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MAY 19, 2022

Co-processed marine fuel in Scandinavia, a solution helping the maritime sector to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The ISCC PLUS-certified marine fuel enables up to 80% GHG emission reduction over the lifecycle compared to fossil fuels without compromising the product quality and performance. Neste Marine 0.1

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OCTOBER 9, 2016

Neste plans to start selling diesel produced entirely from renewable raw materials at selected stations in Finland around the turn of the year. The new product offers environmentally conscious consumers and corporate customers a sustainable and easy solution for reducing traffic-borne emissions.

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DECEMBER 5, 2014

Finland-based bio and forest industries company UPM and WWF Finland have engaged in a dialogue on the status of wood-based liquid biofuels in Finland and present a list of joint measures to be carried out to promote sustainability. —Liisa Rohweder, CEO of WWF Finland. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 1, 2024

Finland-based Hycamite has launched graphite production using its emissions-free methane-splitting technology. Hycamite can tailor its high-value carbon products to customer needs and produce them industrially in large quantities by using the range of its catalyst families and changing process parameters.

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JULY 4, 2023

million tonnes per annum blast furnace and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel plant operating in Raahe, Finland; its main products are hot-rolled plate and strip. The initiative is a natural continuation to an ongoing joint research project FFS – Towards Fossil-free Steel, which began in February 2021 and is supported by Business Finland.

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JUNE 22, 2021

The technological breakthrough within the HYBRIT ( earlier post ) initiative cuts about 90% of the emissions in connection with steel production and is a decisive step on the road to fossil-free steel. In a traditional process, this is done using carbon or coke, while in the HYBRIT process the reduction is done using fossil-free hydrogen.

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MAY 4, 2023

In accordance with its ambition to reach carbon-neutral production by 2035, Neste is working on a 120 MW electrolyzer project to produce renewable (i.e. green) hydrogen at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. In December 2022, Business Finland awarded Neste €27.7

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The EU Innovation Fund will award a grant of €88 million to Neste’s green hydrogen and CO 2 capture & storage project, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the Porvoo refinery in Finland. The project has a significant role in Neste’s target of carbon neutral production by 2035. BECCS@STHLM, led by Stockholm Exergi.

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JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. capture and liquefaction at a cement plant to storage in offshore sites.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

The product enables up to 90% lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of the fuel compared to conventional fossil diesel. Sales of Neste MY will begin at Neste service stations in Finland, namely Espoo Piispanmäki, Vantaa Ilmakehä, Helsinki Konala, Espoo Otaniemi, Espoo Olari and Vantaa Varisto.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Allianz Capital Partners, on behalf of Allianz insurance companies, has signed an agreement to acquire a minority stake in Ren-Gas Oy , a green hydrogen and power-to-gas project developer based in Finland. The main product of Ren-Gas’ plants is renewable synthetic methane, which is made from green hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

The measure will reduce the emissions caused by drilling by more than 50%. Neste MY Non Road Diesel is comparable to Neste MY Renewable Diesel used in road transport in terms of the raw material base and emissions reduction. It is estimated that during 2020 drilling at the Keliber work site generated emissions of 78.04

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JULY 15, 2021

Hydrogen and ammonia contain no carbon; hence, combustion releases no CO 2 emissions. Full-scale engine tests have been recently carried out in Wärtsilä’s engine laboratory in Vaasa, Finland, to assess the optimum engine parameters for running on these fuels.

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APRIL 21, 2020

The technology group Wärtsilä has been granted €1 million in funding by Business Finland, a state-run public agency for funding important research projects, to support research in the field of Power-to-X (P2X) technology.

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JUNE 28, 2021

The project is being carried out by the Swedish chemical group Perstorp in cooperation with partners Uniper (Germany) and Fortum (Finland), and the aim is to reduce carbon emissions by up to half million tons annually. If completed, Project AIR will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 500,000 tons annually.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Replacing fossil fuels with Neste’s renewable fuels reduced global climate emissions altogether by a 8.3 The emission reduction is calculated by comparing the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of the renewable fuels that Neste produces in a year to the life cycle emissions of conventional European diesel.

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APRIL 25, 2018

grams (g) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) per kilometer more than in 2016. According to the provisional data, the average CO 2 emissions of a new car sold in the EU rose by 0.4 Since 2010, when monitoring started under current EU legislation, official emissions have decreased by 22 g CO 2 /km (16 %). g/km last year to 118.5g/km.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

The SOLETAIR project ( earlier post ) has produced its first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar energy and the air’s carbon dioxide via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. The mobile chemical pilot plant produces gasoline, diesel, and kerosene from regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Testing, which is still ongoing, is showing that Finnish wood-based UPM BioVerno diesel ( earlier post ) significantly reduces harmful tailpipe emissions. The latest test results show that UPM BioVerno also reduces harmful tailpipe emissions. Our tests also showed good results in NO x emissions and efficiency.

