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Global Fuel Economy Initiative launches second 3-year campaign; ICCT joins partnership

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litres of gasoline equivalent per 100km. This is a major update of the ICCT’s widely-cited global fuel economy chart based on the 2007 report. The Initiative’s new workplan for 2013-15 lays out the challenges which still remain on fuel economy, and outlines the Initiative’s planned response to those challenges.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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In February 2008, GRF became one of the first forests—and the largest—to receive verification as a source of greenhouse gas reductions under the protocols of the Climate Action Reserve , adopted by the California Air Resources Board in 2007. TSI (gasoline) and Golf Mk VII 1.6 Calculating stored carbon; “additionality”.

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