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Volvo delivers first heavy electric truck to Africa; Volvo FE Electric for refuse collection in Rabat, Morocco

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Volvo Trucks has delivered its first heavy electric truck to Rabat, Morocco. Volvo Trucks has the broadest line-up of electric trucks available for commercial transports. Morocco has ambitious climate goals, based on large investments in renewable energy.

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Morocco Is A Green Leader & Might Get EU Hydrogen Balance Right

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Why exactly would it be beneficial to the climate for Morocco to take renewable electricity, make hydrogen and products from hydrogen, and ship them to Europe at significant loss of energy so that the EU can achieve climate emissions reductions?

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German minister Wissing starts international e-fuels dialogue

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The German Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport Dr Volker Wissing launched an international e-fuels dialogue in Munich at the conference “ E-Fuels – Paving the Way for Clean Mobility ”. We need e-fuels to achieve our climate protection goals. We need e-fuels to achieve our climate protection goals.

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Small Glimmers Of Hope As Climate Changes Exacerbate Violence

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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has established a causal link between climate change and the rise in armed conflicts in sub-Saharan African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan. This region has become the global epicenter of violent extremist activity. “On the […]

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Denmark, Norway, and US to lead Zero-Emission Shipping Mission

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The Mission will also be supported by the governments of India, Morocco, the UK, Singapore, France, Ghana, and South Korea. The Mission aims to accelerate international public-private collaboration to scale and deploy new green maritime solutions, setting international shipping on an ambitious zero-emission course.

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UNEP: export of used cars to developing world creating significant environmental problems

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Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the United States and Japan to the developing world are of poor quality, contributing significantly to air pollution and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

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Africa’s EV Road Back to Eden

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The African continent is bearing the brunt of climate change induced disasters. Here are some of the attempts to decarbonise the transport sector in these emerging economies as chronicled by Afrik21. We see it on the news most nights. Some further background can be found here.