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Green Car Congress: Head of ChangAn Says China Needs to Support Hybrids
The ratio of small vehicles (those with 1.3-liter engines or smaller) declined to 26.1% of all passenger cars in 2007 from 31.8% the previous year
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China Celebrates Status As No. 1 Polluter, And Other Doublespeak : TreeHugger
That's Du Shaozhong, deputy director of the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau, on how the city's monitoring stations are simply being "improved." But he wouldn't confirm or deny that they were moved
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Green Car Congress: New Analysis Concludes China CO2 Emissions Growing More Rapidly Than Expected
a 2.5 to 5% annual increase in CO2 emissions, the largest contributor to atmospheric greenhouse gases, between 2004 and 2010. The new UC analysis puts that annual growth rate for China to at least 11% for the same time period.
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Technology Review: Measuring Asia's Pollution Exports
the amount of pollution arriving in North America to be equivalent to 15 percent of local emissions of the United States and Canada.
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China's young favor sustainable consumption, but want cars first_china_English_SINA.com
If a high quality of life is defined by luxury cars or homes, consumers will think their quality of life would drop by reducing car and energy usage, so they do nothing," said Pan Jiahua, a researcher with the sustainable development center of the Chinese
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Not everyone opposes extravagant spending
The younger generation has become the country's most powerful consumption force. The slogan 'enjoy today's happiness using tomorrow's money' has been deeply rooted in the hearts of many young credit card holders. I am quite worried about young people's sp
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Young Chinese: Cars First, Then Sustainable Consumption (TreeHugger)
84 percent of young Chinese want to buy a car, one of the leading causes of urban air pollution, despite the fact that 80 percent of them are concerned about global warming, a survey has found.
Only 0.4 percent of young Chinese said they were unaware of
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Pollution in China | News | Guardian Unlimited
image gallery - a picture says a 1000 words... ;-)
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Thailand Gets the Green Light (TreeHugger)
encourage foreign and domestic automakers to develop cheap cars that minimize fuel consumption and lower exhaust emissions. government to issue favorable tax incentives for carmakers that meet stringent standards of fuel efficiency, emissions and safety
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National Footprint Accounts: Data and Methods
National Footprint Accounts are a comprehensive ecological accounting system that calculates the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity of the world and 150 nations from 1961 through the present.
more fromwww.footprintnetwork.org
Green Car Congress: Nissan Introduces New Mini-Wagon
Japan’s fuel economy standards for light-duty passenger vehicles are based on average fuel economy by weight class, and include mini-vehicles. The target date for compliance is 2010
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Green Car Congress: China May Halt Coal-to-Liquids Projects
Liquefied coal projects consume a lot of energy, though its successful industrialization could help reduce the country’s dependence on petroleum,’.
The projects also require “huge” capital investment and increased consumption of water, as well a
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Save the planet: give generously to China-Comment-Columnists-Camilla Cavendish-TimesOnline
CO2 emissions have
been increasing at about 3 per cent a year since 2000, according to the US
National Academy of Sciences. That is three times as fast as in the 1990s
and outside even the worst scenario modelled by the IPCC
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WattHead: Eye on China: China Unveils Global Warming Plan
most of China's climate change plan restates existing goals (20% improvement in energy efficiency by 2010 and > x2 renewable energy by 2020) First time these various efforts have been presented in a more comprehensive action plan to address climate c
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Green Car Congress: US Firm to Build $150M Ethanol Plant in Philippines
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Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Business Model Innovation
it takes an existing and well known service setup - providing cellular connectivity and re-designs the task process signing-up customers, billing, invoicing, service support to suit local conditions.
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Nokia Entry Event - Materials
village connection and phone sharing - initiatives by NOKIA towards emerging markets
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InternetActu.net » Le Japon veut mettre des RFiD partout
Japon le premier pays permettant aux consommateurs d’obtenir des informations concernant les produits qu’ils pourraient acheter grâce à leurs téléphones portables
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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Australia fund to protect forests
$160m - paltry in comparison to Australia's ghg emissions and avoidance of Kyoto investments
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