Links tagged “transportation”

"Around 11 tons of waste packaging was recycled during the shoot, and 1.6 tons of unused food was donated to a homeless charity.Keeping up the good work, film chiefs ditched Bond's gas-guzzling supercar and gave him an eco-friendly electric Aston Martin instead.The secret agent will be seen driving the £250,000 Rapide E model, one of only 155 vehicles which have been built."

Greta Thunberg: "As #COP25 (UN Climate Summit) has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help. It turns out I’ve traveled half around the world, the wrong way:) Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November... If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.

Former NYT reporter Andrew Revkin: "I think a binge buy of decent carbon credits (there are some) by a batch of folks could more than justify a
@GretaThunberg flight back to Europe. Or a ship crossing (there's time for that too)."

Marc Morano responds: "Andrew, This is so silly! Is virtue-signaling that important that otherwise grown educated people like yourself resort to such wacky ideas? "Binge buy" carbon credits so Greta can "justify" a flight?! This is a circus sideshow."

Europe’s carmakers, spooked by the imminent mortal threat to profits from European Union (EU) regulations to curb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, called for governments to raise subsidies on electric car purchases to stimulate sales.