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Novel adaptation for existing blast furnaces could reduce steelmaking emissions by 88%; closed-loop carbon recycling

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2023

This reduction is achieved through a closed-loop carbon recycling system, which could replace 90% of the coke typically used in current blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace systems and produces oxygen as a byproduct. If implemented in the UK alone, the system could deliver cost savings of £1.28 A double perovskite, Ba 2 Ca 0.66

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Carbon Emissions Cleaner Gas-Electric

IRENA sees renewable hydrogen at least cost-possible within decade

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Hydrogen produced with renewable electricity could compete on costs with fossil fuel alternatives by 2030, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Source: IRENA. The report— Green Hydrogen Cost Reduction: scaling up electrolyzers to meet the 1.5

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Bosch on importance of renewable synthetic fuels to reach climate goals; e-fuels

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

One path to achieving this is with renewable synthetic fuels (e-fuels). Bosch outlines seven reasons why renewable synthetic fuels should be part of tomorrow’s mobility mix: Time. Renewable synthetic fuels have long since left the basic research phase. Then add carbon. Climate neutrality. Finally, combine CO?

Renewable

Renewable Climate Fuel Gasoline-Electric

Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen develop renewable gasoline with 20% lower CO2; rollout of Blue Gasoline this year

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2021

Following on the introduction of R33 Blue Diesel ( earlier post ), Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen have now developed a low-carbon gasoline. The new fuel, called Blue Gasoline, similarly contains up to 33% renewables, ensuring a well-to-wheel reduction in carbon emissions of at least 20% per kilometer driven. Every bit of CO?

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First carbon-neutral lithium extraction project to start in Germany

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

EIT InnoEnergy, the European innovation engine for sustainable energy, announced a partnership with Vulcan Energy Resources Limited (Vulcan), a start-up lithium exploration company, to produce the world’s first completely carbon-neutral lithium in Germany. As a result, the carbon footprint of the production process could even be negative.

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Study: 25% EV adoption would save US $17B annually from avoided climate change & pollution damages

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

A new study led by researchers from Northwestern University projects that if electric vehicles replaced 25% of combustion engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution. The open-access paper is published in AGU’s journal GeoHealth.

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Nornickel presents market review of nickel and platinum group metals

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2023

Russia-based Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, presented its eleventh review of the nickel and platinum group metals (PGM) markets based on the fundamental analysis of world economic and industry data.

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Audi of America and Arcadia offer renewable energy subscription with e-tron or e-tron Sportback lease or purchase

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Arcadia’s technology matches home energy consumption with renewable energy sources from a variety of US wind and solar projects using renewable energy certificates, all without any installation or disruptions to their utility service. The company has set itself the goal of reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025.

Audi

Audi Renewable Purchase Rhode Island

European Parliament approves binding 2030 32% renewables target; 14% of fuel for transport from renewables; 1st gen biofuels phased out

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The European Parliament approved binding 2030 target for renewables (32%) and an indicative target on energy efficiency (32.5%) that will play a crucial role in meeting the EU’s climate goals. The EU Renewable Energy Directive creates a predictable investment environment for biofuels. Both targets are to be reviewed by 2023.

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Renewable Transportation Fuel Climate

Nacero selects Topsoe’s TIGAS technology for gas-to-gasoline unit; reducing lifecycle carbon footprint up to 50%

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

The Penwell facility will be the first gasoline manufacturer in the world to incorporate carbon capture and sequestration. By making our gasoline from natural gas, renewable natural gas, and captured flare gas rather than crude oil, Nacero will offer America’s 225 million drivers an affordable, everyday climate solution.

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The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work — India Edition Transcript

CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 11, 2024

Today I presented again to a large Indian audience, hosted by the India Smart Grid Forum. This was within the frame of the presentation I gave at the India Smart Utility Week on March 14th. continued] The post The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work — India Edition Transcript appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Rolls-Royce launches mtu hydrogen solutions for power generation

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Rolls-Royce is further developing its mtu gas engine portfolio for power generation and cogeneration to run on hydrogen as a fuel and thus enable a climate-neutral energy supply. In addition, fuel cells powered by 100% green hydrogen can play an important role in future energy supply in combination with renewable energies.

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Hydrogen Power Powered Climate Protection

EPA GHG Inventory shows US GHG down 1.7% y-o-y in 2019, down 13% from 2005

Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its 28 th annual Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (GHG Inventory), which presents a national-level overview of annual greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2019. CO 2 emissions decreased 2.2% from 2018 to 2019.

