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London to host £150 Catapult center for smarter cities; chaired by Sir David King

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London will host a Future Cities Catapult center intended to help make cities become smarter and more forward thinking. The London Future Cities Catapult will look at ways in which services across areas such as health, transport, energy and public safety can be integrated, helping to boost the economy and benefit citizens.

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Nissan launches LEAF “taxi” campaign in London

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A fleet of zero-emission Nissan LEAFs will be driving around London on the 23 rd and 24 th June, offering free taxi rides. Calculations are based on a national average of British Gas Economy 7 rates as at 12 January 2012, assuming 7 hours of charging overnight at the night rate and 1 hour in the daytime charged at the Tier-2 daytime rate.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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“Electric cars will not save the climate. Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change? In fact, some 74 percent of those polled indicated they were already “proud of what [they are] currently doing” to combat climate change.

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Coltura: Federal & state EV policy & incentives must target gasoline superusers to achieve carbon emissions goals

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Advocacy group Coltura has published a report that finds converting the biggest users of gasoline to EVs in the next ten years is critical to reaching climate goals and that present EV policies are poorly suited to accomplishing that conversion. —Janelle London, co-author of the report.

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GlobalData: Russian nickel sanctions would slow electric vehicle adoption

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Sanctioning Russian nickel will slow the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and hinder the decarbonization of Western economies, according to GlobalData. A skyrocketing nickel price would have major repercussions on the climate ambitions of countries around the world, and will ultimately hamper the adoption of EVs.

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LSE report calls for global investment of an additional $3T each year to drive economic recovery and transformation

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Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), with a team from the LSE. The independent report, published today, on “ G7 leadership for sustainable, resilient and inclusive economic recovery and growth ” was led by Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, I.G. The report says that $1.5-1.7

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Mayors of 12 major cities pledge to procure only zero-emission buses from 2025; major areas to be zero-emission by 2030

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The mayors of London, Paris, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Quito, Vancouver, Mexico City, Milan, Seattle, Auckland and Cape Town have pledged to procure only zero-emission buses from 2025 and ensure that a major area of their city is zero emission by 2030. Lead by example by procuring zero emission vehicles for city fleets.

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