
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 18, 2020
A new study led by researchers from Northwestern University projects that if electric vehicles replaced 25% of combustion engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution.
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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea
Cars That Think
JANUARY 28, 2023
Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change? In fact, some 74 percent of those polled indicated they were already “proud of what [they are] currently doing” to combat climate change.
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Report finds says “negative emissions technologies” need to play a large role in mitigating climate change
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 29, 2018
To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, “negative emissions technologies” (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play a significant role in mitigating climate change, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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How Engineers Can Help Protect Earth From Worsening Climate Change
Cars That Think
APRIL 21, 2022
Fortunately, we still have a narrow window of opportunity to alter the Earth’s climate path, and I believe we can do it. Climate change is a global societal crisis that is causing devastating consequences. Lives and businesses are being severely affected, and the cost of recovering after each event continues to mount.
U of Toronto study finds US electrification of LDV fleet not a silver bullet for tackling climate change in vehicle sector
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 1, 2020
The paper is published in the journal Nature Climate Change. A lot of people think that a large-scale shift to EVs will mostly solve our climate problems in the passenger vehicle sector. This will come at the cost of deploying a large amount of renewable-based electricity, ‘smart’ infrastructure and behaviors.
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243 New Report Concludes That Real Costs of Adapting to Climate Change Will Likely Be At Least 2-3X Greater Than Current Estimates
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 27, 2009
Representation of damage from climate change avoided by adaptation, and damage not be adapted to (‘residual damage’) over the longer term. Source: “Assessing the costs.” The amount of money on the table at Copenhagen is one of the key factors that will determine whether we achieve a climate change agreement.
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Study finds limiting warming to 2 °C would require at least a $200/t carbon tax globally
Green Car Congress
MAY 6, 2022
Some will suffer greatly from climate change, while others may even benefit. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, and José-Luis Cruz of Princeton University assesses the local social cost of carbon (LSCC) and how that cost aligns with the carbon reduction pledges countries made under the Paris Agreement.
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Australia Hosts First Climate Change Adaptation Conference
Green Car Congress
JUNE 28, 2010
The first international conference held in Australia to discuss the science and options for adapting to climate change begins in the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Center, Queensland, on 29 June. Professor Palutikof.
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Hyundai Motor to expand XCIENT fuel cell truck entry into US market
Green Car Congress
MAY 10, 2022
Our ultimate goal is to fight climate change and build a sustainable future. With the US government’s significant investment and more players entering the hydrogen market, the total cost of ownership (TCO) for fuel cell electric vehicles will drop significantly in the coming years, Hyundai says. million km as of 30 April 2022.
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OECD: governments should make better use of energy taxation to address climate change; “meaningful” increases limited to road sector
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
In the non-road sectors, which collectively account for 95% of carbon emissions from energy use, 81% of emissions are untaxed, and rates are below a truly low-end estimate of climate costs of EUR 30 per tCO 2 for 97% of emissions. —“Taxing Energy Use 2018”.
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Garnaut Climate Change Review issues first of 8 update papers in 2011; reaffirms decision-making framework and need for mitigation efforts
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 5, 2011
As commissioned by the Australian Government in 2010, the Garnaut Climate Change Review, led by Professor Ross Garnaut, has issued the first of a series of papers scheduled for this month and next updating the 2008 Climate Change Review. —2008 Climate Change Review. Earlier post.)
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Vanderbilt meeting concludes time to begin developing climate change adaptation strategies for transportation sector
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2011
It is increasingly clear that climate change will have potentially large impacts on the nation’s highways, railroads, waterways, airports and pipelines. Contributing to these costs is the problem of the nation’s aging infrastructure, which needs $2.2 Assess the cost of impacts to key infrastructure components.
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RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE COMMISSION: Drive Electric’s advice on the second draft of the Emissions Reduction Plan (2026-2030)
Drive Electric
JUNE 19, 2023
Table 1: Chapter 9 Energy and Industry Table 2: Chapter 11 Transport Table 3: Climate Change Commission Recommendations Table 4: Drive Electrics Summary Recommendations Part B: Detailed response Introduction New Zealand is on the cusp of the biggest transformation in transport in over a century.
