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VAK honore les efforts visant à réduire l'empreinte carbone lors du Prix de l'innovation 2022

VAK honors efforts towards a low carbon footprint at the 2022 Innovation Prize

On May 30th, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. the VAK Innovation Prize 2022 was presented at the IFAT in Munich. The following companies won in the machines category: Kanalreiniger.eu, a company that sells and rents sewer cleaning machines, won first prize. In the eyes of the jury, the innovation was probably that Kanalreiniger combined existing solutions … Read more

EMPA

With wind and sun against high-emission electricity imports

Switzerland wants to become climate neutral by 2025. The strategy of initially lowering the carbon footprint towards “zero emissions” essentially involves the use of electrically operated air heat pumps and electric cars instead of burning oil, gas and petrol. However, this brings a new problem, as the EMPA – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science … Read more

Goodyear Sustainable Reality Survey

Goodyear has released the results of its Sustainable Reality Survey that was conducted for the first time in 2021. The main question was: What do transport companies currently do to reduce their CO2 footprint. 985 fleet operators from all over Europe took part, including 98 from Germany, Austria, Switzerland. 75% of fleet operators in Europe … Read more

Energy efficiency award ceremony 2021

This year’s Energy Efficiency Award ceremony was held on Tuesday, November 8th, 2021. The Energy Efficiency Award (EEA) has been awarded annually by the German Energy Agency (dena) since 2007. The award goes to projects that have a special effect on the energy transition and thus reduce the global CO2 footprint. Of the 130 projects … Read more

Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany to fall by 8.7% in 2020

Germany continues to successfully reduce its carbon footprint Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze presents the emissions data for 2020. At 8.7 percent, the decline is the largest in the last 30 years. The trend of recent years is thus continuing. Since German reunification in 1990, the decline has been a full 40.8%. There has been … Read more