Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, according to the first major study of evapotranspiration on a global basis. This is the first time we’ve ever been able to compile observations such as this for a global analysis.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2012

Linking with Québec is a significant advance in California’s efforts to fight climate change and steer our economy toward a clean energy future. Climate change is a global issue that must be addressed by all levels of government. Just last month Mexico also passed climate change legislation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

To analyze this, Wang headed to Switzerland as a member of the CLOUD collaboration to test his experiment at the European Council for Research Nuclear (CERN). All of the scientific uncertainty around climate change relates to clouds in one way or another, said Wang’s advisor and co-author Neil Donahue, professor in chemistry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

The theme of the current issue of Nature is that the climate situation may be even worse than you think. Less than a quarter of the proven fossil fuel reserves can be burnt and emitted between now and 2050, if global warming is to be limited to two degrees Celsius (2 °C), according to a new study published in the journal Nature today.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

Hart Energy Consulting has received funding from both the Lucille and David Packard Foundation and the Energy Foundation for the project “Land Use Change: Science and Policy Review.”. The review will also include an overview of the current status of global regulatory and legislative actions to address ILUC.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2009

The Climate Disclosure Standards Board ( CDSB ) introduced for public consultation a set of proposals designed to assist directors in the inclusion of climate change-related information in companies’ annual reports. CDSB was founded in January 2007 at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. France sells energy to Italy, Spain, and Switzerland,” Rahman said.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2012

Large-scale bioenergy production from forest biomass is unsustainable and will increase greenhouse gas emissions, according to a group of international researchers in an invited analysis in the journal Global Change Biology/Bioenergy. The work was supported by several agencies in Europe and the US Department of Energy.

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MAY 24, 2024

Since 1991, Europe has been warming at twice the global average, and 23 of the 30 most severe heat waves in Europe since 1950 have occurred since 2000, with five in the last three years, according to the World Meteorological Organization. For visitors planning to visit Athens this summer, Ms. Cavanaugh said.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

Researchers from DeepMind and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland, are using this particular one to get us closer to harnessing fusion power for generating electricity. At first glance, the item pictured here looks like a motorcycle tire. But it’s actually a tokamak fusion reactor.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Historical trends of (A) ΣPCDD/F, (B) ΣPCB, and (C) ΣDDT in sediment from Lake Oberaar and from low-altitude lakes in Switzerland, normalized relative to their maximum historical peaks. Tags: Climate Change. Credit: ACS, Bogdal et al. Click to enlarge. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es901628x.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2009

Paul Scherer Institut, Villingen, Switzerland. The campaign is being carried out as part of the EU-funded MEGAPOLI (Megacities: emissions, urban, regional and global atmospheric pollution and climate effects, and integrated tools for assessment and mitigation) project. Institut für Troposphärenforschung, Leipzig, Germany.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 26, 2022

For his “leadership in the empowerment and development of technology professionals globally,” Custovic is the recipient of this year’s IEEE Theodore W. It goes back to being a refugee in Switzerland, where my brother and I had to learn how to earn money,” Custovic says. Hissey Outstanding Young Professional Award.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2023

About Aart de Geus Employer: Synopsys Title: CEO Member grade: Fellow Alma mater: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Synopsys is now the largest supplier of software that engineers use to design chips, employing about 20,000 people. The company reported US $1.36 billion in revenue in the first quarter of this year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2009

A new study by the French institute Enerdata, commissioned by the European Federation for Transport & Environment (T&E), suggests that the European CO 2 standards for new vehicles due to come into effect in 2012 will lead not only to a European savings on oil (mainly via lower oil import volumes) but also to slightly lower global oil prices.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2014

The switch to more polluting diesel vehicles in many countries in part to combat climate change has also added to pollution effects, threatening to arrest the downward trend in emissions from road transport in OECD countries, according to the report. Over the five?year This is often because the taxes on vehicles and fuels favor diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), global CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere should be stabilized below 450 ppm, Nissan noted. in the United States; and Israel, Portugal, Monaco, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Ireland, China, Hong Kong and Singapore.

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Plug in America

JUNE 10, 2021

Last week, 37 electric vehicle (EV) driver associations from 26 countries, including Plug In America, joined forces to create the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance, building a worldwide EV community. The Alliance released this video to promote awareness of the Alliance. “We We can already see the EV growth; more than 3.24

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

With tech giants, utilities, and governments budgeting upwards of US $1 trillion for capital expansion to join the global battle for AI dominance, data centers are the bunkers, factories, and skunkworks—and concrete and electricity are the fuel and ammunition. None yet has enough traction to measurably reduce global concrete emissions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Under the new Global Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (ZE-MHDVs), Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay and Wales are setting an interim goal of 30% zero-emission new vehicle sales by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Look, globally, I think best is the global figure, because you mentioned to the climate; if you want really to help the climate, you have to do it on a global scale. If you totally decarbonize in Switzerland or in Canada (37 million people) and China keeps blowing ahead, it makes no difference. in 2000 to 0.7

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Look, globally, I think best is the global figure, because you mentioned to the climate; if you want really to help the climate, you have to do it on a global scale. If you totally decarbonize in Switzerland or in Canada (37 million people) and China keeps blowing ahead, it makes no difference. in 2000 to 0.7

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

Switzerland leads the world in sustainability, followed by France, Denmark, Malta, and Sweden. Switzerland’s top ranking reflects strong performance across most issues, especially air quality and climate protection. EPI and Global Sustainability Data. Disability-Adjusted Life Years lost due to PM 2.5. Source: EPI.

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