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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. The decision also fits with our overall strategy. In Jawor (Poland), a new CO 2 -neutral engine plant is being built.

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ArcelorMittal Europe to produce “green steel” starting in 2020

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ArcelorMittal Europe is developing a series of industrial-scale hydrogen projects for use in blast furnace-based steelmaking that will start to deliver substantial CO 2 emissions savings even within the next five years, as well as progressing a project to test the ability of hydrogen to reduce iron ore and form DRI on an industrial scale.

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Global CO2 emissions stalled for the third year in a row

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Information on the other two greenhouse gases, methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O), is only available until 2012, as international statistics on agricultural activities—the main source of these emissions—are not updated as frequently as on energy and industry-related activities. Europe’s downward trend stalling.

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3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

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In fact, if you remove Equinor from the equation, Big Oil’s renewable investments will actually decline over the next three years before even factoring in the industry-wide deep capex cuts due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Equinor has announced plans to invest $10B into clean energy by 2025, mostly through its offshore wind portfolio.

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Study finds global CO2 emissions back on the rise in 2010

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Similar figures apply to USA, Japan, France, Germany, and most other industrialized nations. The poor improvements in carbon intensity were caused by an increased share of fossil-fuel CO 2 emissions produced by emerging economies with a relatively high carbon intensity, and an increasing reliance on coal.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

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We have closed most of the coal plants and several the aging nuclear plants are moving offline as they close for repair of reach end of life. With the demise of the North Sea production as the fields empty we are increasingly reliant on the pipe that winds its way across Europe pumping Russian gas into Germany, France and other on route.

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CICERO-led study finds global warming effect of leaked hydrogen almost 12x stronger than CO2

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Unlike exhaust from burning coal and gas that contains CO 2 , burning hydrogen emits only water vapor and oxygen. We lack the technology to monitor and detect hydrogen leaks at the scale needed, but new technology is being developed as the industry adapts. The open-access paper is published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment.

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