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THE WORLD leaders, delegates and protestors crowding Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change Conference might be surprised to see billboards around the city announcing four major carmakers as event sponsors. With road transport accounting for 10 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions – a figure expected to rise to a quarter by 2050 – you might have thought car companies would be about as popular here as Japanese whalers at a marine biologist’s meeting.
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Under the current EU emissions trading system, increased use of electric cars would actually boost CO2 emissions and oil consumption, according to the Environmental Transport Association (ETA).
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The government has announced that it is aiming to achieve a 40% decrease in average new car CO2 by 2020.
The target is contained in a white paper called the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan. Its ambitious nature is highlighted by that fact that the actual CO2 drop between 1997 and 2008 was just 19.8%.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s alternative energy sector is showing signs of a budding recovery, as companies resurrect financing deals and public offerings that withered with the recession, but that revival remains very fragile.
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Nissan Motor Co. will unveil its new electric car on August 2 in Japan but just as a prototype, according to British site AutoCar.
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