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BASF and RWE proposing 2GW offshore wind farm for green electricity and hydrogen for chemical industry

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2021

Methane pyrolysis: Methane pyrolysis uses green electricity to split methane into hydrogen and carbon. Another output of this process is high-purity solid carbon, a valuable raw material that can replace carbon in various industrial sectors, such as the steel industry. These plans could result in the avoidance of around 3.8

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Biden sets 2030 net GHG reduction target for US of 50-52% below 2005 levels

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

In 2019, US greenhouse gas emissions totaled 6,558 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (MMT CO 2 Eq.), With renewable power technologies well developed, delivering cleaner power to buildings and manufacturing, and driving the electrification of road transport present the clearest initial path for decarbonization.

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Is Taxing Carbon Really the Best Way to Decarbonize the Grid?

Energy Institute at HAAS

JULY 25, 2022

Some economists and policy advocates present a carbon tax (or … Continue Reading Is Taxing Carbon Really the Best Way to Decarbonize the Grid? Our new research suggests clean electricity standards or subsidies might be more beneficial. Today’s blog post is co-authored with Ryan Kellogg.

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Casterra to sell castor seeds for cultivation to leading oil and gas company; $9.1M initial purchase

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2023

Biofuels offer significant advantages over conventional petrochemical fuels, presenting a renewable and biodegradable alternative with substantially lower negative environmental impact compared to other alternative fuel sources.

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Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. Note the different scaling used in the graphs. McCollum et al.

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Carbon Market Alternative Fuels Vehicles

France launches new climate plan; Euro 7 lead; targeting ending the sale of vehicles emitting GHGs by 2040

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2017

Nicolas Hulot, France’s new minister responsible for environment and energy, presented the country’s new climate plan at a press conference at the Ministry. Among the many actions outlined in the plan is the targeting of ending the sale of cars emitting greenhouse gases (“ gaz à effet de serre ”) by 2040.

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ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

In addition to its regional and temporal scope, this study is distinct from earlier LCA literature in four key aspects: This study considers the lifetime average carbon intensity of the fuel and electricity mixes, including biofuels and biogas. The results reflect the full life-cycle GHG emissions of battery and fuel-cell EVs.

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Hydrogen Fuel Batteries Battery

Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. CRI have a proven track record in renewable methanol, working up and down the value chain. I’m excited to be working with them.

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Renewable Carbon Water Fuel

Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Saying that “ investment-grade climate change and clean energy policy is required to shift private sector investment from high-carbon to low-carbon assets ”, a group of 285 investors has urged governments and international policy makers to take new and meaningful steps in the fight against climate change.

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Study finds emissions from road construction could be halved using today’s technology

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2020

It was one of the Swedish Transport Agency’s first projects in which a complete climate calculation was made. All the materials and activities involved in its construction were calculated for their total climate impact: energy and materials used in the construction and what emissions these contribute to. Karlsson et al. Karlsson et al.

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How EVs Are Reducing Carbon (CO2) Emissions

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As the world grapples with the pressing issue of climate change, it is evident that we need swift action to avert its worst impacts. One avenue to combat this crisis is a rapid reduction in carbon emissions from our daily transportation, one of the leading contributors of CO 2 emissions. Let’s not forget our carbon footprint.

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Carbon Emissions CO2 Gasoline-Electric

European Union adopts strategies for energy system integration and hydrogen; Clean Hydrogen Alliance

Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

The two strategies present a new clean energy investment agenda, in line with the European Commission’s Next Generation EU recovery package and the European Green Deal. For those sectors where electrification is difficult, the strategy promotes clean fuels, including renewable hydrogen and sustainable biofuels and biogas.

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Energy

US and China forming Climate Change Working Group; say a more focused and urgent initiative required

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2013

The US and China will initiate a Climate Change Working Group to determine and finalize ways in which they can advance cooperation on technology, research, conservation, and alternative and renewable energy. Such action is crucial both to contain climate change and to set the kind of powerful example that can inspire the world.

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Reducing Black Carbon Emissions and Ground-Level Ozone Would Provide Immediate Benefit Against Climate Change

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

Reducing emissions of black carbon soot and ground-level ozone would quickly make a considerable dent in the climate change problem and would also contribute to public health and protect crop yields, according to an essay in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Besides a danger to breathe, ozone lowers crop yields.

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EC backing away from mandating reduction in carbon intensity of transportation fuels after 2020

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

The European Commission recently presented a new EU framework on climate and energy for 2030. a Low Carbon Fuel Standard. The Commission does not think it appropriate to establish new targets for renewable energy or the greenhouse gas intensity of fuels used in the transport sector or any other sub-sector after 2020.

