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MAY 23, 2023

The green hydrogen will power a new, fully integrated, digitalized and cycle-oriented steel plant in Boden, northern Sweden. Green steel products are already in exceptionally high demand from the automotive industry, which will thus be able to reduce its carbon footprint so decisively. In the initial phase, the site will produce 2.5

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The lab comes in addition to ongoing e-motor development in Gothenburg, Sweden, and battery labs in China and Sweden. The investments in e-motor design and development represent yet another step towards Volvo Cars’ climate ambitions and electrification strategy.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The EEA report ‘ Electric vehicles from life cycle and circular economy perspectives ’ reviews current evidence on electric cars’ impacts on climate change, air quality, noise and ecosystems, compared with conventional cars. The EEA has also published a new briefing on the environmental and climate impacts of transport.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

In a traditional process, this is done using carbon or coke, while in the HYBRIT process the reduction is done using fossil-free hydrogen. The ultimate goal is to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from the process by fully using fossil-free inputs and fossil-free energy in all parts of the value chain.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. Note the different scaling used in the graphs. McCollum et al.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Replacing fossil fuels with Neste’s renewable fuels reduced global climate emissions altogether by a 8.3 The figure also represents Neste’s positive climate contribution. In Sweden, Neste’s renewable diesel is sold as an HVO-type biofuel (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil, i.e. renewable diesel) through selected retailers.

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MARCH 22, 2023

The mining industry is today going through a period of rapid change, with many players shifting to more sustainable production methods to provide metals with a lower climate footprint. Just like in many other mines, exhaust gases from diesel vehicles are responsible for the majority of the carbon dioxide emissions from Boliden’s mines.

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JUNE 17, 2021

The result is expected to be fossil-free steelmaking technology, with virtually no carbon footprint. As part of the collaboration, Volvo Cars will be the first car maker to secure SSAB steel made from hydrogen-reduced iron from HYBRIT’s pilot plant in Luleå, Sweden. By 2040, Volvo Cars’ ambition is to be a climate-neutral company.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Long-term residential exposure to locally emitted black carbon (BC) from traffic exhaust increases the risk of stroke even in low-pollution environments, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and other universities in Sweden. g/m 3 ) of black carbon from traffic exhaust, the risk of stroke increased by 4%.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2020

The construction sector accounts for a quarter of CO 2 emissions, in Sweden and globally. It was one of the Swedish Transport Agency’s first projects in which a complete climate calculation was made. —Ida Karlsson, PhD student at Chalmers, and participant in the Mistra Carbon Exit project. Karlsson et al. Karlsson et al.

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MAY 27, 2010

Sweden has striven to increase the share of biofuels in transport, and liquid biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are currently exempt from energy and carbon tax. Sweden now consumes the most ethanol per capita in the EU, the audit office said, and is behind only Germany and France in total consumption.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2017

According to a new international study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 38% of black carbon in the Russian Arctic originates from transport and 35% from residential heating sources, while open fires, power plants, and gas flaring are responsible for only 12%, 9%, and 6% respectively.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Global benefits from full implementation of measures for reduction of short-lived climate pollutants in 2030 compared to the reference scenario. The climate change benefit is estimated for a given year (2050) and human health and crop benefits are. for 2030 and beyond. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 2, 2020

Consultations have begun for deciding on placement of the plant in Norrbotten, Sweden. The choice of location will have a major impact on future competitiveness and climate benefits. The byproduct of using fossil-free electricity and hydrogen in steelmaking, instead of coke and coal, will be water instead of carbon dioxide.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Volvo Group revealed what it said was the world’s first vehicle made of fossil-free steel from SSAB ( earlier post )—made in Volvo Construction Equipment’s facility in Braås, Sweden. Together, we will continue reducing climate impact all the way to the end customer while ensuring that our customers get high-quality steel.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The European Parliament is calling for fast action to reduce non-CO 2 climate forcers including black carbon soot, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), methane, and ground-level ozone, which together are responsible for nearly half of climate forcing. Even cutting CO 2 emissions to zero today will not produce cooling for a thousand years.

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JUNE 2, 2021

Investors in the eMethanol facility developer include Alfa Laval, Carbon Clean, Falkor, Haldor Topsoe, Siemens Energy and Uniper. A Power-to-Fuel company, Liquid Wind will develop and finance facilities to produce carbon-neutral liquid fuel, eMethanol.

