Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

Steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs has set a target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2030. This goal represents combined Scope 1 (direct) and Scope 2 (indirect) greenhouse gas emission reductions on a mass basis (metric tons per year) compared with 2017 baseline levels. in 2030, compared to 44.1

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2022

The principles establish sustainability goals concerning the availability of water resources, health and safety, stakeholder demands, human and labor rights and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. They are: Corporate Leadership. Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Occupational Health and Safety.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2023

The MMR, developed by Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporations (USNC) ( earlier post ) includes a nuclear plant, which contains an MMR High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor that provides process heat to an adjacent plant, via a molten salt heat exchange system. The MMR has an operating life-span of 20 years.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2022

Pacific Gas and Electric Company and General Motors are collaborating to pilot the use of GM electric vehicles as on-demand power sources for homes in PG&E’s service area. —PG&E Corporation CEO Patti Poppe. By the end of 2025, GM will have more than 1 million units of EV capacity in North America to respond to growing demand.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. —Mark Zoback.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Estimated inventories of methane emissions from the natural gas production sector, excluding processing and transmission. A team of researchers from UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research completed measurements at 190 natural gas production sites across the United States.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

It will help to support a global innovation platform developed alongside large corporations, SMEs, start-ups, and the academic and scientific community. The CMA CGM Group has already begun to respond to climate change by using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a transitional maritime fuel. The Fund will be backed by a US$1.5-billion

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded 2015 Climate Leadership Awards to 16 organizations and one individual representing a wide array of industries from finance and manufacturing to retail and technology for showing what the agency said was exemplary corporate, organizational, and individual leadership in response to climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2011

The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford recently published a report recommending that individual governments take more action to curb their own greenhouse gas emissions and put pressure on other governments to do the same. The Green Climate Fund set up in Cancun marked one way in achieving this.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Mayors from more than 30 major cities including Paris, Tokyo, Barcelona, Cape Town and Quito met over the weekend with senior executives of some of the world’s largest companies, including Mastercard, Siemens and Volvo Bus Corporation in order to define solutions to the threats posed by climate change.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

Volvo Car Corporation urges the EU to coordinate incentives whilst supporting research and development. EU targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions are being jeopardized by the absence of harmonized incentives to consumers, he suggested.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

Five technology paths for very-low-NO x and GHG emissions from heavy-duty natural gas engines. The “Pathways to Near-Zero-Emission Natural Gas Heavy Duty Vehicles” report, authored by GNA on behalf of Southern California Gas Co. —“Pathways to Near-Zero-Emission Natural Gas Heavy-Duty Vehicles”. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2021

SF 6 has been the standard gas used inside high voltage electrical equipment as an insulating and arc-quenching medium. However, SF 6 is also an extremely potent greenhouse gas with 23,500 times the comparative Global Warming Potential of CO 2 and a lifetime of 3,200 years in the atmosphere. Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Ga.;

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

At the Marrakech Climate Change Conference (COP22), eight nations—Canada, China, France, Japan, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the US— signed a Government Fleet Declaration , pledging to increase the share of electric vehicles in their government fleets and calling for other governments to join them.

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Plug N Drive

MAY 1, 2024

hydro, nuclear, wind, solar), the transition to electric vehicles will greatly reduce Canada’s climate-changing emissions. Light duty vehicles account for about half of Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector. With over 83 percent of Canada’s electricity coming from non-emitting sources (e.g.,

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 23, 2009

I think it only fair and just that the people responsible for producing the most pollution and climate changing carbon pay for the costs their products and actions impose on all of us. Times change, legacy products go by the wayside, and toxic killers don’t keep getting paid.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 17, 2023

Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, commented on the possibility of this deal to further Uber’s climate goals: “As the largest mobility platform in the world, we know that our impact goes beyond our technology. Climate change is the most urgent global challenge which we must all tackle together – now is the time to accelerate.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

Alberta-based Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) ( earlier post ) has issued a $35-million open innovation international challenge to create new, carbon-based products and markets. The CCEMC is a not-for-profit corporation that operates independently of government. —CCEMC Chair Eric Newell.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2012

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation is providing C$46 million (US$45 million) in funding to support six new carbon capture and storage and cleaner technology projects in the Canadian oil sands region. The projects have a combined value of more than $327 million (US$321 million).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2021

The deadline is fast approaching to apply for the 2021 Keeling Curve Prize , which will award $25,000 to each of 10 projects designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or increase carbon uptake. The competition is open until 10 Feb to applicants from around the world.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), is a CEO-led initiative of 10 oil and gas companies that collaborate on action to lead the industry response to climate change. OGCI Climate Investments aims to catalyze the deployment of technology that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a significant scale.

