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Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill

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Drive Electric supports the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Bill (‘the Bill’) and encourages New Zealand to be ambitious. Given New Zealand’s reliance on personal light vehicles, accelerating the uptake of e-mobility is an essential part of reducing emissions from transport. Executive Summary. Introduction .

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. Every ton of offsets verified by a DOE can thereafter be used to compensate for excessive emissions by companies in Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. REFERENCES. Lack of Additionality.

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RESPONSE TO: Ministry of Transport’s Charging Our Future: Discussion Document

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PART A: INTRODUCTION About us Drive Electric is a not-for-profit advocacy organisation supporting the uptake and mainstreaming of e-mobility in New Zealand as part of the effort to decarbonise transport. The case for an EV Charging Strategy New Zealand is on the cusp of the biggest transformation in transport in over a century.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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The projects span the globe and the unexplored branches of the tree of life, and promise to yield a better understanding of the interplay between climate, ecosystem and organism. Another terabase-sized metagenome project comes from Craig Cary at the University of Delaware and Charles Lee at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

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Drive Electric Submission: Auckland Transport Parking Strategy

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Drive Electric is a not-for-profit advocacy organisation supporting the uptake and mainstreaming of e-mobility in New Zealand, a key part of decarbonising transport. We have framed this response around our mission, which is to accelerate the uptake of e-mobility in New Zealand. Executive Summary. Key recommendations: 1.

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Intel's Open Source Strategy

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I’m your host Stephen Cass , a senior editor at Spectrum, and before Before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum ‘s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics by signing up for one of our free newsletters. OpenJDK is the reference implementation of Java.

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