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The challenge of social exclusion is huge and tackling it requires a collaborative effort – this is why we are inviting companies to participate. Every young person, no matter where or how they live, should feel that they are an important part of our society. One of the objectives of the Zero Exclusion campaign is to give an unconventional and inspiring voice to the participating young artists.
Heidi Peltonen, Manager, Sustainable Partnerships at Neste
Many companies appear to consider sustainability a central part of their business. Despite this, less than half (38%) of the respondents say that their company is currently engaged in sustainability-related cooperation. But concrete actions which improve sustainable business often require cooperation. We at Neste want to encourage companies to embrace a more sustainable future, in Finland as well as globally.
Salla Ahonen, Vice President of Sustainability at Neste
The opening of our new office in Australia marks another important step in Neste’s global growth strategy. Our aim is to become a global leader in renewable and circular solutions. By opening a local office, we are better placed to cooperate closely with our partners to secure the supply of waste and residue raw materials. This in turn enables us to serve the growing global demand for low-carbon solutions in transport and cities, aviation, polymers and chemicals.
Matti Lehmus, Executive Vice President of Renewables Platform at Neste
Collaboration also brings Neste closer to having the necessary partnerships and infrastructure to meet our Plastics Pledge target. Our aim is to process annually more than one million tons of plastic waste from 2030 onwards.
Mercedes Alonso, Executive Vice President, Renewable Polymers and Chemicals at Neste
In addition to offering renewable and circular solutions to our customers, we are also committed to reducing the carbon footprint of our own production. Investments in renewable energy are one part of this.
Neste’s President and CEO Peter Vanacker
Renewable and circular polymers and chemicals can play a major role in addressing climate change and the problem of global plastic waste alike. Germany is home to some of the world’s most successful plastics and chemicals companies and Düsseldorf centrally located in terms of Central European chemical industry. Our ambition is to join forces with frontrunners in order to create a healthier planet for our children.
Neste’s President and CEO Peter Vanacker
“We are very happy to continue our collaboration with Lufthansa, a company that has supported responsible corporate policies for decades, and is a pioneer in sustainable aviation fuel testing. Neste and Lufthansa share the same ambition to increase the sustainability of aviation, and to offer solutions which help our customers achieve personal goals in reducing their carbon footprint.”
Peter Vanacker, President and CEO of Neste
Neste is the 3rd most sustainable company in the world and the largest producer of renewable diesel. We are happy to open a new office in China, and start purchasing waste and residue raw materials for the production of our renewable diesel, jet fuel as well as other renewable solutions globally.
Jennifer Jiang, General Manager of Neste Shanghai office
We are proud to be included on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. It amplifies our long-term actions combating climate change and our persistent work to help our customers reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Simo Honkanen, Senior Vice President, Sustainability, Public Affairs, Communication, Corporate Brand at Neste
Oregon lawmakers are actively looking for solutions to address carbon emissions. Switching from fossil diesel to Neste MY Renewable Diesel is all it takes to quickly start fulfilling that goal while also increasing the performance of Oregon’s hard working fleets.
Jeremy Baines, Vice President of Sales for Neste US Inc
Neste’s has always been in the forefront of developing cleaner and more sustainable solutions. This is also the key driver within our marine fuels business. Neste Marine 0.5 meets the stricter legislative requirements for maritime sulphur emissions, enabling smooth operations.
Marko Pekkola, Executive Vice President of Oil Products at Neste
Neste and Flow share ambitious climate targets, and this collaboration is a prime example of sustainable choices that we can offer to large events, such as Flow Festival. We need all the possible ways to tackle the climate crisis. I’m happy that we could provide our sustainability expertise to introduce the Sustainability Rider for the artists while continuing to offer our Neste MY Renewable Diesel to reduce festival’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Sirpa Tuomi, Marketing Director at Neste
Last Christmas, 185,000 households participated in the Ham Trick and it inspired us to carry out a similar campaign at Neste Rally. This is a concrete way to show people what the circular economy means and encourage them to promote it.
Sirpa Tuomi, Marketing Director at Neste
Neste targets to become a global leader in renewable and circular solutions. The divestment of Russian fuel retail business will enable us to focus on our strategic priorities.
Neste’s President and CEO Peter Vanacker
Rejlers and those over 300 highly experienced professionals who will transfer from us to Rejlers will have a very important role in supporting Neste’s needs also going forward.
