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Finnish NGO UFF to use Neste Renewable Diesel in trucks

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UFF (U-landshjälp från Folk till Folk i Finland rf), a Finnish non-profit environmental and development organization, will use Neste MY Renewable Diesel, produced entirely from waste and residues, to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced in UFF’s logistics chain.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future?

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EEA: increase in EU GHG emissions, mostly due to transport, hampers progress towards 2030 targets

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The rise is mostly due to the increase of oil consumption from road transport. In 2017, emissions covered by the Effort Sharing Decision (ESD) (including transport, buildings, agriculture and waste) increased for the third year in a row. The largest declines compared with 2016 occurred in Denmark, Finland and the United Kingdom.

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Neste files patent on gasoline fuels with high bioenergy content

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from VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland and Neste showed that a combination of ethanol or isobutanol with bio-hydrocarbon components offers an option to reach high gasoline bioenergy content for E10-compatible cars. The Neste Oil renewable gasoline component represented liquid biohydrocarbons. —Aakko-Saksa et al.

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