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JULY 1, 2009

Carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost region. trillion tons of frozen carbon, about twice as much carbon as contained in the atmosphere. Projections show that almost all near-surface permafrost will disappear by the end of this century exposing large carbon stores to decomposition and release of greenhouse gases.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

As a first step for the 50/50 joint venture, Volvo Car Group and Northvolt aim to set up a research and development center in Sweden that will begin operations in 2022. Today, the production of batteries for Volvo Car Group’s fully electric cars represents a large part of the car’s total lifecycle carbon emissions.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

In a 23-year experiment, a team from Lund University, Sweden, and the University of New Hampshire has determined that the common understanding of how organic material is decomposed by fungi and bacteria is fundamentally wrong. When a plant dies, its leaves and branches fall to the ground.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Increased use of gas is a bridge towards climate-neutral transports. When trucks can operate on 80 percent pure biogas and 20 percent pure biodiesel, carbon emissions will be 80% lower than with conventional diesel technology. Three filling stations for liquefied methane gas have been planned in Sweden to date.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

It is also one of a host of actions intended to support the EU’s goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Since then, hydrogen buses and trolleybuses produced by Solaris have been sold to operators in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Latvia. Solaris unveiled its first buses to use hydrogen in 2014.

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APRIL 2, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. —Report to Congress on Black Carbon. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

The climate change benefit is estimated for a given year (2050) and human health and crop benefits are. Fast action on pollutants such as black carbon, ground-level ozone and methane may help limit near term global temperature rise and significantly increase the chances of keeping temperature rise below 2 °C (3.6 °F)—and

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

Low-carbon fuels are the only sustainable solution to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from existing combustion engines around the world. All solutions are needed in the fight against the climate crisis. In addition, there are around 22,000 aircrafts for which there are no cost-effective technical alternatives in sight.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

biogas becomes more than climate neutral. In Sweden there are some 20 similar plants, producing biogas for use in cars and other vehicles. The researchers also observed that the biogas releases 16 gram/kWh biogas of the greenhouse gases methane, laughing gas and carbon dioxide. Mikael Lantz. Full report (in Swedish).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Use” was jointly prepared and notified by thirteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. The Member States will provide up to €5.2

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Long-term measurement data of the equivalent black carbon (eBC) mass concentrations and particle number size distributions (PNSD) from the Global Atmosphere Watch Observatory Chacaltaya (CHC; 5240?m From there, BC can be transported over long distances and exert impact on climate and composition of remote southern hemisphere.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Driving this innovation in technology, is a sincere commitment from BYD to provide safe and appealing solutions that reduce pollution from carbon emissions and address the issue of climate change, supporting the initiative to Cool the Earth by 1?. The green dream has long been a priority for BYD and is the vision for the future.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2023

As a first step, Skeleton’s SuperBattery will be integrated with TECO 2030’s fuel cell modules in the HyEkoTank marine fuel cell retrofit project led by TECO 2030, Shell, and other consortium partners from three European countries (Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2024

However, according to the World Resources Institute , “EVs need to account for 75 percent to 95 percent of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 in order to meet international climate goals aimed at keeping global warming to 1.5 Analysts are optimistic that electric vehicle sales will reach the levels necessary to help avert climate disaster.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

Eventually, they’ll add equipment to spray tiny aerosol particles of calcium carbonate, the compound found in limestone, blackboard chalk, and Tums antacids. Keith is also the founder of Carbon Engineering, a Canadian firm building a sprawling facility in West Texas that will pull carbon dioxide directly from the air.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2020

ABB electrification and automation knowledge and solutions have been employed in a pioneering mine of the future project, which has ultimate ambitions to demonstrate zero carbon dioxide emissions and productivity increases of 50%. LKAB’s core business is the mining and processing of iron ore for the steel industry.

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MARCH 28, 2017

Preem, the largest fuel company in Sweden, and Vattenfall have concluded an agreement to investigate the potential Vattenfall’s providing of hydrogen gas in the large scale production of biofuel for the Swedish market. Vattenfall can provide hydrogen gas required for the production of drop-in biofuels.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Volvo Cars, A-hus and Vattenfall recently launched the six-month One Tonne Life project—an attempt by a family (the Lindells) to cut their carbon dioxide yearly emissions from seven tonnes per person to a more sustainable one tonne. This creates a comfortable climate inside the house and the energy consumption becomes lower.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Quizzed by The Observer as to which country had objected to the 2050 target, director-general of Sweden’s Naturvårdsverket (Environmental Protection Agency) Lars-Erik Liljelund quipped , “China. by Jack Rosebro. China doesn’t like numbers.” The relative valuation of potential emissions offsets (e.g.

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