Electrek

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The oil and gas industry is banking on carbon capture as its “fix” for climate change. more… The post Large amounts of carbon capture as a solution is an ‘illusion’ – IEA appeared first on Electrek. The IEA’s new report dispels that idea and offers real solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

has set the goal to achieve carbon neutrality across the company’s operations and the life cycle of its products by 2050. The company will also strive for greater energy and material efficiencies to support longer-term carbon neutrality ambitions. Nissan Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2022

Teijin Limited has started to carry out a life-cycle assessment (LCA) of its carbon fibers to calculate their total carbon emissions—an industry first. Teijin’s LCA is useful in identifying carbon hotspots in manufacturing processes and evaluating options for emissions reduction.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

As part of a larger £90 million (US$117 million) package of awards to cut carbon emissions in industry and homes, the UK is awarding £28 million (US$36.5 million) to five demonstration phase projects for low-carbon hydrogen production. HyNet – low carbon hydrogen plant. Contract value: £3.12 million (US$4.1 million (US$9.7

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2023

At daybreak, the cranks pull the ring back up to the surface to soak up sunlight and carbon dioxide. The Climate Foundation , the Seattle-based company behind the project, has found that this deep cycling makes kelp grow three times as fast as it can when kept in shallow waters, as seaweed farmers do now.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Recognizing the need to create a healthier planet, many American cities and businesses have set bold ambitions to reduce their carbon footprint and environmental inequity. We need to make our transportation system more sustainable with today solutions as city residents, investors, employees or customers demand action on climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Steel produced by electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmakers in the US has a carbon intensity that is approximately 75% lower than traditional blast furnace steelmakers. Using an established, proven steelmaking process, EAF producers are making steel at far lower carbon-intensity levels than traditional steelmakers around the globe.

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Carbon Emissions Climate Change Power Grid 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In an open-access report in the journal Environmental Pollution , researchers from UCLA and the University of Chicago estimate that California’s wildfire carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) emissions from 2020 (~127 mmt CO 2 e ) are approximately two times higher than California’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions since 2003.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Since its launch in April 2021 , the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance has convened a diverse set of experts to explore three areas in which fundamental research could have the most impact: climate change; the nexus of biology and engineering; and securing critical infrastructure against hackers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

signed a new, two-year expanded joint-development agreement to further enhance carbonate fuel cell technology for the purpose of capturing carbon dioxide from industrial facilities. ExxonMobil is exploring options to conduct a pilot test of next-generation fuel cell carbon capture solution at one of its operating sites.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The New Coal: Plastics and Climate Change analyzes data from ten stages of plastics production, usage, and disposal and finds that the US plastics industry is releasing at least 232 million tons of greenhouse gases each year—the equivalent of 116 average-sized coal-fired power plants. million tons of GHG each year.

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Baua Electric

JULY 11, 2024

Importantly, climate change helped this storm break these records and do so much damage. Only 4% of media’s Beryl coverage included mention of climate change, according to an analysis by Media Matters. That said, we must remember that “ weather is not climate.” MSNBC trailed with 2 mentions in 46 segments.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As transportation sectors like shipping and aviation remain difficult to decarbonize , a French startup claims to have developed a promising solution to reduce carbon emissions in these industries. Oak Ridge employs a liquid solvent for CO 2 absorption in a 3D-printed carbon capture device they developed to perform direct air capture.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2023

Carbon removal company Equatic recently spun out from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering’s Institute for Carbon Management to deploy the first technology that combines CO 2 removal and carbon-negative hydrogen generation. Alongside the launch, Equatic entered into a pre-purchase option agreement with Boeing.

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Innovation News Network

MARCH 3, 2023

A $540,000-funded project will innovate a method that captures industrial emissions and sequesters them via 3D-printing concrete. The post 3D-printing concrete to capture industrial carbon emissions appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the engineering work of their first facility underway, Mote expects to produce approximately seven million kilograms of carbon-negative hydrogen and remove 150,000 metric tons of CO 2 from the air annually. Mote expects to start hydrogen production starting as soon as 2024. Mote is joined by Fluor Corporation and SunGas Renewables, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2020

Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC, a subsidiary of Occidental, and Rusheen Capital Management, a private equity firm, have formed a development company, 1PointFive, to finance and to deploy Carbon Engineering ’s large-scale Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology. Carbon Engineering’s DAC technology has four major elements.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2019

ExxonMobil and Global Thermostat signed a joint development agreement to advance technology that can capture and concentrate carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources, including power plants, and the atmosphere. These carbon sponges efficiently adsorb CO 2 directly from the atmosphere, smokestacks, or a combination of both.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2020

