Climate Change and Sweden

Study finds higher gasoline taxes do not disproportionately impact the poor, especially in developing countries

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

However, a new study by researchers at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) finds that middle- and high-income earners are generally affected the most by gasoline taxes, especially in poor countries, rather than poor people. Sterner is lead author in the UN climate panel’s (IPCC) working group Mitigation of Climate Change.

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Tax Gasoline Fuel Tax Climate Change

Fast action on black carbon, ozone and methane could help limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees C

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

The climate change benefit is estimated for a given year (2050) and human health and crop benefits are. °F), according to a new assessment released today in Bonn, Germany, during a meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). for 2030 and beyond. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge. °C (2.7 °F),

Ozone

Ozone Carbon Climate Change Global

Climate Talks End In Copenhagen Accord; Countries Settle On Non- Binding 2 ºC Warming Limit

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Quizzed by The Observer as to which country had objected to the 2050 target, director-general of Sweden’s Naturvårdsverket (Environmental Protection Agency) Lars-Erik Liljelund quipped , “China. ” Tags: Climate Change Policy. by Jack Rosebro. China doesn’t like numbers.”

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Climate Climate Change Tuvalu Obama

Growing Number of EU Countries Levying CO2 Taxes on Cars and Incentivizing Plug-ins

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

The seventeen EU countries that levy passenger car taxes partially or totally based on the car’s carbon dioxide emissions and/or fuel consumption are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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Tax Plug-in Latvia Czech Republic

Study finds megacity traffic soot can reach high altitudes and be transported over long distances, contributing to global warming

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

According to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there are still major uncertainties regarding the quantities and distribution of soot in the atmosphere. Therefore, air pollution in this region has a particularly strong impact on the atmosphere and the global climate. Tilo Arnhold.

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Bolivia Transportation Global Climate Change

Volvo Trucks launches sales of electric FL and FE trucks for urban transport

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Volvo FL Electric and Volvo FE Electric were developed in close collaboration with selected customers operating in Gothenburg, Sweden. However, there will not be one singular energy source that addresses climate change and all other environmental issues. —Jonas Odermalm.

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Volvo Transportation Sale Sweden

Study Finds Availability of Low-CO2 Electricity and Hydrogen May Paradoxically Delay Large-Scale Transition to Electric and/or Hydrogen Vehicle Fleet

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Wallington et al.

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Hydrogen Low CO2 Available Fleet

PowerCell, Siemens to partner on development of marine fuel cell systems; integration into BlueDrive

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2018

PowerCell Sweden AB has signed a memorandum of understanding with the German industrial group Siemens AG to enter into a partnership in order to drive forward the integration of fuel cell modules in shipping. The fuel cells will be supplied by PowerCell Sweden AB.

Mariner

Mariner Fuel Sweden Climate Change

Study Finds Current Swedish Biofuels Offer Major Climate Benefits; Biogas from Manure the Best

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

A study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden found that Swedish biofuels produce between 65 and 148% less greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline and diesel, even when direct and indirect land use changes are taken into account. Tags: Biodiesel Biomethane Climate Change Ethanol Europe. 68% from biodiesel (RME).

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Climate Waste Climate Change Sweden

Sponsors of SAE Study Conclude HFO-1234yf Can Be Used As Low-GWP Global Replacement Refrigerant in MAC Systems

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Extensive testing supported by multimillion dollar (USA) funding and in-kind support for SAE CRP1234 projects has been provided by 15 vehicle OEMs (from China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Sweden, UK, and USA) and 18 Tier one suppliers (from Asia, Europe, and USA). Earlier post.).

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Global USA Climate Change Japan

EEA: Higher EU greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 due to economic recovery and cold winter

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2012

Among the greenhouse gases reported to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) accounted for the largest increase in emissions in 2010. The relative growth in emissions was highest in Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Latvia. The gas represented 82% of total EU GHG emissions.

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2010 Emissions Gas 2009

Scania Helps DB Schenker Go Fossil-?Free On Swedish Island Of Gotland

CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 25, 2022

Climate change is affecting islands everywhere in bad ways. The Gotland region in Sweden is trying to counter these effects by working towards a goal of becoming fossil-free in 2040, five years ahead of Sweden’s national deadline. One way they’ve made […].

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Sweden Climate Change Water Climate

Volvo Cars Torslanda becomes company’s first climate-neutral car plant, second in overall network

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2021

Volvo Cars announced that its Torslanda site in Sweden is its first car manufacturing plant to reach fully climate-neutral status. This makes Torslanda the second plant in its overall manufacturing network to reach this status, after the Skövde engine plant in Sweden became climate-neutral in 2018. Torslanda plant.

