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Philippine president thanks Tesla for accelerating the country’s EV sector

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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ’s entry into the Philippines on Monday. In his remarks, the president stated that the launch of Teslas flagship center was a step towards a more environment-friendly transportation system in the Philippines. “Tesla, thank you for believing in the Philippines.

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Adaptation of rice shows use of symbiogenics as a new strategy for reducing impacts of climate change and catastrophes on plants

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Rice—which provides nearly half the daily calories for the world’s population—could become better adapted to stresses resulting from climate change and some catastrophic events through what researchers are calling “symbiogenics”—symbiosis-altered gene expression. These findings, Redman et al. 0014823.

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

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trillion is spent annually on transport globally, mostly in ways that exacerbate rather than solve the problems associated with traffic growth, including congestion, health-harming air pollution, accidents, energy insecurity, and climate change. Transportation is central to the social and economic activity of people across the world.

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A Look at the Philippines’ Clean Energy Ecosystem

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Tracking Progress—and Opportunity—in Clean Energy Innovation in the Western Pacific Archipelago Nation.

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EIB awards €17M to QEV to advance zero emissions transport in developing countries

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In the Philippines, QEV recently equipped 10 new GET electric minibuses and converted numerous Jeepneys to use its fully-electric technology. The EIB funding will not only contribute to sustainable public mobility and tackling climate change, but will also support new jobs.

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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

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Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. But the seaweed industry is collapsing as climate change warms the upper layers of the ocean, preventing nutrient-rich waters from rising from the depths.

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CO2 and Methane Emissions Continued Rise in 2008 Despite Economic Slump

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Emissions of two of the most important climate change gases increased last year, according to a preliminary analysis for NOAA’s annual greenhouse gas index, which tracks data from 60 sites around the world. Pinatubo (Philippines) in 1991 each slowed CO 2 buildup for several years. Tags: Climate Change Emissions.

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