Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Non-governmental organizations include the Bay Area Climate Collaborative; the EV Communities Alliance; CityCar Share, a non-profit vehicle-sharing program; Plug-in America, an electric vehicle advocate; and Bay Area Clean Cities Coalitions, promoters of electric vehicle use in fleets.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

In a paper that could have a significant impact on climate policies for transportation fuels, Dr. John M. DeCicco of the Energy Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor presents a rigorous first-principles analysis that undermines the common “biofuels recycle carbon” argument. DeCicco 2013. Click to enlarge.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 22, 2014

If you wanted to find out which AT&T Universe TV package came with HBO, it was a good place to be. Too many will suffer the worst consequences of climate change impacts to come. Too many of them live too close to the freeway and industry where air quality is bad and where people suffer the lung implications as a result.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2009

DeCicco, formerly on staff at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), is now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment. While including all fuels under a carbon cap is necessary for an effective climate policy, DeCicco argues, it is not sufficient for addressing all fuels-related emissions. “

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

In his remarks made at Stanford University during the award of the third Science Award for Electrochemistry to Dr. Vanessa Wood ( earlier post ), Prof. High-performance energy storage is key to big challenges of our times—namely climate protection and a sustainable mobility. A field where we can and must achieve progress.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2011

Although fully establishing this ideal will not be possible initially, climate protection is best served by putting its elements in place from the inception of a policy regime rather than using approaches such as LCA that are poorly grounded in the principles of sound environmental management. —John DeCicco.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. Switzerland’s top ranking reflects strong performance across most issues, especially air quality and climate protection. Disability-Adjusted Life Years lost due to PM 2.5.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2013

A new study by James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Earth Institute has found that global nuclear power has prevented an average of 1.84 Mean number of deaths prevented annually by nuclear power, 1971-2009. Credit: ACS, Hansen et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Transparency, longevity and certainty (“TLC”) drives investments, according to a policy “green paper” by DB Climate Change Advisors, a unit of Deutsche Bank. The right mix of TLC can produce job creation with energy security and climate protection at the most efficient cost, according to Deutsche Bank.

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