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BYD Is Taking Its EVs To Mauritius With New Partnership Agreement With LEAL Group

CleanTechnica EVs

The transport sector is one of the major contributors of emissions. Therefore, we need to electrify everything in the transport sector as soon as practically possible. The passenger vehicle market is one area that is a low hanging fruit. There has been great progress in the quest to electrify the passenger vehicle over the last […].

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UNEP: export of used cars to developing world creating significant environmental problems

Green Car Congress

The fast-growing global vehicle fleet is a major contributor to air pollution and climate change; globally, the transport sector is responsible for nearly a quarter of energy-related global greenhouse gas emissions. Cleaning up the global vehicle fleet is a priority to meet global and local air quality and climate targets.

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Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

Green Car Congress

Current emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) have already committed the planet to an increase in average surface temperature by the end of the century that may be above the critical threshold for tipping elements of the climate system into abrupt change with potentially irreversible and unmanageable consequences, the authors write.