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Vingroup member VinES and Li-Cycle launch global battery recycling partnership

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Vingroup is the largest private conglomerate in Vietnam. The new partnership is expected to support VinES and VinFast in their creation of a closed-loop battery supply chain to enhance their environmental goals and contribute to the global electrified revolution with green mobility solutions. Earlier post.)

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New phase of globalization could undermine efforts to reduce CO2 emissions

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The study, involving researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and colleagues in China and the United States, investigated how complex supply chains are distributing energy-intensive industries and their CO 2 emissions throughout the global South. The paper is published in Nature Communications. Gt in 2004 and 2.2

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Yunnan Investment Group and BYD to open new energy vehicle plants in Southwest China

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Yunnan Province, located in far southwest China, has a population of about 50 million, concentrated in about eight large cities, and borders with Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. Yunnan also offers an annual water supply of 222 billion cubic meters, more than ten thousand cubic meters of water per person.

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The US’s largest solar panel maker opens a 3.3 GW factory in India

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Because the factory is in a high baseline water stress area, it’s designed to minimize its impact on local water resources by relying entirely on tertiary-treated reverse osmosis water from the city’s sewage treatment plant. It will have zero wastewater discharge. That’s good for the United States and it’s good for India.

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Singapore Company Trialing Natural Gas Econic Waste Collection Vehicle

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Fueled with biogas from renewable resources, the Econic is even carbon-neutral. In Singapore the methane is supplied by GPlus, the natural gas sales division of Sembcorp. The Econic, introduced in 1998, has been available with natural gas drive since 2002.

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LCFS pathways for renewable diesel produced in Singapore from NA tallow and SE Asian fish oil

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The staff of the California Air Resources Board has posted six new applications for pathways for the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), two of which are from Neste Oil for renewable diesel (RD) produced at its plant in Singapore from (a) North American tallow and (b) Southeast Asian fish oil.

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The Global Outlook of Electric Vehicles

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Supply chain issues and delivery delays also disrupt EV sales in some regions, making it harder for consumers to take receive their new EVs. In addition, there have been worldwide supply chain issues for battery materials, as Russia supplies 20% of the world’s high purity nickel. What about the rest of the world?