Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Illustration of the steps in an iterative risk management approach for addressing climate change. From: America’s Climate Choices. This trend cannot be explained by natural factors such as internal climate variability or changes in incoming energy from the sun. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2010

A report released by a US federal working group highlights 11 key categories of diseases and other health consequences that are occurring or will occur due to climate change. Climate change has direct impact on five aspects of the human environment (red lines, purple circles) that in turn impact additional environmental factors.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2009

The European Commission has published a white paper—“ Adapting to climate change: Towards a European framework for action ”—outlining the framework of a two-phase strategic approach to help the EU cope with the impacts of climate change. European Commissioner for the Environment Stavros Dimas.

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Plug N Drive

MAY 1, 2024

“Making public charging more economical in rural and remote locations means more public charging stations will be built and EV driving will become more accessible to more Ontarians, benefiting both the environment and the local economy.” For more information about Plug’n Drive’s programs, services, and events, visit plugndrive.ca

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

New WHO has issued new Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) that reduce levels of key air pollutants, some of which also contribute to climate change. They are applicable to both outdoor and indoor environments globally, and cover all settings. WHO global air quality guidelines. Particulate matter (PM 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners have launched a new initiative that aims to reduce pollution levels, improve resource efficiency and reduce infrastructure costs in cities across the world. Up to 80% of the world population is expected to reside in cities by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Accordingly, reducing obesity may have considerable benefits for both public health and the environment. To assess the impact of obesity on the environment, researchers used the standard definitions of obesity (body mass index of greater than or equal to 30 kg/m 2 ) and normal weight (body mass index of less than 25). Bügel, S.G.,

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Emissions Global Climate Change New Zealand 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2019

The researchers can’t predict how new materials or advances will impact the market, but they hope their model, which is available open access to test a variety of technology cost and performance assumptions, can help industry and policymakers make informed investment decisions today. 2018.12.008.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

It found that 65% of respondents spontaneously selected emissions from road transport as a cause of climate change. Most respondents said they think cars or aeroplanes are the transport modes mainly responsible for climate changing emissions. In 2008, 64% agreed with that; in 2007, 63%; and in 2006, 62% agreed.

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Environment Climate Change 2006 2009 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment launched a new four-year research program to help businesses and policy-makers identify high-carbon sectors and assets that could be significantly devalued or written off—i.e, — Rt Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Pollution 218

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. Canada is developing a Clean Fuel Standard that will cut emissions by 30 million tonnes in 2030.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Can software save the world from climate change and other environmental threats? We’re not going to know the answer to that question for a very long time, but a venture capital firm is betting that companies that develop business management software for addressing climate change can be profitable while they are trying.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The results of the study were published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. —First author Associate Professor Steve Yim, from NTU’s Asian School of the Environment, who holds an appointment at LKCMedicine. Air pollution, together with climate change, is one of the greatest environmental threats to human health.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2018

The researchers set out a framework for gathering and analyzing local information about how cities contribute to pollution levels, and show how these insights could be used to target climate mitigation initiatives most effectively. Everything practical that you would need to do to reduce emissions happens at a city level.

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Emissions CO2 Laos Pollution 210

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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Alaska Gas Climate Insight 252

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2013

kWh—approximately 2–4 times current retail costs—for emission-free alternatives to fossil fuel electricity due to the cost of health impacts from fossil fuel electricity, according to a new analysis by a pair of researchers at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Energy and Climate Change Office, Region 9.

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EPA Emissions Fuel Climate Change 277

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

The new study describes the complexities in assessing sustainability as related to energy and food security in four parts: food security; interactions among food security, biofuels, and resource management; priorities and conditions for achieving positive synergies; and. conclusions and recommendations. —Jeremy Woods. Kline et al.

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Climate Change Production Climate Africa 150

Green Car Congress

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

AUGUST 22, 2011

While there is abundant research on climate change at national and global scales, there is a gap in regionally focused adaptation planning for effectively addressing this pressing issue. —Arun Agrawal, professor of natural resources and environment and co-principal investigator for the project.