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Getting To Work In Hermosa Beach – The Carbon Neutral ClueTrain Leaves the Station

Creative Greenius

MARCH 12, 2010

Courtesy of YouTube and the Hermosa Beach City website and converted and enlarged through the magic of Greenius we bring you this exclusive look at the Carbon Neutral ClueTrain leaving the Hermosa Beach station this week. You say you’d like to see that presentation? Here it is as presented to the Green Task Force.

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

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Siemens suggests abandoning a fixed target for renewable energies and concentrating on the CO 2 reduction goal. Germany has embarked on a large-scale Energiewende (energy transition)—a policy-driven shift away from nuclear and fossil energy to a renewable energy economy. Source: Siemens. Click to enlarge. billion) this year.

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USDA and Blue Biofuels collaborate to optimize yields of king grass for cellulosic ethanol production

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

The growth of a perennial grass biomass crop can add additional profit opportunities for Florida and to other parts of the US with climates suitable for tropical biomass production. The trials will be set up to allow for public presentations and publications. Both the USDA ARS and BIOF will supply resources needed for the project.

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California ARB releases proposed strategy to reduce impact of short-lived climate pollutants

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

The California Air Resources Board released a new draft of California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Strategy to significantly reduce the near-term climate impacts of these potent pollutants. Methane is the most abundant of the short-lived climate pollutants in California.

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Polestar, Rivian report concludes automotive industry tracking to overshoot IPCC emissions target by 75%

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The data presents a pathway based around three key levers. A lot more work will be required for levers 2 and 3: Increasing renewable energy in power grids Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the manufacturing supply chain Pulling just one or two levers in isolation will be insufficient and only reduce the overshoot.

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Harvard team finds large-scale US wind power would cause warming that would take roughly a century to offset

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

All large-scale energy systems have environmental impacts, and the ability to compare the impacts of renewable energy sources is an important step in planning a future without coal or gas power. In the journal Joule , Harvard researchers report the most accurate modelling yet of how increasing wind power would affect climate.

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Wind Power Powered Climate

ICCT: available low-carbon fuels can reduce CI of on-road transportation fuels in Pacific Coast region by 14%–21% by 2030

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2015

Fuel carbon intensity reduction from 2015-2030 from fuel deployment scenarios for the Pacific Coast region. The conclusions are based on a detailed modeling study of low-carbon fuel technologies and production pathways, estimating the future availability of low carbon fuels given policy incentives to supply them in the Pacific Coast region.

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Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The report, Clean Air Future: Health and Climate Benefits of Zero Emission Vehicles , was produced by the American Lung Association in California. Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7 billion by 2050.

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Climate Cost Of Rhode Island Transportation

Greenius Will Meet With Al Gore To Talk Climate Reality

Creative Greenius

JULY 26, 2012

Joe Galliani Selected As Climate Leader Just As Global Warming Reaches Tipping Points. I have no excuse for my ugly and excessive flying carbon footprint and only the carbon offsets I purchase ease any of my guilt. But I’m not going to stop.

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Biofuels- paving the way for low carbon future in mobility – ET Auto

Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Globally there has been an increasing focus on low or zero emission powertrains, driven by climate concerns. Given the biogenic carbon capture of crops, Ethanol as a fuel has a much lower environmental impact than the traditional fossil fuels. This has brought into focus technologies such as electric, hybrid and hydrogen.

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Carbon Future Auto Petrol

California ARB Adopts Regulation Implementing 33% Renewable Electricity Standard by 2020

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The California Air Resources Board adopted unanimously a regulation establishing a 33% renewable electricity standard. Under the regulation, one-third of the electricity sold in the state in 2020 must come from renewable sources of energy. The new regulation will be one of AB 32’s largest emission-reduction strategies.

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Renewable 2020 Standards California

Consortium proposes large-scale industrial cultivation of marine microalgae (ICCM) as solution to global energy, food, and climate issues

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Members of the Marine Algae Industrialization Consortium (MAGIC), led by Duke University in North Carolina, have published an open-access paper in the journal Oceanography presenting the large-scale industrial cultivation of marine microalgae (ICMM) as an answer to pressing global energy, food and climate security issues. Greene et al.

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Mariner Climate Global Industrial

Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it

Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it . Most importantly at present, it is playing an important role in electrifying vehicles including cars, buses, trucks and ferries and in electric bikes , scooters and autonomous robots. Read further to know more about the climate impact of lithium-ion batteries. .