Inspired by naturally occurring processes, a team of Boston College chemists used a multi-catalyst system to convert carbon dioxide to methanol at the lowest temperatures reported with high activity and selectivity. It can be produced from hydrogen and carbon dioxide, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and storing hydrogen in the process.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2011

It will be much harder and more expensive for Australia to do its fair share on climate change without a carbon pricing scheme, according to the final report of the Garnaut Climate Change Review – Update 2011, Australia in the Global Response to Climate Change. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2022

The rapidly growing space industry may have a greater climate effect than the aviation industry and undo repair to the protective ozone layer if left unregulated, according to a new study led by UCL and published in the journal Earth’s Future as an open-access paper. —Ryan et al. 1 growth in 2019 launches and re-entries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Rio Tinto has shown the effectiveness of a low-carbon iron-making process using ores from its mines in Australia in a small-scale pilot plant in Germany, and is now planning the development of a larger-scale pilot plant to further assess its potential to help decarbonize the steel value chain. Earlier post.)

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 11, 2013

And now Lordy Lord, many of these very same folksy folks have been pulling the exact same con man tactics on behalf of the oil coal and gas industries. . The Greenius sees no moral or ethical difference between apartheid and what the carbon producers are doing to me, you, your kids, your parents and every person you know. .

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2022

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University, SINTEF in Norway and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, has developed a polymer membrane technology that removes carbon dioxide from mixed gases with both high permeability and high selectivity. A paper on their work is published in the journal Science.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The paper is published in the journal Nature Climate Change. A lot of people think that a large-scale shift to EVs will mostly solve our climate problems in the passenger vehicle sector. The team estimated 2015–2050 LDV sectoral carbon budgets of 44–50 GtCO 2 between the SSPs.

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Climate Change Fleet Climate Vehicles 243

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2023

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, or 5,586.0 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents after accounting for sequestration from the land sector—representing a 6% increase from 2020. This report has been compiled annually since 1993 and submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Saying that “ investment-grade climate change and clean energy policy is required to shift private sector investment from high-carbon to low-carbon assets ”, a group of 285 investors has urged governments and international policy makers to take new and meaningful steps in the fight against climate change.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Ricardo plc has made a public commitment to its shareholders, customers and workforce to achieve net zero carbon emissions from its operations by the end of calendar year 2030. The company’s strategy employs a number of levers to achieve Net Zero.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

outlined a technology roadmap to support its vision to reinvent the aluminum industry for a sustainable future. The Refinery of the Future: Targeting zero-carbon emissions alumina refining. It also allows some specialty aerospace and defense applications to use scrap, which would be a first for those industries. Alcoa Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

Leading shipowners and operators, classification societies, engine and technology builders and suppliers, big data providers, and oil companies have signed up to a new Global Industry Alliance (GIA) to support transitioning shipping and its related industries towards a low carbon future.

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2024

Stellantis and CARB (California Air Resources Board) partnered to reduce carbon emissions. California’s work with leading manufacturers is an example of the collaboration that will clean our air, combat climate change, and improve health outcomes for residents in the state,” said CARB Chair Liane Randolph.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

Reducing emissions of black carbon soot and ground-level ozone would quickly make a considerable dent in the climate change problem and would also contribute to public health and protect crop yields, according to an essay in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Besides a danger to breathe, ozone lowers crop yields.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2021

Key findings from the 1990-2019 US Inventory include: In 2019, US greenhouse gas emissions totaled 6,558 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, or 5,769 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents after accounting for sequestration from the land sector.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

In an opinion piece in the journal Nature , a team from the US and Europe suggests that the transition to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers, and that it is therefore necessary to put geopolitics at the heart of debates about the energy transition. abating carbon will create losers. —Goldthau et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2023

The first credit line is expected to be granted by the Climate Fund, a BNDES program designed to provide financing to support businesses and projects that help mitigate climate change and reduce carbon emissions, with urban mobility as one of its nine sub-programs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2020

has created a wholly-owned subsidiary, NetZero Metals, to begin the research and development of a processing facility that would be located in the Timmins, Ontario region with the goal of utilizing existing technologies to produce zero-carbon nickel, cobalt and iron products. Canada Nickel Company Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2020

A preliminary analysis of global data has found that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel sources reached a maximum daily decline of 17% in April as a result of drastic decline in energy demand that have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Percentage change in global daily fossil CO 2 emissions, Jan-May 2020. carbon dioxide.

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