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The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published its provisional data about the CO 2 emissions of newly registered passenger cars and vans in Europe in 2020. According to the EEA’s provisional data, the average emissions of new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU), Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom in 2020 were 107.8
Members of the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee approved a draft law setting out rules for achieving a 147 g CO 2 /km (235 g/mile) target for new light commercial vehicles by 2020, down from 203 g/km (325 g/mile) today—i.e., The vote was 53 to 4 with 1 abstention. Earlier post.).
2020) “CO2 electrolysis to multicarbon products at activities greater than 1 A cm -2.” The researchers are now working on further increasing the efficiency of the system and its stability, which, although now at about tens of hours, is still far from the thousands of operating hours of the water electrolyzers. Resources. Science Vol.
The escalating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and the consequent acceleration of climate change are alarming, and it has proven challenging to find feasible ways to actively reduce the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. —Prof In. 2020.119344.
an and Park (2020) “Light-Independent Biological Conversion of CO 2 ,” Joule doi: 10.1016/ j.joule.2020.08.007. Using various sources of energy and integrated biological-inorganic catalysis may optimize non-photosynthetic CO 2 conversion. an and Park. 2020.08.007.
The European Commission today proposed targets for the further reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from new cars and light commercial vehicles (vans) by 2020. The proposals will cut average emissions from new cars to 95 grams of CO 2 per km (g CO 2 /km) in 2020 from 135.7 T&E: Super credits = “hot air”.
2020) “Transforming carbon dioxide into jet fuel using an organic combustion-synthesized Fe-Mn-K catalyst.” C n H m ?+?H H 2 O) on catalytically active sites on ?-Fe The researchers thus refer to the process as a “Tandem Mechanism”. Makgae, O.A. Nat Commun 11, 6395 doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20214-z.
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By August 2020, while most Europeans were still grounded and commercial flights were down 60% year-on-year, private jet traffic had returned to pre-COVID levels. increase in private flight sales in July 2020 alone. The study highlights the continued use of private jets last year despite the pandemic. One operator reported an 11.3%
Maersk Line, the world's largest container shipping company, has reached its 2020 target of reducing CO 2 emissions by 25% from its benchmark 2007 levels. And to keep that momentum we’re raising the target to a 40% reduction in CO 2 by 2020. The data is independently verified by Lloyd’s Register.
2020) “Efficient Electrocatalytic CO 2 Reduction to C 2+ Alcohols at Defect-Site-Rich Cu Surface,” Joule doi: 10.1016/j.joule.2020.12.011. The researchers found that using a copper catalyst with defect-site-rich surfaces greatly enhanced the CO 2 -to-alcohol reduction pathways. 2020.12.011.
The European Parliament backed new rules designed to achieve the CO 2 emission reduction target of 95g/km for new cars by 2020. The text—approved by 499 votes in favor, 107 against and 9 abstentions—retains this target, albeit with a one-year “phase-in” period in 2020. km over that period. passenger cars in 2021, 1.33
After decreasing by 11% in 2020, US energy-related CO 2 emissions will increase by 7% to reach 4.9 Despite significant growth in energy-related CO2 emissions as the U.S. billion metric tons this year. economy opens up, we don’t see these emissions returning to pre-pandemic levels, at least in the short term.
The project will reduce the volumes of coal needed in the iron ore reduction process, thereby cutting CO2 emissions. By installing an electrolyzer, hydrogen can be produced and injected in large volumes into the blast furnace tuyeres.
Percentage change in global daily fossil CO 2 emissions, Jan-May 2020. The impact of COVID-19 on global emissions has been estimated based on a combination of energy, activity and policy data available up until the end of April 2020. 2020) “Temporary reduction in daily global CO 2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement.”
Implemented in cooperation with South Korea, It was funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement number 727619. The project had a budget of €4.2 million, with a total of nine partners (companies, technology centers and universities).
—Kim and Palmore (2020). Kim and Palmore (2020). —Kim and Palmore (2020). 2020) “A scalable method for preparing Cu electrocatalysts that convert CO 2 into C 2+ products. This schematic is simplified but face-centered cubic Cu has a coordination number of 12. Palmore, G.T.R.
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Starting in fall of 2020, Honda will purchase 530,000 MWh/year from 120 MW of wind power generated by the Boiling Springs Wind Farm in Oklahoma, a 150 MW development of the energy company E.ON. will deliver to the grid by the end of 2020. will deliver to the grid by the end of 2020.
Although this is below the EU fleet-wide target of 130 g CO 2 /km set for the period 2015-2019, it is well above the 2021 target of 95 g CO 2 /km, phased-in in 2020. CO2/km, which is about 7 % above the 2020 target of 147 g CO 2 /km. Electric vehicles constituted 3.5% of new car registrations in 2019. CO 2 /tkm (i.e.
China was the only major economy to experience economic growth in both 2020 and 2021. The numbers make clear that the global economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis has not been the sustainable recovery that IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol called for during the early stages of the pandemic in 2020.
