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DECEMBER 4, 2011

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased by 49% in the last two decades, according to the latest figures from the Global Carbon Project. each year between 2000 and 2010—three times the rate of increase during the 1990s. billion tonnes of CO 2 ) in 2010 for the first time.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

China is the global leader in methanol use and has recently expanded its methanol production capacity. Annual methanol consumption in China, 2000-16. Methanol, like ethanol, is an alcohol with inherent issues such as its solubility in water and corrosiveness. Click to enlarge. Background. Methanol in China.

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JUNE 3, 2012

Projected changes in summer mean usable capacity of power plants in the US and Europe for the SRES A2 emissions scenario for the 2040s (2031–2060) relative to the control period (1971–2000). Compared to other water use sectors (e.g. Source: van Vliet et al. Click to enlarge. 19% in Europe and 4.4—16%

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MARCH 18, 2012

Bitumen production from the Canadian oil sands provides a point of reference that could be used to observe and better manage the land and water impacts of a rapid transition to unconventional fuels, suggests Dr. Sarah Jordaan of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.

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MAY 21, 2013

Groundwater Depletion in the United States (1900-2008) comprehensively evaluates long-term cumulative depletion volumes in 40 separate aquifers (distinct underground water storage areas) in the United States, bringing together reliable information from previous references and from new analyses. For comparison, 9.2

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

Lakh (US$10,000) (All India – Ex-showroom), for the first 10,000 customers (of which 2000 will be reserved for the current owners of Nexon EV and Tigor EV). is based on the Ziptron technology—Tata Motors’ in-house developed globally competitive high voltage architecture designed for unique Indian driving and weather conditions.

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

Ford Motor Company has added its near-dry machining process—Minimum Quantity Lubrication (MQL)—to six plants globally, a number that will nearly double in the next few years. MQL reduces oil mist generation; biological contamination of coolant; waste water volume; costs for capital equipment; and regulatory permitting.

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JULY 22, 2013

Voluntary reporting provides overall transparency regarding the company’s CO 2 emissions; Ford has a goal of reducing CO 2 emissions at its global facilities, including two in Chennai, India, by 30% per vehicle by 2025. Total CO 2 emissions at Ford’s global facilities have dropped 47%, or by 4.65 million metric tons, since 2000.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

Changes in emissions by Scoping Plan sector between 2000 and 2017. Transportation sector emission sources include combustion of fuels utilized in-state that are used by on-road and off-road vehicles, aviation, rail, and water-borne vehicles, as well as a few other smaller sources. Compared to 2016, California’s GDP grew 3.6%

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NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Recent warm summers further accelerated the mass loss to 273 Gt per year (1 Gt is the mass of 1 cubic kilometer of water), in the period 2006-2008, which represents 0.75 mm of global sea level rise per year. The Greenland ice sheet contains enough water to cause a global sea level rise of seven metres.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Variations in atmosphere carbon dioxide around 40 million years ago were tightly coupled to changes in global temperature, according to new findings published in the journal Science. Algae use photosynthesis to harvest the energy of the sun, converting carbon dioxide and water into the organic molecules required for growth.

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APRIL 6, 2011

Tcf in 2000. The use of horizontal drilling in conjunction with hydraulic fracturing has greatly expanded the ability of producers to profitably produce natural gas from low permeability geologic formations, particularly shale formations. In 2010, US shale gas production reached 4.87 A hat-tip to John! ).

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MARCH 9, 2022

To be sure, there has been progress in the nation’s program of energy distribution: Ethiopia’s electrification has increased by an order of magnitude since 2000. The region’s monsoon-driven climate will ultimately control how much water gets through. For water-managers downriver, that’s a problem.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In the first comprehensive global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, researchers have determined that Earth’s largest lakes have warmed during the past 25 years in. warming trend was global, and the greatest increases were in the mid- to high-latitudes of the. inland water bodies worldwide. Northern Hemisphere.

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

of the global population—now live in cities. Southeast Asia is the most densely settled subregion in Asia, with approximately 16,500 people per square kilometer (compared with only 4,345 people per square kilometer in Europe in 2000). The UN projects that the world’s population will grow by 2.3 billion people—50.5%

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APRIL 19, 2012

Silver-level dealers must achieve a 10% reduction in total energy use, develop a water use reduction plan, and implement a comprehensive recycling program. —Steve Center, vice president of the Environmental Business Development Office. The program offers three achievement levels: Silver, Gold, and Platinum.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

Fast breeder reactors date back more than half a century, when the global nuclear community thought there wouldn’t be enough uranium fuel available for the nuclear-power industry. Liquid sodium is used as a coolant because it does not slow down neutrons as much as water does. Natural uranium is composed of only 0.7

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APRIL 14, 2014

These projects are to support program goals and represent a critical component of advancing several of the specific mandates previously established for the Methane Hydrate Program under the Methane Hydrate Act of 2000 (as amended by Section 968 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005).

