Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Led by the tiny Pacific island of the Federated States of Micronesia, a growing group of low-lying islands and other vulnerable countries are calling for fast action on the approximately 50% of global warming that is caused by pollutants other than carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). The next round of UN climate negotiations begins in Cancun today.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 9, 2009

The world’s most-polluting nations had talked about a goal of halving emissions by 2050, but those numbers are nowhere in the lateset draft G8 statement because of opposition from China and India, Reuters reports. . “There is no more time to waste,&# British activist Ben Stewart said from the top of the smokestack.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2020

For example, two-thirds of all cobalt production happens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It has also contributed to environment degradation, landscape damage and soil contamination, groundwater depletion and pollution. This has forced local quinoa farmers and llama herders to migrate and abandon ancestral settlements.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2018

Recent research cited by the EPI suggests that around five million people die prematurely every year due to air pollution, accounting for approximately one in every ten deaths annually. India and Bangladesh come in near the bottom of the rankings, with Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nepal rounding out the bottom five.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

Australia (lithium), China (graphite, rare earths), Chile (copper and lithium), the Democratic Republic of Congo (cobalt), Indonesia (nickel) and South Africa (platinum, iridium) are the dominant players. Today, the mining of critical materials is highly concentrated in specific geographical locations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2020

“At least for now, the demand for electric vehicles is largely coming not from consumers, but from governments whose evolving policies are shaped by climate concerns as well as by urban pollution and congestion,” Yergin observes in The New Map. Demand for cobalt, another essential element in batteries, could rise 1,400 percent.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 6, 2023

However, mining lithium raises environmental concerns such as water scarcity and pollution. The majority of cobalt production occurs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where ethical and environmental issues have been raised. Cobalt Cobalt is another essential element in electric vehicle batteries.

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