Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The collapse in world oil prices in the second half of 2014 will have only a moderate impact on the fast-developing low-carbon transition in the world electricity system, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Earlier Bloomberg New Energy Finance analysis showed that, with gasoline at $2.09 on 30 June to $61.60

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Oil Prices Oil Price Carbon 268

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. Claims that “the technology exists to solve the climate problem” underestimate the scale of efforts required.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

GSI, in collaboration with the National Institute for Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) and The Energy Resource Institute. million barrels per day, natural gas demand would be cut by 330 billion cubic meters, and coal demand would drop by 230 million tons of coal. Oil demand would be reduced by 3.7 in 2020 and 5.8%

Renewable 312

Renewable International Fuel Energy 312

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. House Bill 2626.

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Climate Change Oregon Carbon Standards 170

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 9, 2024

Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work.

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Financing Waste Fuel India 104

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2013

The assessment comes on the heels of a national climate action plan announced by President Obama. Carbon sequestration in the President’s climate plan. Carbon sequestration in the President’s climate plan. As an acceptable condition for US government support for public financing of new coal plants overseas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2013

The program is part of President Obama’s climate action plan. Projects deploying these technologies are typically unable to obtain commercial financing due to high technology risks. Earlier post.). Once finalized, this solicitation will be the sixth issued in support of Section 1703.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 15, 2024

During the COP28 climate conference held in Dubai last month, world leaders from over 130 national governments agreed to set a goal to triple world renewable energy installations by 2030. The post Renewables to overtake coal as largest global electricity source in 2025 appeared first on TESLARATI. What are your thoughts?

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Coal Renewable Global Wind 107

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. Section 4122 allows state and local governmental entities to issue tax credit bonds in order to finance natural gas vehicle projects. The American Power Act.

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Gas-Electric Gas Climate Energy 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

—Leo Johnson, Partner, Sustainability and Climate Change, PwC. Resilience will become a watch word in the boardroom—to policy responses as well as to the climate. The new reality is a much more challenging future in terms of planning, financing and predictability. —PwC report.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 13, 2025

IEEE continues to raise its visibility as a trusted voice on mitigating the effects of climate change. Climate Change Conference (COP29). Then in December, IEEE and the International Telecommunication Union held a symposium on achieving climate resilience. Rahman was the events general chair.

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Climate Change Climate Azerbaijan Renewable 96

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

In addition, despite the rigorous development of renewables, carbon dioxide emissions are increasing, because the energy mix increasingly includes coal-fired power plants that emit large quantities of CO 2 to compensate for weather-related fluctuations in power generation from renewables and the closing of nuclear plants.

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Germany Energy Renewable Grid 239

Electrek

MAY 18, 2021

According to the Rainforest Action Network, Dimon either dismissed those questions, punted, or demonstrated an apparent misunderstanding of his bank’s policies. more… The post Environmental groups: JPMorgan Chase emissions targets are ‘fig leaf for fossil expansion’ appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

billion in tax subsidies for oil, coal and gas industries. Select EERE Programs and Financing (US$ millions). billion in applied energy research and development to position the United States as the world leader in energy technology that will address climate change, develop new industries, and create new jobs. Solar energy.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 11, 2015

Coal is the worst fossil fuel, that much is clear. Its carbon footprint per kilowatt-hour of electricity when it's burned by electric utilities to make electricity is far, far higher than that of natural gas.

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Coal Financing Climate Gas-Electric 60

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

The partnership centers on driving forward the production of carbon-neutral steel, with a plan to replace coal with wind power and green hydrogen as the main source of energy in steel production at ArcelorMittal’s steelmaking sites in Germany. Industry needs both in large quantities as soon as possible in order to achieve its climate targets.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

We have had a long debate about climate change in this country. Most Australians now agree our climate is changing, this is caused by carbon pollution, this has harmful effects on our environment and on the economy—and the Government should act.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

Greenhouse gas emissions will certainly grow too, because India’s energy generation is dominated by fossil fuels—coal-fired power plants for electricity, coal- and gas-fired furnaces for industrial heating, liquid petroleum gas for cooking, and gasoline and diesel for transportation. costs less than fossil-fuel-based electricity.

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Coal Energy Storage Wind Renewable 98

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

It not only solves our air quality and climate challenges by producing pollution-free hydrogen. Bloomberg New Energy Finance reports that clean hydrogen could cut up to 34% of global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and industry. That’s why our partnership with SGH2 is so important. This is game-changing technology.

