Air & Climate Newsletter
August 04, 2011

This Week´s Featured News Stories
US airlines to play no part in `ill-advised and illegal` emissions trading scheme
US politicians have stepped up their sabre-rattling over the EU`s plans to include aviation in its emissions trading scheme, declaring unequivocally that US airlines will not participate.  The bi-partisan Congressional Transportation Committee introduced a bill last week that would legally prevent US carriers from taking part in the cap-and-trade scheme, which will charge all airlines per tonne of CO2 for all flights in and out of the EU from next year.  Its national trade body is also embroiled in a ...
Chinese electric cars ‘worse than petrol’ for greenhouse gas emissions
Running an electric vehicle in China would emit more greenhouse gases than its petrol-fuelled equivalent, according to an expert in emissions reduction projects.  Despite the country`s expertise in electric vehicles and its growing manufacturing base - Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn only this week said it is ready to build an electric car in China - the country`s power grid is so dominated by dirty coal that recharging vehicles will release more global warming gases than putting petrol in their tanks, according to Juerg Gruetter of La Paz-based consultancy Gruetter Consulting.  Developers ...
Johnson Matthey Emission Control Technologies

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