Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The proposed expansion of sugarcane production is within the area that can be legally converted.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2016

Daimler is establishing Startup Autobahn, a new startup ecosystem in Stuttgart, in partnership with Silicon Valley accelerator Plug and Play, the University of Stuttgart and ARENA2036. We are warmly welcoming international as well as local startups. The Hardware Lab in ARENA2036 is a large high-tech workshop (approx.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2011

The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford recently published a report recommending that individual governments take more action to curb their own greenhouse gas emissions and put pressure on other governments to do the same. International climate negotiations can only go so far.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2019

Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2009

A new study by researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California Davis, examines a range of sustainability requirements for biofuels and considers a possible framework for implementing the LCFS sustainability provision. It also reviews the sustainability principles and criteria (Version 0.5) or Version 1.0

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2013

Zipcar now has more than 760,000 members (“Zipsters”), with a market-leading presence in 20 major metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada and Europe, and fleet positioned at more than 300 college and university campuses. Morgan Stanley is acting as financial advisor, and Latham & Watkins LLP is acting as legal counsel, to Zipcar.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

Engineers at Arizona State University have engineered E. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) also classifies styrene as a potential human carcinogen. SIRC legal counsel will work with government counsel to develop that schedule while. evaluating other possible legal options. Rebekah McKenna, David R.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Geographers from Dartmouth College and the University of Sheffield have provided new insight into the economic geography of commuter megaregions in the US by using an empirical approach that combines visual interpretation with statistical analysis. A commuter flow-based regionalization of the United States. Nelson et al. Click to enlarge. …

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

Some offset projects may provide further benefits, such as: (a) the promotion of sustainable development; (b) improvements in air or water quality; (c) the creation of new domestic and international economic opportunities; and (d) the incentivization of innovation as parties seek new methods of generating offsets. CREDIBILITY OF OFFSETS.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

A study by the University of San Diego Burnham-Morse Center for Real Estate estimates that worker productivity gains with improved indoor air quality average $5,204 per worker. A well-designed air quality system can protect companies from legal liability and government fines and sanctions, while improving overall sustainability metrics.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

All these challenges are supported by studies of legal issues and effectiveness evaluation. Fraunhofer Institute for Labor Economy and Organization (IAO); GEVAS Software GmbH; Heusch/Boesefeldt GmbH; University of Applied Sciences Technology and Business of the State of Saarland; ifak Magdeburg e.V.; University of Braunschweig; Tech.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Honda first recognized an issue related to the recording of a verbal date code in the legal file management system in 2011 and believed that it could have affected the accuracy of the EWR reports; however, apparently, there was no follow-up. The NHTSA made Honda aware of its under-reporting EWRs in early January 2012.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

All of this behavior is perfectly legal, they add. In response to federal policies to boost gas mileage, manufacturers have changed vehicle weights, improved tire-rolling resistance and added aerodynamic features to push fuel-economy rates past government-mandated thresholds. Likewise, vehicles getting less than 18 mpg are taxed up to $4,000.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

A new cost-benefit analysis of biofuels policies by economists Harry de Gorter and David Just at Cornell University has concluded that government mandates for biofuels “ are clearly superior to all other policies, with few tradeoffs arising. Subsidies and mandates by themselves do not discriminate against international trade.

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MARCH 22, 2010

If cap-and-trade in the United States were to become reality along the lines of proposals now before Congress, up to 2 billion of the new credits would be drawn from carbon offsets, potentially increasing the worldwide supply of such credits by a factor of seven. Donovan (20 December 2009). About the Author. Renergie”).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 23, 2023

And do you also worry about algorithmic bias and automated decision-making systems that may be used in judicial systems, or legal systems, or medical contexts, things like that? At the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, we are a grant-making organization internally for our faculty. Wald: Absolutely.

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APRIL 1, 2009

The draft directs EPA to achieve additional reductions in global warming pollution by entering into agreements to prevent international deforestation. The total quantity of offsets allowed in any year cannot exceed 2 billion tons, split evenly between domestic and international offsets. light duty vehicles—e.g., Banking and Borrowing.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

When the car is filled at the pump, an internal system analyses the mix of the two fuel types and adjusts accordingly. Current Legal Requirement for Use of Anhydrous Ethanol in the United States. Brazil introduced its current generation of ethanol-powered cars in 2003, the same year in which anhydrous ethanol consumption peaked.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 4, 2022

president Joe Biden called on Congress to boost data privacy protections for children. PROCESSES AND PRINCIPLES The IEEE 2089-2021 working group is composed of developers, nongovernmental organizations, nonprofits, legal firms, and other stakeholders. INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS The standard also embodies the U.N.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A new brief published by the International Transport Forum (ITF)—an intergovernmental organization at the OECD with 59 member countries— identifies proven measures that decrease road freight’s CO 2 emissions. Antitrust legislation sometimes hinders horizontal collaboration and legal risk has already prevented some trials.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have shown that between 87 and 98 percent of ships comply with the tougher regulations for sulfur emissions that were introduced in northern Europe in 2015. Such inspections are a prerequisite for taking legal action against rule breakers. —Johan Mellqvist.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2014

On-road NO x emission levels of Euro 6 diesel cars in Europe are on average about seven times higher than the NO x limit set by the Euro 6 emission standard, according to a new report published in Berlin by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). Earlier post.). g/m 3 one-hour average for nitrogen dioxide, 40 ?g/m

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

She also narrates her stratospheric rise—in the years since her TED talk, she has presented at the World Economic Forum, testified before Congress, and participated in President Biden’s roundtable on AI. Via email, she answered IEEE Spectrum ‘s questions about how to be a principled AI researcher and how to change the status quo.

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JULY 19, 2012

California’s original approach to heavy carbon oils resulted in a legal challenge that is still pending; the EU’s adoption of a similar approach has resulted in protracted discussion and negotiation with Canada that has yet to be resolved, either.).

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AUGUST 17, 2016

These levels are descriptive rather than normative and technical rather than legal. Source: SAE International. They imply no particular order of market introduction. Elements indicate minimum rather than maximum system capabilities for each level. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 16, 2009

The PUMA looks like it might sell well in university and corporate campuses and those large empty subdivisions in SoCal and Vegas. If a go-cart cant legally drive there, then this thing wont be able to either. Reddit Recent posts from Green Tech EPA calls greenhouse gases a public threat U.S. Look at it this way. Then Ill be impressed.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2018

But the evidence shows that freezing CAFE standards is hard to justify on economic, social, environmental, or legal grounds. We are researchers, not pundits, and so we hesitate to speculate.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 12, 2024

Congress to address these threats. Create liability for “reasonably foreseeable misuse” and negligence: Developers of AI systems should be legally liable for harms caused to both individuals and to society. Unsecured AI also has the potential to facilitate production of dangerous materials, such as biological and chemical weapons.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2022

Squibb, were at the time locked in a nasty legal battle over the commercial rights to the antibiotic tetracycline. But at the time, the story was plausible enough to occasion internal handwringing among Bell system providers. It was also entirely legal to hire someone else to do it for you. The two firms, Bristol-Myers and.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Based on calculations by the International Energy Agency (IEA), 75% of the growth in the world’s energy demand from 2005 to 2030 will come from developing countries. Other transaction costs include the search of partners, the drafting of contracts, legal assistance, etc. The OPEC Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

nationals and legal residents. Public finance is important, but private sector investment will play a much bigger role, and how that’s mobilized is a key issue ,” says Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency. Financing Investments and Other Public Expenditures. TLC and Equity Capital. CONCLUSION.

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