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LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation to end all legal disputes over EV batteries in US and Korea

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LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation have agreed to settle all legal disputes relating to EV batteries in the United States and Korea. The companies agreed to withdraw all pending legal disputes in United States and Korea, and agreed to a ten-year non-assertion. In this agreement, the two companies agreed to the following terms.

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SEC removes emissions requirements from climate rules draft

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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has edited out some of its stricter emissions requirements from corporate climate risk rules. The disclosure requirement was included with the SEC’s initial draft of the corporate climate risk rules, which were published in March 2022. A spokesperson from the SEC noted that the U.S.

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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

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Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. Many countries already do so. The United States buys power from Canada.

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SunMirror AG to acquire Latitude 66 Cobalt

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In order to achieve the EU's goal of climate neutrality, it is important not to create new dependency on uncertain third countries for these critical raw materials in terms of legal certainty, working conditions and environmental standards. Demand for critical raw materials such as cobalt and lithium has been growing rapidly for years.

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Indian SUV major Mahindra intends to equip its new EV platform with MEB components from Volkswagen

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The Partnering Agreement evaluates the scope of collaboration—it indicates binding rules for the evaluation phase as well as the non-binding scope of supply. The binding supply agreement will be negotiated in a continued constructive and legally compliant way to conclude by the end of 2022.

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TU/ecomotive develops waste-free car with UBQ: Luca

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UBQ is a patented novel climate-positive material created by Israeli startup UBQ Materials that can substitute conventional plastic, wood and concrete in the manufacturing of everyday products. tons of CO 2 equivalent, qualifying it as “the most climate positive thermoplastic material on the planet.”.

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

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Instead, he and others are trying to invent new climate-control technology that doesn’t further exacerbate the dangers facing the planet’s climate. Winners of the 2021 Global Cooling Prize—both heat pumps—reduce cooling’s climate impact by as much as 80 percent. Still, in the U.S.,

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