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The Week in Sustainable Mobility
The world’s auto manufacturers produced a record 67 million new vehicles in 2006. While global production grew 4% last year, China increased its production by nearly 30%, overtaking Germany to become the third largest producer. More... GM will invest US$500 million in its operations in Argentina and Brazil for the development of a new generation of small vehicles for emerging markets. More... Honda President and CEO Takeo Fukui’s annual mid-year speech contained little in the way...
The Week in Sustainable Mobility (7/15/07)
Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed three Executive Orders establishing a number of immediate actions designed to decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the state; increase energy efficiency; increase the use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy; and increase the use of alternative energy sources such as ethanol and hydrogen. Among the actions is the adoption of the California motor vehicle emissions standards, which include the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions,...
The Week in Sustainable Mobility (7/1/07)
The package of energy legislation headed to the floor of the US House of Representatives does not contain vehicle fuel-efficiency standards. It does, however, contain provisions to promote plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and components. More... Nearly half (47%) of US car owners are willing to buy a more fuel efficient car should gas prices increase $1, but a strong majority rule out using alternative transportation to offset rising gas prices and are more likely to cut discretionary...
The Week in Sustainable Mobility
The US Senate passed its energy bill, including a compromise version (SA 1792) of CAFE legislation that increases new light-duty vehicle fleetwide fuel economy to an average 35 mpg by 2020, but that eliminates a mandatory 4% per year increase thereafter that had been part of the original proposal. More ... US Senate Finance Committee members Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) have introduced a bill to support the development of commercially...
The Week in Sustainable Mobility (6/17/07)
The US Senate began debating its energy bill this week. The bill and proposed amendments tackle a broad range of issues, from increasing fuel economy; a national low-carbon fuel standard; a national geothermal energy initiative; a wave, -tide- and current-energy initiative; a significant increase in the renewable fuels standard; support for plug-in hybrids and electric drive transportation; coal-to-liquids programs; and much more. More... The auto industry weighed in to support the more...
The Week in Sustainable Mobility (6/10/07)
At the G8 Summit, six of the G8 countries agreed to “at least halve global carbon dioxide emissions by 2050” and to achieve this goal together “as part of a United Nations process.” The US and Russia were holdouts on halving. Together, all eight nations agreed to “substantial” emissions cuts, without setting any target. The agreement paves the way for talks beginning in Bali, Indonesia in December to find a successor to the UN-backed Kyoto Protocol. An...
The Week in Sustainable Mobility (6/3/07)
An additional 10 years of continued business-as-usual rapid growth of CO2 emissions and infrastructure may make avoiding dangerous climate change “impractical, if not impossible”, according to a recently published study in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. More... The US rejected the European Union’s two-degree target for climate change, whereby global temperatures would not be allowed to increase more than 2° C this century. Instead, President Bush proposed convening a...
The Week in Sustainable Mobility (5/27/07)
US carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels decreased by 1.3% in 2006, from 5,955 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MMTCO2) in 2005 to 5,877 MMTCO2 in 2006, according to preliminary estimates released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Transportation-related carbon dioxide emissions, which account for about one third of total carbon dioxide emissions, decreased slightly (by 0.1%) in 2006. Increases in CO2 emissions from gasoline (+0.1 %) and diesel fuel (+1.8 %)...
The Week in Sustainable Mobility (5/20/07)
US President George Bush today issued an executive order directing the Environmental Protection Agency and the Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Transportation to work together to begin developing regulations that will reduce gasoline consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, using the President’s 20-in-10 plan as a starting point. More... The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing criteria for certifying vehicles as clean and energy efficient to...
The Week in Sustainable Mobility (5/13/07)
Global carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, with the world producing 16% percent more CO2 in 2003 (the year of the most recent comprehensive data) than in 1990, according to the Little Green Data Book 2007, just published by the World Bank. More... Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) in Europe decreased between 2004 and 2005, according to preliminary data from a forthcoming report by the European Environment Agency (EEA). More... The UK Department of Health (DH) has released an update...
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