Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2010

The report, A Paradigm Shift Towards Sustainable Low Carbon Transport , finds that more than $1.5 trillion is spent annually on transport globally, mostly in ways that exacerbate rather than solve the problems associated with traffic growth, including congestion, health-harming air pollution, accidents, energy insecurity, and climate change.

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

We found ourselves thinking about how Smart Energy Management for EV charging is connected to the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference; Countries from around the world continue to focus on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a key strategy for reducing the rate of global warming.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ford Motor Company and its financing subsidiary, Ford Motor Credit Company, introduced the North America auto industry’s first sustainable financing framework, focusing on and paying for ambitious plans in vehicle electrification and other environmental and social areas. Vigeo Eiris, an arm of Moody’s Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2023

To achieve climate neutrality by 2050, the clean hydrogen market capacity can grow to 170 million tons (MtH 2 eq) in 2030 and to 600 MtH 2 eq in 2050. Interregional trade is key to helping unlock the full potential of the clean hydrogen market, supported by diversified transport infrastructure. trillion in developing economies.

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Drive Electric

JUNE 19, 2023

20th June 2023 Part A: Introduction About us Drive Electric is a not-for-profit advocacy organisation supporting the uptake and mainstreaming of e-mobility in New Zealand as part of the effort to decarbonise transport. The Climate Change Commission’s analysis shows that by 2030 67% of cars entering the New Zealand market are EV.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane, Zambia’s Minister of Finance and National Planning, announced that, “… to continue promoting the usage of clean energy as well as supporting the green economy and climate change mitigation, I propose the following measures: a) Remove customs duty on […] Here is some good news from Zambia.

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EV Obssesion

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The post ‘GRIDSERVE Partner Network’, Li-Cycle,100 Years of Glaciers Disappearing, Elon’s Tesla Shares, NFI Financial Solutions EV Financing, Swappable Battery for Commercial Vehicle appeared first on EV Obsession.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

Reducing emissions of black carbon soot and ground-level ozone would quickly make a considerable dent in the climate change problem and would also contribute to public health and protect crop yields, according to an essay in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Tags: Climate Change Emissions. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The California Air Resources Board approved a $483 million plan to fund clean car rebates, zero-emission transit and school buses, clean trucks, and other innovative, clean transportation and mobility pilot projects. billion for low-carbon transportation projects from the cap-and-trade program.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2010

The Westport Carbon Project (WCP) is in the process of being registered with the Voluntary Carbon Market Standard (VCS) and will be the first VCS transport project and one of the largest voluntary carbon market projects worldwide. Grütter Consulting is a leading advisory firm on carbon finance and transport with activities worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2022

Create a flexible system under which State Departments of Transportation (State DOTs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) would set their own declining targets for on-road greenhouse gas emissions from roadway travel on the National Highway System. BIL also includes $7.2

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Asia must scale up sustainable transport development or face a bleak future of congested roads, pollution, ill health and economic damage, which could have ripple effects around the world, the third ADB (Asian Development Bank) transport forum heard earlier this month in Manila.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2018

The measure will contribute to reaching EU energy and climate change goals while limiting distortions of competition. The Italian scheme supports the production and distribution of advanced biofuels and advanced biomethane, also known as second and third-generation biofuels, for use in the transport sector. billion (US$5.8

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Transport & Mobility – Reimagining and reinventing all types of vehicles, fuels, and mobility options for both people and products. Keeling Curve Prize finalists and winners are chosen by a panel of climate scientists, public policy experts, and researchers, including Achala Abeysinghe, Ph.D.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2021

The report highlights the potential for investments in zero-emissions energy and transport to create new jobs and economic growth. trillion more each year should be invested worldwide in improving transport, particularly mass transit systems and the extension of railway networks. The report says that $1.5-1.7 It suggests that $1.4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2020

The European Commission had put forward a proposal to revise the EU system for monitoring, reporting and verifying CO 2 emissions from maritime transport (the “EU MRV Regulation”) and to bring it in line with new obligations under International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to monitor emissions from 2019 and report in 2020. Background.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski signed into law a series of bills constituting a climate change package that includes a low carbon fuel standard (LCFS), a B2 mandate, and other transportation-related measures. The series of bills the Governor signed into law today include: House Bill 2186. Senate Bill 38. House Bill 3463.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2014

