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Report Finds That Urgent Changes in Transport Financing Required to Enable More Sustainable Transportation Globally

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The report, A Paradigm Shift Towards Sustainable Low Carbon Transport , finds that more than $1.5 Transportation is central to the social and economic activity of people across the world. restructure pricing incentives so users Pay for the full costs of transport consumption.

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Driving Green Initiatives: Direct Pay Tax Incentives for Local Governments

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Cities and local governments are on the front lines responding to climate change, but high costs have slowed the progress of some sustainable energy projects. Why Cities Should Apply for Direct Pay As the EV market continues to expand, consumer expectations for convenient and reliable chargers are rising rapidly.

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DOE releases five-year strategic plan, 2014-2018; supporting “all of the above” energy strategy

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Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries.

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Career Opportunities in the Electric Vehicle Industry

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In the case of India, the cost of oil imports, rising pollution, and international pledges to combat global climate change are the most important driving factors of the country’s investment in this shift to electric mobility. The industry is trying to come up with more energy-intensive power sources.

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UC Davis, ITDP report finds shared mobility essential for realizing full benefits of electrification and automation

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In contrast, by encouraging a large increase in trip sharing, transit use, and active transport through policies that support compact, mixed use development, cities worldwide could save an estimated $5 trillion annually by 2050 while improving livability and increasing the likelihood of meeting climate change targets.

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Proposed 2018 Trump budgets cuts EPA funding 31.4%, DOE 5.6%, DOT 12.7%, NSF 10.7%

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Program and Financing (millions of dollars). Δ Clean Air and Global Climate Change. The Budget also provides $20 million for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program, equal to the funding provided in the 2017 annualized CR. Program and Financing (millions of dollars). billion, or 16.2%).

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