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Lithium Ion Climate Batteries Battery

Audi aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% over the vehicle lifecycle by 2025

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In the long term, Audi is pursuing the vision of CO2-neutral mobility and aims to be climate-neutral throughout the company on balance by 2050. Audi is focusing on the electric car, which has the best carbon footprint of all drive systems in the largest markets over its entire service life. Earlier post.). 97.9 - 111.9

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Audi CO2 Emissions Vehicles

UK Review of Renewable Energy finds 30% renewables share by 2030 appropriate for the UK; a cautious approach to biofuels in transport

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2011

A renewable energy share of around 30% by 2030 would be “appropriate” for the UK, with scope for a higher share (e.g. A renewable energy share of around 30% by 2030 would be “appropriate” for the UK, with scope for a higher share (e.g. —Renewable Energy Review. Renewable transport.

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Renewable Transportation Energy Climate Change

Sandia, Los Alamos: cycloalkanes strong candidates for reducing aviation emissions

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Because aromatics cause O-rings to swell, they are important for maintaining engine seals, and must be present in at least 8 vol% under ASTM-D7566. The work presented in this paper develops SPRs by building a data set that includes physical properties important to the aviation industry. —Alexander Landera.

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Emissions Fuel Building Carbon

Novel adaptation for existing blast furnaces could reduce steelmaking emissions by 88%; closed-loop carbon recycling

IRENA sees renewable hydrogen at least cost-possible within decade

Bosch on importance of renewable synthetic fuels to reach climate goals; e-fuels

Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen develop renewable gasoline with 20% lower CO2; rollout of Blue Gasoline this year

First carbon-neutral lithium extraction project to start in Germany

Study: 25% EV adoption would save US $17B annually from avoided climate change & pollution damages

Nornickel presents market review of nickel and platinum group metals

Audi of America and Arcadia offer renewable energy subscription with e-tron or e-tron Sportback lease or purchase

European Parliament approves binding 2030 32% renewables target; 14% of fuel for transport from renewables; 1st gen biofuels phased out

Nacero selects Topsoe’s TIGAS technology for gas-to-gasoline unit; reducing lifecycle carbon footprint up to 50%

The Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work — India Edition Transcript

Rolls-Royce launches mtu hydrogen solutions for power generation

EPA GHG Inventory shows US GHG down 1.7% y-o-y in 2019, down 13% from 2005

BASF and RWE proposing 2GW offshore wind farm for green electricity and hydrogen for chemical industry

Biden sets 2030 net GHG reduction target for US of 50-52% below 2005 levels

Is Taxing Carbon Really the Best Way to Decarbonize the Grid?

Casterra to sell castor seeds for cultivation to leading oil and gas company; $9.1M initial purchase

Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

France launches new climate plan; Euro 7 lead; targeting ending the sale of vehicles emitting GHGs by 2040

ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

Study finds emissions from road construction could be halved using today’s technology

How EVs Are Reducing Carbon (CO2) Emissions

European Union adopts strategies for energy system integration and hydrogen; Clean Hydrogen Alliance

US and China forming Climate Change Working Group; say a more focused and urgent initiative required

Reducing Black Carbon Emissions and Ground-Level Ozone Would Provide Immediate Benefit Against Climate Change

EC backing away from mandating reduction in carbon intensity of transportation fuels after 2020

Getting To Work In Hermosa Beach – The Carbon Neutral ClueTrain Leaves the Station

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

USDA and Blue Biofuels collaborate to optimize yields of king grass for cellulosic ethanol production

California ARB releases proposed strategy to reduce impact of short-lived climate pollutants

Polestar, Rivian report concludes automotive industry tracking to overshoot IPCC emissions target by 75%

Harvard team finds large-scale US wind power would cause warming that would take roughly a century to offset

ICCT: available low-carbon fuels can reduce CI of on-road transportation fuels in Pacific Coast region by 14%–21% by 2030

Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

Greenius Will Meet With Al Gore To Talk Climate Reality

Biofuels- paving the way for low carbon future in mobility – ET Auto

California ARB Adopts Regulation Implementing 33% Renewable Electricity Standard by 2020

Consortium proposes large-scale industrial cultivation of marine microalgae (ICCM) as solution to global energy, food, and climate issues

Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it

Audi aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% over the vehicle lifecycle by 2025

UK Review of Renewable Energy finds 30% renewables share by 2030 appropriate for the UK; a cautious approach to biofuels in transport

Sandia, Los Alamos: cycloalkanes strong candidates for reducing aviation emissions

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