Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 23, 2020
The largest one-year emissions drop California has ever achieved was at the height of the Great Recession in 2009, when climate pollution fell 6.1%. The fact is, we’ve never come anywhere near cutting emissions five percent in a single year in a period of economic stability—and yet, in order to meet our climate goal by 2030, we have to.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 5, 2011
Starting in 2016, production from in situ projects will account for the majority of Canadian oil sands production. The forecast also breaks out oil sands production by extraction method (mining and drilling) and tracks the amount of domestic upgrading. Source: CAPP. Click to enlarge. This trend continues in 2011.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
During the Global Financial Crisis in 2008/9, the COVID19 pandemic, and now the Ukrainian War, economic stimulus packages were meant to put the world on a cleaner and greener path, but this is not at all evident in the CO 2 emissions data. —Glen Peters, a Research Director at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 20, 2017
The Paris Agreement reflected an unprecedented international determination to act on climate. To meet the climate goals set in the Paris Agreement and keep the global temperature rise to below 2 degrees, the CO 2 emission intensity of the global economy would need to be reduced by 85% in 35 years. —IRENA Director-General Adnan Z.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 5, 2011
Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. mpg by 2016. The automotive industry is living proof that private companies will rarely change their behaviors without a significant stimulus to that change, and furthermore one that needs to be mandated. Source: EIA.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 13, 2011
Motivated by growing concerns related to energy security, climate change, and economic stagnation, at least 38 national governments throughout the world have enacted blending mandates or targets to accelerate the expansion of biofuels production and consumption in the transportation sector. onus onto private capital sources.
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