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Veolia launches largest project to produce bio-methanol from pulp mill waste

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Black liquor is the waste byproduct from the kraft pulping process after pulping is completed. Since then, Veolia has more than 450 installations worldwide for mills in Brazil, Indonesia, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa and several European countries. Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski plant.

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Vanadium Recovery Project targeting significant increase in vanadium production in Europe with low emissions

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The VRP won’t have any waste streams and will set a new precedent for circular economy practices in metals processing. Currently, approximately 75% of global vanadium supply is sourced from China, South Africa, and Russia. The Vanadium Recovery Project (VRP) is targeting a 1.5

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GM to double models with 40 mpg highway or better by 2017; ongoing manufacturing efficiency improvements

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GM’s fuel-economy plan through the 2016 model year focuses on a reduction in vehicle mass and aggressive investment in advanced materials, such as high-strength steel, carbon fiber and aluminum, enabled in part by our industry-first aluminum welding technology. GM has reduced total waste 25 kilograms, or 55 pounds, per vehicle since 2010.

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G20 Leaders Agree to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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Inefficient fossil fuel subsidies encourage wasteful consumption, distort markets, impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to deal with climate change. The inaugural meeting of the G-20 took place in Berlin, on December 15-16, 1999, hosted by German and Canadian finance ministers.

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Global investment in renewable power reached $270.2B in 2014, ~17% up from 2013; biofuel investment fell 8% to 10-year low

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billion, was up 36% on the previous year and came the closest ever to overhauling the total for developed economies, at $138.9 billion) and South Africa ($5.5 Wind, solar, biomass and waste-to-power, geothermal, small hydro and marine power contributed an estimated 9.1% Investment in developing countries, at $131.3

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Nielsen global survey finds concerns about climate change slipping behind concerns over other environmental issues; air and water pollution top worries, pesticide use #3

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But the areas where concern is mounting fastest among 73% of global online consumers is worry over the use of pesticides, packaging waste and water shortages, with reported concern increasing 16, 14 and 13 percentage points, respectively. There are many possible reasons for declines in concern about climate change/global warming.

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Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

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Climate change presents major long-term risks to the global economy and to the assets in which we invest. Comprehensive policies directed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from sources other than energy, for example waste, industrial emissions, fugitives, land-use change, deforestation and agriculture.