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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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KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. The 10 global sustainability megaforces that may impact business over the next two decades are: Climate Change: This may be the one global megaforce that directly impacts all others. Sector analysis: Automobiles.

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New report released by UK House of Commons calls for advancing date for end of sale of conventional cars to before 2040

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Require the automobile industry to contribute to a new clean air fund, following the ‘polluter pays’ principle, on a scale that adequately compensates for the health costs of diesel pollution.

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Potsdam/TUB/BMW report says cap-and-trade instrument for road transport fuels combined with vehicle efficiency metrics is the most promising policy approach to reduce transport GHG

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The study CITIES indicates how the energy sector, in addition to the innovations of the automobile industry, can contribute to sustainable mobility. Going forward, the CO 2 emissions will no longer be determined by the automobile alone, but to a large degree by the upstream energy chain.

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Siemens presents three-point plan for implementing cost-efficient energy transition in Germany

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In addition, a fleet regulation for power plant fleets modeled after the automobile industry would be an effective way to limit the average CO 2 emissions of the power utilities and further reduce emissions. Climate Change Europe Policy Power Generation'

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ).

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

needs to have an indigenous automobile industry, and not merely "transplants". I am a big proponent of unions but honestly, stop playing ball and just cut the pay of EVERYONE including your top execs and stop yourself from going out of business. We had a Celebrity (1987-1994) and it was a piece of crap. Never again.

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