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About The Battery Electric
Taxing electric cars 'short-sighted' say manufacturers
... This year so far, 195,547 Battery Electric vehicles have been registered in the UK, but they still made up less than 15% of all registrations - according to the SMMT, the UK car manufacturers trade body...
Climate change: UN warns key warming threshold slipping from sight
... Globally, almost half of the buses sold in 2021 were powered by Battery Electric or fuel cell electric engines...
Electric models drive second hand car sales higher
... Sales of used Battery Electric vehicles (BEVs), which run purely on electric power, grew from 6,625 to 14,586 in the first three months of the year, a rise of 120...
Electric cars: Five big questions answered
... Battery Electric and hybrid cars accounted for nearly a third of new cars leaving dealerships last month, according to The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders...
Car industry calls for electric charge watchdog
... In 2020, the number of Battery Electric cars on the road increased by 114% to a record high of just under 200,000, while the number of plug-in hybrids jumped 35% to just under 240,000...
Fuel and excise duty must be replaced with new tax, MPs say
... " Figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show Battery Electric vehicles accounted for more than one in ten new cars registered in the UK last year...
Climate change: UN warns key warming threshold slipping from sight
By Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent
There is " no credible pathway" to keep The Rise in global temperatures below The Key threshold of 1. 5C, according to a bleak new UN assessment.
Scientists believe that going beyond 1. 5C would see dangerous impacts for people all over The World .
The says that since COP26 Last Year , governments carbon cutting plans have been " woefully inadequate".
Only an urgent transformation of society will avoid disaster, the study says.
There's just over a week until The Next major climate conference, known as COP27, starts in Egypt.
Mindful of the fact that The World 's attention has been elsewhere since climate diplomats met in Glasgow Last Year , This Week has seen a flurry of reports underlining the fact that Climate Change hasn't gone away.
Answering questions from BBC viewers and listeners This Week , the Un Secretary General António Guterres, said The World needed to.
This gloomy mood among scientists and diplomats is underlined in today's release of the.
Now in its thirteenth year, The Report analyses The Gap between the rhetoric and the reality.
It concludes that the 1. 5C threshold is now in serious peril.
This analysis finds that new efforts to cut carbon would see global emissions fall by less than 1% by 2030, when according to scientists, reductions of 45% are needed to keep 1. 5C in play.
Looking at the impact on temperatures, the study finds that with the current policies in place, The World will warm by around 2. 8C This Century .
If countries get financial support and put into practice the plans they have made, this can be limited to 2. 4C.
" We had our chance to make incremental changes, but that Time Is over, " said Inger Andersen , Executive Director of UNEP, who produced the study.
" Only a root-and-branch transformation of our economies and societies can Save Us from accelerating climate disaster, " She Said .
The UN acknowledges that achieving massive cuts in emissions is now a tall order. But it points to electricity, industry, transport and buildings as areas where rapid transformations away from fossil fuels can be made.
" We've got to take Climate Change With Us wherever we go, " said Ms Anderson.
" Into the classrooms, into the boardrooms, into the voting booth, over The Dinner table. We cannot Let Go of Climate Change . "
As well as highlighting the slow pace of progress on tackling the causes of warming, other studies published This Week show that governments are failing to prepare for The Impacts of higher temperatures.
In the UK, a committee of MPs and peers says the government needs to " get a grip" on The Risk to critical infrastructure posed by a warming climate.
The of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy cites examples where severe weather has overwhelmed transport and communications.
These include the deaths of three people from a train derailment in Scotland after heavy rainfall in August 2020, and The Loss of electric power by almost 1m people during Storm Arwen in November 2021.
" The Thing I find most disturbing is the lack of evidence that anyone in government is focusing on how all The Impacts can come together, creating cascading crises, " said The Chair of the Joint Committee, Dame Margaret Beckett MP.
" There are simply no ministers with focused responsibility for making sure that our infrastructure is resilient to Extreme Weather and other effects of Climate Change . "
While almost all the reports published This Week underline the lack of progress on climate, there are some strong positives amidst the gloom.
The study says that in transport, a transition to sustainable travel is well underway. Globally, almost half of the buses sold in 2021 were powered by Battery Electric or fuel cell electric engines.
In passenger car sales, electric vehicles have doubled from the previous year to now account for almost 9% of new cars.
This note of hope is also reflected in The International Energy Agency's, also published today.
It argues that the Energy Crisis triggered by The War in Ukraine is causing changes that have the potential to hasten the transition to a more secure and Sustainable Energy system.
The Report also finds that a raft of New Policies in countries like the US, Japan, Korea and the EU will likely see Clean Energy investments of around $2 trillion by 2030, a rise of More Than 50% from today.
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Source of news: bbc.com