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G20 Leaders Agree to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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Inefficient fossil fuel subsidies encourage wasteful consumption, distort markets, impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to deal with climate change. This reform will not apply to our support for clean energy, renewables, and technologies that dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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DNV GL paper suggests near-term success for LNG in shipping; alternative fuel mix to diversify over time

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DNV and GL merged in September 2013 to form DNV GL—the world’s largest ship and offshore classification society, the leading technical advisor to the global oil and gas industry, and a leading expert for the energy value chain including renewables and energy efficiency. Ship electrification and renewables.

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Stanford, UC Santa Cruz study explores ramifications of demand-driven peak to conventional oil

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First, demand for passenger travel may be saturating in industrialized countries. Second, recent global efficiency standards for passenger vehicles, international freight, and domestic freight present significant changes from decades of stagnation in efficiency. From the perspective of oil scarcity, the eventual winner is immaterial.

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PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

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—Leo Johnson, Partner, Sustainability and Climate Change, PwC. The challenge now is to implement gigatonne scale reductions across the economy, in power generation, energy efficiency, transport and industry, as well as REDD+ in forested nations. —Jonathan Grant, director, sustainability and climate change, PwC.

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China’s new energy buses are re-exported to Europe

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Skona is known as the birthplace of the Nordic nation, the creative center of artists, designers and entertainers, and the birthplace of many innovative industries. Portugal is actively taking measures to reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector and to speed up the renewal of new energy vehicles.

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California Goes To Hell In A Handbasket But Greenius Says AB 811 is Our Route To Green Heaven

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And damned if California isn’t going to score like a horny Republican Governor on Viagra in Argentina. In an era when construction workers and contractors are unemployed and broke, this is huge great news and a new lease on life for an industry that’s begging for it.