Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.]. The top sample above shows climate change impact; the subsequent chart shows human toxicity. Sample results from Carculator. Depletion of fresh water reserves [m 3 ].

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Mariner Climate Change DC Cars 435

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Without decisive action, climate change this century is likely to accelerate at a much faster pace and cause more environmental damage than predicted, according to Professor Chris Field of Stanford University, and a leading member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Climate Change Climate Tundra Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Radiative forcing due to perpetual constant year 2000 emissions grouped by sector for 2020 (left) and 2100 (right) showing the contribution from each species. It’s good for the climate in the short term and long term, and it’s good for our health.”. The net sum of total radiative forcing is indicated by the title of each bar.

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Transportation Climate Change Power Powered 391

Cars That Think

AUGUST 22, 2023

Singh, a power-electronics engineer, has been working to replace the internal combustion engines used in the company’s equipment with hybrid (diesel-electric) and all-electric versions. That was Singh’s job when he joined the company’s advanced power-electronics department in 2011 as a senior staff engineer.

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Engine Power Powered New Zealand 76

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2014

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a policymaker’s summary of Working Group III’s (WG III) latest report showing that despite a growing number of climate change mitigation policies, annual anthropogenic GHG emissions grew on average by 1.0 GtCO 2 eq (1.3%) per year from 1970 to 2000.

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Emissions Climate Change 2000 Climate 257

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2011

In addition, the IEA has estimated that 80% of projected emissions from the power sector in 2020 are already locked in, as they will come from power plants that are currently in place or under construction today. Global leaders agreed a target of limiting temperature increase to 2 °C at the UN climate change talks in Cancun in 2010.

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2010 Emissions 2020 CO2 257

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Global sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions peaked in the early 1970s and decreased until 2000, with an increase in recent years due to increased emissions in China, international shipping, and developing countries in general, according to a new analysis appearing in the open access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Credit: Smith et al.

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2005 2000 Emissions China 186

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The UK automotive industry warned that the current anti-diesel agenda combined with the ongoing slow take-up of electric vehicles could mean industry misses its next round of CO 2 targets in 2021, with negative consequences for the UK’s own climate change goals. For pure battery-powered vehicles, take-up is even lower (0.5%).

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2017 Auto Industry Diesel CO2 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

ships and spare parts”—to the total life cycle impacts of offshore wind power. Future LCA research on offshore wind power should strive to develop detailed inventories for installation and maintenance life cycle phases while ensuring transparency in the reporting of materials. NO x , SO 2 and particulates). —Arvesen et al.

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Wind Parts Power Powered 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

Anthropogenic global greenhouse gas emissions increased by 15% between 2000 and 2005, a sharp increase in the expected rate of growth, according to a new report from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). Carbon dioxide showed the greatest growth, but levels of gases such as methane and nitrous oxide have also increased.

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2005 2000 Gas Emissions 150

Teslarati

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The proposal calls for a discounted rate for excess power sold into the grid, as well as a monthly utility charge of $8 per kW to cover the cost of maintaining the state’s power infrastructure. Those opposed to the proposal warned that the initiative could undermine the state’s efforts to address climate change.

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Solar Charging Grid California 145

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2017

Toyota established the annual program in 2000 in commemoration of Toyota’s receipt of the Global 500 Award in 1999 from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); this year marks the program’s 18 th year. This year’s theme will be “Biodiversity Conservation” or “Climate Change”. Climate Change. Organization.

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Grant Toyota Myanmar 2017 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2014

Improvements in combustion technology and changes in fuel composition had led to an increase in energy use efficiency, and subsequently a decline of BC emission intensities in power plants, the residential sector, and transportation. Climate Change Emissions Health' in Europe and from 0.06

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2007 Emissions Carbon Global 268

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

W m -2 relative to 2000. This increase may be as much as one-fifth to one-quarter of the expected increase in radiative forcing due to the buildup of CO 2 since 2000, according to the SRES emission scenarios. Climate and the Ozone Layer. By 2050, the buildup of HFCs is projected to increase radiative forcing by up to 0.4

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Climate Ozone Emissions Transportation 287

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2009

Renewable energy technologies could generate 40% of the world’s electricity by 2050, according to research presented at the International Scientific Congress “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions”. More specifically, Germany has more than doubled its share of renewable energy since 2000.

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Czech Republic Renewable Global Power 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2019

Changes in emissions by Scoping Plan sector between 2000 and 2017. Electricity generated by California’s in-state wind power projects, large commercial-scale solar power projects, rooftop solar panels, and hydropower generation stations. Compared to 2016, California’s GDP grew 3.6% Trends in California GHG Emissions.

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2017 2016 Transportation Emissions 230

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2010

Carbon intensity changes in the electric power and industrial end use sectors. In 2009, the carbon intensity of the electric power sector decreased by nearly 4.3%, primarily due to fuel switching as the price of coal rose 6.8% The average decline in energy intensity from 2000 to 2008 was 2.0%. Source: EIA. mpg US in 2009.

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2009 Emissions Carbon Transportation 239

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The emissions increase in the United States in 2013 (+2.5%) was mainly due to a shift in power production from gas back to coal together with an increase in gas consumption due to a higher demand for space heating. Climate Change Emissions' The much lower emissions increase in China of 4.2% in 2013 and 3.4%

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2013 Emissions Global CO2 240

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Tiny, autonomous drones that harness the power of artificial intelligence to work together. In this case, the minute robots could one day provide backup to pollinators like honey bees, potentially securing the world’s food crops as these critical insect species face challenges from fungal disease, pesticides and climate change.

