“surrogate” promise, friction reduction and longevity must be promoted as new features and upgrades for sustainability as well as are the economic payback arising from their use.
One thing that is always forgotten here concerns standardised metrics2
, which are crucial for the
accurate evaluation and reporting of avoided emissions and/or sustainability claims in order to comply with US Securities and Exchange Commission (rule 34–99678) rules on climate-related disclosures and to avoid deceptive advertising or “greenwashing” as per US Federal Trade Commission. The European Parliament voted in January 2024 the “green claims” directive” in order to ban greenwashing and misleading product information [12].
Energy and material resources have to be used efficiently and sustainably regardless of the final destination because energy and material resources of the future are likely to be the ones that we won´t consume. This is exactly what tribology and lubrication sciences are offering.
Further readings [1] Statistical Review on World Energy, 71th edition, 2022, BP p.l.c.
[2] T. Kober, H.-W. Schiffer, M. Densing and E. Panos, Global energy perspectives to 2060 – WEC’s World Energy Scenarios 2019, Energy Strategy Reviews 31 (2020) 100523
[3] World Energy Outlook 2024, IEA, Paris,
https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy- outlook-2024
[4] International Energy Outlook 2023 with projections to 2050, October 2023, US Energy Information Administration, https://www.eia. gov/outlooks/ieo/
[5] Global Resources Outlook 2024: Bend the Trend – Pathways to a liveable planet as resource use spikes, International Resource Panel, United Nations Environment Programme, 2024, Nairobi,
https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/44901
[6] OECD (2019), Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060: Economic Drivers and Environmental Consequences, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://
doi.org/10.1787/9789264307452-en
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D7721-22 “Standard Practice for Determining the Effect of Fluid Selection on Hydraulic System or Component Efficiency” is a first practice, based on a free, open consensus process, which defines minimum technical requirements for conducting energy efficiency performance comparisons of two or more hydraulic fluids in controlled laboratory or field evaluations.
[7] Global Resource outlook 2019, A Report of the International Resource Panel, United Nations Environment, ISBN: 978-92-807-3741-7, Full report:
https://www.resourcepanel.org/sites/ default/files/documents/document/media/ unep_252_global_resource_outlook_2019_ web.pdf Short version:
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/ report/2019/Overview/
[8] IEA (2023), World Energy Outlook 2023, IEA, Paris,
https://www.iea.org/reports/ world-energy-outlook-2023
[9] Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air... please!, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, 2024, https://www.unep. org/emissions-gap-report-2024
[10] M. Woydt, T. Hosenfeldt, R. Luther, V. Bakolas, Chr. Wincierz, E. Bock, Effects of tribology on CO2
-emissions in the use phase of products - Contributions of tribology to defossilization, June 2023,
https://www.gft-ev.de/en/studies- tribology-in-germany/
[11] P.R. Shukla, J. Skea, E. Calvo Buendia, V. Masson- Delmotte, H.-O. Pörtner, D. C. Roberts, P. Zhai, R. Slade, S. Connors, R. van Diemen, M. Ferrat, E. Haughey, S. Luz, S. Neogi, M. Pathak, J. Petzold, J. Portugal Pereira, P. Vyas, E. Huntley, K. Kissick, M. Belkacemi, J. Malley, (eds.), Climate Change and Land. An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems, August 2019, Chapter 2.6 ibid, https://www.
ipcc.ch/srccl
[12] Directive (EU) 2024/825 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 February 2024 amending Directives 2005/29/EC and 2011/83/EU as regards empowering consumers for the green transition through better protection against unfair practices and through better information
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