2019-12-04 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

2019-10-25 ReuseHeat wins one of the Global District Energy Climate Awards The 2019 Global District Energy Climate Awards were revealed on 24 October 2019, during the first Sustainable District Energy Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. The IVL-lead project ReuseHeat won the A... Read more

2019-10-03 New project reviewing the expectations and displacement effects of electrifying municipal transportation There is an increase in the number of municipalities choosing to electrify their public transportation system. Many of these have established biofuel, e.g. biogas, systems. It is important to address ... Read more

2019-09-09 IVL releases book about electrical waste for high schools Mobile phones, televisions, appliances and computers are some of the products most commonly found in waste streams around the world, and they are on the increase. Every year, about 50 million tonnes o... Read more

2019-09-02 Clean water in focus during Indian politician visit India´s Jal Shakti Minister of Water Resources, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, visited Hammarby Sjöstadsverk in Stockholm last week. At this unique research and demonstration facility, IVL works together w... Read more

2019-08-30 Student camp raised environmental awareness This summer IVL and the Swedish Institute, SI, arranged a two-week scholarship camp in Sweden. 20 students from India and China got the opportunity to learn about sustainable development and experienc... Read more

2019-07-03 Green light for large-scale automated textile sorting facility in Malmö IVL has been given green light for a collaborative initiative to establish the world's first industrial scale automated textile sorting plant. Vinnova is to invest SEK 22 million in the project that w... Read more

2019-07-02 Major research initiative targets aquaculture around the Atlantic coast Today, aquaculture is limited to a small number of highly demanded species. To lessen vulnerability to disease, greater diversity and stronger populations are needed. In a transatlantic EU project, re... Read more

2019-07-02 Resource-efficient carbon fiber electrodes for extraction of hydrogen from wastewater Research work at the Royal Institute of technology (KTH) and IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute has enabled the development of a new type of carbon fibre-based electrodes. The electrodes mak... Read more

2019-07-01 Study shows the environmental effects of scrubbing systems Next year, new legislation will compel international shipping to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions to air. But instead of using expensive low-sulphur fuels, the global shipping fleet is expected to ins... Read more