Climate Change and Morocco

Morocco Is A Green Leader & Might Get EU Hydrogen Balance Right

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 23, 2022

Why exactly would it be beneficial to the climate for Morocco to take renewable electricity, make hydrogen and products from hydrogen, and ship them to Europe at significant loss of energy so that the EU can achieve climate emissions reductions?

Morocco

Morocco Hydrogen Green Climate

Small Glimmers Of Hope As Climate Changes Exacerbate Violence

CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 2, 2023

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has established a causal link between climate change and the rise in armed conflicts in sub-Saharan African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan. This region has become the global epicenter of violent extremist activity.

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso Climate Change Cameroon Mali

Denmark, Norway, and US to lead Zero-Emission Shipping Mission

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2021

The Mission will also be supported by the governments of India, Morocco, the UK, Singapore, France, Ghana, and South Korea. The Mission aims to accelerate international public-private collaboration to scale and deploy new green maritime solutions, setting international shipping on an ambitious zero-emission course.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Most notably, Vietnam, South Africa, Mexico and Morocco led the rankings with a combined investment of $16 billion in 2018. The Climatescope results come just ahead of next month’s United Nations-supported climate negotiations in Madrid. —Luiza Demôro, project manager for BloombergNEF.

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Coal Clean Cleaning Financing

Fusion Fuel Green partners with CCC to develop green hydrogen demonstrator plants in Middle East

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

However, as the world strives to tackle climate change by decarbonizing energy sources and cutting the use of fossil fuels, the Middle East’s oil producers have identified a new opportunity that they hope will keep them at the heart of the global energy ecosystem throughout the 21 st century: green hydrogen. Many more will follow.

Fusion

Fusion Green Hydrogen Oman

Africa’s EV Road Back to Eden

CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 23, 2023

The African continent is bearing the brunt of climate change induced disasters. We see it on the news most nights. Here are some of the attempts to decarbonise the transport sector in these emerging economies as chronicled by Afrik21. Some further background can be found here.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Economy Transportation

Could the next James Bond be driving an EV powered by Lucid Motors?

Baua Electric

JANUARY 26, 2024

Now, with the help of Lucid and its Sapphire powertrain technology, we could very well see James Bond in an all-electric Aston Martin taking on a real-life villain – climate change. Would that sort of acceleration even be fair to the cronies chasing him through the streets of Morocco or the Furka Pass is Switzerland?

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COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

All governments should also support the transition of these light vehicles to zero emission vehicles; Kenya; Secretariat of Economy, Mexico; Morocco; Paraguay; Rwanda; Turkey; Uruguay.

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic Emissions Cape Verde El Salvador

UNEP: export of used cars to developing world creating significant environmental problems

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the United States and Japan to the developing world are of poor quality, contributing significantly to air pollution and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

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Morocco Nigeria Netherlands Gambia

Azerbaijan Plans Caspian-Black Sea Energy Corridor

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Azerbaijan next week will garner much of the attention of the climate tech world, and not just because it will host COP29 , the United Nation’s giant annual climate change conference. The Morocco-U.K. GW over 3,800 km from Morocco to England. Power Project would send 3.6

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan Energy Armenia United Arab Emirates

This Tesla driver just finished an electric around-the-world trip. For the fourth time.

Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

They were joined at times by other drivers who took on parts of the route, like a Kia Niro which joined to Morocco, but these two cars were the only finishers of the entire circumnavigation. Cooperation is the answer, not isolation.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Tesla Morocco Climate Change

Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Migrants, including Jacob, give their compatriots back home a clear-eyed perspective: “I tell people who want to cross that it’s very dangerous…it’s not easy like people imagine it in Morocco,” Jacob says. Outbursts of violence, economic precarity, and perhaps even climate change will motivate migrants despite the technological barriers.

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EPA staffers told how to downplay climate change in leaked memo

Green Car Reports

MARCH 30, 2018

EPA administrator Scott Pruitt would be controversial even if he hadn't flown to Morocco in December (first-class, on the taxpayer dime) to lobby the country on the benefits of liquified natural gas while living in a condo owned by a lobbyist for the country's largest LNG exporter.

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Climate Change EPA Morocco Climate

$25 Billion Up For Grabs In Canada’s Progress-Light, Reality-Deficient Hydrogen Strategy

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 13, 2024

Over the past few years I’ve published assessments of the hydrogen strategies of multiple jurisdictions, including the United States, Australia, Japan, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, the EU, and the Canadian province of Ontario, among others. News of the German chancellor coming, cap in hand, begging for liquid natural gas and hydrogen.

Algeria

Algeria Hydrogen Light Egypt

EV Driven

Morocco Is A Green Leader & Might Get EU Hydrogen Balance Right

Small Glimmers Of Hope As Climate Changes Exacerbate Violence

Denmark, Norway, and US to lead Zero-Emission Shipping Mission

BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

Fusion Fuel Green partners with CCC to develop green hydrogen demonstrator plants in Middle East

Africa’s EV Road Back to Eden

Could the next James Bond be driving an EV powered by Lucid Motors?

COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

UNEP: export of used cars to developing world creating significant environmental problems

Azerbaijan Plans Caspian-Black Sea Energy Corridor

This Tesla driver just finished an electric around-the-world trip. For the fourth time.

Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

EPA staffers told how to downplay climate change in leaked memo

$25 Billion Up For Grabs In Canada’s Progress-Light, Reality-Deficient Hydrogen Strategy

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