Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Findings released by international think tank the Global CCS Institute show that the total capacity of carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities operating and under development grew by 33% world-wide over the last year. In Asia Pacific, we saw national governments in China, Japan and South Korea commit to net-zero climate targets.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Eleven European and North American governments are the founding partners of the International ZEV Alliance, which has the mission of accelerating global adoption of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). A new report released by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) outlines an agenda for expanding collaboration.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Methanol can enable significant reductions in CO 2 emissions compared to traditional fuels and is viewed within the international maritime sector as one of the most feasible clean fuels for large-scale adoption by the industry.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2009

A side event organized by the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) at the COP-15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen will highlight nitrogen’s role in climate change. This massive alteration of the nitrogen cycle affects climate, food security, energy security, human health and ecosystem health.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Germany is positioning itself in the international race for hydrogen technologies in the commercial vehicle sector and is supporting the comprehensive switch to hydrogen in the context of a climate-friendly transport infrastructure. This aspect is crucial for the technology acceptance of the market.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

billion vehicles are currently powered by conventional internal combustion engines. All solutions are needed in the fight against the climate crisis. We cannot afford to exclude these options if we want to reach the climate targets and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport. Throughout the world, more than 1.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

A study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that thermoelectric power plants (i.e., nuclear and fossil-fueled generating units) in Europe and the United States are vulnerable to climate change due to the combined impacts of lower summer river flows and higher river water temperatures. Source: van Vliet et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

Six northern indigenous groups—the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Arctic Athabaska Council, Gwich’in Council International, Sami Council, Russian Association of the Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON) and Aleut International Association—wield strong influence as permanent participants.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2018

Intended for Delfzijl in the Netherlands, the installation would use a 20 megawatt water electrolysis unit, the largest in Europe, to convert sustainably produced electricity into 3,000 tons of green hydrogen a year—enough to fuel 300 hydrogen buses. A final decision on the project is expected in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2011

An international team of researchers has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean circulation system off Iceland—the North Icelandic Jet (NIJ)—that could significantly influence the ocean’s response to climate change in previously unforeseen ways. Credit: WHOI. Click to enlarge. —Robert Pickart.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2021

Especially taking into consideration the recent decision by the EU to set more ambitious climate targets for 2030, blue hydrogen can play a significant role going forward as a viable and early source for nearly climate-neutral hydrogen in large quantities and therefore in achieving these goals.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Signatories by category: Governments: Austria; Azerbaijan; Cambodia; Canada; Cape Verde; Chile; Croatia; Cyprus; Denmark; El Salvador; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Slovenia; Sweden; United Kingdom.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

However, according to the World Resources Institute , “EVs need to account for 75 percent to 95 percent of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 in order to meet international climate goals aimed at keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F).”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The current proposals by developed countries on the table for the upcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions do not yet suffice to limit global warming to a rise of 2 °C (based on a long-term 450 ppm concentration of GHG), according to a new report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2019

The board includes representatives from WWF International, the European Climate Foundation, Solidaridad Network and the University of Groningen. There will be absolutely no use of food crops, such as soya oil and palm oil (or by-products such as PFAD and POME), for production.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

The research team included members from the National University of Singapore; Stichting Deltares, The Netherlands; International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), Washington, DC; and the University of Leicester, UK. Chris Malins of the International Council on Clean Transportation. —Miettinen et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The European Union’s climate innovation initiative, Climate-KIC , and the fourth largest city of China, Tianjin, have agreed to collaborate on the JiefangNan Rd New Meijiang pilot, a low-carbon city project. It is the first time that local and regional authorities will play a leading role in such international relations.

