New report on climate impact of electric car batteries
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2019-12-04 | Press release New report on climate impact of electric car batteries A new IVL report commissioned by the Swedish Energy Agency targets climate emissions associated with electric car battery manufacture. The study is based on life cycle analyses and is an update of an ... Read more
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2019-11-08 | Press release Big initiative to recover unused heat flows Every year, large amounts of energy are wasted when unused heat flows are not harvested. In the EU, as much as 340 terawatt hours every year could be recovered from data centres, subway stations and s... Read more
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2019-11-06 | Press release Survey of vehicle batteries:” The big wave will come in 2030” In the Nordic countries the number of electric vehicles is increasing rapidly. In a report to the Nordic Council of Ministers, IVL has studied what happens to end-of-life batteries and the surge in th... Read more
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2019-11-01 | News Residual products from the paper industry utilized as fuel The EU Pulp and Fuel project utilizes waste products from the paper and pulp industry to produce biodiesel at low cost. This is done via gasification and the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Tests with the ... Read more
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2019-10-28 | News Plastics for sustainable investments – a new report gives recommendations Plastic companies that have not formulated a strategy for how to break their fossil dependency may be risky for investors. It is important to make demands and ask questions about the way in which a co... Read more
Publications
- GAINS and EMEP modelling in the Russian Federation - Analysis on the regional level This report summarizes the results of the multilateral Nordic-Russian cooperation project “GAINS and EMEP modelling in the Russian Federation: further developments at the regional level” conducted during 2015-2018. The project was partly financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Read more
- Drivkrafter för påverkan av Mälarens framtida vattenkvalitet Förstudie - föroreningar, dess källor och spridningsvägar This report is only available in Swedish. English summary is available in the report. Read more
- Evaluation of the European assessment method Level(s) for buildings Level(s) is an EU environmental common certification system with various core indicators to measure the sustainability performance of office and residential buildings throughout the life cycle. The system should be useful for both new buildings and existing ones when rebuilding. In this project, the first version of Level(s) has been tested and evaluated using Skanska's construction project for the zero energy building Backåkra. The evaluation that is done is generally valid and we give recommendations for the continued development of the system if it is to be useful in the market according to the intentions available. Read more
- Beskrivning av parkerings- och mobilitetssituationen på Lindholmen och Johanneberg i Göteborg - En beskrivande underlagsrapport inom forskningsprojektet Arbpark This report is only available in Swedish. Read more
- Arbetplatsparkering – dagens utmaningar och framtidens lösningar This report is only available in Swedish. Read more
New EU project
Towards a Next Generation of Water Systems and Services for the Circular Economy
Europe’s communities are in many ways uniquely placed to transition from a linear to a Circular Economy (CE) model. Nowhere is this opportunity more relevant and urgent than in the water sector where largely linear production – consumption – disposal chains exacerbate resource depletion issues, contributing to increasingly volatile raw material and energy costs as competition for diminishing resources becomes more intense.
IVL video
Infrastructure for people - not cars
In focus
Recycling and reuse - by hook or by crook
The production and trading of clothes, is one of the world’s largest industries and its ecological footprint is huge. And there seems to be no end to how much we consume. In Sweden we buy on average 13 kilos of clothing per person per year.