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Asian Development Bank providing $300M towards replacing 100K gasoline trikes with E-Trikes in the Philippines; $300M for major road upgrades in Chhattisgarh, India

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing $300 million towards a project that will replace 100,000 gasoline-burning tricycles in the Philippines with electric tricycles, or E-Trikes. Without intervention, the Philippines is on a course to almost quadruple CO 2 emissions in less than 25 years, the ADB said. million.

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Report Finds That Urgent Changes in Transport Financing Required to Enable More Sustainable Transportation Globally

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A key change will need to take place in how the costs of transport are internalized, as the wider costs to society arising from road accidents, poor health, social impacts and environmental degradation, often described as the ‘external' costs, are currently excluded from the price that transport users confront. Resources.

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ADB Study Finds Annual Economic Losses in Southeast Asia from Climate Change Could be More Than Twice the Global Average

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The mean cost of cost of climate change for the four countries—Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam—under a “business-as-usual” scenario and if market and non-market impacts and catastrophic risks are all considered could be equivalent to losing 6.7% The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia: A Regional Review.

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Adaptation of rice shows use of symbiogenics as a new strategy for reducing impacts of climate change and catastrophes on plants

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In the absence of stress, there was no apparent cost of the endophytes to plants, however, endophyte colonization decreased from 100% at planting to 65% compared to greenhouse plants grown under continual stress (maintained 100% colonization). —Rust Rodriguez. Redman RS, Kim YO, Woodward CJDA, Greer C, Espino L, et al.

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How Will EV Charging Powered by Renewable Energy Create a Greener World

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The tectonic-plate-related power is generated most in Iceland, El Salvador, New Zealand, Kenya, and the Philippines. Using their power – again and again – will give us a greener world – and reduce the costs of keeping electric vehicles running. Renewables Depending on the Weather. Contact us to learn more.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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In a review of hydroprocessing technologies published in a new paper in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , Mustafa Al-Sabawi and Jinwen Chen of CanmetENERGY, Natural Resources Canada, note that: “Hydroprocessing of oils, whether petroleum- or biomass- derived, entails hydrotreating and/or hydrocracking technologies. Hydroprocessing.

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