Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Eleven European and North American governments are the founding partners of the International ZEV Alliance, which has the mission of accelerating global adoption of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). A new report released by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) outlines an agenda for expanding collaboration.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Methanol can enable significant reductions in CO 2 emissions compared to traditional fuels and is viewed within the international maritime sector as one of the most feasible clean fuels for large-scale adoption by the industry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

billion vehicles are currently powered by conventional internal combustion engines. All solutions are needed in the fight against the climate crisis. We cannot afford to exclude these options if we want to reach the climate targets and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport. Throughout the world, more than 1.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

A study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that thermoelectric power plants (i.e., nuclear and fossil-fueled generating units) in Europe and the United States are vulnerable to climate change due to the combined impacts of lower summer river flows and higher river water temperatures. Source: van Vliet et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

Six northern indigenous groups—the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Arctic Athabaska Council, Gwich’in Council International, Sami Council, Russian Association of the Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON) and Aleut International Association—wield strong influence as permanent participants.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

However, according to the World Resources Institute , “EVs need to account for 75 percent to 95 percent of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 in order to meet international climate goals aimed at keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F).”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2018

Intended for Delfzijl in the Netherlands, the installation would use a 20 megawatt water electrolysis unit, the largest in Europe, to convert sustainably produced electricity into 3,000 tons of green hydrogen a year—enough to fuel 300 hydrogen buses. A final decision on the project is expected in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2021

Especially taking into consideration the recent decision by the EU to set more ambitious climate targets for 2030, blue hydrogen can play a significant role going forward as a viable and early source for nearly climate-neutral hydrogen in large quantities and therefore in achieving these goals.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

An international team of researchers has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean circulation system off Iceland—the North Icelandic Jet (NIJ)—that could significantly influence the ocean’s response to climate change in previously unforeseen ways. Credit: WHOI. Click to enlarge. —Robert Pickart.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The current proposals by developed countries on the table for the upcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions do not yet suffice to limit global warming to a rise of 2 °C (based on a long-term 450 ppm concentration of GHG), according to a new report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2019

The board includes representatives from WWF International, the European Climate Foundation, Solidaridad Network and the University of Groningen. There will be absolutely no use of food crops, such as soya oil and palm oil (or by-products such as PFAD and POME), for production.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

The research team included members from the National University of Singapore; Stichting Deltares, The Netherlands; International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), Washington, DC; and the University of Leicester, UK. Chris Malins of the International Council on Clean Transportation. —Miettinen et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The European Union’s climate innovation initiative, Climate-KIC , and the fourth largest city of China, Tianjin, have agreed to collaborate on the JiefangNan Rd New Meijiang pilot, a low-carbon city project. It is the first time that local and regional authorities will play a leading role in such international relations.

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JULY 16, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Tech” was jointly prepared and notified by fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. The Member States will provide up to €5.4 billion in public funding, which is expected to unlock additional €8.8

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The average gap between official fuel consumption figures and actual fuel use for new cars in the EU has reached 42%, according to the latest update by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) to its on-going research into vehicle fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. Source: The ICCT. Click to enlarge. —Uwe Tietge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Porsche, Siemens Energy and a lineup of international companies are developing and implementing the pilot project that is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fuels (eFuels). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2009

In the examples cited in the report, biomass for biofuels has the largest and widest ranging footprint: from 24,000 m 3 per 1,000 GJ in the Netherlands to 143,000 m 3 per 1,000 GJ in Zimbabwe. The report, Water, Energy and Climate Change: A contribution from the business community says water, energy and climate change are inextricably linked.

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AUGUST 30, 2012

The Antarctic Ice Sheet could be an overlooked but important source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to a report in Nature by an international team of scientists. The predicted shallow depth of these potential reserves also makes them more susceptible to climate forcing than other methane hydrate reserves on Earth.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

It was quaint and adorable when Norway did it, saying it would end sales of cars with internal-combustion engines by 2025. The Netherlands followed suit, with little fanfare. More recently, France and the U.K. have enacted various forms of bans on non-electrified vehicles, on varying schedules.

