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Polestar reduced greenhouse-gas emissions by 6% per car in 2021

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Polestar has released its second Annual Review and Sustainability report , highlighting progress towards its ambitious climate goals. Polestar is targeting a truly climate-neutral car by 2030; to halve carbon emissions per sold car between 2020 and 2030; and to reach climate neutrality across its value chain by 2040.

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Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

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Saying that “ investment-grade climate change and clean energy policy is required to shift private sector investment from high-carbon to low-carbon assets ”, a group of 285 investors has urged governments and international policy makers to take new and meaningful steps in the fight against climate change.

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European Commission approves up to €5.4B of public support for IPCEI Hy2Tech; 41 hydrogen projects

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As part of this IPCEI, 35 companies with activities in one or more Member States, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups, will participate in 41 projects. The Member States will provide up to €5.4 billion in public funding, which is expected to unlock additional €8.8 billion in private investments. Background.

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Sunfire partners with Total on highly efficient hydrogen technology; E-CO2MET

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Sunfire will provide a megawatt-scale high temperature electrolyzer for use in industrial environments as part of the E-CO2MET research and development project. With the transformation into renewable gases and fuels and the use of existing infrastructures, we can make the transport sector and the chemical industry climate-neutral.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. The W3C’s Sustainable Web Design Community Group released a draft of its Web sustainability guidelines , with both tactical and technical recommendations for business and product strategy, user-experience design, Web development, and hosting and infrastructure.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. by Jack Rosebro. as compared to 1990 emissions, to be achieved between 2008 and 2012. ” [ 1 ].

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Researchers find air pollution impacts the health of wild pollinators

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These RSPM levels were similar to the “Interim Target II” guidelines proposed by the WHO. This has far-reaching implications for the complex ecosystems we are part of, as these changes affect the quality of habitat and food sources we all depend on.

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