Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2017

The overall increase in the world’s nuclear net capacity last year was the highest since 1993, with new reactors coming online in China, the United States, South Korea, India, Russia and Pakistan. Coal demand fell worldwide but the drop was particularly sharp in the United States, where demand was down 11% in 2016.

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Economy 2016 Emissions Global 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A large part of this potential comes from six relatively standardized categories: solar and wind energy; efficient appliances; efficient passenger cars; afforestation and stopping deforestation. This has raised hopes that emissions have peaked, as they must by 2020 to remain on a successful climate trajectory.

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Environment Climate Change Coal Climate 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2011

Munich Re and climate change. In 2010 prior to the world climate summit, Munich Re drew attention to the number and scale of weather-related natural catastrophes in the first nine months of that year: floods in central Europe, wildfires in Russia, widespread flooding in Pakistan.

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Japan 2011 2010 Climate Change 239