Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2021

LanzaTech UK and direct air capture technology company Carbon Engineering have partnered on a project to create sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). The technologies enabling project AtmosFUEL are proven climate solutions that are being deployed globally.

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JUNE 10, 2020

BMW i Ventures has invested in Prometheus Fuels ( earlier post ), a company removing CO 2 from the air and turning it into zero-net carbon gasoline that it will sell at gas stations, at a price that competes with fossil fuels, starting as early as this year. —Greg Smithies, Partner, BMW i Ventures.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is a promising approach to solve both renewable energy storage and carbon-neutral energy cycle. In order to improve the economic feasibility in applications, electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction with high activity, selectivity, and stability toward multi-carbon products should be realized.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

If these are achieved, carbon yield and productivity can be greatly accelerated (e.g., Producing both high-margin products and high-volume products will ensure economic and global-scale CO 2 utilization. each gram of acetogenic M. thermoacetica cells can reduce 56 g of CO 2 per day, ~50 times as fast as photosynthetic cells).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2022

Mexico-based global construction materials company CEMEX is partnering with integrated chemicals and energy company Sasol ecoFT and renewable energy company ENERTRAG to combine CO 2 with hydrogen to produce sustainable aviation fuel. To reach carbon neutrality, these emissions must be captured, stored, or repurposed in some way.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 6, 2023

A strong SUV market is leading to higher oil demand today, and may make future carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions targets harder to achieve, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). New IEA analysis found that global CO2 emissions from SUVs reached nearly 1.1 SUVs are.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2023

If a definitive agreement is reached, the project is expected to capture and mineralize up to 50,000 metric tons of CO 2 per year, the equivalent to carbon emissions from nearly 11,000 passenger cars. The parties may also consider collaborating on more carbon capture, utilization and storage projects in the future.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 23, 2022

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose 6% in 2021, reaching their highest level ever due to increased use of coal power plants, according to new analysis from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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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. Jones, M.W.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

Utilizing Western Canadian natural gas, combined with carbon capture and sequestration, the project will produce 3 million tonnes annually of net-zero, Blue Methanol. Our plant design was already targeted to be a global leader in low emissions. —Mark Tonner, CEO and co-founder of Nauticol.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2019

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) report a process for the high-yield, low-energy synthesis of carbon nano-onions (CNOs) by electrolysis of CO 2 in molten carbonate. High yield electrolytic synthesis of carbon nano-onions from CO 2 , either directly from the air or from smoke stack CO 2 , in molten carbonate.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

These contributions involve a large number of chemical, microphysical, transport and, radiative processes in the global atmosphere. Seen together, the climate impact of these two factors is bigger than that of the sector’s carbon emissions. Net warming from contrail cirrus is a sum over the day/night cycle. Fuglestvedt, A. Pitari, M.J.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2020

The project results therefore contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 13 on Climate Action of the UN Global Compact through decarbonization with the major advantage of doing so at a lower cost than the technologies currently in use.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, has set a goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. To achieve this goal, carbon neutral vessels must be commercially viable by 2030, and an acceleration in new innovations and adaption of new technology is required. of global CO2 emissions. Moller - Maersk.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

System boundaries (red line) schematic for liquid fuel carbon balance. For biofuels, because biogenic carbon is automatically credited within a product lifecycle, the boundary effectively excludes vehicle end-use CO 2 emissions. DeCicco 2013. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

In the study, the Ford team derived regional CO 2 targets for new LDVs while still providing an integrated view of the global LDV fleet—a perspective critical to the planning needs for global automotive firms. They refer to these emission trajectories as the global CO 2 caps. Because of the high LDV emissions in 2000?2010,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The sunfire plant, which operates according to the “power-to-liquid” (PtL) principle, requires carbon dioxide, water and electricity as raw materials. The carbon dioxide is extracted directly from the ambient air using direct air capture (DAC)—a technology developed by Swiss partner Climeworks. gasoline with Global Bioenergies.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Carbon transformation company Twelve (formerly Opus 12, earlier post ) has produced the first fossil-free jet fuel—called E-Jet—from CO 2 electrolysis, demonstrating a scalable, energy-efficient path to the de-fossilization of global aviation. Global aviation produces 1.2

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

million in funding for 12 projects as part of Phase 1 of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E’s) FLExible Carbon Capture and Storage (FLECCS) program. Phase 1 FLECCS projects are: GE Global Research. Synergistic Heat Pumped Thermal Storage and Flexible Carbon Capture System - $1,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