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Teslarati

MARCH 8, 2022

General Motors and Pacific Gas and Electric announced the launch of a new pilot program today that will allow California residents to use their GM electric vehicles to act as on-demand power sources for homes. We are really excited about this innovative collaboration with GM,” PG&E Corporation CEO Patti Poppe said.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The total nitrogen loss over a growing season through N2O emissions will be quantified to inform practices that minimize the climate change impacts and environmental harms of agricultural crop production. Michigan Aerospace Corporation. Dagan, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Campuses for the first time can access funding from the US carbon market to fuel their large-scale energy efficiency efforts toward even greater progress, effectively using carbon performance methodologies Chevrolet developed to make money via their greenhouse gas reductions that result from energy efficiency. Of the nearly 8.2

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. The three nexuses are linked by climate change. Source: KPMG.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Environment Canada released draft regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new vehicles beginning with the 2011 model year. Canada and the US are working towards a common North American approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by introducing aligned and progressively tighter regulatory requirements over the 2011-2016 model years.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2017

The grant is part of the state’s effort to use proceeds from the climate change cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gases, including a widespread effort to promote low carbon transit such as hydrogen-powered or electric buses throughout California, with a special focus on serving disadvantaged communities. million riders.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

This marks the first time college campuses can use carbon performance methodologies to make money via greenhouse gas reductions that result from energy efficiency. For the last two years, Chevrolet has been the largest US corporate buyer of voluntary carbon credits by volume, according to the nonprofit Forest Trends Ecosystem Marketplace.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

In his GIA launch speech, IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim said the new alliance would help shipping to make its contribution towards greenhouse gas reduction and the mitigation of climate change, a key target for the United Nations under its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ricardo UK Ltd; Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.;

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The GCEP collaboration expects to benefit from the bank’s expertise in financing sustainable businesses dedicated to addressing climate change and advancing low-carbon solutions. Bank of America is also working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its own operations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

Exxon Mobil Corporation and FuelCell Energy, Inc. Two years of comprehensive laboratory tests have demonstrated that the unique integration of two existing technologies—carbonate fuel cells and natural gas-fired power generation—captures carbon dioxide more efficiently than existing scrubber conventional capture technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2016

ExxonMobil will invest $15 million as a leadership member of the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute to pursue technologies to help meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impacts and the risk of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2009

The Climate Disclosure Standards Board ( CDSB ) introduced for public consultation a set of proposals designed to assist directors in the inclusion of climate change-related information in companies’ annual reports. —Paul Dickinson, Chief Executive of the Carbon Disclosure Project.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Pacific NorthWest LNG is a proposed natural gas liquefaction and export facility on Lelu Island within the District of Port Edward on land administered by the Prince Rupert Port Authority (PRPA). The facility would liquefy and export natural gas produced by Progress Energy Canada Ltd. in northeast British Columbia.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2018

To help accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles in California, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has launched its new EV Charge Network program. —Geisha Williams, CEO and President of PG&E Corporation. PG&E’s EV Charge Network program will pay for and build the infrastructure from the electric grid to the charger.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

It helps reduce dependence on fossil fuels, decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and build a resilient energy infrastructure capable of meeting the world’s growing energy needs. Integrating these sources helps mitigate climate change, reduce air pollution, and protect ecosystems. Why renewable energy intgeration is needed ?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The Audi Internal Carbon Price program is a self-imposed fee proportional to the amount of CO 2 and other greenhouse gas emissions that result from US operations, such as: Business travel. Employee commuting. Fuel consumed by Audi of America fleet vehicles. Building heat & energy. Waste generation.

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