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Boeing, South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG are collaborating to make sustainable aviation biofuel from Solaris, a new hybrid tobacco plant optimized for seed production for energy applications. In coming years, Boeing expects emerging technologies to increase South Africas aviation biofuel production from the rest of the plant.

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billion in the first nine months of 2018, making this year certain to be the strongest since at least 2011. billion, the Enel Green Power South Africa portfolio, at $1.4 South Africa at $2.6 billion, up 11-fold, making investment in 2018 the highest since 2011. billion for 300MW. India at $1.5 Spain at $1.9

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Fiat’s 875cc TwinAir engine ( earlier post ) was named the International Engine of the Year 2011.

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There’s also the South Africa Far East cable, running from Cape Town east across the ocean floor to India and Malaysia, but it’s two decades old. After SAEx was first announced in 2011, that was the initial plan: connect South Africa to Brazil. That meant ramping up plans.

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If the test farming in Limpopo is successful, the project will be expanded in South Africa and potentially to other countries. Airlines have conducted more than 1,600 passenger flights using aviation biofuel since the fuel was approved for commercial use in 2011.

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million in 2011 to $1.3 New investor Mingxin China Growth Fund joined previous backers including DAG Ventures in the oversubscribed round. The global fuel cell industry surpassed $1 billion in revenue in 2012, growing from $847.5 billion in 2012, according to a 2013 report by Navigant Research. The investment round follows a $4.2-million

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million vehicles globally in the first six months of 2011, the best half-year performance in Chevrolet’s 100-year history. Chevrolet sold 286,499 more vehicles in the first half of 2011 than the same time period of 2010, a 14% increase year over year. Chevrolet sold 2.35 Click to enlarge.

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South Africa-based Optimal Energy has taken delivery of four of its Joule EVs ( earlier post ) for use as a marketing fleet. The marketing fleet will undertake a nation-wide road show in 2011; the Joule fleet has been designed and built to closely resemble the production version of Joule.

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In 2015, farms in Limpopo Province of South Africa, from which the biofuel for the flights was sourced, achieved certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), one of the strongest sustainability standards in the world. Sunchem and Solaris.

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The rollout of these technologies in new GM US models between 2011 and 2016 is expected to improve the fuel economy of our fleet by more than 18 percent, which will translate into a more than 15 percent reduction in CO 2 emissions. —2012 Sustainability Report. In 2012, GM invested more than $7.3 The 2020 target was raised from 0.70

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The NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) reports that developing countries, led by China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Saudi Arabia, have blocked what would have been the first global agreement to cut carbon emissions from ships. —Bill Hemmings, T&E.

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The next Conference of the Parties is scheduled to take place in South Africa, from 28 November to 9 December 2011. Parties have established a technology mechanism with a Technology Executive Committee and Climate Technology Centre and Network to increase technology cooperation to support action on adaptation and mitigation.

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The Joint Task Force will submit its report by 1 August 2011. Minister Ramesh was a key climate leader in the Cancun talks last December, helping broker an outcome that moved the multilateral process forward to the next meeting of the UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa later this year.

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Electric cars like the 2011 Nissan Leaf require lots of lithium and other precious heavy metals to make them go. Today's sources of lithium are far and few: Bolivia has something like 40 percent of the world's deposits, while Russia, South Africa, Chile and Argentina have some.

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South Africa-based Anglo American Platinum , the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), has invested in the first close of the Series A financing round of Hydrogenious Technologies, a company developing liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) hydrogen storage technology. Click to enlarge. 2012.08.066.

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As of 20 July, participating governments include China, France, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Other initial partners include the International Energy Agency. Other Initiatives.

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Shell and Professor Gordon Murray go back way further; Shell sponsored the first car and engine Professor Gordon Murray ever built, in South Africa, when he was just 19. 27 that followed in mid-2011 ( earlier post ), the T.25 The vehicle’s fuel consumption was 97 mpg Imp (81 mpg US, 2.91 Together with the all-electric T.27

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Countries meeting in Durban, South Africa, managed to deliver an agreement after an extension to negotiations. Durban Climate Change Conference - November/December 2011. Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. as possible, but not later than 2015.

