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Volkswagen Group to invest more than €9.8 billion in China by 2015; efficient products and production

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billion (US$15 billion) in the country by 2015; investments in highly efficient products and resource-conserving production will account for more than two thirds of this figure. At Volkswagen, we are convinced that climate protection and efficient technologies are drivers for economic growth.

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ICCT benchmarking report finds wide 51% gap between most- and least- fuel-efficient transatlantic airlines

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This highlights the role for additional policies to limit aviation emissions, notably the CO 2 standard being developed by the international civil aviation organization (ICAO) and a global market-based measure (MBM) to price aviation carbon. Transatlantic Airline Fuel Efficiency Ranking, 2014”.

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Volkswagen’s first two production battery-electric vehicles debut at Frankfurt

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can be varied via three different driving style profiles: the standard mode (automatically on); ‘Eco’; and ‘Eco+’. Anyone traveling short distances will stay in standard mode. comes as standard with the portable maps + more navigation system, complete with Bluetooth hands-free facility. Whereas on the standard Golf (1.6

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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In 2015–expanded to emissions from residential, commercial, and other industrial combustion, and transportation fuels. In 2015–nearly 90% of emissions. Transparency, longevity and certainty (“TLC”) drives investments, according to a policy “green paper” by DB Climate Change Advisors, a unit of Deutsche Bank.

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