Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Chevrolet is investing in clean energy efficiency initiatives of US colleges and universities through its voluntary carbon-reduction initiative. There are two avenues through which campuses can determine their eligibility to receive project funding: Individual LEED Certified Buildings. Campus-Wide Performance.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

The report, A Paradigm Shift Towards Sustainable Low Carbon Transport , finds that more than $1.5 trillion is spent annually on transport globally, mostly in ways that exacerbate rather than solve the problems associated with traffic growth, including congestion, health-harming air pollution, accidents, energy insecurity, and climate change.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The Governor also issued an executive order directing the leveraging of the state’s $700-billion CalPERS, CalSTRS and UC Retirement Program portfolio to drive investment toward carbon-neutral technologies. California is also a major purchaser of products across its agencies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Without systematic, transformative changes, the US is unlikely to succeed either in averting the worst economic and environmental consequences of climate change or in achieving a secure, affordable and reliable energy supply. A carbon price must surely be a part of any energy transition strategy.

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JUNE 7, 2021

The report indicates that “ the G7 will need to assist emerging market and developing countries in tackling their greater debt and finance constraints that have resulted from the pandemic, and embark on programmes of green recovery and transformation ”. The report says that $1.5-1.7 The report says that $1.5-1.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2022

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding is available through various programs over five years, including but not limited to: The Carbon Reduction Program will provide $6.4 A Discretionary Grant Program for Charging and Fueling Infrastructure will provide $2.5

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? A Small Country with Large Heating Needs Big problems demand big solutions, and there is perhaps no bigger 21st-century problem than climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. The Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service will finalize a proposed update to its Energy Efficiency and Conservation Loan Program to provide up to $250 million for rural utilities to finance efficiency investments by businesses and homeowners across rural America.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The Fiscal Year 2018-19 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives , largely funded with cap-and-trade proceeds, is part of California’s comprehensive strategy for improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, the state’s largest source of air pollution and climate-changing gases.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

In a deal brokered by the city’s newly commissioned Citizens Environmental Task Force, Exxon/Mobil, owners of the Exxon/Mobil Refinery in the City of Torrance agreed today to fund a bond that will make low cost financing of solar energy systems for home and apartment owners. 2. Green Building & Remodeling.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2010

The UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, ended on Saturday with the adoption of a package of decisions that set all governments more firmly on the path towards a low-emissions future and support enhanced action on climate change in the developing world, according to the UN Environment Programme.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). How does the US deal with local and state economies with high carbon economies and little renewable resources? by Bill Cooke.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Without a change in current transport development patterns in Asia, global carbon dioxide emissions and fuel prices will keep rising, with consequences for climate change, energy security, and economic growth. However, Asia’s needs are vast, with estimated investments of $2.5

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

transportation policy with climate change and energy goals, and some put in place systems that effectively sabotage these goals. Efforts should shift from building highway networks to building other forms of transportation that are cleaner, more efficient, and in high demand.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2009

million) to support low carbon vehicle development, including an expansion of the Technology Strategy Board’s ultra-low carbon vehicles competition. In spring the Chancellor presents the annual Budget statement, which includes a detailed assessment of the state of the economy and the nation’s finances. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 8, 2014

Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries.

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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. —“Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The environmental law centers at UCLA and UC Berkeley Schools of Law today released a new policy paper on industry actions and federal, state, and local policies needed to ensure that California catalyzes mass adoption of electric vehicles by 2025, with the goal of building a long-term market in the US. non-plug-in) in the US.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2011

Given the magnitude of technological change required to support California’s transition to a low-carbon economy while improving air quality, ARB says that it is imperative that its policies understand and effectively contend with barriers to implementation of clean technology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The European Commission has sent a formal communication [ 1 ] to the European Council and European Parliament, laying out the Commission’s recommendations to Council and Parliament on positions that the European Union should take during international climate change negotiations later this year in Copenhagen.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

Launched at the Rio+20 summit in Brazil, the Global Initiative for Resource-Efficient Cities is intended to work with local and national governments, the private sector and civil society groups to promote energy efficient buildings, efficient water use, sustainable waste management and other activities.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2012

The calls target both innovation and a range of societal challenges, building a bridge to Horizon 2020, the next funding program for EU research from 2014-2020. billion) of financing for SMEs under the thematic research priorities. billion (US$13.3-billion) billion) research budget for 2013. In total €4.8 billion (US$5.9 billion (US$1.85

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

In what Mr Johnstone is calling the ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ he aims to tackle climate change and create jobs in industries such as nuclear energy, however, critics are already stating that the £4bn package to implements Boris’s 10-point plan is far too small for the scale of the challenge!

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

The draft report identifies six key drivers of transformation in the region: technical progress; capital accumulation; demographics and the labor force; the emerging middle class; climate change mitigation and the competition for resources; and the communications revolution. —Asia 2050. Public-private sector partnerships.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 31, 2009

Creative Greenius talks AB 811 Financing to the Green Task Force / photo (c) Debra Bushweit Galliani. I bring a passion that’s driven by my sense of urgency over our climate change crisis. Click Here to Download a PDF copy of my presentation ). But I also bring something more on top of all that.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

In addition, despite the rigorous development of renewables, carbon dioxide emissions are increasing, because the energy mix increasingly includes coal-fired power plants that emit large quantities of CO 2 to compensate for weather-related fluctuations in power generation from renewables and the closing of nuclear plants. billion) this year.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

As the climate change crisis goes from bad to worse (while the deniers get nuttier and more cult-like with each passing day) and Australia gives Californians an advanced sneak preview at what is without a doubt headed our way sooner than you expect , your Creative Greenius has only gotten more Fired Up, Ready to Go!

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. In addition, global carbon dioxide emissions have been increasing. The report comes out yearly.

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JUNE 13, 2015

Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. Zoback, Ritts and Schuller are in the process of building out NGI’s corporate affiliates program. —Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics and NGI’s director.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO 2 e) annually, by 2020. Options for reducing emissions from both sectors include improving fuel efficiency and using low-carbon fuels. Globally, the average marginal costs range from $US25-$US54 per tonne of equivalent carbon dioxide removed, with a median value of $US34 per tonne.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Even on land, getting oil from tar sands depletes water and other resources and doubles oil’s carbon footprint. When our country was attacked at Pearl Harbor, no one believed we could build 30,000 planes and tanks in just one year. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

While renewable energy, particularly solar and wind, may have some potential to mitigate carbon emissions, this is not seen as a viable large-scale alternative for commercial shipping. In this case GHG and other pollutants will still be emitted, but they can be reduced through exhaust gas cleaning systems or carbon capture and storage.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2013

International agreements on the need to combat climate change, the fluctuating but generally rising costs of marine fuels which account for a large proportion of the running costs of a ship, and developments on a number of other fronts have led many in the industry to question whether the present methods of ship propulsion are sustainable.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The solicitation was designed as a call for early-stage clean energy innovations that fall within five defined technology areas: energy efficiency; energy storage; AI/machine learning; advanced power electronics/power conditioning; and zero- and negative-carbon emission generation. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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MAY 14, 2009

Its wholly interpretive guidelines can be used to approve or disapprove a building, addition or remodel completely on subjective principles. I went down to the Building Dept and they said, “It will be two weeks before we get back to you.” And then the senior gentlemen in the building with the Safety Dept. What happened?”.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The European Commission has adopted the European Energy Union package —a framework strategy for a resilient energy union with a forward-looking climate change policy. Climate Change Emissions Europe Policy Regulations' As a next step, the Commission will present it to the EU institutions.

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