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New analysis suggests Uber adding significantly to pollution and traffic in European cities

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Uber is adding more polluting car trips to already-clogged European cities such as London and Paris, new analysis by European NGOs suggests —contributing to air pollution and climate change and exploding the company’s sustainability claims. This has made Uber one of the biggest taxi services in Europe, with 3.6

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EEA: increase in EU GHG emissions, mostly due to transport, hampers progress towards 2030 targets

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emissions increase in 2017 from 2016. in 2017 from 2016. Twenty-two Member States have emitted less than their annual greenhouse gas emission targets under the ESD set for 2016. The largest absolute growth in emissions occurred in Spain. Power generation continues to drive emission reductions in the trading system.

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Global CO2 emissions stalled for the third year in a row

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Global GHG emissions continue to be dominated by fossil carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, which however show a slowdown trend since 2012, and were stalled for the third year in a row in 2016. In the EU, 60% of the CH 4 and N 2 O emissions are emitted by the top six emitting countries: Germany, UK, France, Poland, Italy and Spain.

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JATO: new car CO2 emissions rise for the first time in a decade in Europe; diesel down, gasoline up, SUVs up

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As a result, the market share of gasoline vehicles grew by 3 percentage points from 47% to 50% between 2016 and 2017. Despite the declining popularity of diesels, AFVs increased their market share from 3% in 2016 to 5% in 2017. g/km in 2016 to 133.0 —the highest level since 2003. g/km in 2017, JATO said. respectively.

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Frost Sullivan Projects That About 80% of European Vehicle Sales Will Be in the 150 g/km CO2 Band by 2015; EVs as a Strategy of Premium Automakers

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The countries covered in this research service are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. g/km—in model year 2016. (As g/km—in model year 2016. Earlier post.) In 2014, any weight increase in new cars will be studied.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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Well let’s see, they want to do a million roofs by 2016 and they’re up to 70,000 now. We’re behind Spain! I’m not asking them for money, I’m asking them to change a rule. So the percentage of residential roofs with solar is even lower than that. That’s pitiful. 932,000 to go. Are you kidding me? Instead, America is number four!

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