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Breaking: US, other G7 countries to phase out coal by early 2030s

Baua Electric

In a historic agreement, the G7 just agreed to phase out coal in the first half of the 2030s, according to statements made today. The G7 – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US, plus the EU – are meeting in Turin, Italy. The problem is that whilst coal power has already been falling, gas power has not.

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

Creative Greenius

Obama is at the G8 meeting in Italy to discuss the global warming crisis with other world leaders. Brave environmental activists from Greenpeace actually took a bold climate initiative today, doing so in my grandfather’s homeland of Italy, where they occupied four coal-fired power plants.

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EU greenhouse gas emissions from transport increased for the second year in a row in 2015; on-road up 1.6%

Green Car Congress

Spain, Italy and the Netherlands accounted for the largest increases in greenhouse gas emissions in the EU. However, the reduced use of solid fuels, for the third consecutive year, and the sustained increase in renewables—particularly biomass, wind and solar—offset otherwise higher emissions.

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

Everybody knew then that renewables were unreliable: that wind power fully works less than one-third of the time, and that solar power is unavailable at night (of course) and less efficient on cloudy winter days. Presumably because the only forms of energy that ministers and civil servants respect are wind and solar.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

Green Car Congress

The decade-long nationwide slide in emissions from power production reflects the electric power sector shifting away from coal and toward less carbon-intensive fuels. from the year before, with solar jumping 40.3% below their 2006 levels. California’s electric-power sector was responsible for 19.1% from 2014 to 2015.

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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

Cars That Think

Some continue to burn coal, for example, because there are no other economically feasible choices for them. “We Efficient coal-burning plants Shutting down coal power plants completely is unlikely to happen anytime soon, he predicted, especially since many countries are building new ones that have 40-year life spans.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

“A car must be able to be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France,&# she was quoted saying in an edition of Die Welt to appear Monday. Some of the automakers include in that agreement are Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Fiat, Toyota and Mitsubishi. by RSS or sign up by email. About Gas 2.0