Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The Volkswagen Group announced today that during the course of its internal investigation into the diesel emission cheating issue, it uncovered “irregularities” when determining type-approval CO 2 levels. Based on present knowledge, around 800,000 vehicles from the Volkswagen Group could be affected, the company said.

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Diesel Parts CO2 Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Already, European companies buy and trade their credits frequently under parameters established by the European Union, which assigns a baseline emissions level to major industries as well as future limits they have to meet. Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions 255

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Siemens proposes giving up a fixed target for renewables and focus on reducing CO 2 emissions in the future instead. Renewable energies should prevail on the market in the future without levies, Siemens says. In the future, providers of renewable energies would have to market their electricity just as reliably as other suppliers.

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Germany Energy Renewable Grid 239

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The draft directs EPA to achieve additional reductions in global warming pollution by entering into agreements to prevent international deforestation. The total quantity of offsets allowed in any year cannot exceed 2 billion tons, split evenly between domestic and international offsets. light duty vehicles—e.g., Banking and Borrowing.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The fifth and final session of negotiations on the establishment of an international mercury convention—International Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC5)—is taking place this coming week in Geneva. Present day anthropogenic emissions contribute to both current and future emissions to the air. Source: UNEP.

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Mercury Emissions 2013 Global 262

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The declaration is not legally binding and is focused on a global level. We will support efforts to achieve the road transport breakthrough announced by world leaders, which aims to make zero emission vehicles the new normal by making them accessible, affordable and sustainable in all regions by 2030. …

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Dominican Republic El Salvador Emissions Cape Verde 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A new brief published by the International Transport Forum (ITF)—an intergovernmental organization at the OECD with 59 member countries— identifies proven measures that decrease road freight’s CO 2 emissions. Antitrust legislation sometimes hinders horizontal collaboration and legal risk has already prevented some trials.

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Emissions CO2 Alternative Fuels Climate Change 255

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct. Earlier post.).

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Emissions Carbon Climate Change Climate 285

Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

The world’s leading sports- and luxury-car brands, together with muscle-car mavens like Dodge, are now pushing the envelope of the relatively inefficient internal combustion engine (ICE). Call it Peak ICE—the last hurrah of a technology that governments are ushering off the stage to combat climate change.

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Plug-in Ferrari Engine Hybrid 97

Creative Greenius

MAY 3, 2009

“Pack Up Your Toxic, Fossil Fuel Factory With Its Climate-Changing Products & Get Out of Town By 2020!&# Consider this fair and legal warning, world’s largest and most polluting oil company - I’m giving you 10 years to pack up and hit the road. Greenius Rules. They’ve got other priorities.

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Pollution Gas Climate Change Carbon 292

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2009

The international airline industry is committed to achieving carbon-neutral growth by 2020, said Giovanni Bisignani, IATA’s Director General and CEO in his State of the Industry address at the 65 th IATA Annual General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit in Kuala Lumpur. Giovanni Bisignani.

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2020 Carbon Industrial Industry 150

Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

Utility commissioners and their staffs are now dealing with “rising workloads with limited staff, limited resources, and growing gaps in internal expertise due to the increasingly specialized needs of today’s energy system,” states the Rocky Mountain Institute. How to achieve that still requires quite a bit of research, according to the U.S.

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Grid Iowa Wind Miles 109

Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

The Biden administration has taken a significant step in its expedited environmental review of what could become the third lithium mine in the US, amid anticipated legal challenges from conservationists over the threat they say it poses to an endangered Nevada wildflower. 22 email.

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Nevada Auto Las Vegas Re-Charge 52

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2018

That program is in effect right now and will remain so for the foreseeable future. But the evidence shows that freezing CAFE standards is hard to justify on economic, social, environmental, or legal grounds. —California Air Resources Board Chair Mary D. We are researchers, not pundits, and so we hesitate to speculate.

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EPA Fuel Economy California MPG 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Wheeler said that the Administration will begin taking steps in the very near future to establish one set of national fuel-economy standards. (On Thaddeus Lightfoot, a partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney, spent almost three decades specializing in environmental law. —Andrew Wheeler.

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Fuel Economy Standards California EPA 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. But starting to raise immediate finance is more important than determining its exact future size.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions 244

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. current year and/or future year vintages).

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244

Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

To help us sort out how the new policies are likely to unfold, we turned to Margo Oge, former Director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality and author of the book Driving the Future. For me, the most important thing is that there is an urgency across the planet to address climate change. It has been on hold.

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EPA Emissions Standards Legal 102