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Climate Volvo Cars Sweden

BYD launches 3 new electric vehicles at the Paris Motor Show

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Driving this innovation in technology, is a sincere commitment from BYD to provide safe and appealing solutions that reduce pollution from carbon emissions and address the issue of climate change, supporting the initiative to Cool the Earth by 1?. The green dream has long been a priority for BYD and is the vision for the future.

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BYD Motors Motor Motoring

JRC: Increased use of renewables results in growing GHG emission savings in the EU; transport contribution only 5%

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2015

from 2009 to 2012, confirming renewables’ potential in climate change mitigation, according to a new report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s in-house science service. Nearly two thirds of the total savings came from renewable energy development in Germany, Sweden, France, Italy and Spain. Background.

Renewable

Renewable Transportation Emissions Climate Change

Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Encouraging the use of low-carbon alternatives is an essential part of meeting climate change targets as well as improving local air quality and health. More than 90% of such vehicles are powered by internal combustion engines burning oil-derived fuels.

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Carbon Alternative Fuels Market Vehicles

EU approves £3bn funding to tackle biogenic CO2 in Sweden

Innovation News Network

JULY 2, 2024

The European Commission has approved €3bn State Aid to Sweden to support carbon capture and storage (CCS) aimed at reducing biogenic CO2. The post EU approves £3bn funding to tackle biogenic CO2 in Sweden appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Sweden CO2 Carbon Climate Change

To Hell With The Grownups. I’m Now With Greta & #FridaysForFuture

Creative Greenius

MARCH 6, 2019

But I’ve been amazed by the number of people I know who link at me with a blank stare when I mention Greta and the #FridaysForFuture movement that she began last fall in Sweden, they look at me with a blank stare. Climate change is already happening. We will not accept a life in fear and devastation.

Climate

Climate Re-Charge BBC Poland

Study finds transport, residential heating main sources of black carbon in Russian Arctic

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Reducing black carbon pollution holds some potential for climate change mitigation, especially in the Arctic, but in order to take effective action, we have to know where it is coming from. —Patrik Winiger, a researcher at Stockholm University in Sweden who led the study. 1613401114.

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Carbon Transportation Pollution Climate Change

Expedition to spread word of climate change

Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

A team of three Cambridge graduates has today received a Land Rover Defender 110 and a cheque for £10,000, at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London, to embark on an expedition of approximately 32,000km, through 31 countries, to raise awareness of the potential impacts of climate change along the Atlantic coastline.

Climate Change

Climate Change Land Rover Climate Austria

Study reorders significance of fungal and bacterial decomposition of organic matter; impact on climate models

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2015

In a 23-year experiment, a team from Lund University, Sweden, and the University of New Hampshire has determined that the common understanding of how organic material is decomposed by fungi and bacteria is fundamentally wrong. When a plant dies, its leaves and branches fall to the ground.

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Climate New Hampshire Climate Change Universal

Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This question of whether climate change becomes so bad that we have to do something to dull its impacts and reduce human suffering is a very big one,” says Keutsch, an atmospheric chemist. Larsson Blind, who comes from a family of reindeer herders, spoke to IEEE Spectrum by video call from her home in the northernmost part of Sweden.

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Ozone Solar Climate Change Climate

Youth Climate Strikes Have The $uperpower To Shut This Country Down & Force America To Take Emergency Climate Action

Creative Greenius

MARCH 13, 2019

My friend and mentor, Bill McKibben has an Op Ed about this Friday’s Student Climate Strikes in today’s on-line edition of the LA Times that will be news to LAT readers but not to Creative Greenius devotees.

Climate

Climate America Future Sweden

Galp and Northvolt establish JV for lithium conversion plant in Portugal; initial annual capacity of 35,000 tons of lithium hydroxide

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Portugal-based energy company Galp and Sweden-based battery manufacturer Northvolt have agreed to set up a joint company, Aurora, that aims to become a steppingstone for the development of an integrated lithium-battery value-chain aligned with Portuguese and European ambitions.

Portugal

Portugal Conversion Lithium Ion Gas-Electric

Researchers engineer first low-methane-emission, high-starch rice; benefits for GHG control, food and bioenergy

Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2015

Now, however, with the addition of a single gene from barley (SUSIBA2), a team of researchers in China, Sweden and the US has engineered a strain of rice—now named SUSIBA2—that can be cultivated to emit virtually no methane from its paddies during growth.

