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Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

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The Global Carbon Project (GCP) published its annual analysis of trends in the global carbon cycle in the journal Earth System Science Data , including an updated full-year projection for 2022. Global fossil CO 2 emissions are expected to grow 1.0% (with an uncertainty range of 0.1% The decline in 2020 of -5.2% increase in 2021.

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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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It recommends that these should be a central part of the recovery packages of the G7 countries, which together should increase their annual investment by 2% of GDP, or $1 trillion, compared to pre-pandemic levels. The report highlights the potential for investments in zero-emissions energy and transport to create new jobs and economic growth.

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Zero-Emission Truck (ZET) Coalition calls for government to prioritize investments benefiting ZETs

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The National Zero-Emission Truck (ZET) Coalition, including some four dozen organizations representing the US’ major heavy truck makers, innovators, suppliers and key stakeholders, sent a letter to Congressional leadership calling on any stimulus or recovery legislative package to prioritize investments that benefit U.S.

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ADB Study Finds Annual Economic Losses in Southeast Asia from Climate Change Could be More Than Twice the Global Average

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The mean cost of cost of climate change for the four countries—Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam—under a “business-as-usual” scenario and if market and non-market impacts and catastrophic risks are all considered could be equivalent to losing 6.7%

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The Summit On Clean Tech Law & The New Energy Policy

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All the details after the jump- In the civilized world, unprecedented efforts are being made globally to deal with climate change – almost all of which is directly traceable to the use of “dirty&# technologies. Stimulus Package allocated for renewables?

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Renewables account for approximately 10-15% of the global energy infrastructure investment and according to New Energy Finance renewables have been hit hard by the global recession with a 47% in Q1 2009 vs. Q1 2008 ($13.3 The US is in a race for global dominance in the new energy economy with China. Billion vs. $28.3

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

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Honda, which began leasing hydrogen fuel cell FCX Claritysedans in Los Angeles last year, still sees hydrogen as the bestlong-term alternative to gasoline as a fuel that can cut carbonexhaust tied to global warming, President Takeo Fukui said in aninterview. We will have packages that will be verycompetitive at that time.”

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