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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Electric cars back on track?

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The NY Times headlined "As Gas Costs Soar, Buyers Flock to Small Cars." Tesla had a red carpet grand opening for its first showroom and service center in Los Angeles. nk of Norway has begun producing cars again, and sales are slated to begin soon in Scandinavia, Switzerland and France. Oil has passed $120 a barrel.