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Panasonic: How a green technology drive can help deliver on internal carbon goals

Business Green

Latest batch of carbon analysis from electronics giant reveals how clean technologies can help slash emissions from transportation and distribution. The German-headquartered company first started collecting carbon data in 2020, and as such the data unveiled yesterday provides the first year-on-year comparison of its climate impact.

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How Patagonia helped save Europe's last wild river - and navigated a path for others to follow

Business Green

From its source in the Pindos Mountains in north-west Greece to its meeting with the Adriatic Sea in Albania, the Vjosa river flows uninterrupted for more than 270 kilometres, making it the longest free-flowing river in Europe outside of Russia. But the picture is much more complicated.

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Orsted Backs First Major Green Hydrogen Project Focused on Transport Sector

GreenTechMedia

The renewable hydrogen would be combined with captured carbon from emission sources around Copenhagen to create hydrocarbon fuels — specifically, methanol for shipping and e-kerosene as a jet fuel replacement. A string of green hydrogen and carbon capture proposals have been announced in Northern Europe in the past year.

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Cosmetics giant Kao joins The Climate Pledge

Business Green

It said it will take action to slash its emissions and neutralise any remaining emissions with "additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets" in order to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040, which is 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement targets of 2050.

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NorthVolt’s Battle Plan to Win the Upcoming Battery-Wars

Mr. Sustainability

An interview with CEO Peter Carlsson, who urges Europe to quickly build on its own battery knowledge. A Time For Growth The need to reduce carbon emissions has enormous consequences for Europe, explains Carlsson. Our estimate is that Europe will need 800 gigawatts of battery power within ten years. White sneakers.

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The Cost of Doing Business in the Heat

Sustainability Consulting

southwest, extreme rainfall and flash floods causing widespread damage to towns in Western Europe , and wildfires burning in typically cold places like Alaska and Siberia , there can be no doubt that a hotter planet can have devasting effects on people and communities. With scorching temperatures hitting the U.S. Plant trees.

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EVs sales may be soaring, but are carmakers really on the road to net zero?

Business Green

Just this week Ford and Volvo joined together with 26 other energy, transport and logistics operators in calling on the EU to ban sales of new fossil fuel cars and vans in Europe by 2035, alongside fresh mandatory EV charging infrastructure targets. The window for us to avoid the worst impacts of global warming is rapidly closing.