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BYD Charges Philippine Market With Its All-EV Lineup

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The Philippine distributor of BYD vehicles has switched into high gear now with a complete lineup of electric cars. At the recently held Manila International Auto Show (MIAS), Solar Transport and Automotive Resources Corp., the company reintroduced the Dolphin and Tang, and launched the Han.

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Asian Development Bank providing $300M towards replacing 100K gasoline trikes with E-Trikes in the Philippines; $300M for major road upgrades in Chhattisgarh, India

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing $300 million towards a project that will replace 100,000 gasoline-burning tricycles in the Philippines with electric tricycles, or E-Trikes. Without intervention, the Philippines is on a course to almost quadruple CO 2 emissions in less than 25 years, the ADB said. million.

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INTERCARGO frustrated over lack of action on nickel ore shipping safety in wake of missing Nur Allya; possible liquefaction

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With no word on the fate of the missing crew of 25, INTERCARGO, the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners, expressed its concern for the missing crew and its “ utmost concern and dismay for any responsible parties that might have contributed to this potential tragic loss of 25 lives ” which may prove due to cargo liquefaction.

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Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

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New project announcements have increased the resource under development to about 30,000 MW. The international geothermal power industry is poised to place between 500 and 1,000 MW on line per year for the rest of the decade, said GEA. Successful Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) projects in the US were led by Calpine Corp.,

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Report Finds That Urgent Changes in Transport Financing Required to Enable More Sustainable Transportation Globally

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A key change will need to take place in how the costs of transport are internalized, as the wider costs to society arising from road accidents, poor health, social impacts and environmental degradation, often described as the ‘external' costs, are currently excluded from the price that transport users confront.

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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Based in Berlin, the DGS supports the introduction of solar technologies and renewable energy resources into the power grid. He then became a consultant; his primary client was the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. He then served as president of the German Solar Energy Society (DGS) , from 1993 to 1997. now PLDT), in Makati.

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UPS Adopts Plan to Cut Its Airline Carbon Emissions An Additional 20% by 2020; Biofuels Part of the Plan

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The company’s air system includes international air hubs in Cologne, Germany; Taipei, Taiwan; Shanghai; Miami (to serve Latin America), an intra-Asia hub in the Philippines; and UPS Worldport, the Louisville, Ky., Jet A fuel is the leading source of UPS global enterprise CO 2 emissions at 52.6%, followed by diesel at 32.7%.

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