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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

Green Car Congress

KPMG International is hosting the event, in cooperation with the UN Global Compact (UNGC), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Urbanization: In 2009, for the first time, more people lived in cities than in the countryside.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Shenzhen manufacturing region, where the company is headquartered, is known for cheap unskilled labor, but BYD’s competitive advantage derives from its cheap skilled labor. Much as I admire the Obama administration’s energy and environment team, there’s no way that the U.S. China’s commitment to clean energy.

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