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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

million to fund graduate research in clean and sustainable energy resources using biotechnology and nanotechnology. Rutgers will focus on replacing environmentally harmful fossil fuels with renewable, economically sustainable fuels in collaboration with universities in the US, Brazil, China and South Africa.

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JULY 12, 2013

GM’s fuel-economy plan through the 2016 model year focuses on a reduction in vehicle mass and aggressive investment in advanced materials, such as high-strength steel, carbon fiber and aluminum, enabled in part by our industry-first aluminum welding technology. Earlier post.). —2012 Sustainability Report. to reflect this change.

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DECEMBER 11, 2011

Countries meeting in Durban, South Africa, managed to deliver an agreement after an extension to negotiations. Parties to this second period will turn their economy-wide targets into quantified emission limitation or reduction objectives and submit them for review by 1 May 2012. of resources from a variety of sources.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

South Africa-based Anglo American Platinum , the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), has invested in the first close of the Series A financing round of Hydrogenious Technologies, a company developing liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) hydrogen storage technology. Click to enlarge. 2012.08.066.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

“ Governmental Energy Innovation Investments, Policies and Institutions in the Major Emerging Economies: Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico, China, and South Africa. Click to enlarge. Kempener, Ruud, Laura D. Anadon, and Jose Condor.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

The review is the latest product of WHO’s Health in the Green Economy initiative, which is considering available evidence on health impacts from climate mitigation strategies for key economic sectors, as reviewed by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation—Transport sector.

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MARCH 31, 2015

GDI engines help improve fuel economy and therefore reduce CO 2 emissions; however, they can have higher particulate emissions due to shorter fuel/air mixing times in the cylinder compared to multiport fuel injection engines. —Josep Fornos, Executive Vice President, Clean Air, Tenneco. Emissions Engines Europe Regulations'

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Climate change presents major long-term risks to the global economy and to the assets in which we invest. Align with wider policy goals including economic, energy, resources and transport policy objectives. Governments need to ensure the effectiveness of the institutions charged with implementing these policies, the investors said.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The other leading producers of critical minerals were Australia and South Africa with three critical minerals each and Congo (Kinshasa) with two critical minerals. Resources US Geological Survey, 2023, Mineral commodity summaries 2023: U.S. Geological Survey, 210 p., doi: 10.3133/mcs2023.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The low annual rate of global reduction of carbon emissions per unit of GDP needed to limit global warming to 2 °C—based on the probability assessments of the UN IPCC—is insufficient to achieve that goal, according to the latest Low Carbon Economy Index published by business consultancy PwC. —PwC.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

July, 2008 : The Australian government published the Garnaut Report, a comprehensive study of the effects of climate change on the country’s economy ( earlier post ). Given that China’s economy is still growing, such a strategy is unlikely to result in year-to-year emissions reductions for several decades. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Our economic modeling suggests that an investment of a few extra billion per year today could develop technologies that could save the economy hundreds of billions of dollars per year by 2050 in scenarios where there are stringent policies limiting how much carbon can be emitted.

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MARCH 18, 2013

The next generation of urban transportation is about connecting transportation modes, services, and technologies, bringing diverse innovations together in ways that favor accessibility (meeting needs) over mobility (moving for the sake of moving), and that work significantly better for people, economies, and the planet. Zielinski, S.

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MARCH 8, 2021

South Africa, the European Union and the U.S. The region is home to China and India — the two largest countries globally by population — both of which also happen to be two of the fastest-growing economies. The number of public EV charging stations worldwide passed one million in 2020, making it a landmark year.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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APRIL 21, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, the pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on the global economy and commodity markets, including cobalt. However, owing to the widespread closures in South Africa, most shipments are now having to be diverted to other neighboring ports such as Maputo in Mozambique or Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

For EVs, much of the environmental burden centers on the production of batteries, the most energy- and resource-intensive component of the vehicle. We then used results from a model of the global economy to allocate a portion of this global budget specifically to the U.S. passenger-vehicle fleet over the period between 2015 and 2050.

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