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Get Your Monkeywrenches Ready! Politicians Beg For Climate Change Wake Up Call

Creative Greenius

While the finely tailored and pampered leaders of the G8 met in Italy to talk the issue of climate change to death and do nothing tangible about it, activists with a more realistic sense of urgency started to take the necessary action to start cutting greenhouse gases right now.

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Low-lying and other vulnerable countries calling for fast action on non-CO2 global warming pollutants

Green Car Congress

The next round of UN climate negotiations begins in Cancun today. Ramanathan and Victor highlight the importance of aggressively reducing CO 2 emissions, but note that the road ahead will be long, difficult, and expensive, and that “in the meantime, a fast-action plan is needed.”

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The EV Transition Explained: How to Meet Sales Targets?

Cars That Think

With less than eight years for the United States to meet the objective of a 50-percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions , many environmental advocacy groups argue that an even faster transition to EVs is mandatory. You cannot change the sources from Congo, China and other places within two to three years.”

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

With all this, consumers and policymakers alike are hopeful that society will soon greatly reduce its carbon emissions by replacing today’s cars with electric vehicles. EVs lack tailpipe emissions, sure, but producing, operating, and disposing of these vehicles creates greenhouse-gas emissions and other environmental burdens.