Study finds culture influences response to climate change; consumption and reproduction
Green Car Congress
JUNE 30, 2011
How people choose to consume resources and use contraception influences their responses to climate change, according to a new study by a team of psychologists. Carpool lanes decrease carbon dioxide emissions and lower costs of commuting. Howard, professor of psychology, University of Notre Dame. Swim, Janet K.;
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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation
Green Car Congress
MARCH 6, 2010
This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. 3) Measurement. CONCLUSION.
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Adaptation of rice shows use of symbiogenics as a new strategy for reducing impacts of climate change and catastrophes on plants
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2011
Rice—which provides nearly half the daily calories for the world’s population—could become better adapted to stresses resulting from climate change and some catastrophic events through what researchers are calling “symbiogenics”—symbiosis-altered gene expression. These findings, Redman et al. 0014823.
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240 IRENA: doubling global share of renewable energy by 2030 could save trillions annually from avoided expenditures on pollution and climate change
Green Car Congress
MARCH 17, 2016
Achieving this would increase the cost of the global energy system by roughly USD $290 billion per year in 2030, but the savings achieved through this doubling—due to avoided expenditures on air pollution and climate change—are up to 15 times higher than this cost.
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Michael Jackson Comes Back From Dead to Blast L.A. Times Climate Change Coverage
Creative Greenius
JULY 6, 2009
Times isn’t a newspaper anymore, it’s an abusepaper that is part of the climate change problem, not part of the solution, said the still world popular entertainment legend. . Maybe Jim Tankersley has friends at Exxon/Mobil too and is looking for his next job after the Times stops breathing soon.
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Study finds stabilizing warming at 1.5 ?C would result in economic hit through 2100; benefits accrue by 2300
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 12, 2020
A new study by a team from San Jose State University and Stanford University has found that—even under heightened damage estimates—the additional mitigation costs of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C C (relative to 2.0 °C) C) are higher than the additional avoided damages this century under most parameter combinations considered.
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Exxon/Mobil Guilty of Climate Change Coverup. Now Ordered Out of Torrance 3 Years Sooner.
Creative Greenius
JULY 1, 2009
But now that I’ve found out they’re still lying and covering up their role in climate change and the size of their own carbon footprint, I’m going to have to get tougher with them. I initially gave Exxon/Mobil till 2020 to get out of Torrance and clean up their toxic mess here in my town.
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Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7 —Bonnie Holmes-Gen, senior director of Air Quality and Climate Change with the American Lung Association in California. billion by 2050.
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150 ADB Study Finds Annual Economic Losses in Southeast Asia from Climate Change Could be More Than Twice the Global Average
Green Car Congress
APRIL 27, 2009
The mean cost of cost of climate change for the four countries—Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam—under a “business-as-usual” scenario and if market and non-market impacts and catastrophic risks are all considered could be equivalent to losing 6.7%
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MIT researchers conclude fundamental changes in the US energy-innovation system are needed to meet challenges of climate change and energy supply
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 22, 2011
A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has concluded that fundamental changes are needed in the US energy-innovation system. The build-up of greenhouse bases in the atmosphere continues unabated, and its environmental and human costs are mounting. Innovation should become that focus.
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TU Dresden study on external costs of automotive transportation in Europe calls for internalization of the high external costs; raising user prices to change behavior
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 26, 2012
A recent study from Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) commissioned by the Greens/European Free Allianace (EFA) in the European Parliament concluded that the cars used within the EU-27 externalize up to about €373 billion (US$493 billion) per year (high estimate) of costs on to other people, other regions and other generations.
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NTSB Chair questions safety impact of heavy EVs
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 12, 2023
Ultimately, to manage climate change, the world needs to stop emitting greenhouse gases from vehicles and power plants. Electrifying vehicles adds yet more weight. The researchers suggested that taxing heavy cars could be part of a solution, along with driving less, and other technology-based weight reductions efforts.
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CEC determines Diablo Canyon needed to support grid reliability
Green Car Congress
MARCH 1, 2023
The determination comes as California is experiencing a substantial shift in conditions affecting the electric grid, which is transitioning to the state’s clean energy future, while confronting the impacts of climate change. This includes extreme heat and wildfires that threaten the grid with growing frequency and intensity.
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Study suggests economic stagnation no excuse for inaction on climate
Green Car Congress
JULY 7, 2013
Results from a new study by researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge in the UK has suggest that the social cost of carbon dioxide is higher in a low economic growth world. A paper on the study was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/nclimate1935.
