Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2021

Ideal for last mile delivery of foods, medicines, vaccines and other perishables, this solution was first launched in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Trane Technologies is bringing Thermo King’s fully electric E-200 refrigeration unit for small trucks to the United States.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2012

Singh, Tanveer Ahmed, Nithya Ramanathan, and Veerabhadran Ramanathan (2012) Real-Time Assessment of Black Carbon Pollution in Indian Households Due to Traditional and Improved Biomass Cookstoves. The particles can be inhaled deeply into the lungs and have been linked to health problems similar to those associated with cigarette smoking.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Almost one in seven of the world’s children, 300 million, live in areas with the most toxic levels of outdoor air pollution—six or more times higher than international guidelines set by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO)— according to a new UNICEF report. No society can afford to ignore air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2016

A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that energy policy choices backed by a 7% increase in total energy investment through 2040 could cut premature deaths from air pollution roughly in half by 2040. Under such a scenario, premature deaths from outdoor air pollution would decline by 1.7 million annually.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Among the other key messages of the report: Potential health gains of a shift from private motorized transport to walking, cycling and rapid transit/public transport include reduced cardiovascular and respiratory disease from air pollution, less traffic injury and less noise-related stress. million people annually.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Europe is chugging along slowly but surely in the transition from noisy, polluting combustion engine motorcycles to quiet, efficient electrics. But Africa could be poised to leap past everyone as several countries adopt ambitious plans to put millions of electric motorcycles on the roads.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

The report, Air Quality and Health in Cities , released by HEI’s State of Global Air Initiative, provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of air pollution and global health impacts for more than 7,000 cities around the world, focusing on two of the most harmful pollutants; fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

In some parts of Asia, Africa and South America, the researchers identified data gaps which prevented them from characterizing ozone pollution exposure patterns. However, overall, Southern Hemisphere sites tend to have lower ozone pollution levels, and fewer days above 70 ppb. Source: University of Leicester. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2018

Yet, aerosol emissions from Europe, the United States, and China are declining, while aerosol emissions from India and Africa are increasing. For example, their models show that aerosol emissions from Western Europe have 14 times the global cooling effect that aerosol emissions from India do. This work is part of a larger $1.5-million

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The Sydney storm, which left millions of people choking on some of the worst air pollution in 70 years, was a consequence of the 10-year drought that has turned parts of Australia's interior into a giant dust bowl, providing perfect conditions for high winds to whip loose soil into the air and carry it thousands of miles across the continent.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

Air pollution is the leading environmental cause of death worldwide according to the State of Global Air 2018 , the annual report and interactive website published by the Health Effects Institute (HEI). Millions of people around the world are also exposed to air pollution in their homes arising from the use of solid fuels (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2014

Air quality in most cities worldwide that monitor outdoor (ambient) air pollution fails to meet World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for safe levels, putting people at additional risk of respiratory disease and other health problems, according to WHO’s expanded ambient (outdoor) air pollution (AAP) in cities database 2014.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2020

This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. Pollution from ships creates lines of clouds that can stretch hundreds of miles. The difference helps explain how much industrial pollution influences clouds. NASA Earth Observatory.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2012

While carbon dioxide is the primary driver of global warming over the long term, limiting black carbon and methane are complementary actions that would have a more immediate impact because these two pollutants circulate out of the atmosphere more quickly. All emissions control measures are assumed to improve air quality.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

used global composition-climate modelling to examine the integrated impacts of adopting stringent European on-road vehicle-emission standards for non-CO 2 pollutants in 2015 in many developing countries. The same was true of the Middle East and North Africa because of deserts in the region. Shindell et al. Shindell et al.’s

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Every local and state government is faced with challenges such as rapid urbanization and congestion, inefficient and pollutive transport, and ever-changing and evolving technology. Queisser is a senior executive with international business leadership experience spanning Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and North America.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Rap Eco Motors delivers premier e-rickshaws nationwide and abroad to countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. metric tons annually and eliminate dangerous NO x and PM tailpipe emissions that contribute to air pollution.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2011

South Africa state-owned power utility Eskom reports that a design study is currently under way for an underground coal gasification (UCG) demonstration plant, which will include a 250,000 Nm 3 /h gas production plant and a 100 MW to 140 MW gas turbine plant. Mining Weekly.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2022

South Africa is the major source, accounting for almost 60% of the world’s rhodium supply; Russia is the second-largest producer. This solution, however, is chemically inactive, meaning that it can’t scrub away harmful pollutants and gases, making the device effectively useless. Rhodium is the rarest of all non-radioactive metals.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This technology could reduce electricity/energy bills, pollution from power plants, risks of blackouts, the need for new power plants, and pollution from power plant generation. It started in California and now operates programs in New York, China, India, Southeast Asia and East Africa.

