(IN BRIEF) A new report from market intelligence firm IDTechEx, Electric Light Commercial Vehicles 2025-2045: Markets, Players, Forecasts, predicts significant growth for electric light commercial vehicles (eLCVs), forecasting sales to surpass 11 million units by 2045. The report highlights how … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Government, Industrial, Marketing, Technology, Transportation & Logistics, United Kingdom
Tagged carbon emissions, city center bans, eLCV market, eLCVs, electric LCVs, Electric Light Commercial Vehicle, electric light commercial vehicles, electric vehicles, electrification of LCVs, electrification of light commercial vehicles, emissions restrictions, EU, Europe, EV transition, fossil fuel bans, government regulation, IDTechEx, IDTechEx report, IDTechEx website, independent research, LCV operators, LCVs, light-duty road freight, Market Growth, market intelligence, markets insights, OEMs, Paris Agreement, Paris Agreement Goals, Pranav Jaswani, sales trends, sustainability goals, sustainability targets, zero-emission logistics solutions
(IN BRIEF) The MAHLE Group has received confirmation from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) that its climate targets align with the goals of the Paris Agreement and are scientifically sound. The automotive supplier has committed to reducing its Scope … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Awards, Business, Environment, Germany, Industrial, Management, News
Tagged Awards, Georg Dietz, Kathrin Apel, MAHLE Group, Paris Agreement, science-based climate targets, sustainability
(IN BRIEF) The EBRD is investing $205 million in the construction of three greenfield solar power plants in Uzbekistan. The financial package will be provided to Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar), with expected co-financing from the Asian Development Bank, … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment
Tagged Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, ADB, AIIB, Asian Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, EBRD, EIB, European Investment Bank, FMO, loans, Masdar, Nur Jizzakh, Nur Samarkand, Nur Sherabad, Paris Agreement, renewable energy, solar power plants, Uzbekistan
(IN BRIEF) The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a sovereign loan of up to $199.96 million to Uzbekistan to upgrade the irrigation system in the heavily populated Fergana Valley. The funds will be used to modernize … Read the full press release
(PRESS RELEASE) BÆRUM, 5-Jan-2023 — /EuropaWire/ — DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider, has announced the issuance of a Certificates of Conformity (CoC) for the Baltic Pipe project to Energinet, the Danish national transmission system operator for electricity … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Denmark, Energy, Gas & Oil, European Union, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, Norway, Poland
Tagged 10 billion cubic meters, annual capacity, Baltic Pipe project, Certificates of Conformity (CoC), construction, Danish Continental Shelf Law, Danish national transmission system operator, Denmark, DNV, DNV certification regime, DNV-SE-0475, DNV-ST-F101, electricity, Energinet, engineering, EU, European market, European Union, Everdrup, gas pipeline, gas supply corridor, gas transport, independent modeling, independent verification, installation, Jonas Gahr Støre, Mateusz Morawiecki, Mette Frederiksen, natural gas, Norway, Nybro gas terminal, Paris Agreement, Poland, procurement, recommended practices, REPowerEU, Russian fossil fuels, strategic infrastructure project, submarine pipeline certification, technical assurance services, underlying DNV standards
(PRESS RELEASE) STOCKHOLM, 4-May-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — Vattenfall, a Swedish Government-owned multinational power company, has announced the company is undergoing a strategic review on how the company can best contribute to the energy transition and will investigate whether it should … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Sweden
Tagged Anna Borg, Berlin Heat, CO2 emission reductions, decarbonization, energy transition, fossil free living, heat business, hot water, hydro power, Martijn Hagens, Paris Agreement, Ulrika Jardfelt, Vattenfall, warm heating
(PRESSEMITTEILUNG) STOCKHOLM, 4. Mai 2022 – /EuropaWire/ – Vattenfall, ein schwedisches staatliches multinationales Energieunternehmen, hat angekündigt, dass das Unternehmen einer strategischen Überprüfung unterzogen wird, wie das Unternehmen am besten zur Energiewende beitragen kann und wird prüfen, ob es sein Berliner … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Sweden
