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World Engineering Day Focuses on Shaping a Sustainable Future

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A humans well-being and socioeconomic progress are deeply connected to the environment. Peoples livelihoods, businesses, industries, and biodiversity depend on a stable and healthy environment. The global initiative celebrates engineering achievements and recognizes engineers contributions to progress. If not now, when?

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IEEE Makes Strides to Improve Online Safety for Kids

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To help developers build age-appropriate websites, the IEEE Standards Association has released two guidelines: one for the process of designing age-appropriate sites for children and the other for systems to verify the user’s age online. We have to design the world to be appropriate for children, like we design other environments.”

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Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

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Current levels of investments in low-carbon technology and infrastructure are substantially lower than the $500 billion per year deemed necessary by the International Energy Agency (IEA) to hold the increase of global average temperatures below 2 °Celsius—the target agreed to in Cancun last year.

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14 global automakers reach agreement on standards for suppliers on key responsibility issues

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People and the environment are the automotive industry’s most important resources. The following guidelines clearly describe our expectations towards business ethics, working conditions, human rights, and environmental performance, for our suppliers as well as their subcontractors and suppliers. …The Daimler; Fiat S.p.A.;

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IMO environment meeting adopts mandatory energy efficiency measures for international shipping; first mandatory global GHG reduction regime for an international industry sector

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Mandatory measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from international shipping were adopted by Parties to MARPOL Annex VI represented in the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ), when it met for its 62 nd session from 11 to 15 July 2011 at IMO Headquarters in London.

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Honda aiming to sell 3.5M electric motorcycles per year by 2030

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Envisioning the future market environment, uses and technological advancements, Honda is exploring a range of future personal-use models including ones equipped with a power source besides swappable batteries. —have agreed on common specifications for swappable batteries based on the JASO TP21003 guideline. Commuter EMs / EBs.

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Yanmar conducts field demonstration test for maritime hydrogen fuel cell system

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The strategy highlights the development of energy and power sources that reduce the impact on the environment, including those for vessels powered by carbon free fuels such as hydrogen and ammonia. Yanmar aims to verify specific issues and solutions in a maritime environment for deployment of the maritime fuel cell system.

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