Emissions

Emissions Engine Carbon Sweden

Copenhagen Diagnosis Released, Detailing Accelerating Indicators of Climate Change In Last Three Years

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate 2008 2009

‘One Tonne’ family prove low carbon lifestyle is possible

Green Cars News

JUNE 13, 2011

The ground-breaking One Tonne Life project has successfully proved that a climate change-busting lifestyle is possible through a combination of altered human behaviour and innovative technology.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions

What Is a Heat Pump?

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 7, 2023

In very cold climates, it makes sense to install a ground-source heat pump if you possibly can. That’s likely why most of the heat pumps in Sweden—a country with one of the highest numbers of heat pumps per capita—are of this variety.

Water

Water Installation Sweden Climate

Volvo CE opens new facility to support production of electric wheel loaders

Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The construction industry’s shift takes another step forward as Volvo CE inaugurates a new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to support the production of electric wheel loaders at its plant in Arvika, Sweden. The new facility is the latest expansion for the Arvika site, which already manufactures medium and large wheel loaders.

Volvo

Volvo Production Sweden Climate Change

Press Release: Full-electric Volta Zero embarks on UK customer roadshow

Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 25, 2021

Volta Trucks has offices in Sweden, France and the UK and is partnering with a number of global leaders in the supply chain for the development and production of Volta Zero. ” About Volta Trucks. Volta Trucks is a start-up full-electric goods vehicle manufacturer and services company.

Electric

Electric Electrical Climate Change India

Here It Comes: Another Hot Summer in Europe

Baua Electric

MAY 24, 2024

The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said several factors contribute to the continent’s vulnerability, including the proportion of European land in the Arctic — the fastest-warming region on earth — and changes in atmospheric circulation. “The

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Europe Italy Greece Climate Change

The Man Behind Hydrail

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Sweden has freight hydrail trains in development, and hydrail freight trains are also being installed in Eastern Europe. They have at least five. Italy is experiencing rapid adoption of hydrail and hydrogen propulsion in general. The first narrow-gauge hydrail project is being undertaken in Switzerland.

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Charlotte Hydrogen IDEA Diesel

Lessons For Europe & North America From Northvolt Collapse

CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The European Union lost a few things in the past week. The least of them was a couple of billion euros of loans and grants. A big one was a new supply of fresh and shiny Europe-made batteries. The biggest was a belief that anything China could do, they could.

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North America Europe America Grant

Heart Aerospace CEO Talks Electric Airplanes & 200 Plane Pre-Orders (Part 1)

CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Electric aviation is barely beginning to ramp up. We're at the flattest point of the sigmoid curve of adoption, but the steep section of the curve is coming soon. Heart Aerospace is going to be taking off with it.

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Parts Electric Electrical United States

Heart Aerospace CEO Talks Electric Airplanes & 200 Plane Pre-Orders (Part 2)

CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Heart hopes to be able to show the iron/copper bird working next year and get to architecture-complete. At that point, they'll be able to put in requests for proposals with sharp specifications to manufacturers.

Parts

Parts Manufacturer Electric Electrical

Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

Cars That Think

MAY 15, 2024

And before I start, I just wanted to tell you that you can get the latest coverage of Spectrum ‘s most important beats, including AI, climate change, and robotics, by signing up for one of our free newsletters. Because Sweden stayed open during COVID, which was great. Just go to spectrum.ieee.org/newsletters to subscribe.

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Study Finds Carbon in Frozen Soils 2X Prior Estimates; Permafrost Melt Poses Major Climate Change Threat

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2009

Tags: Climate Change Emissions.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Store

Sweden Reviewing Its Tax Exemptions for Biofuels

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2010

Sweden has striven to increase the share of biofuels in transport, and liquid biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are currently exempt from energy and carbon tax. Sweden now consumes the most ethanol per capita in the EU, the audit office said, and is behind only Germany and France in total consumption.

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Sweden Tax Climate Change Germany

EPA report to Congress finds a strong scientific and technical foundation for mitigating black carbon emissions

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. Earlier post.).

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Congress EPA Carbon Emissions

Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric NZ

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In New Zealand’s fight against climate change, e-mobility is a low-hanging fruit, especially given our supply of renewable energy. . Moving to zero emissions vehicles, as the cliche goes, is the low hanging fruit in the fight against climate change. . We also don’t need to ‘reinvent the wheel’. around land use).

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New Zealand Emissions Petrol Electric

India, China, Brazil, Japan, other non-Arctic countries want a voice on Arctic Council; interest in climate change impact and access to resources

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

Full members of the Arctic Council are Canada, Russia, the United States, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark (Greenland): the eight countries with Arctic territory. Many non-Arctic countries are interested in the Arctic as the “canary in the coal mine” that can teach them about how climate change will impact their own states.

