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Renault breaks silos in the automotive industry to achieve circular goals

Business Green

What will it take to get to 'car-to-car' recycling? After a pandemic-induced hiatus, auto shows have returned with a newfound focus on the inevitable electric future of the automotive industry, and this year's Paris Motor Show was no different. A new model for automotive circularity. Breaking silos within the organization.

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NYPA approves three allocations of hydropower from Niagara Power Project

Renewable Energy World

Sumitomo Rubber USA LLC in Tonawanda — a manufacturer of automotive tires for trucks, cars, buses and motorcycles — was awarded 2 MW of hydropower for a planned expansion to double its daily tire production. NYPA is the largest state public power organization in the U.S.,

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Why government action is vital to help Volvo Cars become part of the solution to climate change

Business Green

So, in 2016, we set an ambition to have global climate neutral manufacturing operations by 2025. Even now, this sales ambition is a pretty bold statement from an established automotive manufacturer. The true carbon impact of electric vehicles is dependent on how the electricity which powers them is generated.

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Best of GBB in 2021: Green Businesses Leading the Sustainable Business Movement

Green Business Bureau

With the vast amount of waste that comes from single-use PPE and regular long-term wear, Watson Gloves is focusing on beginning of life and end of life manufacturing initiatives to help divert much of this textile waste by developing gloves using innovative sustainable materials. Operating in most major U.S. Ginkgo Sustainability.

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'Huge opportunity': How market incentives can help forge new net zero industries

Business Green

Many of these sectors produce materials critical to the burgeoning green economy, yet they have also historically relied on carbon intensive, fossil fuel energy sources, and energy and resource inefficient processes. Brussels is already working on a new policy package designed to accelerate industrial decarbonisation across the bloc.

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GFG Alliance unveils plan for green aluminium venture

Business Green

Metals giant to integrate all its aluminium assets into a single business committed to delivering carbon neutrality by 2030. It will be covered by GFG Alliance's company-wide pledge to become 'carbon neutral' by 2030.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs?

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Moreover, it won the 2024 North American Utility of the Year award this month, voted on by a panel of 50 automotive journalists from the U.S. Now, add sustainability to the safety: It says it will sell only battery-electric vehicles from 2030, and the entire company will be carbon-neutral by 2040.