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JUNE 23, 2023

The study is based on a 223-question battery organized into nine vehicle categories: infotainment; features, controls and displays; exterior; driving assistance; interior; powertrain; seats; driving experience; and climate. The study was fielded from February through May 2023. Android Automotive Operating System (AAOS) issues: A 21.5

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JUNE 10, 2021

We are so excited to be joining with our international colleagues in the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance,” said Joel Levin, executive director of Plug In America. The Alliance released this video to promote awareness of the Alliance. “We We hope to see other countries join us!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

The Volvo C30 Electric will be manufactured and delivered to leasing customers throughout Europe, including in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway. Tests on a fleet of about 50 cars have been conducted since autumn 2010, mainly internally at the Volvo Car Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2010

The United Nations Secretary General and the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced have asked the InterAcademy Council (IAC) to conduct an independent review of the IPCC’s processes and procedures to further strengthen the quality of the Panel’s reports on climate change. Christopher Field, Ph.D.,

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

The green mobility objective proposes four different quantified targets to be achieved by 2030 and 2050, one for each of four key dimensions: climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, air pollution, physical inactivity and noise pollution. The set targets are consistent with international agreements.

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MARCH 3, 2020

It is a permanently excited synchronous machine as an internal rotor. One important comfort feature is the pre-entry climate control prior to starting a journey, which can also be activated conveniently by smartphone. On-demand stator and rotor cooling allow use of the electric motor’s peak and continuous output without any problems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2010

However, the world has changed considerably since the creation of the IPCC, with major advances in climate science, heated controversy on some climate-related issues, and an increased focus of governments on the impacts and potential responses to changing climate. The report was released yesterday at the United Nations.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As the world continues to face climate change challenges, it is becoming increasingly critical that we transition to more sustainable energy sources. To begin with, they are much cleaner and more environmentally friendly, emitting far fewer harmful emissions that contribute to air and water pollution, as well as climate change.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Renault and Netherlands-based Athlon Car Lease International will cooperate in the joint delivery of Electric Vehicle (EV)-solutions to their mutual clients. —Hans Blink, President of Athlon Car Lease International. Athlon supports Renault’s EV project. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

A two-year Cooperative Research Program conducted through SAE International to investigate the safety and environmental performance of the low-global-warming-potential (GWP) refrigerant HFO-1234yf for mobile air conditioning (MAC) systems has finished its study. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Vehicle Systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz presented the paper at the 10 th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies ( GHGT-10 ) earlier this fall in The Netherlands. Kreutz used what he called a bifurcated climate regime—i.e., Note that the climate benefit is independent. from a pipeline destined for geologic storage (i.e.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2017

The annual assessment of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the JRC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) confirms that CO 2 emissions have stalled for the third year in a row. Emissions from international transport (aviation and shipping) contribute another 3% to the total global GHG emissions.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

A team of three Cambridge graduates has today received a Land Rover Defender 110 and a cheque for £10,000, at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London, to embark on an expedition of approximately 32,000km, through 31 countries, to raise awareness of the potential impacts of climate change along the Atlantic coastline.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The green hydrogen generated there will be fed directly into the internal gas network, allowing the testing of the use of hydrogen in various process stages of steel production. Moreover, if the electrolysis is undertaken with electricity from renewable sources, the hydrogen production is virtually climate-neutral.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. It results in higher efficiencies: about 46 percent. The whole world is one grid.

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JUNE 15, 2013

This scenario would ensure that Germany meets its climate targets, Siemens said. The climate goal can be reached by 2030 with fewer renewable energy sources at substantially lower costs. And in the process of modernizing their energy systems, Denmark and the Netherlands are already successfully auctioning wind farms.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

in the last two decades, 2 %20emissions%20report%20-%2021%20Sept.pdf">according to the newly published report “Long-term trend in global CO 2 emissions,” prepared by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. correction for the leap year 2008), global emissions have.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

The new report takes its figures from EDGAR (Emission database for global atmospheric research), a joint project between the JRC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). EDGAR used the latest international statistics and data on greenhouse gas emissions to model emissions for every country in the world.

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