Climate Change

Climate Change Brazil India Japan

New international Climate and Clean Air Coalition to focus on reduction of short-lived climate pollutants

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Global benefits from full implementation of measures for reduction of short-lived climate pollutants in 2030 compared to the reference scenario. The climate change benefit is estimated for a given year (2050) and human health and crop benefits are. for 2030 and beyond. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Climate Pollution Cleaning Clean

Union chair who was prepared to drive Tesla out of Sweden to step down: report

Teslarati

JANUARY 23, 2024

Back in November, Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) Chairperson Susanna Gideonsson was asked if the LO was prepared to escalate its battle against electric vehicle maker Tesla to the point where the company is driven out of Sweden. LO is an umbrella organization that covers 14 unions in Sweden, one of which is IF Metall.

Sweden

Sweden Tesla Climate Change Personal

COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Signatories by category: Governments: Austria; Azerbaijan; Cambodia; Canada; Cape Verde; Chile; Croatia; Cyprus; Denmark; El Salvador; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Slovenia; Sweden; United Kingdom.

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Dominican Republic Emissions El Salvador Cape Verde

Study finds higher gasoline taxes do not disproportionately impact the poor, especially in developing countries

Fast action on black carbon, ozone and methane could help limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees C

Climate Talks End In Copenhagen Accord; Countries Settle On Non- Binding 2 ºC Warming Limit

Growing Number of EU Countries Levying CO2 Taxes on Cars and Incentivizing Plug-ins

Study finds megacity traffic soot can reach high altitudes and be transported over long distances, contributing to global warming

Volvo Trucks launches sales of electric FL and FE trucks for urban transport

Study Finds Availability of Low-CO2 Electricity and Hydrogen May Paradoxically Delay Large-Scale Transition to Electric and/or Hydrogen Vehicle Fleet

PowerCell, Siemens to partner on development of marine fuel cell systems; integration into BlueDrive

Study Finds Current Swedish Biofuels Offer Major Climate Benefits; Biogas from Manure the Best

Sponsors of SAE Study Conclude HFO-1234yf Can Be Used As Low-GWP Global Replacement Refrigerant in MAC Systems

EEA: Higher EU greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 due to economic recovery and cold winter

Scania Helps DB Schenker Go Fossil-?Free On Swedish Island Of Gotland

Volvo Cars Torslanda becomes company’s first climate-neutral car plant, second in overall network

BYD launches 3 new electric vehicles at the Paris Motor Show

JRC: Increased use of renewables results in growing GHG emission savings in the EU; transport contribution only 5%

Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

EU approves £3bn funding to tackle biogenic CO2 in Sweden

To Hell With The Grownups. I’m Now With Greta & #FridaysForFuture

Study finds transport, residential heating main sources of black carbon in Russian Arctic

Expedition to spread word of climate change

Study reorders significance of fungal and bacterial decomposition of organic matter; impact on climate models

Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

Youth Climate Strikes Have The $uperpower To Shut This Country Down & Force America To Take Emergency Climate Action

Galp and Northvolt establish JV for lithium conversion plant in Portugal; initial annual capacity of 35,000 tons of lithium hydroxide

Researchers engineer first low-methane-emission, high-starch rice; benefits for GHG control, food and bioenergy

Copenhagen Diagnosis Released, Detailing Accelerating Indicators of Climate Change In Last Three Years

‘One Tonne’ family prove low carbon lifestyle is possible

What Is a Heat Pump?

Volvo CE opens new facility to support production of electric wheel loaders

Press Release: Full-electric Volta Zero embarks on UK customer roadshow

Here It Comes: Another Hot Summer in Europe

The Man Behind Hydrail

Lessons For Europe & North America From Northvolt Collapse

Heart Aerospace CEO Talks Electric Airplanes & 200 Plane Pre-Orders (Part 1)

Heart Aerospace CEO Talks Electric Airplanes & 200 Plane Pre-Orders (Part 2)

Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

Study Finds Carbon in Frozen Soils 2X Prior Estimates; Permafrost Melt Poses Major Climate Change Threat

Sweden Reviewing Its Tax Exemptions for Biofuels

EPA report to Congress finds a strong scientific and technical foundation for mitigating black carbon emissions

Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

India, China, Brazil, Japan, other non-Arctic countries want a voice on Arctic Council; interest in climate change impact and access to resources

New international Climate and Clean Air Coalition to focus on reduction of short-lived climate pollutants

Union chair who was prepared to drive Tesla out of Sweden to step down: report

COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

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