article thumbnail

Emissions of Air Pollutants down in EU-27

Green Car Congress

Emissions of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), a seriously health-damaging pollutant, have decreased by 2% compared to the previous year and by about 12% since the year 2000. Energy use by households (the burning of wood, gas, coal etc) is the most important source of PM 2.5

Pollution 236
article thumbnail

PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

Green Car Congress

Since 2000, the global rate of decarbonization has averaged 0.8%; from 2010 to 2011, global carbon intensity fell by just 0.7%. PwC divides the G20 into three blocks: G7 economies (US, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Canada). Because of this slow start, global carbon intensity now needs to be cut by an average of 5.1%

article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

Jacobson first showed in 2000 that black carbon was the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide in terms of radiative forcing and, in 2002, that its control would be the most effective method of slowing warming. ºC in 2050, as compared to 2000 temperatures. ºC in 2020, and 2.3

Climate 236
article thumbnail

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France." That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. excluding coal power in china.