Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. Reductions in Emissions. Lomborg says.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. Today GVE is one of Nigeria’s leading renewable energy companies. Having these [stations] in place will help fight climate change.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2019

This reduces energy costs for homeowners who can afford to install solar panels or energy-efficient appliances, but it also serves to drive up the prices of fossil fuel energy as utility companies seek to recapture losses. —Julius McGee. We really need to think more holistically about how we address renewable energy. 2019.05.024.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

in addition to Opus 12, they are: WILDCOAST (Imperial Beach, California) is working to secure a resilient coastline to help protect communities, economies and ecosystems from climate change impacts in the Gulf of California. Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. The report calculated that if companies had to pay for the full environmental costs of their production, they would lose 41 cents for every US$1 in earnings on average. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge. Source: KPMG.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Globalization allows companies to make their products almost anywhere in the world in order to keep costs down. However, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, such as Kenya, actually face far less risk as they are not as heavily networked in the global economy and are relatively self-sufficient in food production.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

In Africa, 450 million people, more than 70% of the total rural population, remain unconnected to transport infrastructure and systems. The Conference concluded with the Beijing Statement, which called for adopting integrated, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral approaches, supported by greater international cooperation.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2022

Google apparently exiled Gebru from its AI ethics team (and subsequently fired the other leader of the team) in response to a paper about the dangers of the large language models that have become so important to the world's biggest technology companies. Africa is a Country about some of the findings.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Under the cap-and-trade system, industries regulated by it—the largest being power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement—are given limits on their total emissions, and companies can purchase emission reductions from others in lieu of reducing emissions themselves. SGS is one of two companies that dominate the carbon-validation business.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

3Degrees provides renewable energy certificates and carbon offsets to Fortune 500 companies, green building firms, and other organizations. The emission reductions are validated, verified and registered using the Climate Action Reserve’s Landfill Project Protocol. 3Degrees and carbon offsets. Installation costs will be extra.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Among the increasing challenges is that while the sourcing, processing, and delivery of clean water is becoming more energy-intensive, the extraction and refining of fossil fuels and their substitutes is trending towards increasing water requirements per unit of fuel produced as energy companies work with progressively lower grade resources.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The links between energy and development are illustrated clearly in Africa, where, despite a wealth of resources, energy use per capita is less than one-third of the global average in 2035. Africa today is home to nearly half of the 1.3 billion people in the world without access to electricity and one-quarter of the 2.6

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Since its launch in 2017, the company has set out to create a “circular supply chain” of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and clean-energy products. Last year, it recycled approximately 10 gigawatt-hours of lithium-ion batteries, which would be enough for 100,000 electric vehicles, the company said.

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JUNE 16, 2016

As the specter of nuclear accidents wanes in the aftermath of Fukushima and climate change fears move to the top of the chain, uranium is set for a global sentiment transformation. Through his TerraPower company , Gates is developing a Fourth Generation nuclear reactor that would run on depleted uranium, rather than enriched uranium.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

One of the companies featured in the story, Gravitricity, completed its 250-kilowatt gravity battery demonstrator in Edinburgh last April and is now working on a full-scale deployment at a mine in the Czech Republic. The pumps tap into vast stores of groundwater that lie not too far underground and cover much of sub-Saharan Africa.

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APRIL 10, 2010

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. But in trying to assemble a majority to pass it, Mr. Waxman and Mr. Markey dished out a cornucopia of concessions and exemptions to coal companies, utilities, refiners, heavy industry and agribusinesses. Measurement.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Although scientists were careful to point out that no single heat or flood event can be conclusively tied to climate change, they warned that events such as the fires and floods of 2009 are consistent with climate models produced in the past, and are likely to be more common in the future. In The Australian, 6 February 2009. [

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APRIL 29, 2023

KoBold Metals The world needs a lot more metal Preventing the most catastrophic impacts of climate change requires achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 , which includes, among many other things, replacing all fossil-fuel-powered light cars and trucks with electric vehicles. In February 2022, KoBold raised $192.5

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 12, 2009

We already gave the Killer Coal Family a chance to stop disrespecting us and make things right - but what did those climate-changing con artists do instead? We trap all your Coal Company’s Executives in one of your own underground coal mines, seal the entrance shut and turn it into a cable news special.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Now Hawkeye 360 is on track to have 30 satellites in orbit by early 2023, the company says. In other words, European agencies are treating their direct contact with migrants as the problem, instead of treating the migrants’ precarious situations at sea or in North Africa as the problem. What the tech is up against. One tool, called.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

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. However, we assume little change in vehicle usage patterns over the Outlook period. —WEO 2011. —WEO 2011.

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APRIL 17, 2024

And before I start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage of some of Spectrum’s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our free newsletters. That includes a handful of countries in Africa, as well as Japan and Europe. So in Africa, it’s really exciting.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. MidAmericans David Sokol, BYDs Wang, and company advisor Li Lu flew with Sokol from Detroit to Omaha so that Wang could meet Buffett in person. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE | RSS DIGG FACEBOOK DEL.ICIO.US

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APRIL 30, 2009

In an agreement between Nissan and the city of Seattle, the automaker says it intends to sell the cars in the Seattle area and work with government and other organizations and companies on a plan to promote the cars and creation of a network of charging facilities. Washington, D.C.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. More Climate crusader "Were very reasonable people," says White House energy czar Carol Browner. More from Fortune Obama exclusive: Business needs to work with me 28 top companies: Theyre hiring! rivals in the dust.

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