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JULY 15, 2023

The projected emissions mitigation corresponds to almost twice the total amount of CO 2 emitted in Norway annually. The EU’s Innovation Fund is one of the world’s largest funding opportunities for projects designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

Renault Group and Finland-based metals producer Terrafame have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the future supply of nickel sulfate. Partnership with Terrafame is an important component in realizing our commitment to reach 30% emissions reduction for our supply chain by 2030.

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OCTOBER 21, 2017

The annual assessment of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the JRC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) confirms that CO 2 emissions have stalled for the third year in a row. Emissions from international transport (aviation and shipping) contribute another 3% to the total global GHG emissions.

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JULY 24, 2022

Currently, Umicore serves its battery materials customers in Europe through its cathode precursor and cobalt refining plant in Kokkola, Finland, and its battery materials plant in Nysa, Poland, which is the continent’s first industrial-scale cathode materials plant.

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MARCH 6, 2020

The new partnership will be a key contributing factor in Finnair’s long-term target of carbon neutrality. Sustainable aviation fuels—assuming large-scale availability—could be a key part of the long-term solution for reducing the CO 2 footprint of aviation, as they reduce the CO 2 emissions by up to 80% compared to fossil fuels.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

Finland-based Neste has submitted three new Tier 2 Pathways for California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) for renewable diesel produced at its Porvoo, Finland refinery. Two pathways are for Renewable Diesel from Tallow & Animal Fat and one is for Renewable Diesel from Used Cooking Oil (UCO). gCO 2 e/MJ. gCO 2 e/MJ.

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JUNE 23, 2022

E-fuels offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing internal combustion engines. Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale. —Dietmar Huber, Vice President Innovation Business Platform Power-to-X at Neste.

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MARCH 29, 2021

The eFuel Alliance is based in Berlin and Brussels and brings together companies and organizations that share the goal of establishing and promoting power- and bio-based synthetic fuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport. Throughout the world, more than 1.3

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OCTOBER 25, 2020

Researchers at the University of Turku in Finland have developed a thin-layer artificial biofilm technology for sustainable and long-term ethylene photoproduction. The team optimized the production system by varying different parameters, such as radiance, inorganic carbon level, and periodicity of medium renewal.

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MAY 31, 2022

The project supports WEC’s ambition to reduce the CO 2 emissions from its electric generating fleet by 60% by the end of 2025, and by 80% by the end of 2030 from 2005 levels, and to be net carbon-neutral by 2050. hydrogen mixed with natural gas, thus demonstrating the capability of the plant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Both agreements demonstrate FREYR’s progress in delivering the supply of localized, low-carbon raw materials for Gigafactory battery-cell production in Norway and Finland. Based on FREYR’s currently targeted production of 83 GWh in 2028 this translates to more than $500 million in yearly de-carbonization value.

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JULY 3, 2020

We need to develop and use new technologies that reduce emissions. Know-how from this project will also provide important input to the development of regulations for the use of ammonia and other low-carbon fuels. —Tina Bru, Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy. —Tina Bru, Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy.

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APRIL 7, 2022

The project will contribute to European energy security while supporting the European Green Deal decarbonization ambitions for transportation, as the industrial-grade CO 2 -neutral biomethanol represents a new source of sustainable low carbon fuel replacing fossil-based fuels. Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski plant.

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MAY 28, 2019

With nuclear power facing an uncertain future in many countries, the world risks a steep decline in its use in advanced economies that could result in billions of tonnes of additional carbon emissions, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. If other low-carbon sources—i.e.,

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In 2019, BTG-BTL received its first orders for almost identical copies of the Empyro plant for delivery to companies in Sweden and Finland, where sawmill waste such as sawdust will be used for producing pyrolysis oil. In 2019, Empyro was acquired by the waste processing company Twence.

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MARCH 11, 2020

The company’s premium renewable products can enable forward thinking businesses and cities to phase out fossil fuels, reduce their carbon footprint and achieve their sustainability targets. In 2019, renewable products refined by Neste helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally by 9.6 Neste has announced a $1.54-billion

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MAY 30, 2012

Greenhouse gas emissions increased in the EU in 2010 as a result of both economic recovery in many countries after the 2009 recession and a colder winter, according to the latest greenhouse gas inventory published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). Emissions increased in 2010. below 1990 levels in 2010.

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MARCH 26, 2022

The Exploration & Production business segment will invest in geothermal energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS) leveraging existing assets and capabilities and contribute to a more sustainable society. At the same time, OMV will invest around €5 billion in the development of low-carbon businesses, i. Financials.

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