Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2010

The goal of the project is to demonstrate that jatropha can produce significant quantities of oil for conversion to biodiesel and to develop new varieties of the plant that have high yields, can withstand frost, and grow in temperate climates such as the United States. Two jatropha farms will be established in India: a 16-hectare (39.5

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. The Climate Foundation is one of several startups growing kelp to remove carbon dioxidefrom the ocean. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2010

trillion is spent annually on transport globally, mostly in ways that exacerbate rather than solve the problems associated with traffic growth, including congestion, health-harming air pollution, accidents, energy insecurity, and climate change. The report, A Paradigm Shift Towards Sustainable Low Carbon Transport , finds that more than $1.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The development of the ME-LGIP engine to burn LPG is part of the Maritime Energy Transition, an umbrella term that covers all MAN Energy Solutions activities in regard to supporting a climate-neutral shipping industry. The 86,000 m 3 newbuildings will each be powered by an individual MAN B&W 6G60ME-LGIP Mk9.5 HFO-burning engines to 6G60ME-C9.5-LGIP

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

Ground measurements are being taken in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand, for example. The HALO research aircraft is a joint initiative of German environmental and climate research institutions. The EMeRGe project receives around €6 million (US$7.4

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Experts from JAMA visited six countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) to share their recommended specifications of the two first-generation biofuels. JAMA’s position statement on Bio-ethanol quality, including specifications.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In the Philippines, QEV recently equipped 10 new GET electric minibuses and converted numerous Jeepneys to use its fully-electric technology. The EIB funding will not only contribute to sustainable public mobility and tackling climate change, but will also support new jobs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2009

Emissions of two of the most important climate change gases increased last year, according to a preliminary analysis for NOAA’s annual greenhouse gas index, which tracks data from 60 sites around the world. When related climate affects are taken into account, methane’s overall climate impact is nearly half that of carbon dioxide.

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Plug in America

JUNE 10, 2021

One of the first joint activities of the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance will be participating in the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26, which will be held in Glasgow in November 2021. We hope to see other countries join us! This is just the beginning for GEVA! For more information, visit globalevalliance.com.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Emissions are increasing in other developing countries: 6% for Indonesia and Malaysia; 9% for Pakistan and 12% for the Philippines. India does not show yet any decoupling of their emissions growth from their economic growth, unlike Brazil, where emissions fell by 6%. Also in Eurasia emissions grew in Turkey (5%) and Ukraine (8%).

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Teslarati

APRIL 22, 2022

Quotes courtesy of ABC News.

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Driivz

MARCH 31, 2021

With the increasing threat of climate change, renewable energy has slowly but surely regained is prominence. The tectonic-plate-related power is generated most in Iceland, El Salvador, New Zealand, Kenya, and the Philippines. Ultimately, charging electric vehicles with renewable energy creates a “one-two punch” against climate change.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This accelerating pace brings ambitious climate targets closer, but continued rapid progress is still needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C Meanwhile, Germany has already exceeded its solar capacity target for all of 2024, and is on track to meet its new target for 2026, which is set out in its National Energy and Climate Plan.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Tropical Storm Ketsana, locally referred to as Ondoy, deluged Manila and surrounding areas with 455mm (18 inches) of rain in 24 hours Saturday, killing 240 people and displacing 609,548 according to SitRep 12 (29 September) from the Philippines National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC). Click to enlarge. Jack Rosebro.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

At the start of 2023, PHEV subsidies were phased out, resulting in lower PHEV sales compared to 2022, and in December 2023, all EV subsidies ended after a ruling on the Climate and Transformation Fund. However, the phase-out of several purchase subsidies in Germany slowed overall EV sales growth.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2009

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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Teslarati

APRIL 23, 2021

A look at the current political climate in countries such as the United States and the Philippines would show this. The post Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate appeared first on TESLARATI. It is then no surprise that tribalism is prevalent everywhere.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 30, 2021

Automobile flood tests seem to grow pertinent every year as climate change increases the likelihood of record-breaking floods. In countries like the Philippines or China, floods are a yearly experience, and drivers must be prepared to escape before floodwaters seep into their homes, offices, etc.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Philippines: Nickel mining has led to widespread environmental impacts via dust generation, air pollution, water contamination, soil erosion and damage to aquatic life. Indonesia: Vast nickel mining projects have razed forests, uprooted local people, and polluted rivers and seas.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This question of whether climate change becomes so bad that we have to do something to dull its impacts and reduce human suffering is a very big one,” says Keutsch, an atmospheric chemist. For many, the mere idea of purposefully intervening in the climate system is problematic and worth shutting down before it gains traction.

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