Remove Climate Remove CO2 Remove Gas Remove White Paper
article thumbnail

Roskill: CO2 emissions from lithium production set to triple by 2025

Green Car Congress

This calculation includes all CO 2 emissions grouped under Scope 1 and 2 categories as set out by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol as well those associated with transporting material between production and refining sites.

Emissions 459
article thumbnail

MIT Energy Initiative Publishes Report on Reducing CO2 Emissions from Existing Coal Plants

Green Car Congress

There is no credible pathway toward prudent greenhouse gas stabilization targets without CO 2 emissions reduction from existing coal power plants. This inventory should inform policy makers about the range of options for significant reduction of CO 2 emissions from operating coal plants in different climate policy scenarios.

Coal 150
article thumbnail

Volvo Car Corporation challenges EU’s goals and tactics on cutting CO2 emissions; CEO says electrified vehicles will struggle to pass 1% market share by 2020

Green Car Congress

Jacoby also raised concerns about the viability of the European Commission’s White Paper on Transport, which states that greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector will have to be cut by at least 60% by 2050 to achieve the EU’s climate change goals. —Stefan Jacoby.

Volvo 225
article thumbnail

GM Quantifies CO2 and Fuel Consumption Reductions Via E-REVs And PHEVs, As Compared To Conventional Hybrids

Green Car Congress

General Motors has released a white paper that evaluates the CO 2 reduction potential of extended-range electric vehicles (E-REVs) as well as plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), in combination with multiple vehicle charging scenarios, as compared to conventional hybrids. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuel Efficiency Hybrids Plug-ins.

PHEV 150
article thumbnail

European Commission outlines comprehensive Transport 2050 plan to increase mobility while cutting transport CO2 emissions 60%; phasing out conventionally-fueled (non-hybrid) cars in cities by 2050

Green Car Congress

Achieving this will require a transformation in Europe’s current transport system, the white paper notes. The widely held belief that you need to cut mobility to fight climate change is simply not true. The Transport 2050 roadmap to a Single European Transport Area (Links to white paper and supporting documents).

article thumbnail

It’s Time To Go To The Mattresses

Creative Greenius

We already gave the Killer Coal Family a chance to stop disrespecting us and make things right - but what did those climate-changing con artists do instead? But don’t just take my word for it: Just last week our Climate Consigliere , Doc Jimmy Hansen laid it all out for us. Science and policy cannot be divorced. But I digress.

Coal 199