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ADB leads $135M climate financing package for VinFast e-bus fleet and EV charging network in Vietnam

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The climate financing is certified by the Climate Bonds Initiative, a scientifically-based standard for labeling bonds, loans and other debt instruments which contribute to addressing climate change.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. China, both the world’s largest CO 2 emitter and largest market for clean energy production and consumption, played a crucial role in the story. billion and $2.7

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Bradford: Twelve Years A Failure – His Reason To Kill CCAs

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Bradford’s right there with the old Vietnam strategy of destroying the village in order to save it. Too bad he missed o ur MB2025 forum in Manhattan Beach to see the 150 people who filled the Joslyn Center for the very first meeting we had featuring Sonoma Clean Power’s program.

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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The program aims to contribute to the resolution of environmental concerns and cultivate a new generation of leaders who will drive change on both a local and global basis. This year’s theme will be “Biodiversity Conservation” or “Climate Change”. Climate Change. Climate Change. Grant Category.

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Earth Day 2024: each day is about reducing emissions | Autocar Professional

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People march, sign petitions, meet with their elected officials, plant trees, clean up their towns and roads. Earth Day is now a global event each year, and over a billion people across 192 countries now take part in what is the largest civic-focused day of action in the world. It is a day of political action and civic participation.

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Alberta to Host Underground Coal Gasification Demo; Update on Linc Chinchilla UCG In Australia

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The project in north-central Alberta aims to develop a commercial operation that produces clean, synthesis gas for power generation. The process is flexible in operation and is capable of producing commercial quantities of gas to be used like natural gas, such as for home-heating chemical feedstock or as fuel for clean power generation.

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