Headquarter of Basf in Ludwigshafen With a new project organization, BASF is bundling and accelerating its extensive cross-company activities to reduce its CO2 emissions by 25 percent by 2030 compared with 2018 and become climate neutral by 2050. The unit, called “Net Zero Accelerator”, focuses on implementing and accelerating projects relating to low-CO2 production technologies, circular…

Tens of thousands of companies in the Netherlands don't expect to be climate neutral by the end of this century, Financieele Dagblad reported based on the 2021 Innovation Monitor by the University of Amsterdam and SEO Economic Research. These companies will not achieve the Netherlands' goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050 or earlier.

SEO questioned around 600 companies about innovation and sustainability, the coronavirus pandemic, digitization, and climate policy, among other things. 55.2 percent expect to be climate neutral by 2030 or earlier, compared to 49.3 percent last year. The proportion of companies who expect to reach this goal by 2050 fell from 32.9 percent to 21.8 percent. And 22.2 percent of companies said they don't expect to be climate neutral by 2099.

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Greenhouse gas emissions in EU reach lowest level since 1990: report

Greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union have been reduced by 24 per cent compared to 1990 levels, according to the bloc’s annual climate report, but the EU said Monday it still needs to intensify efforts to keep to its target of making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by mid-century.

The EU’s executive arm said Monday that emissions in the 27-nation bloc have decreased by 3.7…

EU unveils first ever climate law that will help in making all the countries climate neutral by 2050- Technology News, Firstpost

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The Associated PressMar 05, 2020 15:58:06 IST

Amid fierce criticism from environmental activists, the European Commission unveiled plans Wednesday for its first-ever climate law, which will act as the basis of the European Union’s aim to make the 27-country bloc climate neutral by 2050.

Under its Green Deal agenda, the EU’s executive arm wants to legislate to make its ambition of…

The Czech Republic and Hungary eventually dropped their resistance after winning a guarantee that nuclear energy would be recognized as a way for EU states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But Poland remained against.

Poland will be reaching climate neutrality at its own pace. - Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki

The tussle came a day after Germany's Ursula von der Leyen, the new head of the bloc's executive European Commission, proposed a 100-billion-euro ($147 billion Cdn) investment plan for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, declaring it Europe's "man on the moon moment."