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Climate Michigan Climate Change Ohio 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2011

is hosting “Adapting to Climate and Energy Challenges: Options for US Maritime Forces,” on 29-30 March, an in-depth symposium covering how changes in climate and energy availability may impact the US Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md.,

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Climate Climate Change Energy Mariner 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

California has a strong interest in promoting the adoption of electric vehicles, based on the benefits to the economy, environment, and quality of life. Plan for and facilitate deployment of a well-planned and easy-to-use charging infrastructure network. —“Electric Drive by ’25”. The author of this policy paper is Ethan N.

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California Electric Vehicles Climate Change Vehicles 265

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Worldwide, the car fleet is set to triple by 2050, with serious implications for the global effort to address climate change unless reducing transport emissions and improving fuel economy become an urgent global priority, warns the GFEI. Cross-country flows of used cars. GFEI capability building efforts.

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Fuel Economy Economy Environment Fleet 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2017

they represented the best estimate, based on the information available at that time, of what levels of stringency might be the maximum feasible in those model years. It is difficult to quantify how the specific impacts due to the potential temperature changes attributable to new CAFE standards may affect many aspects of the environment.

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Standards Fuel Economy Economy Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2018

Broadly, the report says that the Government needs to: Place the protection of public health and the environment, rather than technical compliance or political convenience, at the center of air quality policy. Develop a properly resourced national air quality support scheme available to all local authorities struggling with air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2010

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied 10 petitions challenging its 2009 determination that climate change is real, is occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities, and threatens human health and the environment. Information on EPA’s findings and the petitions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) released a new report evaluating how climate change may affect the environmental conditions measured and used in mathematical modeling for oil-spill trajectory analysis in the Arctic region. —BOEMRE Director Michael R. Click to enlarge.

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Climate Oil Climate Change Alaska 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2018

The researchers performed two sets (Group 1 and Group 2, each composed of a random draw of half the cohort) of CoIAs: each set included 10,000× resampling of 200 individuals (without replacement, from Group 1 or Group 2), and the CoIAs were performed between environment and gene expression for each of the 10,000 iterations.

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Pollution Canada Environment Climate Change 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Juenger and fellow researchers have examined biofuel applications for switchgrass for years, but the new research will provide much more information about the role of rainfall, genes, soil and other factors in the effectiveness of this common plant as an energy source. Interest in developing genomic resources for P. Tom Juenger.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 24, 2010

We had told them they were not only wasting money, water and resources – they were also setting a bad public example on television and on the web where their meetings are broadcast. Now the question is – You can lead a City Council to the right water, but can you get them to drink it?

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Water Waste Climate Change USA 300

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2009

The Climate Disclosure Standards Board ( CDSB ) introduced for public consultation a set of proposals designed to assist directors in the inclusion of climate change-related information in companies’ annual reports. There is no scarcity of warnings of the risk of irreversible climatic damage to the environment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

Climate change is partly a technical problem, in that it has well defined quantitative dimensions. underlying the technical problem means that climate change is more profoundly an adaptive. challenge, requiring changes in attitude, values and behavior on an unprecedented scale. Yet the human dimension.

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Climate Change Fuel Taxi Climate 225

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

In addition to collaboration on air quality measures, the agreement encourages joint efforts to protect public health, promote clean and efficient energy, protect the environment and natural resources and support sustained economic growth.

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California China Pollution Chinese 257

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reports that as of this month, 40 developed country parties have submitted information regarding their 2020 emissions reduction targets, with various base years, to its secretariat, Yvo de Boer. Tags: Climate Change. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge.

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Gas Climate Change Climate 2020 207

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2012

The energy projects chosen seek to improve electric vehicle batteries, to model the impact of renewable energy policy on the economy and the environment, and to better understand the combustion biodiesel fuels. Integrated energy-economy-environment (3E) modeling for clean vehicle development in China.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

The increase in global energy demands, diminution of fossil fuels , and its harmful effects on the environment have attracted the use of lignocellulosic biomass as an alternative sustainable source for chemicals, materials, and liquid fuels. Currently, biomass contributes 10% (5 x 10 -19 kJ) to global energy consumption.

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Fuel Auto Oil Conversion 52

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. Earlier post.).

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Congress EPA Carbon Emissions 252

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The project represents one of Canada’s largest resource development projects with a total capital investment of up to $36 billion when accounting for upstream natural gas development. Both Pacific NorthWest LNG and Progress Energy are majority-owned by PETRONAS.

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