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What the EU Climate Plan Means for National Targets

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The Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) sets binding national climate targets for the emissions of road transport, buildings, agriculture, waste and small industries. The post What the EU Climate Plan Means for National Targets appeared first on EV Obsession.

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China and Norway Lead the World’s EV Switchover

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Meanwhile, there is a growing group of nations with their sights set much higher. China, for one, is expected to meet its own 2030 EV adoption target: 40 percent of vehicles sold. The nations in this group, however, have made pledges that would narrow the gap by 2030. ambitions for 2030 would not have been exceptional.

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PBL Study Finds Developed Countries Proposals for Copenhagen Fall Short for Reaching 2 °C Climate Objective

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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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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% by Jack Rosebro.

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UK wants to ban 100% ICE power by 2030

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Under Boris’s new Green plan, the sale of new combustion engine vehicles, that are powered wholly by Petrol or Diesel will be banned from 2030. So, what is the 10 point plan? Nature: Protecting and restoring the natural environment, with plans to include planting 30,000 hectares of trees a year.

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Harmonizing Low Carbon Fuel Standards

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The California LCFS regulation, which went in to effect on 15 April 2010, targets a reduction of the carbon intensity (CI), on a full-fuel lifecycle basis, of transportation fuels (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) used in California by an average of 10% by the year 2020. For LCA analysis, the model used for calculation (CA-GREET, GHGenius, etc.)

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The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly

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Change rides on the rails of what doesn’t change,” King notes, “including people being self-serving.” The perturbations caused by transitioning EVs to scale are not market-driven, but government policy-driven to meet a climate-emergency. Their behavior might even be contradictory to hoped-for outcomes.”