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BMW Group to use sustainably produced aluminum wheels from 2024

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The BMW Group has been actively involved for many years in international initiatives focused on standardizing raw material extraction. These include the aluminum Stewardship Initiative (ASI), an international non-profit organisation supported by environmental and industrial associations, NGOs, aluminum producers and processing companies.

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GECF: more than a quarter of 2050 natural gas supply untapped

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average economic growth rate between 2000 and 2019, continuously expanding domestic gas production, attracting investors, and enhancing knowledge and technologies exchange. As a holder of the fourth-largest volume of gas reserves worldwide, Turkmenistan has been unlocking the potential of natural gas, leading to an 11.5%

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BMW Group sourcing aluminum produced using solar energy from EGA

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The company not only wants to stop this trend, but also reverse it—and even lower CO 2 emissions per vehicle by 20% from 2019 levels. The light metal foundry at BMW Group Plant Landshut was already certified for its sustainable use of aluminum back in December 2019. In 2019, EGA sold 2.6 million tonnes of cast metal.

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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

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The task force collaborates on organizing virtual and in-person events with IEEE groups including Women in Engineering and external organizations such as the International Renewable Energy Agency. The task force also participates in policymaking efforts with the United Nations and other agencies.

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ICCT: aviation emissions increasing 70% faster than UN projections

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A new International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) 2 -emissions-commercial-aviation-2018">report finds that aviation emissions are increasing 70% faster than UN projections that already point to a tripling of CO 2 by 2050. In other words, the climate challenge for aviation is worse than expected. —Graver et al.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

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Adventures with public transport to EXPO 2020 Dubai Since my return in 2019, I’ve become an “ inspiring speaker ,” and in 2022, I received an invitation to speak at EXPO 2020 in Dubai. Booking train tickets for international trips is not always easy.

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Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous

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While the company was originally founded to produce open-source AI systems, its leaders determined in 2019 that it was too dangerous to continue releasing its GPT systems’ source code and model weights (the numerical representations of relationships between the nodes in its artificial neural network) to the public.