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Air pollution seen costing trillions to save millions, IEA says
2016-06-27 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Malaymail Online: Air pollution will continue rising in the next decades unless nations around the world invest trillions in cleaner energy and emissions controls, the International Energy Agency said. The Paris-based agency is calling for governments to adopt a strategy to cut pollutants by half, a plan that would add about 7 per cent to the total energy investment needed through 2040, according to a report today. That includes US$4.8 trillion (RM19.8 trillion) for advanced pollution control and accelerating the...
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You Will Never Own Another Car Again:Uber Trillions After $116B Auto Finance Market Including Leases & Loans to You and Drivers
2016-06-08 23:32:12| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
strong> The Situation: Uber is gearing up to upend the auto loan market. Making big push into Trillion $ auto financing market Endgame of Uber's auto market disruption is a world where you never own a car again. The Significance Uber has fleet discount deals with all the major manufacturers Wants more Ubers on the road by any means necessary in newer cars. Created Xchange Leasing last year as a wholly-owned Uber subsidiary. Changing car ownership for drivers, with flexible options to allow access to a car to earn extra income By the end of 2016, Uber expects 100,000 cars will have been provided globally strong> Be an UberReader and go to CNBC site for more about auto funding The Article You Will Never Own Another Car Again:Uber Trillions After $116B Auto Finance Market Including Leases & Loans to You and Drivers appeared first on Automotive Digest.
Climate Change to Cut Global Financial Assets by Trillions
2016-04-09 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change could cut the value of the world's financial assets by $2.5 trillion, according to the first estimate from economic modeling. In the worst case scenarios, often used by regulators to check the financial health of companies and economies, the losses could soar to $24 trillion, or 17 percent of the world's assets, and wreck the global economy. The research also showed the financial sense in taking action to keep climate change under the 2°C (3.6°F) danger limit agreed by the world's...
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Trillions of dollars at risk from climate impacts study
2016-04-04 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Assets equivalent to the six largest companies listed on US Dow Jones stock exchange are at risk if carbon emissions rise unabated, researchers have calculated. Under business as usual, climate change will wipe an estimated US$2.5 trillion -- the market capitalisation of Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Exxon, Facebook and General Electric -- off the global economy by 2100, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change on Monday. If global warming is worse than expected, this could rise...
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IRENA report calls for doubling renewables share to save trillions
2016-03-21 01:00:00| Power Technology
A report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has claimed that doubling the share of renewables in the global energy mix could save around $4.2tn a year by 2030.