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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

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Developing technology to address the causes of climate change, mitigate its impact, and adapt to the crisis is one of IEEE’s top priorities. To assist with that effort, the IEEE Young Professionals group this year launched its Climate and Sustainability Task Force. Partnering with IRENA, the U.N.,

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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“Electric cars will not save the climate. For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. It is completely wrong,” Fatih Birol , Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has stated.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

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BIT:ENI) recently unveiled what has been hailed as the most ambitious climate pledge yet by an oil supermajor. As we have pointed above, ENI has the most ambitious climate change pledge with plans to lower its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. Link to original article: [link].

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The Greening of Transportation

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According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , approximately 15 percent of net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector. To meet global climate targets, we must devise ways to get people and goods from point A to point B without burning fossil fuels.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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This article features IEEE Board of Directors members Deepak Mathur, Saifur Rahman, and Aylin Yener. His work promotes clean-tech solutions for climate sustainability, and his six-point solution to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the electric power sector is being implemented in varying degrees in more than 100 countries.

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Ignorance of how EVs work is holding back uptake, says survey

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The survey was commissioned by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), an independent nonprofit in the UK. More than half (59%) of petrol drivers thought the UK’s electricity grid “will not be able to cope” with the UK’s shift to EVs, whereas only one in five (20%) correctly identified this statement as false.

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