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Cleaning Clean Energy Energy Storage 371

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2020

Detailed high-resolution maps of urban change are crucial for studying greenhouse gas emissions, urban heat island effects, population exposure to extreme weather events and air pollution, land-use change dynamics, ecosystem carbon losses, urban sustainability and development pathways.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

A research collaboration between South Africa-based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high-tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

pollution impacts in 2020 with and without the use of low-sulphur fuels. Ship air pollution effects are greatest in areas where heavily travelled ship routes exist in, and next to, densely populated communities. Some key regions include China, Singapore, Panama, Brazil and coastlines of Asia, Africa and South America.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the resulting low gas prices, as well as clean air and climate policies, will promote further switching to gas from other more polluting energy sources, such as oil and coal. The hydrogen market is on the verge of a revolution.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

Ozone pollution across the continental United States will become far more difficult to keep in check as temperatures rise, according to new work led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Ozone pollution also damages crops and other plants. Scenario A2 and RCP 8.5. Ozone formation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

Fast action on pollutants such as black carbon, ground-level ozone and methane may help limit near term global temperature rise and significantly increase the chances of keeping temperature rise below 2 °C (3.6 °F)—and The climate change benefit is estimated for a given year (2050) and human health and crop benefits are.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners have launched a new initiative that aims to reduce pollution levels, improve resource efficiency and reduce infrastructure costs in cities across the world. Up to 80% of the world population is expected to reside in cities by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2021

An advanced trial of the prototype truck is being run at Anglo-American’s Mogalakwena platinum group metals mine in South Africa. Rail freight already produces up to 16 times less carbon pollution per tonne kilometer than road.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 20, 2024

Spiro has the largest fleet of electric motorcycles on the roads in Africa. Spiro now has over 13,000 electric motorbikes and 40,000 swappable batteries in operation across Benin, Togo, Rwanda, and Kenya. Spiro says, to date, riders have collectively driven almost quarter of a billion kilometers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

In a 2007 paper presented at the XI International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry (Infacon XI), a team from the US EPA, the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT), and SINTEF Materials and Chemistry (Lindstad et al. In all cases, however, the production of ferroalloys is energy-intensive.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region will account for the largest share of production at more than 40%, with the Americas and Asia-Pacific each making up about 30%. In Beijing, for example, the city aims to limit new-vehicle sales to curb pollution while simultaneously increasing deployment of NEVs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The releases include carbon dioxide; air pollutants, sewage and other water pollutants; and even excess heat that collects in vast expanses of concrete pavement and stone buildings. Urban pollutant levels in poor countries will remain high, with increased emissions expected as the city populations and economic activities increase.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

These firms often serve as both producer and distributor for fuels in Africa, according. They often have few emissions regulations, something Swiss trading firms take advantage of by importing fuel that's too dirty for sale in other regions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

The automotive catalytic converter, developed in the early 1970s primarily by General Motors and BASF/Engelhard and first deployed in 1975, changes exhaust pollutants into CO 2 , water vapor and nitrogen. SDC catalyst ingredients enable more pollution reductions at the leading edge of emissions control than would otherwise be possible.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2017

Onboard sensors will survey environmental variables used in the management of fires, pollution, erosion, alien vegetation and plant diseases. Project work is partially funded by the Government of South Africa as well as the South African agriculture industry. Specifications include a wingspan of 8.2

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2018

Through a complete purification and recycling system, the plant achieves zero emission of pollutants. SEAT will be responsible for the growing market in North Africa. The Foshan Plant Phase II will be an ideal representation of green, energy-saving production, intelligent manufacturing and smart operations.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

This approach led to substantial groundwater and air pollution. Standard oily-wastewater remediation relied for decades on gravimetric lagoon separation, then reprocessing the recovered floatable oil portion and using holding-pond clarification of the wastewater portion before ‘land-farming’ discharge.

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