2020) “Molecularly engineered photocatalyst sheet for scalable solar formate production from carbon dioxide and water.” The researchers are now working to further optimise the system and improve efficiency. Additionally, they are exploring other catalysts for using on the device to get different solar fuels. Qian Wang et al.
The order with Wärtsilä was placed in September 2020. The use of LNG as an emissions-reducing fuel in the marine and transportation industries is already well established, and to introduce bioLNG which can be mixed with LNG is the next obvious step in enabling a CO2-neutral transportation fuel. LNG/bioLNG production plant.
Sims, Matteo Muratori (2020) “Two trillion gallons: Fuel savings from fuel economy improvements to US light-duty vehicles, 1975–2018,” Energy Policy , Volume 142, 111517 doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111517. Again, because of the uncertainties in the attribution they conducted a sensitivity analysis. Greene, Charles B. 2020.111517.
Plantation expansion is projected to contribute more than 558 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere in 2020— an amount greater than all of Canada’s current fossil fuel emissions. If all of these leases were developed, more than a third of Kalimantan’s lowlands would be planted with oil palm by 2020.
30 European companies recently called on the European Union to increase its ambition to cut EU emissions to 30% by 2020 from 1990 levels in the interests of strengthening Europe’s economic future, boosting jobs and providing greater certainty and predictability for investors.
In 2020, the UK imported £145 million worth of methanol which amounts to 0.6-1.6 The International Energy Agency has identified direct air capture and storage as one of the three biggest opportunities to achieve Net Zero and methanol production using hydrogen and CO 2 as an important innovation gap.
Three of the most popular plug-in hybrids in 2020 all emitted more CO 2 than advertised when tested in the real world, according to tests commissioned by European environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). Transport & Environment (2020). ? A new Dieselgate in the making.
Yang, David Raciti, Alina Bruma, Ronald Marx, Amit Agrawal, and Renu Sharma (2020) “Endothermic Reaction at Room Temperature enabled by Deep-Ultraviolet Plasmons.” —Renu Sharma. Canhui Wang, Wei-Chang D. Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/s41563-020-00851-x.
Baowen Zhou, Pengfei Ou, Nick Pant, Shaobo Cheng, Srinivas Vanka, Sheng Chu, Roksana Tonny Rashid, Gianluigi Botton, Jun Song, and Zetian Mi (2020) “Highly efficient binary copper?iron U-M holds multiple patents on this catalyst and is seeking partners to bring it to market. 1911159117.
Proportion of lifecycle CO 2 e emissions for future cars 2020-2030. Life cycle CO 2 e emissions, “Typical” scenarios for future cars 2020-2030. Life Cycle CO 2 e Assessment of Low Carbon Cars 2020-2030. The base case scenario for this study is 2012; future scenario cases considered are for the years 2020 and 2030.
ICAO agreed on a collective medium-term aspirational goal of capping emissions from international aviation as of 2020, while recognizing that States or regions such as the EU can act sooner and be more ambitious. It is the first time any transport sector has been able to reach this kind of global deal. This is a real breakthrough.
Broadly, the Ford team found that new light-duty vehicle fuel economy and CO 2 regulations in the US through 2025 and in the EU through 2020 are consistent with the CO 2 glide paths. While the proposed China regulation for 2020 is more stringent than the glide path, the 2017 Brazil regulation is less stringent. to 5% YOY to 3.5%
model planned for 2020 by more than 25% per kilowatt hour (kWh) of battery capacity compared with the e-Golf. However, the group does not expect significant amounts of batteries for industrial-scale recycling until the end of the 2020s. The DKI is measured in tons of CO2 equivalent per vehicle. In 2015, the figure was 43.6
million) into another phase of their research on CO2 scrubbing for carbon capture. Different scrubbing agents were initially tested in three test phases of six months each as part of the pilot operation of the CO2 scrubbing plant connected to the Niederaussem lignite-fired power plant to finally identify an optimum solvent developed by BASF.
In the long term, Audi is pursuing the vision of CO2-neutral mobility and aims to be climate-neutral throughout the company on balance by 2050. The generation of renewable energy will start in 2020. The solar-energy park will produce more than 9.5
per year on average during the 2005-2020 period to 2.3-2.8% per year on average between 2020 and 2025. This CCUS project with Enhanced Water Recovery will eventually inject about 1 million tons of CO2 and create approximately 1.4 Together, the US and China account for more than one third of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that US energy-related carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions will decline by 11% in 2020. In EIA’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook , US energy-related CO 2 emissions are forecast to fall more than the 5% decline in gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020. Source: U.S. Source: U.S.
Honda has now set a goal to reduce CO 2 emissions from its global products by 30% by the end of 2020 compared to year 2000 levels. In 2006, Honda set a goal to reduce global CO 2 emissions from use of its motorcycles, automobiles and power products by 10% by the end of 2010 compared to year 2000 levels.
The European Commission’s own study, ‘A European Strategy on Clean and Energy Efficient Vehicles’, forecasts only 3-4% market share for battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids by 2020, with a rise towards 30% expected by 2030. Both predictions are unrealistic. —Stefan Jacoby.
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