Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2017

billion trust, established as part of Volkswagen’s diesel emissions settlement, will be used to implement approved air pollution mitigation initiatives in US states and federally-recognized Native American nations. The company also served as trustee for the Greece debt restructuring program. Wilmington Trust, N.A.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

The SPEG process extracts all carbon from the waste feedstock, removes all particulates and acid gases, and produces no toxins or pollution. It not only solves our air quality and climate challenges by producing pollution-free hydrogen. That’s why our partnership with SGH2 is so important. This is game-changing technology.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Within the EU28 the trends vary between countries with decreases of 6% for the UK and Bulgaria and of 3% for Greece and Spain, while increases of 5% in Ireland and Denmark and of 4% in Sweden and Finland occurred. Also in Eurasia emissions grew in Turkey (5%) and Ukraine (8%). Other greenhouse gases keep creeping up.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2009

The city of Athens, Greece is buying 108 Mercedes-Benz Econic natural gas vehicles for use in refuse collection. Smog-forming pollutants such as NO x are also significantly lower. Econic NGTs for Athens. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

The report’s findings for the period 1997–2007 present a mixed picture, with some improvements in air pollutants and serious concerns regarding persistent growth in transport’s greenhouse gas emissions. Over the last ten years we have concentrated on measures to improve mobility whilst decoupling transport emissions from economic growth.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2009

Air pollution. Emissions of regulated air pollutants from vehicles continue to fall across EEA member countries but concentrations remain high in some urban areas. The number of kilometers travelled by passengers in EEA member countries grew by 1% (equivalent to 65 million kilometers) in 2006.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Concentrations of the harmful NO 2 pollutant across 30 major European cities could be reduced by up to 40% with the correct traffic policy measures, according to EU Joint Research Center (JRC) scientists. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

The European Community’s air pollutant emission inventory report released by the European Environment Agency finds that in 2007, sulphur oxides (SO x ) emissions were down by 72 % from 1990 levels. EU-27 emissions of all four pollutants were lower in 2007 than in 2006.

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Green Cars News

JULY 26, 2009

The city of Athens, in Greece, is buying 108 Mercedes Benz Econic natural gas vehicles which will be used in refuse collection across the city. Even pollutants such as nitrogen oxides are significantly lower. . Here at TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk we like to feature the best of the green car news from around the world.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

“There was a fuss in Britain when road tax increased for the most-polluting cars, but we are lax by European standards – we need a more sophisticated carrot and stick approach to encouraging people to drive lighter cars if we want to do better in next year’s league table.&#. Greece / 161 / 165 / 17.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

In this case GHG and other pollutants will still be emitted, but they can be reduced through exhaust gas cleaning systems or carbon capture and storage. For example, the availability of land to grow biofuels is a significant barrier to its widespread use, with an area the size of Greece required to produce 50 million tonnes of biodiesel.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

Austria, Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Malta also signed up. The deal would incentivize automakers to get more electric vehicles on the road, thereby reducing pollution, said the people, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to reveal internal negotiations. – March 10, Politico.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2013

Registrations of new cars fell furthest in 2012 in Greece (-41%), Portugal (-38%) and Cyprus (-25%), while at the other end of the scale new cars increased by more than 12% in in Estonia and Hungary. The largest improvement in efficiency between 2011 and 2012 was in Greece (9%) and Denmark (6%). million new vehicles were registered.

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