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The Global Outlook of Electric Vehicles

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Needless to say, EV sales are increasing globally. Coming in second is Norway, followed by Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom rounding out the top five countries for EV adoption, according to the most recent version of the Electric Vehicle Country Readiness Index from ​​ Ernst & Young Global Ltd.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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The findings suggest that developing nations are moving toward cleaner power but not nearly fast enough to limit global CO 2 emissions. Overall, declining costs for solar and wind played a considerable factor in the fall in absolute dollar investment in emerging economies. billion and $2.7 billion, respectively, from the year prior.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. Maria Oden , also a bioengineering professor, founded the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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In general, the commercial quality timber stand is young, healthy, and vigorously growing. The new non-erosive structure cost about $400,000. Next is the baseline or business-as-usual carbon storage; i.e., the repeated logging of the forest with no other considerations that commercial. Click to enlarge. Carbon offsets.

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