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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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Environmental costs are often not shown on financial statements because the bearers of such costs can be either particular individuals or society at large, are often both non-monetary and problematic to quantify for comparison with monetary values. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge. billion in 2005.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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EH Group Technologies Inc will develop an electrolyzer system based on a radical new design and with a transformative manufacturing technique that dramatically reduces costs. Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future. is developing a?rechargeable

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. Reliance grows on a small number of producers: the increase in output from Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is over 90% of the required growth in world oil output to 2035. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil.

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Smart Grids, Electric Vehicles: A Financial Win-Win for All -- Seeking Alpha

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Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles [EV], plug-in hybrids [PHEV] and fuel cell vehicles [FCV] at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Hybrid electric buses and heavy trucks could power many homes or a school or a hospital in an emergency.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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By contrast, the last time BYD executives traveled to the Detroit auto show they rented a suburban house to save the cost of hotel rooms. This attention to costs is one reason that BYD has made money consistently even as it has expanded into new businesses. tons of carbon dioxide.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank, and author of “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming,” correctly states, “For almost 20 years, from Rio to Kyoto to Copenhagen, we’ve been wasting time, pursuing the failed strategy of cutting carbon-dioxide emissions. Form of Transfer.

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

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Factors Determining Abatement Costs. The marginal costs of reducing (or abating) emissions depend on technological, behavioral, and policy-related factors. For emitters with especially high abatement (emission-reduction) costs, the market price will be less than this cost. HOW TO ESTABLISH A SUCCESSFUL REGIONAL.

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