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Electric cars: Man reveals how he was fined after charging car This article contains affiliate links, we may receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Sign up for FREE driving tips, latest models and breaking news SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info A new report from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) states that the UK Government needs to introduce measures to help address the hole left in public finances by fuel duty. As the UK switches to electric cars , revenue from fuel duty will be cut dramatically, which could leave the Government with a black hole of around £28billion a year. Related articles Drivers warned switching to an EV might not reduce costs London councils … [Read more...] about Electric cars could soon have to pay car tax through ‘vehicle tracking technologies’

People and companies are challenged by natural disasters, climate change as well as an aging population. Swiss Re Slovakia, striving to make the world and local communities more resilient to external influences, is looking for ways to cope with the consequences of the coming changes. Skryť Remove ad Article continues after video advertisement Skryť Remove ad Article continues after video advertisement Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, has been operating in Slovakia since 2006. Today it employs almost 2,000 people in its Bratislava branch, including its largest group of data scientists. They co-created a model that can use various data and satellites to estimate the impact of climate change or soil fertility. Insurance can thus be adapted to suit individual farmers. “We are a company whose main mission is to contribute to the resilience … [Read more...] about Making the world more resistant to crises

GB News guests debate using electric cars This article contains affiliate links, we may receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Get pensions news and advice plus latest money alerts for FREE now SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Drivers of electric vehicles will now need to fork out over £220 more per year to get around. This is according to vehicle insurance provider GoCompare , and the UK’s leading EV charging app Zap-Map . Related articles London councils support huge ULEZ expansion despite impact on drivers European Union agrees to ban sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2035 The average cost of charging an electric car on the high-speed public network has … [Read more...] about Electric car charging costs rise again with drivers now paying over £200 more per year

The use of virtual reality in the treatment of psychiatric patients; the development of future skills as well as digital workplaces for schools; or the use of augmented and virtual reality in presenting and restoring cultural heritage were the themes behind the projects that companies submitted for the Via Bona award in the 2021 category of Socially Innovative Company. Skryť Remove ad Article continues after video advertisement Skryť Remove ad Article continues after video advertisement Social innovation is still a relatively new topic for the business sector in Slovakia. As it is not easy to find companies that have incorporated social innovation into the subject of their business. The existing cases are all the more valuable, noted Zuzana Polačková, a researcher at the Center for Social and Psychological Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and ambassador of this category. “Lately, such examples are beginning to … [Read more...] about Therapy by virtual reality

The latest Supreme Court ruling is a major setback for President Joe Biden, who has committed America to deep cuts in its carbon emissions - a quarter of which come from burning coal and gas for electricity. Justices sided 6-3 against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) . The same conservative judges which, last week, voted down the Roe vs Wade ruling on abortion rights in America. President Biden had been banking on federal powers through the EPA to curb pollution from power plants. The case brought against the EPA by West Virginia, along with 17 other coal producing states and two coal companies, was about whether the EPA could regulate pollution beyond the "fenceline" of a given power plant using the US Clean Air Act. Advertisement The court has ruled it can't, arguing carbon dioxide, while a greenhouse gas, is not "toxic" and therefore not something the EPA has the power to regulate. Because limiting CO2 emissions could also … [Read more...] about Supreme Court emissions ruling against Environmental Protection Agency is major setback for Joe Biden

US and French officials confirmed that leaders at the G7 summit had made progress Monday on setting a price cap on Russian oil imports to curb Moscow's energy revenue. News of plans for ramped-up sanctions affecting oil and Russia's military machine emerged as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the summit by videolink. "The dual objectives of G7 leaders have been to take direct aim at [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's revenues, particularly through energy, but also to minimize the spillovers and the impact on the G7 economies and the rest of the world," Reuters news agency reported an official as saying on the sidelines of the summit. As the summit talks got underway, the United States also said sanctions would target Russia's defense industry in a bid to hamper the effectiveness of the Russian military. Zelenskyy appeared on a television screen next to leaders' round table at the secluded Schloss Elmau luxury hotel. He asked the group for anti-aircraft … [Read more...] about G7 summit: Leaders explore Russian oil price cap

By Esme Stallard Published 1 hour ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has lost some of its power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court represents a major setback to President Joe Biden's climate plans. He called it a "devastating decision" but said it would not undermine his effort to tackle the climate crisis. The case against the EPA was brought by West Virginia on behalf of 18 other mostly Republican-led states and some of the nation's largest coal companies. They were challenging whether the agency has the power to regulate planet-warming emissions for state-wide power sectors or just individual power plants. These 19 states were worried their power sectors would be regulated and they would be forced to move away from using coal, at a severe economic cost. In a … [Read more...] about Supreme Court limits Biden’s power to cut emissions

By Shane Harrison Published 4 May 2020 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing The Green Party’s decision to enter formal talks with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael makes a new coalition government in the Republic of Ireland more likely, but by no means certain. More than seven weeks after the general election there is a growing sense during these Covid-19 times, with extraordinary decisions having to be taken, that a new as opposed to a caretaker government is needed. It is known that the Greens were divided on the issue with the party leader Eamon Ryan, a former cabinet minister, keener on going into government than the party’s deputy leader, Catherine Martin. His wing of the party believes there is now a great opportunity to implement policies to deal with green issues and global climate change. Others in the party have serious reservations about whether the Greens will … [Read more...] about Irish election: Green Party divided on coalition government

At least 18 killed in missile strike on shopping mall G7 says will support Ukraine for "as long as necessary" Turkey lifts opposition to Finland, Sweden's NATO bid Germany and Netherlands to send more heavy weapons Italian PM says Putin will not be present at G20 This article was last updated at 22:03 UTC/GMT This live updates article has now closed. Click here for the latest developments in Russia's war on Ukraine. Germany, Netherlands to deliver more howitzers to Ukraine The defense ministers of Germany and the Netherlands Tuesday announced that their countries would send a further six Howitzer 2000s to Ukraine in its struggle to fend off invading Russian forces. The delivery will see each country deliver three artillery weapons on top of 12 howitzers they recently delivered to Kyiv. The announcement, made at the NATO summit convening in Madrid, Spain, comes days after Germany finally sent its first heavy weapons of the war, a fact for which it has been … [Read more...] about Ukraine: G7 leaders slam ‘brutal’ Russian strike on mall — as it happened