The City Fix

MARCH 27, 2024

At COP28, global climate leaders congregated in Dubai for the annual opportunity to review countries’ progress on emissions reductions and to increase climate ambition. One of the conference’s focal points was how to rapidly and equitably transition away from fossil.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Electrifying transport, buildings, and carbon-intensive industrial sectors in order to run them on clean energy sources could slash greenhouse gas emissions in the UK by as much as 60 per cent between now and 2050, according to new analysis today from BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JUNE 21, 2024

Most notably, Hyundai was the first in the world to mass produce fuel cell electric passenger and heavy-duty fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), which is no small feat. What’s more, the company holds the top selling record of FCEVs in the world.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

The fund assists organisations based in emerging economies that are working to improve access to clean transport. The LEAP Fund, backed by Drive Electric, was founded in 2022 to encourage low-carbon transitions and minimise fossil-fuel vehicle lock-in. Have you read?

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Charged

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to a recent study by the World Resources Institute , only a single one of these projects is currently on track to meet the goals set by the 2015 Paris Agreement: light-duty electric vehicle sales. But in the developing world, these small vehicles provide essential transportation for billions of people.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A slew of initiatives designed to accelerate the electric vehicle (EVs) transition in emerging and developing markets has been launched this morning by the UK, as fresh figures have highlighted the transition away from polluting cars and trucks is occurring at drastically different rates around the world.

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The City Fix

MARCH 22, 2024

If a picture can tell a whole story, then the image below of an intersection in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, shows the past, present and future of global transformation in the transport sector. During Transforming Transportation 2024, which focused on.

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The City Fix

MARCH 20, 2023

After two years of unprecedented disruption to transport globally and two years of virtual conferences, Transforming Transportation returned to Washington, DC, March 14-15. More than 900 policymakers, experts and leaders in transport gathered at the World Bank Headquarters to explore.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The longer-term aim of the partnership is to deliver millions of e-motos to the roads of Africa. Bboxx, a platform providing access to essential products and services, and Ampersand, an e-mobility company delivering sustainable transport solutions in East Africa, are partnering on the project to expand Ampersand’s e-mobility scheme in Rwanda.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 4, 2024

Throughout its global journey the Energy Observer has sailed through multiple climates off the coasts of Africa, Asia and Antarctica. Maritime transport is one of the hardest sectors to decarbonize and currently generates about 3% of the world’s greenhouse gases. Decarbonizing the maritime sector.

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The City Fix

MARCH 9, 2023

Transportation is a crucial enabler of economic development, providing people access to markets, employment, education, and health services. In addition to these development benefits, improving transport systems by making them cleaner, safer, more inclusive and more resilient accelerates climate action.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2022

The report found that investment rose in almost every sector analysed by BNEF, including renewable energy, energy storage, electrified transport, electrified heat, nuclear, hydrogen, and sustainable materials. Investment in renewable energy continued to dominate the market, with a record of $366bn committed in 2021, up 6.5

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The City Fix

MARCH 28, 2024

Like many parts of Africa, motorcycles are the most popular form of transportation among Rwanda’s 13.3 Whether they’re commuting to work or school, transporting jugs of water from the local taps or just running everyday errands, people on. million people.

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Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

A report published today by UK-based consultancy Vivid Economics warns many governments are neglecting to consider the broader sustainability and resilience impacts of company bailouts and stimulus packages offered to the agriculture, industry, transport, energy and manufacturing waste sectors.

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The City Fix

MARCH 22, 2022

As the pandemic has changed the way we get around and purchase goods, the world is considering how to make transport more efficient and sustainable. We’ve seen increasing efforts to expand electric mobility, as governments formulate policies to stimulate adoption. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Business Green

JANUARY 8, 2021

As part of the country's recently announced target to reach net zero carbon emissions and generate almost $2tr a year from 'green growth' by 2050, Japan is targeting major investments in renewable energy, clean technologies, and hydrogen and electric vehicles over the coming years.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Africa’s Green Economy Summit , an official E Fest Cape Town event, to be hosted 22–24 February 2023, will focus on the exciting investment opportunities to accelerate Africa’s adoption of renewable energy, clean transport, and clean technologies, such as green hydrogen, that can effect social change and development.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The campaigners have also called for greater investment into public transport and electric vehicles which it has said are needed in order to reduce the 15 per cent contribution that transport currently makes to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

TotalEnergies will provide technologies within the electric vehicles charging sector to help Rwanda to embark on electrification and decarbonisation of the transport sector. For instance, TotalEnergies will help Rwanda to replace biomass with liquefied natural gas. Have you read?