SolarCity and Honda have renewed their partnership with a new fund expected to finance $50 million in solar projects. The new commitment will make solar power more affordable and available to Honda and Acura customers and dealerships in the US. The $50-million fund is a follow-up to a $65-million fund the companies created in 2013.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2010

US states are in a unique position to bring down transportation-related GHG emissions, given their primary role in setting statewide transportation policy and directing large amounts of transportation funding. However, most states use few of the available transportation policy tools to reduce.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world. Not really.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

Transportation. in addition to Opus 12, they are: WILDCOAST (Imperial Beach, California) is working to secure a resilient coastline to help protect communities, economies and ecosystems from climate change impacts in the Gulf of California. Energy Access. Social & Cultural Impacts. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

The partial guarantee is provided under the USD 200 million INR equivalent framework guarantee agreement that GuarantCo and Axis Bank signed in May 2022, which allows mobilisation of funds between USD 300 and 400 million in INR equivalent to finance the e-mobility ecosystem in India.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 28, 2022

As a Premium member, BNZ will be crucial in shaping the future of electric transport as they work to decarbonise their business activities. Their collaboration on a Climate Action Toolbox to help businesses measure and reduce their carbon footprint. Partnerships with the Net Zero Banking Alliance , Toit? Centres across NZ.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Including road transport fuels in a cap-and-trade scheme, complemented by appropriate regulatory policies such as. Including road transport fuels in a cap-and-trade scheme, complemented by appropriate regulatory policies such as. In fact, transport volumes may even increase above business-as-usual due to rebound effects.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

Under the scheme, around 500 of the largest emitters in Australia—facilities that have direct greenhouse gas emissions of 25,000 tonnes of CO 2 -equivalent per year or more (excluding emissions from transport fuels and some synthetic greenhouse gases)—will need to buy and surrender to the Government a permit for every tonne they produce.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Brazil’s Minister of Environment Izabella Teixeira and Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) President Luciano Coutinho announced the launch of a new credit line to support projects focused on greenhouse gas reduction and climate change solutions. These sub-programs include: Efficient transportation models.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

This is essential both for preventing irreversible degradation of resources and ecosystems, and for realizing the multiple benefits of greener cities, from savings through energy-efficient buildings, or the health and climate benefits of cleaner fuels and vehicles. —Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 23, 2010

If the transport sector is to cope with the rapid growth in motor vehicle traffic and the related environmental and health issues then major changes are needed to how transport is financed. It stated [.].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

The report from a task force assembled by the CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies), a Brussels-based think tank, on European transport policy has concluded that the EU’s goal of a 60% greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction in the transport sector in 2050 compared to 1990 levels is possible, but at a cost.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2011

up to 45%) depending on the extent to which renewable technology costs fall and possible constraints on deployment of low-carbon alternatives, according to the newly released Renewable Energy Review by the UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC). Renewable transport. aviation, industry). —Renewable Energy Review.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2021

Transport & Mobility – Reimagining and reinventing all types of vehicles, fuels, and mobility options for both people and products. of the Union of Concerned Scientists; Paul Holthus, World Ocean Council; Kara Hurst, Amazon; Edward Mungai, Kenya Climate Innovation Center; and Robin Newmark, National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2009

Among the proposals in the new US highway and transportation funding reauthorization bill, outlined by House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman James L. in a press conference last week, is the linkage of transportation planning with greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Oberstar (D-Minn.) Mica (R-Fla.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2015

The grant will fulfill a key mandate of SB 1275, the Charge Ahead California Initiative, enacted last year to make clean transportation more widely available, particularly in low and moderate-income neighborhoods. The funding for the project comes from fees collected under the state’s climate change law, AB 32. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries.

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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. The 10 global sustainability megaforces that may impact business over the next two decades are: Climate Change: This may be the one global megaforce that directly impacts all others. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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