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

Green Car Congress

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

Teslarati

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.

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

Creative Greenius

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. And when they don’t show up for school on Climate Strike Day neither does that $47 for the school budget.

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

Innovation News Network

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

CleanTechnica EVs

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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EEA report: EVs are better for climate and air quality

Green Car Congress

The EEA report ‘ Electric vehicles from life cycle and circular economy perspectives ’ reviews current evidence on electric cars’ impacts on climate change, air quality, noise and ecosystems, compared with conventional cars. The EEA has also published a new briefing on the environmental and climate impacts of transport.

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Sweden Reviewing Its Tax Exemptions for Biofuels

Green Car Congress

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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