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GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

Green Car Congress

Gas-flaring countries and trends. A newly released GE study — Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations —estimates that 5% of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning or “flaring” unused gas each year, despite some progress on the flaring issue. Click to enlarge.

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Study finds large-scale ramp-up in biofuel crops could result in warming in some tropical regions, cooling in temperate and polar regions

Green Car Congress

°C in the Amazon Basin and the eastern part of the Congo Basin. This tropical warming is made worse with more deforestation, which also causes a release of carbon dioxide, further contributing to the warming of the planet.

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Low-lying and other vulnerable countries calling for fast action on non-CO2 global warming pollutants

Green Car Congress

Led by the tiny Pacific island of the Federated States of Micronesia, a growing group of low-lying islands and other vulnerable countries are calling for fast action on the approximately 50% of global warming that is caused by pollutants other than carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). million lives lost each year due to black carbon soot.

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CLEE, NRGI studying ways to improve sustainability and governance across EV battery supply chain

Green Car Congress

Preliminary findings included as part of the brief: The greenhouse gas emissions benefits of EVs are clear and will grow as global electricity supplies become increasingly less carbon-intensive. As the first step in this initiative, CLEE and NRGI have prepared a background brief on the issue.

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Jervois to acquire SMP nickel & cobalt refinery in Brazil; concentrate from Idaho for refining, cobalt metal back to US

Green Car Congress

Niquelandia provided the SMP Refinery with nickel carbonate. It was placed on care and maintenance by CBA in 2016, when CBA also placed its Niquelandia mine and processing plant in Brazil on care and maintenance due to prevailing market conditions at the time.

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How clean is EV battery manufacturing?

Electric Auto Association

Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? What is the impact on the EV lifecycle carbon footprint? Audi’s e-Tron batteries are manufactured at a carbon-neutral facility. Is it becoming cleaner?

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles actually good for the environment?

Drive Electric

Electric vehicles typically have a smaller operating carbon footprint than gasoline cars, even when accounting for the electricity used for charging. With the full cradle-to-grave life cycle in mind, the question becomes: does an EV have a smaller carbon footprint over its lifetime than an ICEV? Manufacturing an Electric Vehicle.