Tagged Anna Borg, Berlin Heat, CO2 emission reductions, decarbonization, energy transition, fossil free living, heat business, hot water, hydro power, Martijn Hagens, Paris Agreement, Ulrika Jardfelt, Vattenfall, warm heating
(PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 15-Feb-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — Airbus (EPA: AIR), a European multinational aerospace corporation, Rolls-Royce (LSE:RR., ADR:RYCEY), the pre-eminent engineering company with focus on world-class power and propulsion systems, Safran (EPA: SAF), a French multinational aircraft engine, rocket engine, … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Industrial, News, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged aerospace, Airbus, Aviation, aviation industry, decarbonisation, Eric Dalbiès, fuel value chains, Global SAF Declaration, Grazia Vittadini, Lee Wen Fen, Paris Agreement, Roland Berger, Rolls-Royce, Sabine Klauke, SAF, Safran, Singapore Airlines, Singapore Airshow, sustainable aviation fuel
(PRESS RELEASE) AARHUS, 19-Jan-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CPH: VWS), a Danish global leader in sustainable energy solutions, has announced it has been named the world’s most sustainable company in the 18th annual ranking of the world’s … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Denmark, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, News, Technology
Tagged carbon emissions reduction, CDP, Corporate Knights, energy transition, Henrik Andersen, Kristian Holmelund Jakobsen, Lisa Ekstrand, most sustainable company, most sustainable corporations, Paris Agreement, ranking, reducing CO2 emissions, Science Based Targets, sustainability, sustainable energy solutions, Toby Heaps, Vestas, wind turbines
EBRD €20 million loan to Sofia Med Funds to boost the capacity expansion investment Sofia Med to develop and implement a low-carbon strategy (PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 27-Dec-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), a multilateral … Read the full press release
(PRESS RELEASE) PARIS, 19-Nov-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — TotalEnergies (EPA: TTE), one of the seven “supermajor” oil companies, announces the signing of agreement with the Government of Suriname, to support its national strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by preserving forests … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, France, Government, Management, News
Tagged biodiversity, carbon credit, carbon neutrality, Christine Healy, CO2, forest ecosystems, Government of Suriname, greenhouse gas emissions, HFLD countries, High Forest Low Deforestation, net zero, Paris Agreement, preserving forests, REDD+ strategy, Silvano Tjong-Ahin, Suriname, TotalEnergies, UNFCCC
New Schneider Electric report outlines “Back to 2050” decarbonization scenarios Schneider experts on the ground in Glasgow to advance decarbonization insights and solutions with business partners, climate experts and influencers (PRESS RELEASE) RUEIL-MALMAISON, 29-Oct-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Schneider Electric (EPA: … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, France, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, News, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged automation, autonomous driving, carbon footprints, clean-energy, climate emergency, climate experts, CO2 emissions, COP26, Corporate Knights, digital transformation, electrification, Energy management, energy-efficiency, EV charging stations, global climate change, global warming, net-zero, Olivier Blum, Paris Agreement, REPORT, Schneider Electric, Schneider Electric Sustainability Research Institute, sustainability, Vincent Petit
EQT accelerates its journey to address climate change by defining ambitious greenhouse gas emission (“GHG”) reduction targets, encompassing both its own and its portfolio investments’ operations EQT becomes the first private markets firm to formalize science based targets through the … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, Investment, Management, News, Sweden
Tagged Alberto Carrillo Pineda, Bahare Haghshenas, Climate Action, climate change, combat climate change, EQT, EQT AB, GHG emission reduction targets, global warming, offset emissions, Paris Agreement, private markets, SBTi, SBTs, Science Based Targets
(PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 11-Oct-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Global financial services industry calls on G20 governments to help build a Net Zero economy and meet the goals of the Paris agreement ahead of COP26. The Call to Action includes specific policy … Read the full press release
Posted in Environment, Financial, Government, Insurance, News, United Kingdom
