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Air pollution could claim 6.6 million lives per year by 2050, double current rate; small domestic fires and ag the worst offenders

Green Car Congress

The largest sources of air pollution are not industry and transport but small domestic fires and agriculture. Other major sources are fossil-fuel fired power plants, industry, biomass combustion and motor vehicles. If air pollution emissions continue to rise at the current rate, some 6.6

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Travelling after Brexit

Greenways Insurance

If this happens, UK motor insurance customers driving in the European Economic Area, Andorra, Serbia and Switzerland will need physical proof of motor insurance when they travel, commonly referred to as a Green Card. The Department of Transport issued a statement in September that Green Card issuance would be free.

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COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

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We will support efforts to achieve the road transport breakthrough announced by world leaders, which aims to make zero emission vehicles the new normal by making them accessible, affordable and sustainable in all regions by 2030. … The declaration is not legally binding and is focused on a global level. —COP 26 Declaration.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

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The report found that strict new emissions laws are having a strong effect on the availability of cleaner cars, but wealth, motoring taxes, fuel prices and consumer attitudes, which vary wildly from country to country across Europe, have much more of an effect on how clean a car is chosen.&#. Cyprus / 166 / 170 / 20.

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