Cleaner trucks with natural gas
To avoid another oil spill disaster like BP’s in the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama has called for jump-starting a “clean energy industry” to produce wind turbines, solar panels and energy-efficient windows…
Yet these measures don’t address the most significant cause of U.S. oil addiction: 254 million cars, buses and trucks that consume 66 percent [...]
II NGVA Europe International Show and Workshops June 7-9 – 2011- Berlin, Germany
NGV Berlin 2011, the 2nd NGVA Europe International Show & Workshops, will be held on June 7-9, 2011, in Berlin, Germany. This is an event of NGVA Europe -European NGV Association-, hosted by Erdgas Mobil -German NGV Association- and organized by NGV Communications Group, with exhibition and five workshops that will address topics of utmost [...]
NGV China 2011, will be March 29-31 in Beijing National Agricultural Exhibition Hall (New Hall)
Most influential China International NGV and Gas Station Equipment Expo(NGV China) set up since 2000, held in Beijing annually, 11 years, from home and abroad 50 countries a total of more than 1,800 exhibiting companies, the audience of 138,000 people, for our natural gas vehicles, stations of the sustainable development of the industry have made [...]
Carbon Consulting Company launches to help local corporates ‘go green’
CCC has been appointed as an approved reseller of The CarbonNeutral Company’s services, including carbon offsets and CarbonNeutral® certification. It has also developed emissions assessment capabilities that position it to effectively measure the carbon emissions produced by businesses and their products.
5th October 2010: “With Sri Lanka poised to take its place among the world’s [...]
L.A. METRO Public Transit Agency Contracts with Clean Energy to Operate & Maintain CNG Fueling Facilities in Four Agency Divisions
– Clean Energy Will Fuel METRO’s Entire 2,500 CNG Bus Fleet –
Seal Beach, CA (October 29, 2010) — Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE) has secured a new 10-year contract from the L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (METRO) to operate CNG facilities that fuel METRO CNG buses deployed in the agency’s Downtown Los Angeles, San [...]
Iranian CNG Program at Crossroads
Iran’s 3rd annual NGV Conference and Exhibition, held in Tehran last month, has demonstrated considerable change in circumstances since their 2nd conference in June of last year. Iran now has more than 2 million natural gas vehicles (NGVs) on their roads, serviced by 1474 CNG fuelling stations. This makes them the second largest users of [...]
China’s Emissions Won’t Peak Before Per Capita GDP Reaches US$40,000: Xie Zhenhua
China’s emissions peak is unlikely to come before the nation’s GDP per capita surpasses US$40,000, a high-ranking government official told reporters on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations climate change talks in Tianjin this week.
Xie Zhenhua, China’s top climate change official and vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, noted that some [...]
Significant milestone in the forestry carbon market; the first VCS forestry carbon credits have been issued on the VCS registry hosted by APX
The world’s first ever carbon credits from an Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) project developed under Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) criteria were verified and issued this week into the VCS registry system. The credits, from the Uchindile-Mapanda reforestation project developed by Green Resources in Tanzania, are exclusively available to clients of The CarbonNeutral [...]
China overtakes U.S. as biggest energy consumer: IEA
(Reuters) – China has become the world’s largest energy user, having overtaken the United States, the head of the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.
“China is now the largest energy consumer by our definition,” the executive director of the Paris-based IEA, Nobuo Tanaka, told an industry conference.
“Probably half of the oil demand increase comes from [...]
IEA commends the Czech Republic for energy security achievements and calls for greater focus on climate change and economic efficiency
07 October 2010 Prague — The International Energy Agency (IEA) welcomes the efforts the Czech Republic has made to improve the country’s energy policy. At the launch of the new publication Energy Policies of IEA Countries – The Czech Republic 2010 Review today in Prague, IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said, “Since the last IEA [...]