Tagged Amanda Blanc, Ana Botín, Banco Santander, Call to Action, climate finance, COP26 Climate Summit, G20 Summit, GFANZ, global warming, Gonzalo Muñoz, Mark Carney, net zero alliance, net zero transition, net-zero targets, Nigel Topping, Paris Agreement, The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, UN’s Race to Zero
(PRESS RELEASE) LUND, 15-Sep-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Alfa Laval, a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling, has announced it extended global collaboration with Schneider Electric to digitize and analyze data to improve operational efficiency. The two … Read the full press release
(PRESS RELEASE) BILBAO, 3-Sep-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Garanti BBVA, Turkey’s second largest private bank and part of Spanish bank BBVA, has announced it is joining the United Nations’ Net-Zero Banking Alliance thus becoming Turkey’s first and only bank to join … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Environment, Financial, Spain, Turkey
Tagged BBVA, BBVA Group, climate change, climate crisis, COP26, Garanti BBVA, Glasgow Finance Alliance for Net Zero Emissions, global warming, Net-Zero Banking Alliance, net-zero emissions, NZBA, Paris Agreement, Recep Baştuğ, Turkish bank, Turkish banking, UNEP-F, UNFCCC, United Nations Climate Change Conference, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 9-Jun-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — New study published today by the Polish Green Building Council (PLGBC) in cooperation with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) outlines how buildings play a crucial role in Poland’s effort to … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Construction, Environment, Financial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, News, Poland
Tagged #BuildingLife, Alicja Kuczera, Alistair Clark, buildings, buildings sector, carbon emissions, construction, construction sector, Cristina Gamboa, decarbonisation, decarbonisation of the building sector, decarbonise, demolition, EBRD, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Green Deal, green bank, greenhouse gas emissions, net-zero emissions, Paris Agreement, PLGBC, Poland, Polish Green Building Council, REPORT, sustainability, World Green Building Council
(PRESS RELEASE) BILBAO, 24-May-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — One of the world’s largest energy companies Iberdrola and global power leader Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) together with government leaders announce its plans for one of the world’s largest electrolyzer plants for the … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, News, Spain, Technology
Tagged carbon neutrality, Castilla-La Mancha, clean energy, Cummins Inc., decarbonization, electrolysis projects, electrolyzer facility, electrolyzer market, electrolyzer plants, electrolyzer projects, electrolyzer systems, electrolyzers, EU Green Deal, Fertiberia, green energy transition, GREEN HYDROGEN, green hydrogen production, green hydrogen value chain, Guadalajara, hydrogen economy, hydrogen production, hydrogen supplier, Iberdrola, Ignacio Galán, Paris Agreement, PEM electrolyzer plant, Photovoltaic, Puertollano photovoltaic plant, renewable energy, Spain, Tom Linebarger, wind power
Aviva takes on the most demanding target of any major insurance company in the world today (PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 1-Mar-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — British multinational insurance company Aviva announces its plan to become a Net Zero carbon emissions company by … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, Insurance, Investment, Management, News, United Kingdom
Tagged Amanda Blanc, Andrew Griffith, Aviva, carbon emissions, carbon transition loans, Climate Action, climate change, climate crisis, COP26, green financial system, insurance company, insurer, investments, Kwasi Kwarteng, Make My Money Matter, net zero, Net Zero carbon emissions company, operations, Paris Agreement, renewable assets, renewable electricity, renewable energy, Richard Curtis, Science Based Targets initiative, supply chain
(PRESS RELEASE) PARIS, 5-Jan-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — SUEZ and FERMENTALG, a key French player and expert in the research and bio industrial exploitation of micro-algae, strengthen their cooperation following a five-year partnership, and to address the growing climate emergency through … Read the full press release
Posted in Environment, France, Industrial, News, Science, Technology
Tagged air purifier, algae photobioreactors, Animal Health, atmospheric pollution, biocontrol, biodiversity, biomimicry, bioproducts, capturing CO2, carbon sink, circular economy, circular loops, climate emergency, CO2 capture, CO2 emissions, Combin’Air, Diane Galbe, FERMENTALG, global warming, joint venture, micro-algae, microalgae strains, nitrogen dioxide, NOx, Nutrition, Paris Agreement, Philippe Lavielle, PM10, PM2.5, preservation of soils, recovery of CO2 in bioproducts, SUEZ
