The company says its efforts to establish CO2-free manufacturing plants are in line with the European Union's goal for reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent across Europe in the next 13 years, by 2020.
"Our ambition is to make all our plants CO2-free plants and Ghent is the first," says Volvo CEO Leif Johansson. "It is not an easy undertaking, but we are prepared to try different alternatives to achieve our goal for CO2-free production in our plants."
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Image: Green car Congress
ateixeira says:
07:40 AM, 09/26/07
Didn't GM buy clean energy from a supplier as well? I wonder who will be the first. The GM deal was blogged about recently.
estreka says:
11:57 AM, 09/26/07
I don't see manufacturing plants as major polluters anyway. This is probably an assembly plant, which means all the forging, smelting, and grinding take place elsewhere. The only commodity assembly plants really consume is electricity.
tackepj says:
07:39 AM, 09/27/07
Perhaps some of their CO2 emissions are handled with offsets, but it isn't mentioned. The line about "operates without emitting any carbon dioxide" is, uh, rather unlikely, given that the image shows healthy, living assembly line workers.
Even the "green energy" they purchased, in some part, probably emits CO2. It's labeled "green" thanks to offsets, which themselves are somewhat dubious.
oberg says:
12:05 PM, 09/27/07
No CO2 emissions? Do the workers not breathe?
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04:09 AM, 11/29/07
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