Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 21, 2017
Other main findings include: In 2016, China, US, EU28, India, Russia and Japan, the world’s largest emitters in decreasing order of CO 2 emissions, accounted for 51% of the population, 65% of global Gross Domestic Product, 67% of the total primary energy supply and emitted 68% of total global CO 2 and circa 65% of total global GHGs.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 18, 2017
The overall increase in the world’s nuclear net capacity last year was the highest since 1993, with new reactors coming online in China, the United States, South Korea, India, Russia and Pakistan. Coal demand fell worldwide but the drop was particularly sharp in the United States, where demand was down 11% in 2016.
EV Central
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
We are the only country in the civilised world not to have a a fuel efficiency standard (some people like to point out that Russia doesn’t have one either, but invading your neighbours is about as civilised as drinking vodka out of a sock). READ MORE: It’s a green light for electric vehicles! Look, I get it.
Drive Electric
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
New Zealand is the only OECD country without emissions standards, besides Russia. In New Zealand air pollution contributes to the premature deaths of 27 deaths per 100,000 people. Further, in 2020, the Australian car industry signed up to a new voluntary agreement to reduce vehicle CO2 emissions between 2021 and 2030.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 26, 2010
Russia, the Middle East, and the US have the highest concentration of global gas reserves. The overbuilding of natural gas combined cycle plants starting in the mid-1990s presents a significant opportunity for near term reductions in CO2 emissions from the power sector.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 29, 2009
2 ] Rasmussen’s “one agreement, two steps” plan was quickly endorsed by US President Obama, as well as Australia’s Prime Minister Rudd and Russia’s President Medvedev, all of whom were present at the APEC summit. It is estimated that Russia’s 2007 greenhouse gas emissions were a full 34% below 1990 levels.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
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. Among these fuels natural produces the least of the “dirty byproducts&# , then oil and then coal which produces the most unwanted pollutants.
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