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Volkswagen & Siemens launch joint electric mobility pilot project in Rwanda

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Africa is the last frontier for the automotive industry. Volkswagen’s long-term goal is to play a leading and pioneering role in the development of the automotive industry in the continent. Ghana and Ethiopia are planned as the next locations. —Thomas Schäfer.

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Exploring Ghana, With Contemporary Art as a Guide

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In late 2022, I was invited to go to Ghana with a friend researching work by the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, who first made a splash at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. We were going to Ghana to learn about the context of his work and also to understand the emerging contemporary art scene in the country.

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More than 50 percent of MoUs signed in Vibrant Gujarat are green | Autocar Professional

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The Vibrant Gujarat Summit is part of the Gujarat government’s larger push to boost investment in the state and accelerate the Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Viksit Bharat @ 2047 vision. billion with 58 companies as part of the ongoing Vibrant Gujarat Summit. The company will invest approximately Rs 13,000 crore (USD 1.6

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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These activities will become a part of initiatives aimed at meeting the goals set out in the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050, which was announced in October, 2015. Joint biodiversity conservation activities with cocoa farmers in Ghana. 2016 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program Recipients. Car Free Day Japan.

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New Award Recognizes IEEE Society’s Work in DEI

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The society also has expanded its chapters to other parts of the world. Keynote speakers are from academia as well as industry—many of them women. A chapter in Ghana is in the process of forming. Supporting students and young professionals Panels that cater to students and young professionals are part of IEEE IMS conferences.

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IISD Releases Five-Part Series of Reports on Removing Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Geneva-based Global Subsidies Initiative ( GSI ) has issued a five-part series of reports into how nations might remove fossil-fuel subsidies, on the eve of a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington this week.

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