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NEOM Green Hydrogen Company completes financial close of $8.4B for world’s largest green hydrogen plant

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Additionally, NGHC also announced that the non-recourse financing structured for the project has been certified by S&P Global (as the second party opinion provider) as adhering to green loan principles and is one of the largest project financings put in place under the green loan framework.

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Westport Launches First Global Carbon Finance Program for Transportation Registered to the Voluntary Carbon Standard

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The project documentation is currently being reviewed by SQS, a Swiss entity certified by UNFCCC for the validation of climate change projects in the transport field. It was established to provide a global standard and validation and verification program for voluntary greenhouse gas offsets.

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RESPONSE TO: Ministry of Transport’s Charging Our Future: Discussion Document

Drive Electric

We support the drivers listed, but there are also others: New Zealand is a technology taker, so we must position ourselves to transition the fleet to electric as that is currently the global direction. (If We have more than 70 members from the sector. EVs are increasingly cheaper to run and maintain than petrol and diesel vehicles.

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Rise of Indian used car market; set to exceed 10 mn units by FY28 – ET Auto

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With technology and digitisation, easing of documentation and transactions, the structure of the market is growing. Gupta recalled that in 2016-17, the penetration of finance was hardly 7%. Mahindra FirstChoice enables used car sales through inspections before it goes for financing. This year the share is about 24%-25%.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

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Drive Electric Submission: Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document. However, the draft ERP document, while containing some advanced thinking, does not present the plan in a holistic way. . If we set clear direction around EVs, because of our market size the global car manufacturers will have little trouble meeting demand.

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Elon Musk considers South Korea for next Tesla Gigafactory location: report

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Last quarter, a few documents and occurrences appeared to suggest that Tesla might build its next gigafactory in Canada. In August, Tesla lobbyist registry documents in Canada revealed that the EV automaker initiated talks with Canada’s federal government. Tesla Canada. Canada proposes financial plan for more EV battery plants .

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Digital Currency and Trade Systems Are Tearing up the Rules

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The next big thing in global commerce is "trust chain" digital platforms. A well-documented example is Singapore's Project Ubin , sponsored by the country's monetary authority and its Temasek sovereign wealth fund, which is now being deployed after five years of testing and development.

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