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Maersk parterning with 6 companies to source at least 730,000 tpy of green methanol by end of 2025

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Green Technology Bank (GTB) was established in 2016 by the Chinese government with the priority task to fulfill the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Proman (Switzerland). Maersk intends to offtake the full volume produced on long-term contracts to help its customers realize their own ambitious emission targets.

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Empa recommends buying diesel vehicles only if Euro 6d-TEMP or Euro 6d

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On 1 September 2017, new emissions regulations for passenger vehicles come into force in the EU and Switzerland. These will plug the gaps in the existing legislation and will help to ensure that diesel vehicles in particular become considerably cleaner as regards their NO x emissions. At the end of 2016 around 3.1

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ICCT/TNO study: Real-world vehicle fuel consumption discrepancy widens to 42% in Europe

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com (Spain); and the car club TCS (Switzerland). Uwe Tietge, Sonsoles Díaz, Peter Mock, John German, Anup Bandivadekar (ICCT), and Norbert Ligterink (TNO) “ From laboratory to road – A 2016 update of official and "real-world" fuel consumption and CO2 values for passenger cars in Europe ”. United Kingdom), km77.com Peter Mock.

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New MOF material has potential to cut costs and make nuclear fuel recycling cleaner

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By working at ambient temperature, the new material has the potential to save energy, make reprocessing cleaner and less expensive. Thallapally (2016) “Metal-Organic Framework with Optimal Adsorption, Separation, and Selectivity towards Xenon”, Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms11831. Debasis Banerjee, Cory M. Simon, Anna M.

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