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APRIL 27, 2012

Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. —Miettinen et al.

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DECEMBER 15, 2013

By 2040, hybrids are expected to account for about 35% of the global light-duty vehicle fleet, up from less than 1% in 2010. Hybrids are expected to account for about half of global new-car sales by 2040. Without the projected gains in efficiency, global energy demand could have risen by more than 100%. Source: ExxonMobil.

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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. Association to Save Shallow Water and Tidal Flat in Asia. Building hometowns where insects can thrive.

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JULY 26, 2016

LMP-103S—a blend of ammonium dinitramide (ADN), water, methanol and ammonia—offers a specific impulse 6% higher and a propellant density 24% higher than hydrazine-based systems—resulting in a 30% increase in density-specific impulse. Founded in 2000, ECAPS focuses on green propulsion-based products for space applications.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Losses of tropical and temperate mountain glaciers affecting perhaps 20-25% of the human population in terms of drinking water, irrigation and hydro-power. Global emissions were growing by 1.1% per year from 2000-2007. each year from 1990-1999 and this accelerated to 3.5%

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MAY 5, 2011

The draft report says that as the global economy’s center of gravity shifts toward Asia, the region could account for about half of global output in 2050, up from the current 27%, as well as half of global trade and investment. If these events occur, Asia would account for only 32%, or $61 trillion, of global GDP in 2050.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Avantium, which spun off from Shell in 2000 to develop furan-based biofuels and biomaterials, has begun construction of a pilot plant at the Chemelot site (Geleen, the Netherlands) to convert carbohydrates into furanic building blocks—which the company calls “YXY”—for making renewable materials and fuels.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

GM now has 76 landfill-free facilities, achieving a global operations commitment established in 2008 to convert 50% of its 145 plants to landfill-free status by the end of 2010. The resulting insight helped form a process that enables facilities to replicate best practices globally.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Remember when the dot.com bubble burst in 2000 and, seemingly overnight, some companies ceased making millions hand-over-fist? kWh average cost of electricity in the United States and globally. The global solar market is expected to install 22 MW of electricity in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

The E-KIZUNA Project, managed by the city in collaboration with a wide variety of stakeholders, aims to help fight global warming and realize a sustainable, low-carbon society through the popularization of electric vehicles. (In Through the E-KIZUNA Project, Honda aims to reduce household CO 2 emissions to half of year 2000 levels by 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

At IAA Commercial Vehicles, Allison Transmission announced that it will offer its medium-duty, fully automatic 9-speed transmission globally, and that it has developed an electric hybrid system with purely electric extended range. Support for additional applications and global regions is planned.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

In the report, its first, the panel concludes governments should fit biofuels into an overall energy, climate, land-use, water and agricultural strategy if biofuels deployment is to benefit society, the economy and the environment as a whole. World Transport Biofuel Production. billion gallons US) liters. Altogether biofuels provided 1.8%

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MARCH 13, 2009

Separately, researchers from NASA Goddard’s Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City have developed a new detection technique and a new satellite instrument—the Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS)—to measure accurately aerosols’ composition, size, and global distribution. University of Maryland Visibility Database.

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JANUARY 13, 2013

The session is expected to culminate in the adoption of a new convention by the 147 states attending the session to reduce mercury emissions and releases to the air, water and land. UNEP produced its first Global Mercury Assessment in 2002 and a subsequent study in 2007.

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JUNE 23, 2012

Projected sea-level rise off California, Oregon, and Washington for 2030 (blue), 2050 (green), and 2100 (pink), relative to 2000, as a function of latitude. Tide gauges show that global sea level has risen about 7 inches (18 cm) during the 20 th century, and recent satellite data shows that the rate of sea-level rise is accelerating.

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MARCH 4, 2013

In the general case, global emissions of greenhouse gases, nitrogen and sulfur compounds, and particulates from shipping activities are significant and growing. If offshore installation and maintenance costs are to some considerable degree attributable to the burning of fuel oil in vessels, associated pollution is important.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2023

As the core of electric vehicles, batteries have naturally become the focus of research and development by global car companies. Alkaline fuel cells consume oxygen and pure oxygen to produce drinking water, heat and electricity. Different from traditional fuel vehicles, pollution-free has become their biggest advantage.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

a sustainable chemical company, have developed a bio-manufacturing process for methyl ethyl ketone (MEK), a commonly used industrial solvent with a global market currently valued at more than $2 billion. The process converts sugar and water into this valuable chemical, most prominently used as a solvent in paints and coatings for furniture.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

Petrochemicals are rapidly becoming the largest driver of global oil demand. The Future of Petrochemicals is part of a new IEA series focusing on “blind spots” of the global energy system—issues that are critical to the evolution of the energy sector but that receive less attention than they deserve. Source: IEA.

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