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Tesla drivers have smoke blown in their faces | Opinion
EV Central
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
But first I wanted to talk about climate change deniers, and how remarkable it is that they still exist. A few years ago, climate change deniers were annoying, unscientific troll turds, the kind of people who choose their feelings over facts.
Asian Development Bank Sees Increase In EV Sales In The Region, Recommends Strategies
CleanTechnica EVs
JULY 4, 2022
“Fully harness the EV momentum,” says the Asian Development Bank (ADD) in its “E-Mobility Options for ADB Developing Member Countries,” which both forecast and recommended the quick shift to electric vehicles in the region to stem both climate change issues and the rising cost of fuel.
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Ford poll finds Europeans want freedom of car ownership, but worry about traffic, cost of driving, environment
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 14, 2012
A new Ford Motor Company-sponsored poll of 6,000 people across Europe found that most Europeans remain committed to car ownership, but have growing concerns about traffic congestion, the cost of driving and the environment. 53% say climate change is the world’s biggest problem.
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Study finds limited evidence that carbon tax rebates have increased public support for carbon pricing
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.
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Study finds technology cost of achieving European 2020 LDV CO2 targets more than offset by resultant fuel savings
Green Car Congress
MARCH 19, 2013
A report published by Cambridge Econometrics and Ricardo-AEA concludes that overall, the cost of technologies required to meet proposed European 2020 CO 2 regulations for vehicles (95 g/km for cars and 147 g/km for vans) will be more than offset by the resultant fuel savings. Source: Cambridge Econometrics.Click to enlarge.
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How Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change
Cars That Think
MARCH 4, 2023
However, there’s a shortage of roboticists tackling climate change, due to a lack of awareness of necessary and urgent applications. After talking with many climate robotics founders for my blog, Nirva Labs , here are my findings on how you can find opportunities to help robots make an impact on climate change.
CARB releases 2022 draft Scoping Plan update
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2022
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has released the draft 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan —the third update to the state’s initial 2008 Scoping Plan. The draft 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan was developed by the California Air Resources Board in collaboration and coordination with multiple state agencies.
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199 ICE car tax could go up as cost of charging shown to be competitive
Discover EV
JULY 9, 2020
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has recently released its latest progress report on the UK's emissions. Within it, higher tax on ICE vehicles and increasing EV numbers is recommended. This news comes as a study by Uswitch finds that charging an EV in the UK is still relatively inexpensive compared to its neighbouring countries.
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UK awards £28M for 5 demonstration-phase low-carbon hydrogen production projects
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
This technology could lower the cost of low carbon hydrogen by over 20% and has become the basis for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) analysis. The project aims to reduce the cost of electrolytic hydrogen significantly. Contract value: £2.7
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Leading UK scientists set out resource challenge of meeting EV targets by 2050
Green Car Congress
JUNE 24, 2019
Last month, the Committee on Climate Change published a report— Net Zero: The UK’s Contribution to Stopping Global Warming —which concluded that “net zero is necessary, feasible and cost effective.” Energy cost of metal production: This choice of vehicle comes with an energy cost too.
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ICL model predicts lithium-ion batteries most competitive for storage applications by 2030
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 10, 2019
However, as time progresses, pumped-storage hydroelectricity costs do not decrease, whereas lithium-ion battery costs come down, making them the cheapest option for most applications from 2030. 2018.12.008.
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MITEI releases report on 3-year study of future mobility; technological innovation, policies, and behavioral changes all needed; “car pride” an issue
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 24, 2019
The report is the culmination of MITEI’s three-year Mobility of the Future study, which is part of MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change. areas of inquiry: The potential impact of climate change policies on global fleet composition, fuel consumption, fuel prices, and economic output. —William H.
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Summary of decisions from Durban climate conference
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). existing climate change.
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Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 24, 2017
However, it could be accomplished without impinging on environmentally sensitive areas in Brazil and while allowing for the expansion of other agricultural crops and human needs, the researchers report in a paper in the journal Nature Climate Change. million and 116 million hectares (144,788 to 447,879 square miles). Gigatons yr −1.
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Empowering India’s Green Agenda | Autocar Professional
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APRIL 28, 2024
A recent UN report paints a stark picture of the global climate crisis, attributing much of the crisis to fossil fuel pollution. Embracing the urgent call to combat climate change, India has set an ambitious timeline for Net Zero transition. lakh crore from its crude oil import bills.
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