Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. It is completely wrong,” Fatih Birol , Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has stated. A high priority, says IEA’s Birol, is investment in across-the-board energy-related technology research and development and their placement into practice.

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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

The IEEE Board of Directors formed an ad hoc committee on climate change in February to coordinate its response to the global threat. that provides buildings with energy-efficiency solutions. Why should IEEE be involved in combating climate change? Why should members care about climate change?

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Electrek

AUGUST 14, 2023

A youth-led climate lawsuit won a historic decision today, with a Montana court ruling that the state must consider climate change and environmental protections in the approval process for new energy projects.

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Innovation News Network

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

An international research consortium is developing economic models and policies to facilitate the fight against climate change. The post Economic models for climate change and energy policies appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Energy Institute at HAAS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

We’ve been sweltering through record-high temperatures … Continue Reading Fighting Climate Change with Heat Pumps. When new refrigerant regulations take hold, they’ll be much cooler. Today’s post is co-authored with Duncan Callaway. Geez, it’s hot.

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Innovation News Network

MARCH 14, 2023

The post Cargo ships powered by wind could help fight climate change appeared first on Innovation News Network. Future cargo ships are set to be powered by wind once again due to a new project that retrofits large vessels with ultra-modern wing sails.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 23, 2024

In today’s world, climate change is a reality we have to contend with and among the various measures undertaken to combat it, carbon credits can prove to be an effective solution. Weaving a new framework in the climate space, carbon credits incentivize sustainable practices by assigning a financial value to reductions in GHG emissions.

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Electrek

APRIL 4, 2022

In the landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today , there’s good news and bad news. We’re spotlighting the good news: EVs and clean energy can help us limit climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2019

BP released the 68 th annual edition of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy (BP Stats Review), a comprehensive collection and analysis of global energy data. This year’s edition highlights the growing divergence between demands for action on climate change and the actual pace of progress on reducing carbon emissions.

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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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

and China’s top climate official, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Vice Chairman Xie Zhenhua, signed an agreement on climate change—the first between the NDRC and a subnational entity. The NDRC oversees China’s efforts to address climate change and much of the government’s economic strategy.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Since its launch in April 2021 , the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance has convened a diverse set of experts to explore three areas in which fundamental research could have the most impact: climate change; the nexus of biology and engineering; and securing critical infrastructure against hackers.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

The day reminds us of the need to protect our planet and its ecosystems against the worsening climate crisis. The climate crisis is threatening people across the world, as well as every species of animal and plant life. Climate change is a global societal crisis that is causing devastating consequences.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 14, 2022

We read with considerable interest the story in the September 2022 issue of The Institute titled “ IEEE’s Plan to Help Combat Climate Change.” We believe it’s critical to bring all stakeholders to the table to collaboratively envision engineering solutions to address societal challenges such as climate change.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 24, 2019

After a year of record fires in California and floods in Texas and on the East Coast, more Americans are taking climate change seriously—and significant portions are willing to take financial steps to combat it. The first poll, from the University of Chicago Energy.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is one of the reasons why Tesla’s products and services are focused on transportation and energy production and storage — segments that are traditionally the most polluting in both the United States and foreign countries. . In 2020, Tesla customers helped accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy by avoiding 5.0

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

General Motors for the first time achieved perfect scores on both climate change data disclosure and performance submitted to CDP , the world’s only global environmental disclosure system. The CDP program enables management of greenhouse gas emissions and risks and opportunities associated with climate change.

