Category: NEWS

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  European Commission puts one-sided emphasis on electric mobility

  by: qcv NEWS 0 2021-06-26 02:52:40

  The European Commission places too one-sided an emphasis on electric transport at the expense of renewable fuels. As a result, fair competition between various solutions is impossible and the climate targets are at risk of not being met. This is stated by Prof. Dr.-ing. Thomas Willner of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and Dr. […]

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  ABN AMRO launches €425 million Sustainable Impact Fund

  by: qcv NEWS 0 2021-06-26 02:51:29

  ABN AMRO launches the Sustainable Impact Fund (SIF), a fund that will invest in companies that accelerate the transition to a sustainable and inclusive society. The bank announced this in a press release today. The fund focuses on three themes: circular economy, energy transition and social impact. The investments are both ‘private equity investments’ of […]

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  Chemelot gets fertilizer plant for precision agriculture

  by: qcv NEWS 0 2021-06-26 02:50:28

  Tessenderlo Kerley International plans to build a new plant on the Chemelot industrial estate in Geleen for the production of Thio-Sul (ammonium thiosulphate), a liquid fertiliser used for growing large-scale crops through precision agriculture. The company announced this this week. It already has a first European plant in Rouen (France), which has been in operation […]

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  Green investments would have earned ABP billions

  by: qcv NEWS 0 2021-06-26 02:49:09

  Pension fund ABP could have earned almost €26 billion extra if it had invested in sustainable, instead of fossil, companies since 2016. This is the conclusion of a study by Global SWF, commissioned by the citizens’ movement Fossielvrij NL. With invested assets of over €600 billion, ABP is the largest pension fund in the Netherlands. […]

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