Patrick von Essen, Managing Director of Neste Engineering Solutions
“This pioneering collaboration with LyondellBasell marks a major milestone in the commercialization of Neste’s renewable polymers and chemicals business focusing on developing renewable and circular solutions for forward-looking sustainable brands.”
Neste’s President and CEO Peter Vanacker
Decarbonizing transportation requires partnering, sharing the same goal, and working side by side. We are extremely excited to share our expertise in low-carbon renewable fuels to find solutions for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to reach their greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
Neste’s President and CEO Peter Vanacker
This is a significant goal, enabling Finland to join the forerunners in reducing emissions in aviation.
Ilkka Räsänen, Director, Public Affairs at Neste
Safety is a top priority for us, and we have placed the well-being and safety of everyone at the heart of our operations. Thus, we monitor the company’s safety development with the same accuracy as our financial performance. With the safety award we want to reward excellent safety performance and encourage our contractors to strive towards zero injuries and incidents. We are extremely happy to have responsible contractors such as Bilfinger Industrial Services Nederland B.V. They ensure everyone can return home in good health after a safe working day.
Peter Vanacker, President and CEO of Neste
This study from CARB is a welcome confirmation: renewable diesel can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make an immediate contribution to the reduction of California's carbon footprint all while using existing infrastructure and without further investments.
Jeremy Baines, Vice President, Neste US Inc.
Neste and VTT have long been partners, and the agreements signed today enable a more extensive research collaboration. We are very happy to be able to promote the outstanding Finnish research expertise together with VTT. Our target is to become a global leader in renewables and circular solutions. This partnership and new innovations play a major role towards achieving that target.
Peter Vanacker, President and CEO of Neste
We are extremely happy to be able to offer sustainable aviation fuel to the business aviation community. In decreasing emissions from aviation, sustainable aviation fuel made from waste and residues represents the best viable drop-in alternative to fossil liquid fuels for powering commercial aircraft. Collaborating with Air BP, we can find the best ways of developing robust supply chains to ensure that sustainable aviation fuel is more widely accessible to aviation customers.
Peter Vanacker, President and CEO, Neste
We are proud of our partnership with Air BP in bringing sustainable jet fuel to Sweden, which sends a strong signal to the international aviation community also.
Andreas Teir, Neste's Vice President in Renewable Transportation, Nordics
We are very proud to collaborate with Savonlinja on offering consumers the opportunity to reduce the carbon footprint of their bus trips.
Tuomas Kulola, Head of Sales, Marketing & Services at Neste
Air traffic is a significant source of black carbon emissions, which is also the fastest growing mode of transportation worldwide. However, the amount of black carbon emissions from aviation fuel can be effectively reduced by using cleaner fuels such as Neste MY Renewable Jet Fuel.
Neste’s Senior Vice President of Innovation, Lars Peter Lindfors
We are excited to partner with the city of Oakland to make 'from city waste to city fuel' a reality and do our part to improve the lives of the people in the city.
Jeremy Baines, Vice President of Sales, Neste US, Inc.
The recent Finnish Parliamentary Elections were referred to as climate elections, and climate change was clearly one election theme that divided opinions. The polarization of the conversation was evident in our campaign as well
Mika Hyötyläinen, Vice President of Marketing for Marketing & Services business unit at Neste
We will not push for production capacity growth without keeping a close eye on the direct climate impact of our refining.
Peter Vanacker, President and CEO, Neste
Neste is committed to help its customers reduce GHG emissions by at least 20 Mt annually by 2030.
Peter Vanacker, President and CEO, Neste
Together with Air BP we are able to support air transport in Sweden in their efforts, and this collaboration gives both of us valuable insight into developing similar supply chains to decarbonize aviation in other markets.
Neste’s President and CEO Peter Vanacker
Climate change is the biggest challenge of our times, and the clock is ticking. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, we may have less than 12 years to tackle climate change. It is a challenge to which there are no easy answers. To succeed, all the possible alternatives need to be utilized. We must implement both small and large solutions as soon as possible. If we don’t act now, soon it will be too late
Peter Vanacker, President and CEO of Neste
In the climate debate and especially in politics, it is common to force people to take sides against one another, which makes the problem almost impossible to solve. With climate change the truth is that for the first time we are all in the same boat and lost without a solution. The next government needs to achieve results and clear reductions. Not just plans, or good intentions, but results
Journalist Riku Rantala
We firmly believe that our innovative joint projects will improve the competitiveness of the Finnish chemical industry. Finnish chemical industry know-how is already world-class and I believe that together with Åbo Akademi University we get to make the most out of our strengths in a new and inspirational way.
