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Moscow plans to buy 500 more electric buses in 2022

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Moscow, Russia, currently runs 1000 electric public electric buses on 66 bus routes, giving it the distinction of operating the largest e-bus fleet in Europe and America. This year the Government of Moscow plans to buy 500 additional electric buses. Today nearly half of the Moscow e-bus fleet has been financed by green bonds.

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IHS Markit: global commercial vehicle production to drop 22% in 2020 in wake of COVID-19

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New financing has also been announced to eliminate high emissions vehicles in key regions which should give some support to boost to truck sales, all else being equal. This reflects anticipated shifts within the US truck-buying industries primarily, but Canada and Mexico are likewise seen with significant declines in 2020 demand.

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Crypto’s Slow Motion Gold Rush

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In April, 46 percent of all mining took place in China, according to data from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. We've seen newer miners that haven't done this before thinking you can buy 10,000 machines and just find a spot to plug them in," he says. "It In a matter of weeks, all that mining capacity went offline.

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Opinion: Oil Price War May Benefit both US Shale and Saudi Arabia

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Bloomberg recently cited $26B in oil price hedges , which certainly helps to buy US oil producers time. Other OPEC producing nations and even Russia are not as efficient as Saudi Arabia, nor as dynamic as US shale producers. The life raft for US oil producers so far has been its hedging at higher prices.

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AlixPartners study finds post-crisis auto industry facing new set of challenges; sales projected below historical levels for foreseeable future

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According to the study, historically, approximately one of every five vehicles sold is financed by home-value appreciation, a ratio that’s likely to decrease with the continuing stagnancy in home values. House appreciation historically has been used to finance the purchase of a new vehicle about 20% of the time. million in 2006.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

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The British government, for example, announced recently that, in a few years, motorists will be able to get up to £5,000 in incentives to buy an electric car. Our mission is to prepare students for top careers in finance. All these measures would be far less costly than subsidies proposed for electric cars.

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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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The new reality is a much more challenging future in terms of planning, financing and predictability. E7 economies—the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), and Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey. More radical and disruptive policy reactions in the medium term could lead to high carbon assets being stranded. —PwC report.