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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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ITOCHU and JGC Launch Large-scale Bio-ethanol Production and Power Plant Businesses in the Philippines

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ITOCHU Corporation and JGC Corporation have agreed to participate in large-scale bio-ethanol production and power supply businesses in the Philippines together with other local partners. Start of ethanol production and electricity supply is slated for February 2012. The newly formed joint venture, Green FUture Innovations, Inc.

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Energtek Begins Converting Tricycles in Manila With CNG Lite Adsorbed Natural Gas System

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a developer of adsorbed natural gas (ANG) storage technology, has begun converting tricycles to operate on natural gas in Metro Manila, as requested by the Government of the Philippines. The NG resources are now being allocated to the official Natural Gas Vehicle Program for Public Transport (NGVPPT). Energtek Inc., Earlier post.)

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France’s IFPEN studying industrial potential of onshore sources of natural hydrogen

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not produced naturally as are fossil energies, but as the product of converting other resources. It is often associated with methane, occasionally nitrogen and, in some places, economically viable quantities of helium (at a time when demand for this rare gas with numerous high-tech applications are stretching global supplies to their limit).

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Japan Automakers Support B5, E10 as Baseline Biofuel Blends, Recommend Specifications to ASEAN Countries

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Experts from JAMA visited six countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) to share their recommended specifications of the two first-generation biofuels. JAMA’s position statement on Bio-ethanol quality, including specifications.

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UPS Adopts Plan to Cut Its Airline Carbon Emissions An Additional 20% by 2020; Biofuels Part of the Plan

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The company’s air system includes international air hubs in Cologne, Germany; Taipei, Taiwan; Shanghai; Miami (to serve Latin America), an intra-Asia hub in the Philippines; and UPS Worldport, the Louisville, Ky., customers rely on the transportation and logistics industry as part of their supply chains. million metric tonnes in 2007.

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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.