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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

South Africa-based Sasol and Japan-based ITOCHU Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) jointly to study and to develop the market and supply chain for green ammonia with a focus on its use as bunkering fuel and for power generation. The product can also be cracked back to hydrogen gas for further applications.

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MAY 12, 2021

In addition to North America, we are currently looking at the freight train market in Europe, Australia, Brazil and South Africa—all of which are ideally suited for the transformation of their current diesel stock. —Anil Srivastava, CEO, Leclanché.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2020

The new study uses observations from 2003 to 2015 in spring, the cloudiest season, over the shipping route between Europe and South Africa. They suggest that strategies to temporarily slow global warming by spraying salt particles to make low-level marine clouds more reflective, known as marine cloud brightening, might be effective.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

These efforts could also supply biofuel to ground and marine vehicles, saving about 1 million tons of CO 2 emissions per year on a life cycle basis across the transportation sector, the study found.

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JULY 15, 2016

In 2015, farms in Limpopo Province of South Africa, from which the biofuel for the flights was sourced, achieved certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), one of the strongest sustainability standards in the world. The oil can be used for biodiesel, electric generation, bio-jet fuel and marine diesel.

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APRIL 7, 2011

The following governments agreed to continue or initiate action in support of one or more of these recommendations by the next Clean Energy Ministerial: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Republic of Korea, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and the United Kingdom.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

The NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) reports that developing countries, led by China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Saudi Arabia, have blocked what would have been the first global agreement to cut carbon emissions from ships.

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