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A new Ford Motor Company pilot program aims to enhance mobility health services in rural areas of SouthAfrica and Nigeria. Two modified Ford Rangers will work as mobile clinics to deliver health services, dispense medication for chronic conditions, and monitor the growth of children in SouthAfrica.
Offering significant peak power capability, it will also deliver the robustness seen in industrial diesel engines for harsh environments. For the project, WAE has drawn on its extensive experience in battery design and supply for challenging environments including the FIA Formula E global motorsport series for the first four seasons.
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Rutgers will focus on replacing environmentally harmful fossil fuels with renewable, economically sustainable fuels in collaboration with universities in the US, Brazil, China and SouthAfrica. The grant is valued at up to $3.2 million over five years. “ The grant is valued at up to $3.2 million over five years. “
The NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) reports that developing countries, led by China, India, Brazil, SouthAfrica and Saudi Arabia, have blocked what would have been the first global agreement to cut carbon emissions from ships.
It enables smart real-time control—simultaneously in Wolfsburg and Shanghai, Dresden and Uitenhage (SouthAfrica). In the Industrial Cloud, these technologies are being developed specifically for the automotive production environment. The Industrial Cloud is being established together with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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India’s Minister of Environment, Jairam Ramesh, hosted US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment, Daniel A. The global warming potentials (GWP) of HFCs range from 140 (HFC-152a) to 11,700 (HFC-23), according to the US EPA. The Joint Task Force will submit its report by 1 August 2011.
Primary emissions in covered arc furnaces consist almost entirely of CO, due to the strong reducing environment. SouthAfrica has the potential to produce more than 400,000 tonnes of ethanol per year from existing ferroalloy and titania producers. This CO is either utilized for energy production in boilers, or it is flared.
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The key markets will be Argentina, Brazil, SouthAfrica, Australia with New Zealand, and Europe. The key markets are Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and SouthAfrica. The top markets are Australia, SouthAfrica, Brazil, Great Britain, and Germany. Click to enlarge.
SouthAfrica-based Anglo American Platinum , the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), has invested in the first close of the Series A financing round of Hydrogenious Technologies, a company developing liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) hydrogen storage technology. Click to enlarge. 2012.08.066.
At the company’s Capital Markets Day 2017 in Johannesburg, SouthAfrica, Sasol management said that the company will no longer pursue its proposed ) project in the US ( earlier post ) and furthermore will not invest in additional greenfields gas-to-liquids (GTL) projects. —Stephen Cornell.
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Zielinski, S. 2010) Connecting (and transforming) the future of transportation: a brief and practical primer for implementing sustainable door-to-door transportation systems in communities and regions.
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Carlos Dora of WHO’s Department of Public Health and Environment. The report reviewed more than 300 studies on health outcomes from different types of land transport systems in a “scoping exercise” designed to identify those mitigation measures most closely associated with specific health co-benefits or risks.
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The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. ” —British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, summing up the historical significance of COP 15. ºF) increase.
The work, to be coordinated by UNEP, is expected to be ready in advance of the next Climate Convention meeting scheduled later in the year in Durban, SouthAfrica. The findings were compiled by an international team of more than 50 researchers chaired by Drew Shindell of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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