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Waste Hydrogen Green California 345

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Moreover, developers must show that the project would make no economic sense without CDM funds and that documentation exists to demonstrate that these factors were considered by the company’s board of directors in their decision to pursue CDM financing. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions 255

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

Böhni emphasized that the production of climate-neutral fuel is key to climate protection and therefore needs to be given a fair chance; he established the Clean Fuel Now initiative at the Federal Parliament in Bern in late 2014. Climate change is happening much faster than we thought a few years ago. Click to enlarge.

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Electrek

MARCH 24, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): A climate group report shows fossil-fuel financing continues to rise despite Paris Agreement pledges. The world’s largest coal mining company sets its sights on solar. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 31, 2009

Creative Greenius talks AB 811 Financing to the Green Task Force / photo (c) Debra Bushweit Galliani. I bring a passion that’s driven by my sense of urgency over our climate change crisis. Click Here to Download a PDF copy of my presentation ). But I also bring something more on top of all that.

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Green Los Angeles Solar Climate Change 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The announcement came on the eve of the US-China Climate Leaders Summit to be hosted in L.A. Broader goals for the plan include reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050; increasing local water supplies to 50% by 2035; getting DWP off of coal entirely by 2025; and reducing water use city-wide 20% by 2017.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The European Commission has adopted the European Energy Union package —a framework strategy for a resilient energy union with a forward-looking climate change policy. Today, we launch the most ambitious European energy project since the Coal and Steel Community. Climate Change Emissions Europe Policy Regulations'

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Transportation Europe Energy Climate 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2011

In 2008, a report by UNEP called for the elimination of fossil-fuel subsidies, concluding that such subsidies often lead to increased levels of consumption and waste; place a heavy burden on government finances; can undermine private and public investment in the energy sector; and do not always end up helping the people who need them most.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

JetBlue will continue to partner with Carbonfund.org—a leading US-based nonprofit carbon reduction and climate solutions organization. Buying carbon credits means investing in emission reduction projects that require carbon offsetting financing in order to take place. The sale of carbon offsets help to finance the projects.

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Carbon 2020 Emissions San Francisco 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

The use of coal—which met almost half of the increase in global energy demand over the last decade—rises 65% by 2035. Prospects for coal are especially sensitive to energy policies – notably in China, which today accounts for almost half of global demand. —WEO 2011. —WEO 2011. Other Findings from WEO 2011.

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Oil Transportation Cheap Energy 247

Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

My new solar system only needs to be 2 kilowatts now instead of 4 – which is good because solar’s still too damn expensive and the process for putting AB 811 financing in place is taking too damn long, (and that’s another Greenius post that I’m still working on). The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2010

The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Geneva-based Global Subsidies Initiative ( GSI ) has issued a five-part series of reports into how nations might remove fossil-fuel subsidies, on the eve of a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington this week. This will be easier said than done.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2023

Surging prices for coal last year have led to some new coal mines ramping up after the war in Ukraine exacerbated a supply shortage brought on by growing reluctance from climate conscious investors to funding new fossil fuel projects. In March it had said it expected to restart in the second half of 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. If developed in a responsible manner, natural gas can be the critical transition fuel that reduces the environmental impacts of fossil fuels and keeps us on a path toward a decarbonized energy future.

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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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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

He wasn’t a finance guy, thinking “I’m going to make money.” It’s expensive and my clients don’t finance. Because for one, financing isn’t available anymore and two, early adopters are a different crowd. THE HOLY GRAIL OF SOLAR: $3 A WATT, CHEAPER THAN COAL. And at sub $3 you’re cheaper than coal. He was a geek.

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the 2030s, the grid will have less coal and there will be some constraints on gas. To move things along, Amazon led a US $500 million financing round to support X-energy in Rockville, Md., The financing will help X-energy finish its reactor design and build a nuclear fuel fabrication facility.

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Molten Salt Google Gas-Electric Grid 133

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

We have rock-solid finances. Every electric car is ultimately only as climate-friendly as the generation of electricity it uses. Does it ever make sense ecologically to operate a car with power from a coal-fired plant? We have nine strong brands that work well together. We have a huge technological potential, despite the crisis.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future?

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