Dr Peter Harrop, chairman of IDTechEX has issued a reporting detailing the current and future development of hybrid and pure electric cars.
A radical change in attitude to electric vehicles has occurred in 2009, resulting in huge new financing from governments and tough new laws that will boost sales. Now all car makers must offer electric [...]

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Tokyo’s local government, seeking to fight global warming, said Thursday it planned to exempt taxes on next-generation green vehicles such as electric cars and plug-in hybrids once they hit the market.
Japanese automakers are aiming to put out electric cars — which emit no carbon blamed for global warming — as early as this year despite [...]

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Is the Environmental Protection Agency preparing to slap a “cow tax” on bovines for their contribution to global warming?
The agency says no. But in recent weeks, farmers and livestock ranchers have flooded the EPA with letters warning of catastrophic consequences if such a tax was imposed.
“If President-elect [Barack] Obama tries to include farmers in some [...]

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China will impose a long-awaited fuel tax “very soon,” the head of National Development and Reform Commission’s (NDRC) Energy Research Institute said in comments reported on Tuesday by the China Daily.
“The announcement will come very soon, and actually specific plans have already been suggested to the government long ago,” Han Wenke, director general of the [...]

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The German government said on Thursday it planned to eliminate taxes on new cars with low greenhouse gas emissions for the first two years of ownership, but environmentalists said the scheme would backfire.
“We want to introduce an automobile tax exemption for cars that are particularly clean,” Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel told ARD public television.
“That is [...]

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Climate taxes, not cap and trade markets alone, will lead to the vast technological changes the world’s energy system needs to fight global warming, a top U.S. economist said on Thursday.
Cap and trade has emerged as the dominant attempt to slow global warming. Global deals in permits to emit greenhouse gas emissions have hit nearly [...]

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The House of Representatives passed legislation on Friday extending billions of dollars in tax credits for the solar, wind and biodiesel industries, ending months of uncertainty for renewable energy companies.
The House voted 263 to 171 in favor of the tax breaks Friday as a part of the $700 billion bailout package for Wall Street. This [...]

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Plastic forks, disposable diapers, drafty houses — if it hurts the environment, make it cost more. That’s the message France’s government wants to send with a raft of proposed new taxes.
France’s ecology minister said Sunday the government is considering a “picnic tax” on disposable dishes to encourage people to use reusable plates and cups instead.
Speaking [...]

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China is studying whether to impose an environmental tax on polluters to cut their emissions, the official China Daily reported on Saturday.
The newspaper quoted Pan Yue, a deputy minister for environmental protection, as saying several government agencies had formed a team of experts to research the issue.
Pan gave no details of the proposed tax or [...]

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Disposable razors and nappies could be taxed as luxury goods in order to cut the amount of waste going to landfill, a Government-funded report to ministers has suggested.

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