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EEA reports sharp decrease in CO2 emissions of new cars in Europe in 2020

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The provisional data are available through the EEA’s data viewer on CO 2 emissions of new cars and new vans. New car emissions were increasing as recently as two years ago, but the sharp drop last year shows that carmakers respond to CO2 standards. million new vans registered in Europe in 2020 with average emissions of 157.7

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Project HyTime demonstrates potential for major CO2 savings from hydrogen dual fuel

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When the vehicles were not using hydrogen in their day to day operations, the principal reason was the lack of available refueling facilities. Project data show that the CO 2 saving would have been about 45 tonnes per annum across the 11 vehicles.

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Deutsche Post now automatically offsetting all CO2 emissions from mail transport

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Up until now, the GoGreen option was subject to a charge and only available to business customers with a shipping volume of at least 50,000 items per year. For the last ten years, DHL has transported all parcels for private customers with its climate-friendly “GoGreen” service.

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GWU team demonstrates highly scalable, low-cost process for making carbon nanotube wools directly from CO2

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Initial scaling is efficiently applied to available concentrated, hot sources of CO 2 , such as eliminating the CO 2 emission from industrial smoke stacks and simultaneously forming valuable CNT wool. Together these principal societal staples, when produced from CO 2 , comprise an ample demand to markedly decrease atmospheric carbon.

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New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

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The aluminum nanoparticles, which are commercially available, should be evenly distributed to maximize contact with the carbon source and the incoming carbon dioxide, the team noted. When the exhaust passes through the device, the light-activated LSPs in the nanoparticles would provide the energy to remove carbon dioxide.

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Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen develop renewable gasoline with 20% lower CO2; rollout of Blue Gasoline this year

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The initial plan is to make the fuel available at regular filling stations over the course of the year, starting in Germany. R33 Blue Diesel is also becoming available at regular filling stations in Germany. per year, assuming an annual mileage of 10,000 kilometers each.

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EIA: US energy-related CO2 fell by 2.8% in 2019, slightly below 2017 levels

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Because sources such as wind and solar have no fuel costs, when available, they are the first sources dispatched to meet electricity demand. In 2019, the transportation sector’s energy-related CO2 emissions declined by 0.7% Source: US Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review.

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