New Cloud-Based System to Deliver Enhanced Full In-Vehicle Services to Ten Million Drivers

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is collaborating with Beijing TransWiseway Information Technology Co. Ltd. to build the largest connected vehicles platform in China that will transform the development of the country's connected car services industry. The cloud-based platform will use advanced analytics for applications that offer real-time, in-vehicle services to mobile devices, such as weather advisories, traffic alerts and alternate route suggestions.

Agreement includes AGT's entire product line

American Green Technology® (AGT) has finalized an agreement with Belhasa Trading and Development Company, LLC to distribute the entire line of AGT products to the Middle East market.  Located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Belhasa Group of Companies dates back to the 1960s.

Report Highlights Company's Sharpened Focus on Key Sustainability Challenges

3M today releases its 2014 Sustainability Report, highlighting its new Sustainability Center of Excellence, results of a global stakeholder survey and case studies on its sustainability-focused products.

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation and its founder, His Royal Highness Prince Khaled bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, have been awarded a Peter Benchley award for Excellence in Ocean Exploration. The award recognizes their work exploring and creating first-ever detailed maps of some of the world's most remote coral reef systems.

The Peter Benchley Awards are billed as the worlds' preeminent ocean conservation awards and other winners this year are EU commissioner Maria Damanaki, The Honorable Leon Panetta, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Casey Sokolovic, Captain Charles Moore, and Dr. Steve Gaines. The award ceremony is being held at the California Academy of Science in San Francisco.

An ideal combination: high-power and high-energy

• Highly flexible management of wind power
• Expansion of existing community wind farm project
• Hybrid system combines lithium-ion and vanadium redox flow batteries
• Rapid availability and long-term storage

Achievements Highlighted in Newly Released 2013 Sustainability Report

2013 Sustainability Report Highlights

• Safest year on record, with 30 percent reduction in workplace injury rate
• Reduced greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 25.5 percent from the 2005 baseline, and lowered absolute emissions by 3.1 million metric tons
• Introduced breakthrough bonding technology to enable aluminum-intensive vehicles that are lighter and more fuel-efficient
• Invested US$40.9 million in community programs through Alcoa and Alcoa Foundation
• 37,200 employees, or 62 percent, volunteered in their communities during a Worldwide Month of Service
• Recognized as the global aluminum industry sustainability leader and the North American leader in the aluminum sector by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes

Award acknowledges the importance of investment in emerging clean technologies

ABB, the leading power and automation group, announced today its electrical vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure business was named by Cleantech Group (CTG), developer of the i3 market intelligence platform, as one of CTG's five picks as a European Cleantech Company of the Decade.

ABB is delivering a new distributed control system for the desalination plant at the Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL) smelter complex in Dubai. The solution is one of several that ABB has recently provided for this vast power, water and production complex, widely considered the industrial flagship of Dubai.

DUBAL operates one of the largest single-site aluminum production complexes in the world. Built on a 480 hectare site, the state-of-the-art smelter complex comprises 1,573 reduction cells arranged in seven potlines, a 2,350 megawatt power plant, a desalination plant that produces 113.5 million liters of distilled and potable water a day, and various other facilities including a carbon plant, casting houses and port. The smelter produces more than one million tons of molten aluminum a year.

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, better known as LEED, was formed in 2000 and has become a cornerstone in building standards and environmental concerns. Actually, LEED has grown from a small group of concerned developer/contractors, consisting of about six volunteers, who wanted to add quality to their work, save energy and better their communities.

-Fourth biennial sustainability report details Ball's 2012-2013 progress and future goals

-Striving to reduce the carbon footprint of most common beverage can formats by 25 percent by 2020

-Continued product innovation efforts with introduction of significantly lighter weight aerosol and beverage cans

-Reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 7.8 percent and further improved safety record

-Supported its communities worldwide through $3.5 million in financial support and volunteer efforts

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today the completion of the acquisition of A123 Energy Solutions, the grid energy solutions and commercial energy systems business of A123 Systems, LLC., from China's Wanxiang Group.

A123 Energy Solutions will now operate as NEC Energy Solutions, Inc. (NECES) and will capitalize on its world-class technologies and deployment record to build safe and reliable energy storage systems for leading utility companies and power producers throughout the world.

What do the E-Plus Group's climate-neutral logistics center and the Trucker League have in common? The answer is simple: Both are making a contribution to climate protection; both are green business models developed by arvato; and both are included in the new environmental report recently published by arvato AG. For the fifth time now, the international group of service providers is presenting a global balance sheet outlining its environmental impacts and initiatives.