Johnson Matthey has launched HyCOgen, a technologyt designed to play a pivotal role in enabling the conversion of captured carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and green hydrogen into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2020

ExxonMobil and Global Thermostat (GT) have expanded their joint development agreement following 12 months of technical evaluation to determine the feasibility and potential scalability of Global Thermostat’s technology that captures carbon dioxide directly from the air.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Together, the US and China account for more than one third of global greenhouse gas emissions. This CCUS project with Enhanced Water Recovery will eventually inject about 1 million tons of CO2 and create approximately 1.4 The new US goal will double the pace of GHG reduction from 1.2% per year on average between 2020 and 2025.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2023

The first global car maker to announce such a switch, Volvo calculates it will achieve an immediate reduction in fossil CO 2 emissions from intercontinental ocean freight by 55,000 tonnes over a year. From now on, most of these seafaring journeys are made with renewable fuel instead of traditional fossil fuel.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2012

Global CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel combustion reached a record high of 31.6 The “450 Scenario” of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2011 , which sets out an energy pathway consistent with a 50% chance of limiting the increase in the average global temperature to 2 °C, requires CO 2 emissions to peak at 32.6 Gt on 2010, or 3.2%.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

These VPPAs will enable Honda to fully offset the remaining carbon-intensive grid-supplied electricity being used in its Ohio, Indiana, and Alabama automobile manufacturing operations, and will help the company meet its voluntary carbon reduction goal.

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Innovation News Network

OCTOBER 18, 2024

A major study has revealed that global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from forest fires have surged by 60% since 2001. The post Forest fires fuel alarming rise in global CO2 emissions appeared first on Innovation News Network. Find out more.

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MAY 14, 2018

A new study finds that the growth of carbon production from Chinese exports has slowed or reversed, reflecting a “new phase of globalization” between developing countries that could undermine international efforts to reduce emissions. The paper is published in Nature Communications. trillion) in 2014.

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JULY 9, 2020

Although large emissions cuts are urgently needed to achieve global climate goals, it may take decades before we can measure the effect of the reductions on global temperature evolution, according to a new study by researchers at Norway’s CICERO Center for International Climate Research. Samset, Jan S. Fuglestvedt and Marianne T.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2019

If ship hulls were coated with special bo-inspired high-tech air trapping materials, up to 1% of global CO 2 emissions could be avoided according to a new study by researchers from the University of Bonn together with colleagues from St. This corresponds to almost one percent of global CO 2 emissions. Augustin and Rostock.

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JUNE 26, 2019

Scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have taken the first images of carbon dioxide molecules within a molecular cage—part of a metal-organic framework (MOF), with great potential for separating and storing gases and liquids.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

On average, human activities put out in just three to five days the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide that volcanoes produce globally each year, according to Terrance Gerlach of the US Geological Survey (USGS). The published projected anthropogenic carbon dioxide emission rate for 2010 is about 35 billion metric tons per year. (In

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels have risen again after a three year hiatus, according to new analysis from the Global Carbon Project ( GCP ). Other key findings are that CO 2 emissions decreased in the presence of growing economic activity in 22 countries, representing 20% of global emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2014

Instead, DeCicco proposes “ setting the lifecycle paradigm aside ” and focusing on the problem of carbon dioxide removal. However, the assumption is not necessarily true for any particular fuel product system or for biofuel use at a national or other sub-global level.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2020

With “Ambition2039”, Mercedes-Benz Cars aims for a carbon-neutral new passenger car fleet in less than 20 years. As a first milestone, Mercedes-Benz will source battery cells from carbon-neutral production for the first time as part of a sustainability partnership with a battery cell supplier. Blockchain in the supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2017

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions were flat for a third straight year in 2016 even as the global economy grew, according to the International Energy Agency. Global emissions from the energy sector stood at 32.1 The data signal a continuing decoupling of emissions and economic activity.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Italy-based Snam, a leading energy infrastructure operator, and Saipem, an Italian multinational oilfield services company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to start working together to define and to develop initiatives for green hydrogen production and transport, and for carbon dioxide capture, transport and reuse or storage (CCS and CCU).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2018

The goal, set in 2010, aimed to reduce the company’s global carbon dioxide emissions from manufacturing operations by 30% per vehicle produced by 2025. The results are significant, with a global manufacturing CO 2 emissions reduction of more than 3.4

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