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CARB launching second round of Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Project with $130M

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CORE is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment — particularly in disadvantaged communities.

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Study: Cash-for-Clunkers Programs Should Use Fuel Economy Rather Than Age to Maximize GHG Reductions

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A study by researchers at UC Davis suggests that a properly designed vehicle scrappage (i.e., An earlier, separate study by UC Davis transportation economist Christopher Knittel concluded that the US scrappage program paid nearly 10 times the projected price of carbon credits per ton in the best-case scenario to reduce GHG emissions.

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Scrappage scheme faces more criticism

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How much will the UK’s vehicle scrappage scheme help car buyers? The subsidy he suggests does not automatically put a new car within reach and in the current climate many won’t qualify for finance to make up the shortfall. Do you think the scrappage scheme should be extended to used cars?

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More international criticism for scrappage schemes

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Yesterday we told you how the scrappage scheme proposals in the USA are coming under fire and today it is the turn of Spain’s scheme to face criticism. The Ecologistas en Accion , one of the country’s most important green groups, is claiming that the scrappage scheme is bad business.

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Industry experts have their say on scrappage plans

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Alistair Darling’s 2009 Budget, which announced the introduction of a £2,000 scrappage incentive scheme in the UK, has been met with mixed reviews from industry experts. “To describe this scrappage scheme as environmentally friendly is not just greenwash, it is hogwash. What do you think of the scrappage scheme?

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Hyundai ahead of the pack in scrappage scheme

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So which company has reaped the benefits of the vehicle scrappage scheme the most here in the UK? “In this sector of the market and in this economic climate, buyers are incredibly price conscious,&# he said. Look no further than Korean car manufacturer Hyundai.

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World Bank/ICCT report provides guidance to reducing black carbon emissions from diesels in developing countries

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Black carbon has been found to be second to carbon dioxide in terms of its climate forcing. Black carbon is 3,200 times more effective on a mass-equivalent basis than carbon dioxide in causing climate impacts within 20 years, and 900 times more effective within 100 years. Climate Change Diesel Emissions Fuels Health Policy'

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