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To be globally competitive, the local car industry needs to adopt a new standard of low-emitting, fuel-efficient vehicles. But if the government comes to its aid, this move risks being deferred, compromised or both.
Tags: Automotive, clean technology, evs, vehicle emissions
Hydraulic fracturing has solved one problem (peak fuel) but sharpened another (climate change). Policymakers can no longer rely on increasing scarcity to restrain demand and CO2 emissions.
Tags: climate change, fracking, gas, hydraulic fracturing
Clean energy investors watch on nervously as the US wind industry and Germany's solar PV sector become the latest victims of drastic subsidy cuts and phase-outs.
Tags: clean energy, green investment, renewables, solar
In an emissions trading scheme driven largely by power sector demand, how do the buying habits of some of Europe's biggest utilities – and emitters – affect EU carbon prices?
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