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Hyundai secures largest clean energy supply in Korea, enough to charge over 7 million EVs

Baua Electric

Next year, the company plans to purchase all electricity from renewable energy sources at its US, India, and Turkey plants through PPAs. The company spokesperson added Hyundai “will proactively respond to climate change in the future by providing customers with vehicles produced using eco-friendly electricity.”

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Elon Musk met with the President of Hungary at Giga Texas

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The publication also said that Novák opened the meeting by telling Musk that the demographic crisis wasn’t receiving enough attention compared to the dangers of climate change. According to Daily News Hungary , the two parties talked about the demographic crisis in the Western world.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

Cars That Think

Rahman feels that IEEE, as the world’s largest organization of technical professionals, has both the opportunity and the responsibility to address the causes of, mitigate the impact of, and adapt to climate change.

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Ports of Auckland buys world’s first electric tug; 70-tonne bollard pull

Green Car Congress

There is an electric tug under construction for use in Turkey, but it is small (18.7m), is designed with a conventional twin screw propulsion line (as opposed to the Azimuth propulsion in the RSD-E 2513) and will work in a very narrow and tight environment. Ports of Auckland first started looking for a battery-powered tug in 2016.

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UN Environment report says national GHG pledges only bring one-third of reductions needed for Paris Agreement

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Ten countries make up approximately 85% of the entire coal pipeline: China, India, Turkey, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Republic of Korea. These new plants could lead to additional accumulated emissions of approximately 150 Gt CO 2.

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Growing Number of EU Countries Levying CO2 Taxes on Cars and Incentivizing Plug-ins

Green Car Congress

The annual ACEA Tax Guide gives an overview of motor vehicle taxation in the twenty-seven Member States of the European Union, the countries of the European Free Trade Association as well as Turkey and, for the first time, Brazil China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States. Overview of EU CO 2 -based taxes.

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InterAcademy Council to Conduct Independent Review of the UN IPCC’s Processes and Procedures at Request of United Nations and IPCC

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The United Nations Secretary General and the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced have asked the InterAcademy Council (IAC) to conduct an independent review of the IPCC’s processes and procedures to further strengthen the quality of the Panel’s reports on climate change.