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Report: total investment of $8.1T in nature required over next 3 decades; tripling current investments needed by 2030

Green Car Congress

It stresses the need to accelerate capital flows rapidly to nature-based solutions by making nature central to public- and private-sector decision-making related to societal challenges, including tackling the climate and biodiversity crises. of projected economic stimulus spending. A total investment of $8.1

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

Green Car Congress

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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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Email « Daily Sprout GE Looking to Tap $2 Trillion of Stimulus Spending » Leave a reply Name (required) Email (required, will not be published) Website Notify me of follow-up comments via email. version, with cell phones and mobile devices.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Tax Credits Instead, Obama backed tax credits of as much as $7,500 inthe stimulus package approved in February for buyers of plug-incars. So far, President Barack Obama has announced no new federaleffort to promote the fuel, and federal funding for hydrogen fortransportation use in the 2009 budget dropped to $177.7 millionthis year from $211.9

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

And what’s working for the Greenius and Mrs. Greenius will work for the rest of America, even the little brain people who aren’t sure if climate change is man-made or not and probably even the Stepford brainwashed pod people who think Al Gore is a bad man. And that kind of vision makes us powerful. How powerful will that make you?

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Unfortunately, there is very little specific funding for wireless transmission in the stimulus bill that was just signed by the USA President.

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