Lars Peter Lindfors, Neste’s Senior Vice President of Technology
Demand for cleaner fuels is on the rise globally, and California is a leader in the movement toward an emissions-free future. Neste MY Renewable Diesel helps meet environmental needs without compromising performance.
Jeremy Baines, Vice President, Sales US
Fossil-free future requires changes in our everyday lives, and in our mindset. As part of Zero Island project, we wanted to show people they can have a world-class vacation with as little emissions as possible and without flying to the other side of the world.
Marketing Director Sirpa Tuomi from Neste
We need forerunners and courageous countries to lead the way in sustainable growth of aviation. I want to congratulate Sweden - it has set the bar very high on what comes to aviation emission reduction by using renewable jet fuel.
Neste's CEO Peter Vanacker
While we continue discussing various future alternatives for reducing transport-related emissions, high-quality renewable fuels such as Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ continue to steadily reduce transportation-related emissions even as we speak.
Peter Vanacker, President & CEO from Neste
Neste shares the Finnish Government’s view that we need a large amount of sustainably produced biofuels in order to reduce climate emissions fast and sufficiently enough in the next decade
Ilkka Räsänen, Director, Public Affairs at Neste
The current year largely determines whether the increase of CO2 emissions from aviation can be halted by 2020. Any increase in air traffic must be carbon-neutral after that also, which means that we need to find long-term solutions.
Andreas Teir, Neste's Vice President for Business Development in Renewable Products
Our low-emission solutions are our greatest contribution to the global efforts to combat climate change. In 2017, our renewable products helped our customers to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by a total of 8.3 million metric tons, and we aim at even higher reductions.
Simo Honkanen, Senior Vice President, Sustainability and Public Affairs at Neste
Our ranking shows that Neste has continued to develop its sustainability in the right direction and that our employees are very passionate about helping to create a healthier planet for our children.
Peter Vanacker, President & CEO from Neste
Together with ScanOcean we will be able to give our customers both professional and local solutions.
Neste’s Marine Fuels & Services Manager Jacob Granqvist
We at Neste are curious and eager to develop our products and services with a view to future needs. This is what the pilot station in Finland is all about: renewing the customer experience completely and identifying rapidly changing customer needs and expectations
Panu Kopra, Executive Vice President, Marketing & Services, Neste
Neste is in the business of helping transport and cities, aviation, polymers and chemicals customers make their business more sustainable and will continue to lead the way for renewable products. We are already a global leader in renewable products produced from waste and residues. This investment marks an important step in the execution of our profitable growth strategy globally
Peter Vanacker, President and CEO of Neste Corporation
The user of a renewable diesel can expect a clear greenhouse gas emission reduction even when the comparison is made with locally available, high-quality conventional diesels.
Asta Soininen, Researcher
They’ll start to see cleaner filters, fuel injectors that last longer, less wear on fuel pumps, and no microbial contamination. Their maintenance savings really have just begun.
Matt Leuck, technical manager for Neste US
We are happy that our good collaboration with Borealis continues and we are able to deliver continuous added value to our customer.
Perttu Tuomaala, Head of NAPCON, Neste Engineering Solutions
I have been lucky to spend my childhood in Finland, where I was able to enjoy the four seasons of the year. After becoming a father, protecting our planet and combating climate change has become a priority to me. I want to do everything in my power so that my child will grow up in a clean environment, like I did. This is a call to all my fans to do their share.
Chicago Bulls player Lauri Markkanen
Our collaboration is set out to challenge people to make responsible choices every day by transforming their mindset. #DontChoke communicates that we shouldn’t choke in front of big challenges, whether they face us on the court, or off it. Instead, we have to be courageous and goal-oriented to make better, sustainable choices.
Neste’s Marketing Director Sirpa Tuomi
In 2017, Neste MY Renewable Diesel reduced global climate emissions by 8.3 million tonnes. This is equivalent to taking more than 3 million fossil-fuel cars off the roads or making Latvia car-free for over three years. We are very happy to be able to offer this high-quality product also in Riga.
Arttu Airiainen, General Manager, Neste Latvija