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental’s 12th cohort focuses on a range of societal challenges, including sustainable urbanization, building decarbonization, electric vehicle charging, last-mile logistics, recycling optimization and regenerative food production. Of the $12.5M invested in Cohort 12, $7.2M

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Smart Energy International

MAY 9, 2024

According to IDTechEx, which provides research on emerging technologies and their markets, although the adoption of EVs across all sectors will contribute to a drastic reduction in tailpipe emissions, for economies where grids are already at capacity, the increased load of an electric transport sector risks blackouts and power supply issues.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The study has identified an increase in investments across almost every sector including renewable energy, electric vehicles, electrified heating, hydrogen, and sustainable materials. The electric vehicles market was second with $273 billion in investment as the sector recorded a 77% market growth. Have you read?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Fourth, clean road transport, accelerating the move to zero-carbon road transport.??. From solar panels, to electric vehicles and tree planting, it is often finance that turns good intentions into action. Last month, I helped launch East Africa's first ‘green bond' on the Nairobi securities exchange.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 30, 2022

Her doctorate was focussed on improving the efficiency of silicon PV, while subsequent expertise covers vehicle-to-grid, forecasting electric vehicle uptake, readiness for grid edge technologies and decarbonising public transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 14, 2022

Consisting of a network of ultra-fast electric vehicle (EV) chargers, the installation aims to help the country reduce carbon emissions by boosting EV adoption. In addition to transportation, the discussions covered smart building technologies, microgrid and industrial energy management and intelligent substations on the grid edge.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

By doing this, we can make them smarter and more able to deal with electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles - both of which will be the powertrains of the future. Robert Spencer is AECOM's director of sustainability for Europe, Middle East and Africa. The idea of ramping up EV charging capacity at this time is a great example.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

The UAE is also investing significant sums to support renewable energy deployments in other countries, including India , parts of Africa and several small island nations. Renewables are targeted to make up 44 percent of that mix and nuclear the remainder. Francesco La Camera, director general of the International Renewable Energy Agency.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The other major “green” topic that companies promoted was their involvement in efforts to make transport more sustainable. Transport is one of the world’s most emitting sectors overall, making up more than one tenth of emissions worldwide. Some companies, however, have a mixed track record on this issue.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2020

According to World Resources Institute it is 60 per cent more ambitious than its 2015 submission, and heralds a rapid expansion of renewables and cleaner transport on the island of three million. Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico targeted $2.6tr of new investments, with low emission transport a priority. But it was significant.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Rwanda has become the first country in Africa to ramp up its national greenhouse gas reduction targets as part of its Paris Agreement commitments, yesterday submitting its plan to slash emissions by at least 16 per cent by 2030 compared with a business-as-usual baseline. Rwanda ramps up Paris Agreement pledge.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

With a historic G7 summit rolling into Cornwall in just a few weeks' time, the CBI was proud to convene the B7 summit, of global business leaders from across the G7 countries along with India, Australia, South Africa and South Korea earlier this month. Let's build more gigafactories to support electric vehicles.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

ELC is the first global beauty brand to join The Climate Group's EV100 initiative, which brings together companies companies that committed to accelerating the transition to electric vehicle (EV) fleets. ELC said the pledge would cover its entire global corporate fleet of both owned and leased sales and executive vehicles.

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The City Fix

JULY 19, 2023

The minibus taxi (MBT) industry is the backbone of South Africa’s public transportation system with a fleet of approximately 250,000 vehicles, operated by thousands of providers, employing some 600,000 drivers. MBTs account for 80% of all journeys taken by taxi.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This equals approximately 7 billion trips per year, making school buses one of the most widely used forms of public transport in the United States.  More than 20 million students in the United States ride school buses every year. But those trips aren’t always.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 14, 2018

We’ll need dramatic changes in how the world works — deep shifts in energy, transportation, buildings, manufacturing, food and agriculture, and much more. How do we manage an electric grid with huge amounts of intermittent renewable power and billions of smart devices and electric vehicles plugged in?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

EV fleet provider Moove has partnered with UK-based electric vehicle (EV) roaming network Paua to launch a new app and platform which will aim to provide access to a network of 6,600 EV charge points across London.

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