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EEA reports sharp decrease in CO2 emissions of new cars in Europe in 2020

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The share of electric vehicles in new registrations tripled from about 3.5% The emissions of new vehicles are systematically tested using type approval procedures. The WLTP allows to obtain more realistic information on vehicle emissions in the type approval tests. grams of CO 2 per kilometre (g CO 2 /km). This was 14.5

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New US vehicle emission standards to cut 7 billion tonnes of CO2

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The EPA has announced the final vehicle emission standards for the US, which will cut over seven billion tonnes of carbon emissions. The post New US vehicle emission standards to cut 7 billion tonnes of CO2 appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Deutsche Post now automatically offsetting all CO2 emissions from mail transport

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Starting immediately, Deutsche Post is offsetting any unavoidable CO 2 emissions due to mail transport with investments in internationally recognized and certified climate protection projects at no extra charge. For the last ten years, DHL has transported all parcels for private customers with its climate-friendly “GoGreen” service.

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Volkswagen investing in climate protection projects to compensate for unavoidable CO2 emissions

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Volkswagen is investing in climate protection projects to compensate for unavoidable CO 2. The first project, Katingan Mentaya , a forest protection project on the Indonesian island of Borneo, compensates for the currently still unavoidable CO 2 emissions from the supply chain, production and delivery of the new Volkswagen e-vehicle ID.3,

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Audi aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% over the vehicle lifecycle by 2025

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Audi has set the goal of successively reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared with reference year 2015 and over the entire product lifecycle. 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. Earlier post.).

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Putting Climate into the Infrastructure Law

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To significantly cut pollution and climate-disrupting CO2 emissions via the new Infrastructure Law, we need to spend the money wisely. If we spend it poorly, we could actually add to pollution and climate-disrupting CO2 emissions.

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German Government Threatens to Block EU Truck CO2 Law

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continued] The post German Government Threatens to Block EU Truck CO2 Law appeared first on CleanTechnica. It’s the third time the Scholz government has threatened a last-minute U-turn on European environment laws. A planned vote on.

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