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MIT New Zealand Maryland Climate Change 120

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Our results suggest that gas-aerosol interactions play an important role in methane’s GWP, and hence our larger value would allow better optimization of climate change mitigation policies. Methane’s GWP may also change with time as air quality regulations alter the background state of tropospheric chemistry. Shindell et al.

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Climate Change Climate Ozone Pollution 268

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

Warmer temperatures and other changes in the atmosphere related to a changing climate, including higher atmospheric levels of methane, spur the chemical reactions that lead to ozone. To examine the impacts of climate change on ozone pollution, NCAR scientist Gabriele Pfister and her colleagues looked at two scenarios.

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Ozone Climate Change Pollution Climate 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

Shale gas in particular has grown rapidly, from less than one percent of US production in 2000 to 34% in 2012, and projections show strong production growth continuing for the foreseeable future. But natural gas production and consumption has higher emissions than renewables and nuclear power. —Newell and Raimi.

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Climate Gas Coal Gas-Electric 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2011

The new EcoLPi in-line six-cylinder engine is an advanced liquid phase injection, dedicated LPG powerplant that produces 27% more power and 10% more torque than previous E-Gas LPG system, while at the same time reducing fuel consumption by 12-15%. Engine performance is equivalent to that of the existing gasoline-fueled I6.

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Australia Ford Engine Fuel 270

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Effects of changes in the average lifespan of ordinary passenger cars newly registered between 1990-2000 on total induced CO 2 emissions in 2000. If the 2000 market shares of hybrid cars were 14.1%, a one-year decrease in lifetime will reduce life-cycle CO 2 emission in 2000 by 0.6%. Credit: ACS, Kagawa et al.

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Emissions CO2 2000 Vehicles 218

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

by Steven Pleging, CEO/President of Quantum Solar Power Corp. Remember when the dot.com bubble burst in 2000 and, seemingly overnight, some companies ceased making millions hand-over-fist? New solar technologies can change this. Steven Pleging is CEO/President of Quantum Solar Power Corp. , We need a better paradigm.

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Solar Future Energy New Jersey 246

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

In the US alone, oil reserves have expanded 59% between 2000 and 2014, and natural gas reserves have expanded 94% in the same time. Currently only 12% of fossil fuel-based power plants are sufficiently green that electric vehicles powered by them are responsible for fewer emissions than a Toyota Prius.

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Chicago MIT Tax Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

They are harmful air pollutants and powerful contributors to climate change, trapping heat at many times the level of carbon dioxide, and are responsible for about 40% of current global warming, ARB said. The largest source of black carbon emissions in California, by far, is wildfire.

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Pollution Climate California Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

The trend of declining coal-fired electricity generation in the power sector and increasing non-fossil and natural gas-fired generation continued in 2015. Coal’s share of total electricity generation in the power sector fell from 54% in 1990 to 34% in 2015. Diesel fuel emissions, on the other hand, declined by 0.4% Electricity.

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2015 Transportation CO2 Energy 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change. With the reduction in on-road black carbon, regulators are turning to focus on off-road mobile, fuel combustion in the industrial and power sectors, and woodstoves and fireplaces.

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Pollution California Emissions Climate 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

These shares are based on the BP convention of 38% average thermal power conversion efficiency for converting renewable electricity production to primary energy. Japan (4%). Although still very small, their share is increasing with accelerating speed: it took 12 years since 1992 to double the share from 0.5% of all energy.

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2011 Emissions CO2 Global 236

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2016

Strict internal leak definitions: 500 ppm for valves and 2000 ppm for pumps. Refineries also emit greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, as well as fugitive VOCs. Training, including refersher courses, for refinery personnel with ELDAR responsibility. Required ELDAR compliance audits.

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Emissions EPA Pollution Hawaii 150

Electric Auto Association

APRIL 1, 2021

“There’s definitely change on the horizon,” said Sinclair, who is a member of both the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Women of Electric Vehicles (WEV) , as well as EV Gals, a smaller, Bay Area-only group. The idea of running out of power and getting stranded on the side of the road can be terrifying to women for safety reasons.

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San Francisco Minivan Purchase Gas-Electric 94

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

On a purchasing power parity basis, GDP per capita in Asia would rise to $38,600, compared with the projected 2050 global average of $36,600. On a purchasing power parity basis, GDP per capita would rise to only $20,300, or just over half of that under the Asian Century scenario. Energy consumption.

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Asia Indonesia Financing Bangladesh 186

Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

It’s not sexy and it doesn’t make a bunch of old school, balding, white, male, carbon collaborators stinking filthy rich, so it’s no wonder they’ve done every evil and despicable thing in their power to keep this weapon from being aimed at them. And that kind of vision makes us powerful.

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America Power Powered Climate Change 170

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 17, 2009

But surprisingly, a subject Elizabeth didn’t know a lot about is Tonga’s frontline role as a victim of the climate change crisis. Today all 3000 inhabitants of the Carteret Islands have been relocated as they become the first climate change refugees. They were “placed.&#. Mine too of course.

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Tonga Climate Change San Francisco Climate 256

Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. If you don’t use their (SCE) power, you don’t need their poles! Don’t you want to pump some green power into some dirty places? I want to sell power to Texas, because we can. “ Idiots ! Don’t you want to share?

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Since 2000, the global rate of decarbonization has averaged 0.8%; from 2010 to 2011, global carbon intensity fell by just 0.7%. —Leo Johnson, Partner, Sustainability and Climate Change, PwC. —Jonathan Grant, director, sustainability and climate change, PwC. a year from now to 2050.

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Climate Change Climate Saudi Arabia Economy 261