(PRESS RELEASE) BERKSHIRE, 23-Nov-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — Vodafone (LON: VOD), a British multinational leader in technology communications, has announced today that it committed to reducing the company’s total global carbon emissions to ‘net zero’ by 2040. In addition, the group … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Internet & Online, Management, News, Technology, Telecom, United Kingdom
Tagged 2030 carbon reduction targets, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, carbon reduction targets, Carbon Trust, CDP, circular economy, climate science, energy efficiency, environmental footprint, GeSI, global warming, Green Gigabit Net, greenhouse gas emissions, hydro power, Internet of Things, ITU, net zero, Nick Read, Paris Agreement, renewable electricity, renewable energy, renewable sources, SBTi, Science Based Targets initiative, solar power, the GSMA, Tom Delay, United Nations Global Compact, vodafone, wind power, World Resources Institute, World Wide Fund for Nature, WRI, WWF
48% of organizations surveyed are using AI for climate action, resulting in reduced greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and improved power efficiency (PRESS RELEASE) PARIS, 17-Nov-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — Capgemini Research Institute, Capgemini’s in-house think tank, and right. based on science … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, European Union, France, Infrastructure & Utilities, News, Science, Technology
Tagged AI, AI champions, Anne Laure Thieullent, artificial-intelligence, Capgemini, carbon footprint, climate actio, Climate AI, climate change, Economic Emission Intensity, EEI, Paris Agreement, renewables, right. based on science, sustainability
(PRESS RELEASE) ROTTERDAM, 24-Sep-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — Asset management firm, Robeco announces its decision to exclude investments in thermal coal, oil sands and Arctic drilling from all its mutual funds as an important next step in its sustainable investing approach. … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Investment, Netherlands, News
Tagged Arctic drilling, Arctic ecosystem, asset manager, carbon footprint, carbon-emitting, carbon-intensive, crude oil production, fossil fuel, fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions, investing, investments, mutual funds, oil sands, Paris Agreement, Robeco, sustainable investing, thermal coal, Victor Verberk
Call for 10 times more solar power and five times more wind power, as well as a 50-fold increase in battery production for the 50 million electric vehicles needed every year for the next 10 years (PRESS RELEASE) ARNHEM, The … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Netherlands, News, Norway, Science, Technology
Tagged clean energy, digitalization, Ditlev Engel, DNV GL, energy transition, Equinor, global warming, Paris Agreement, reduce CO2 emissions, renewable energy, renewable energy generation, renewable solutions, renewables, REPORT, RES, Vestas
Unilever advances on its RE100 goal: now sourcing 100% renewable electricity across five continents (PRESS RELEASE) LONDON/ROTTERDAM, 16-Sep-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Unilever announced that it is making further progress on its RE100 goal as it works to become a ‘carbon … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, Netherlands, News, United Kingdom
Tagged carbon neutral, Climate, Climate Week NYC, electricity, energy efficiency, Marc Engel, Paris Agreement, Power Purchase Agreements, RE100, renewable electricity, renewable energy, Renewable Energy Certificates, renewable grid electricity, renewable is doable, renewables, Sam Kimmins, Unilever
PARIS, 13-Dec-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Two years after the Paris Agreement, the EU is firmly in the lead in fighting climate change. To that end the Commission announced a series of initiatives for a modern and clean economy at the One … Read the full press release
LUXEMBOURG, 13-Dec-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — As announced at One Planet Summit in Paris, the EU Bank is to collaborate with the Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM) to help cities finance climate action and build greener cities for future generations. The new partnership is … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Environment, Financial, France, Luxembourg
Tagged EIB, Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM), Global Urbis, Paris Agreement
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