Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

New WHO has issued new Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) that reduce levels of key air pollutants, some of which also contribute to climate change. In 2013, outdoor air pollution and particulate matter were classified as carcinogenic by WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The proposed expansion of sugarcane production is within the area that can be legally converted.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

British luxury carmaker Aston Martin Lagonda will continue to produce traditional combustion-engine vehicles for as long as legally possible, its boss told UK media this week. “For as long as we’re allowed to make ICE (internal combustion engine) cars, we’ll make them.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2016

The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has approved mandatory requirements for ships to record and report their fuel consumption. IMO said that the move sends a clear signal about its commitment to climate change mitigation. —IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Daimler announced that findings from a new internal investigation have raised questions on the safe usage of R-1234yf as a replacement refrigerant in mobile air conditioning (MAC) systems. This was determined by numerous laboratory and crash tests carried out by international vehicle manufacturers and independent institutions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2011

International climate negotiations can only go so far. Systems such as pledge-and-review set up in Copenhagen and Cancun are a useful way forward in the absence of an internationally legally-binding agreement, but individual Governments must provide urgent political leadership—that is not happening at present.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2020

The work, published in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control , confirms earlier studies based on a greatly extended data basis. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control doi: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2020.103119. On the basis of investigations directly on the seafloor it was possible to determine the amount of escaping gas.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. The whole world is one grid.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

By delivering the migrants there, the masters of the Maltese vessels, and perhaps the European rescue authorities involved, may have violated the international law of the sea, which requires ship masters to return people they rescue to a safe port. billion) a year internally on managing migration, not counting national-level spending.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

In December 2014, Böhni submitted a motion for consideration by the National Council (Nationalrat) that would create the legal basis for importers and manufacturers of vehicles that run on CO 2 -neutral synthetic fuels made in Switzerland to receive credit for the corresponding reduction in CO 2 emissions under fleet emission rules.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Finance structures would be created and funded by developed countries, encouraging developing countries and emerging economies to minimize future emissions and adapt to future effects of climate change. All agreements would be legally binding, and would be subject to independent verification. by Jack Rosebro.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The report analyses how the introduction of market-based policies, such as a GHG Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) for the shipping sector at international level, could be used. The legal position on shipping emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. One question is who will be responsible for verifying changes in carbon, which raises questions about the role of a regulatory agency for accrediting claimed changes in carbon levels from an activity.

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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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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The Family Clean Energy Rebate Program would use 60% of the funds from the carbon fee and use the model developed by Alaska’s oil dividend to provide a monthly rebate to every legal US resident to offset potential energy price increases. International sources.

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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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Baua Electric

MAY 11, 2023

Quebec mines lithium, and there are alternative international assets together with from Australia and South The usa, however there also are a couple of complex climate exploration tasks underway in Ontario, stated Chris Hodgson, president of the Ontario Mining Affiliation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

The regulations for plants that are already in operation, however, would remain unchanged to guarantee investment security and legal certainty. Climate Change Europe Policy Power Generation' The government also is maintaining its target of cutting GHG emissions by 40% by 2020 (compared with 1990 levels) and by 80% by 2050.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

The least-developed countries would be exempt from any legally binding emission reduction efforts, up to 2020. This report was commissioned by the Netherlands Programme on Scientific Assessment and Policy Analysis for Climate Change (WAB). Tags: Climate Change Climate models Policy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) presented its proposals for December’s climate change talks to the UN Secretary General’s Summit on Climate Change in New York. Governments must also create the legal and fiscal framework to support the development of sustainable biofuels for aviation.

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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. Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry.

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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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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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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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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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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

The city attorney asked me if I would dismiss my case if the city of Torrance would change their rules. I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. I want to change the industry here because I deal in a lot of cities, a LOT of cities. Got up on roofs.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

The project was given the internal moniker “4004.” Instead of patenting, Hoff in March 1970 published an article in the proceedings of the 1970 IEEE International Convention that stated: “An entirely new approach to design of very small computers is made possible by the vast circuit complexity possible with MOS technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2018

But the evidence shows that freezing CAFE standards is hard to justify on economic, social, environmental, or legal grounds. We are researchers, not pundits, and so we hesitate to speculate. —The ICCT. There’s no justification for California to have its own standards.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Thaddeus Lightfoot, a partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney, spent almost three decades specializing in environmental law. Since President Trump’s election, California has essentially carved out its own climate change policy, focusing on reducing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. —Andrew Wheeler.

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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. Reductions in Emissions. China recently surpassed the US as the world’s biggest producer of GHGs.

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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. nationals and legal residents. Measurement.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

For me, the most important thing is that there is an urgency across the planet to address climate change. I think it’s one thing to have a commitment for 2030 and 2035, and it’s another thing to have to meet legal requirements and standards. The courts put them on hold, all these legal challenges. It has been on hold.

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