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UNEP: export of used cars to developing world creating significant environmental problems

Green Car Congress

The report shows that the three largest exporters of used vehicles—the European Union (EU), Japan, and the United States of America (USA)—exported 14 million used light duty vehicles (LDVs) worldwide between 2015 and 2018. The EU was the largest exporter with 54% of the total followed by Japan (27%) and the USA (18%).

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The War in Ukraine Disrupts Trade in Both Food and Fuel

Cars That Think

Any attempt to reduce imports of its foodstuffs would impose higher prices on precisely those nations that can least afford them. This is because Russia has changed from a proverbial agricultural basket case to a food basket. After the Soviet Union unraveled in the early 1990s, its wheatlands were divided between Russia and Ukraine.

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