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Southeast Asia market will become a competitive place for Chinese and Japanese car companies

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The Philippines, for its part, is making a significant effort to procure electric buses and has introduced a policy requiring domestic public transport companies to increase the proportion of their pure trams to more than 5 percent. million electric vehicle users by 2025 to stimulate market demand and reduce air pollution.

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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The quantity of calcium carbonate to be released—about 1 kilogram—won’t be enough to trigger any measurable cooling, and it roughly equals the particle pollution that a large commercial airliner releases every minute of flight, says. David Keith , a physics and public-policy professor at Harvard who helps lead the project. about 0.6 °C.

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