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Report: Ontario targeting 5% EV share of all new vehicles sold by 2020, 12% by 2025 as part of C$7B climate plan

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The Globe and Mail obtained a copy of the currently confidential 57-page Climate Change Action Plan, which lays out a strategy from 2017 to 2021. The document outlines contains about 80 different policies, grouped into 32 different actions. Canada’s Globe and Mail reports that as part of a more C$7-billion (US$5.4-billion),

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California ARB releases discussion draft of plan to cut GHG by 40% by 2030

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In his January 2015 inaugural address, California Governor Jerry Brown identified five key climate change strategy “pillars,” which recognize that several major areas of the California economy will need to reduce their emissions to meet California’s ambitious climate change goals. Source: 2030 Target Scoping Plan Discussion Draft.

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Global Mobility Report finds world not on track to achieving sustainable mobility

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The transport sector is not on track towards achieving sustainable mobility, according to the newly published Global Mobility Report 2017 (GMR). The GMR report focuses on two primary impacts: climate change and air and noise pollution. Radical action could include the net de-carbonization of transport. —GMR 2017.

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Study links PM2.5 pollution with millions of preterm births globally

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The study revealed that while many other health impacts of air pollution have been documented—most notably through the Global Burden of Disease studies—the focus has been mainly on premature deaths from heart disease and respiratory problems. In 2010, an estimated 14.9 To reduce the PM 2.5 —Dr Kuylenstierna. Christopher S.

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Producing the Mercedes-Benz GLC F-CELL fuel-cell SUV

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The fuel cell systems are assembled in the Kirchheim-Nabern location, an annex of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Untertürkheim, which has been producing the drive systems for the pre-series vehicles since 2017. At the same time the assembly stage is documented and archived. kg of hydrogen.

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Audi A4 and A5 now available to order as g-tron in Europe; Audi e-gas for 3 years as standard

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Like the A3 Sportback g-tron that is already on the market ( earlier post ), they can run on a choice of the climate-friendly fuel Audi e-gas, conventional CNG (compressed natural gas) or gasoline. mi) (Germany, as of: August 2017). Both models are powered by a bivalent 2.0 TFSI engine developing 170 hp. seconds (A4 Avant g-tron: 8.5

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Calif. ARB releases GHG scoping plan update; more ZEVs, “LEV IV”, MD and HD regulations; ZEV for trucks; more LCFS

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The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Low-Carbon Fuels. Background. —Draft Scoping Plan Update.