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SAE International (Society of Automotive Engineers) and the European Automobile Manufacturing Association (ACEA) proposed the Combined Charging System (CCS) standard in 2011. CCS2 is also used in Greenland, Iceland, South America, South Africa, Arabia, India, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Oceania, and Australia.

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In addition, in a 2011 report from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre exploring the feasibility of GPFs, the authors noted that: Gasoline engine exhaust temperatures are relatively higher than diesel; engine-out temperatures range between 300 and 500°C under urban driving conditions, but can reach 700°C at high speed (motorway) driving.

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—2011 Global Investor Statement on Climate Change. 2011 Global Investor Statement on Climate Change. Established in 2006, the PRI Initiative is managed by the PRI Secretariat to promote responsible investment and support investors by sharing best practice and facilitating collaboration. Investment Grade Climate Change Policy.

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Mandatory measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from international shipping were adopted by Parties to MARPOL Annex VI represented in the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ), when it met for its 62 nd session from 11 to 15 July 2011 at IMO Headquarters in London.

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These include France, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, South Africa, Morocco, and Chile. The growing importance of US shale gas resources is also reflected in EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2011 (AEO2011) energy projections, with technically recoverable US shale gas resources now estimated at 862 trillion cubic feet.

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Calling TCX a potential paradigm shift in ethanol production, Celanese said it is targeting China, India, the CIVETS countries (Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa) and Australia. Celanese 2011 Investor Day. and Uhm, S.

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The other countries currently covered are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Additional countries will become available before the end of 2011 and into 2012.

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global sales rose to more than 9 million vehicles in 2011, a 7.6% Sales were up in all four reporting regions—North America, South America, Europe and International Operations—as GM sold a total of 9,025,942 vehicles compared with 8,385,484 in 2010. million vehicles around the world in 2011, setting a global sales record.

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In 2011, Axeon and Jaguar Land Rover South Africa produced an all-electric version of the Defender model for use in game parks. The vehicles were developed by Land Rover’s Advanced Engineering Team following successful trials of the Defender-based electric vehicle, Leopard 1. (In liter diesel—replaced by the 2.2

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billion set in 2011. The 103GW of capacity added by new renewable energy sources last year compares to 86GW in 2013, 89GW in 2012 and 81GW in 2011 and made 2014 the best year ever for newly installed capacity. billion, up 7% on the year but well below its all-time high reached in 2011. billion) and South Africa ($5.5

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Since 2000, the global rate of decarbonization has averaged 0.8%; from 2010 to 2011, global carbon intensity fell by just 0.7%. Other G20 (Australia, Korea, EU, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina). Because of this slow start, global carbon intensity now needs to be cut by an average of 5.1% a year from now to 2050.

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Collectively, the investments in energy RD&D by governments and state-owned enterprises in the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico, China, and South Africa (the BRIMCS countries) are now as large or larger than those of the developed countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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Slated for a July 2011 start, it would regulate 1000 of the country's biggest polluters and 75 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. The plan is designed to cut Australian emissions by at least 5% from 2000 levels by 2020, or up to 25% if similar levels are multilaterally agreed upon in Copenhagen.

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The USA recorded one of the steepest declines in concern about climate change/global warming among global markets over the four-year period from 2007 to 2011, dropping 14 percentage points. In China, concern about climate change/global warming dropped 17% in the last two years from 77 percent in 2009 to 64% in 2011. Source: Nielsen.

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Just two countries—Chile and Australia—account for over two-thirds of global lithium reserves, and South Africa, Brazil, Ukraine, and Australia have almost all the manganese reserves. Between 2007 and 2011, the city of Seville built an. In Copenhagen, cycling accounts for 16 percent of all trips.

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