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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. Whether next week’s COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, will help move the plan forward remains to be seen. Let’s put our egos aside.’”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Tech” was jointly prepared and notified by fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. The Member States will provide up to €5.4 billion in public funding, which is expected to unlock additional €8.8

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

A collaboration led by researchers at Leiden University in The Netherlands has launched a Europe-wide citizen campaign— iSPEX-EU 2015 —to use a smartphone add-on and app to measure atmospheric aerosols (tiny particles), resulting in a broad-based data set with high spatio-temporal resolution.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The average gap between official fuel consumption figures and actual fuel use for new cars in the EU has reached 42%, according to the latest update by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) to its on-going research into vehicle fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. Source: The ICCT. Click to enlarge. —Uwe Tietge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Porsche, Siemens Energy and a lineup of international companies are developing and implementing the pilot project that is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fuels (eFuels). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2009

In the examples cited in the report, biomass for biofuels has the largest and widest ranging footprint: from 24,000 m 3 per 1,000 GJ in the Netherlands to 143,000 m 3 per 1,000 GJ in Zimbabwe. The report, Water, Energy and Climate Change: A contribution from the business community says water, energy and climate change are inextricably linked.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2012

The Antarctic Ice Sheet could be an overlooked but important source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to a report in Nature by an international team of scientists. The predicted shallow depth of these potential reserves also makes them more susceptible to climate forcing than other methane hydrate reserves on Earth.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

It was quaint and adorable when Norway did it, saying it would end sales of cars with internal-combustion engines by 2025. The Netherlands followed suit, with little fanfare. More recently, France and the U.K. have enacted various forms of bans on non-electrified vehicles, on varying schedules.

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Plug in America

JUNE 10, 2021

We are so excited to be joining with our international colleagues in the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance,” said Joel Levin, executive director of Plug In America. The Alliance released this video to promote awareness of the Alliance. “We We hope to see other countries join us!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

The Volvo C30 Electric will be manufactured and delivered to leasing customers throughout Europe, including in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway. Tests on a fleet of about 50 cars have been conducted since autumn 2010, mainly internally at the Volvo Car Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

The study is based on a 223-question battery organized into nine vehicle categories: infotainment; features, controls and displays; exterior; driving assistance; interior; powertrain; seats; driving experience; and climate. The study was fielded from February through May 2023. Android Automotive Operating System (AAOS) issues: A 21.5

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Portugal (down 9.4%), Austria (down 8.9%), Czech Republic (down 8.7%), Denmark (down 5.1%) and the Netherlands (down 0.4%) also endured decreases. However, other six-figure markets were not so positive, namely Sweden (down 7.8%), Belgium (down 3.3%), the Netherlands (down 3.2%) and Ireland (down 0.9%). respectively. respectively. ‘The

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2010

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. Christopher Field, Ph.D.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The green mobility objective proposes four different quantified targets to be achieved by 2030 and 2050, one for each of four key dimensions: climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, air pollution, physical inactivity and noise pollution. The set targets are consistent with international agreements.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

The gap between official and real-world fuel-economy figures in Europe has risen to about 38%, according to a new report published by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). For the Netherlands alone, the loss in tax revenues could exceed €3.4 Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). billion (US$4.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2020

It is a permanently excited synchronous machine as an internal rotor. One important comfort feature is the pre-entry climate control prior to starting a journey, which can also be activated conveniently by smartphone. On-demand stator and rotor cooling allow use of the electric motor’s peak and continuous output without any problems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2010

However, the world has changed considerably since the creation of the IPCC, with major advances in climate science, heated controversy on some climate-related issues, and an increased focus of governments on the impacts and potential responses to changing climate. The report was released yesterday at the United Nations.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Renault and Netherlands-based Athlon Car Lease International will cooperate in the joint delivery of Electric Vehicle (EV)-solutions to their mutual clients. —Hans Blink, President of Athlon Car Lease International. Athlon supports Renault’s EV project. Earlier post.).

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As the world continues to face climate change challenges, it is becoming increasingly critical that we transition to more sustainable energy sources. To begin with, they are much cleaner and more environmentally friendly, emitting far fewer harmful emissions that contribute to air and water pollution, as well as climate change.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

A two-year Cooperative Research Program conducted through SAE International to investigate the safety and environmental performance of the low-global-warming-potential (GWP) refrigerant HFO-1234yf for mobile air conditioning (MAC) systems has finished its study. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Vehicle Systems.

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