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EV Match

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Arcadia and EVmatch partner to offer customers a new and easy way to connect to clean energy at home. At EVmatch , we envision a distributed, equitable, and carbon-free clean energy economy that connects and elevates all people. Beginning in 2014, Arcadia set out to make clean energy an easy choice for anyone, even renters.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Greater reliance on energy taxation is needed to strengthen efforts to tackle the principal source of both greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, according to a new OECD report. Taxes are effective at cutting harmful emissions from energy use, but governments could make better use of them.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Saying that “ investment-grade climate change and clean energy policy is required to shift private sector investment from high-carbon to low-carbon assets ”, a group of 285 investors has urged governments and international policy makers to take new and meaningful steps in the fight against climate change.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2014

The project, called Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy ( ACME ), is designed to accelerate the development and application of fully coupled, state-of-the-science Earth system models for scientific and energy applications. Biogeochemistry: How do biogeochemical cycles interact with global climate change?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to President Obama describing six key components the advisory group believes should be central to the Administration’s strategy for addressing climate change. The six key components are: 1.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2012

The Premier of Québec, Jean Charest; the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Pierre Arcand; and the Minister of Transport Pierre Moreau unveiled the Canadian province’s 2013-2020 Action Plan on Climate Change (PACC 2020). The action plan and strategy adaptation represent a total investment of nearly C$2.7

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2013

The US and China will initiate a Climate Change Working Group to determine and finalize ways in which they can advance cooperation on technology, research, conservation, and alternative and renewable energy. Such action is crucial both to contain climate change and to set the kind of powerful example that can inspire the world.

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Innovation News Network

AUGUST 22, 2023

Find out more about the role of carbon capture technology in the UK's transition to clean and renewable energy. The post Carbon capture technology and its role in the fight against climate change appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

Moving to further strengthen California’s ties with China, California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols and Director of the Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission Xu Anliang signed a memorandum of understanding in Shenzhen that will expand cooperation at the subnational level to tackle global climate change.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In this episode of CleanTech Talk, renowned climate author and social movement leader Bill McKibben and I talk about the climate change crisis we’re quickly rolling into, climate grief and how to deal with it, US climate policy, rampant conspiracy theories, the great energy transition, and more.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 2, 2018

The most recent detailed studies on the likely warming of Planet Earth are grim indeed, suggesting that we are collectively at "very high risk" for the most extreme effects of climate change. To stem that, mankind collectively will have to reduce its ongoing emissions of carbon dioxide radically and immediately.

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Schneider Electric EVs

JANUARY 27, 2020

As fossil fuel emissions accelerate climate change, and natural disasters underscore the value of energy self-sufficiency, the case for solar power has never been stronger. The post Climate change calls for energy self-sufficiency. Adoption is being driven as. Read more ». Is going Solar enough?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2012

A new report from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change shows the importance of all major nations taking part in global efforts to reduce emissions—and in particular, finds China’s role to be crucial. C change by the end of the century. Without China, we miss that mark by about 1 °C.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 3, 2021

The Sunshine State has set some ambitious targets in its efforts to go renewable. The state government target is 50% by 2030. RenewEconomy’s live feed indicates that as of 12 noon, the state is living up to its nickname, with 30% of its electricity coming from the sun. Still in the pipeline are wind farms […].

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Green Energy Consumers

DECEMBER 27, 2022

On December 15th, Rhode Island's Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council (EC4) approved the final draft of the 2022 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan. Green Energy Consumers, unfortunately, found the Plan lacking in several ways, which we will detail in this blog.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Virtual Peaker and Fermata Energy are partnering to integrate Fermata Energy’s vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology with Virtual Peaker’s cloud-based residential energy demand response platform used by utilities across the country. Fermata Energy V2X bi-directional charger.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2015

UCLA and Lawrence Livermore researchers have found that most climate models overestimate the increase in global precipitation due to climate change. The research appears in journal Nature. We sought to understand the sources of this uncertainty and use the best available observations to narrow in on the most likely response.

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

We found ourselves thinking about how Smart Energy Management for EV charging is connected to the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference; Countries from around the world continue to focus on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a key strategy for reducing the rate of global warming.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2022

Our ultimate goal is to fight climate change and build a sustainable future. We believe that there is no way around hydrogen to realize the energy transition towards renewables. Climate change and on-going supply chain issues will accelerate the transition to clean energy sources.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The California Air Resources Board unanimously approved the 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan , which sets the state on an aggressive course to reduce greenhouse gas emissions an additional 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 under SB 32. This will require California to double the rate at which it has been cutting GHGs. Earlier post.).

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