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Scottish social workers to trial electric car pool

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According to the BBC, the pilot scheme has been made possible by a £105,000 low carbon vehicle grant from the Scottish government. Social workers in the Scottish Borders will be given a pool of electric cars to use, after the local council approved a trial scheme of EVs. Three EV cars, costing more than £30,000 [.].

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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May, 2007 : An international team of researchers concluded that the ability of the Southern Ocean to absorb carbon dioxide had slowed by about 15% per decade since 1981 ( earlier post ), and projected that at the present rate of deterioration, it will have lost two-thirds of its ability to store carbon by 2050.

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