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The Sensing Exports of Anthropogenic Carbon Through Ocean Observation ( SEA CO2 ) program recognizes that scalable, cost-effective technologies to measure, report, and validate various mCDR approaches are needed in this still developing industry. ARPA-E held a workshop on this topic last year.
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Electrofuels provider Infinium and comprehensive carbon management company Navigator CO2 entered into a Memorandum of Understanding and long-term relationship for Navigator to deliver 600,000 tons per annum (TPA) of biogenic carbon dioxide from its Heartland Greenway system to a future Infinium facility for the production of electrofuels (eFuels).
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Volvo will use renewable fuel for inbound ocean container transports of production material destined for manufacturing plants based in Europe and the Americas, as well as all spare parts distribution made globally by ocean container transports. No feedstock related to palm oil or palm oil production is used.
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of global CO2 emissions. Maersk is putting its efforts towards solving problems specific to maritime transport, as it calls for different solutions than automotive, rail and aviation. The maritime industry emitted close to 1000 million tonnes of CO 2 in 2012, representing about 2.2% —Søren Toft, Chief Operating Officer at A.P.
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The global aviation industry is responsible for 12% of transport-related CO 2 emissions, therefore substantial production of low carbon intensity SAF is essential to mitigate emissions. Both the EU and US are setting aggressive targets for its scale-up and blending, and this is expected to increase SAF demand significantly.
Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.
A new brief published by the International Transport Forum (ITF)—an intergovernmental organization at the OECD with 59 member countries— identifies proven measures that decrease road freight’s CO 2 emissions. Scale up tested and low-barrier decarbonization measures for road freight transport.
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billion tonnes, CO 2 emissions from oil remained significantly below pre-pandemic levels because of the limited recovery in global transport activity in 2021, mainly in the aviation sector. CO 2 emissions from natural gas rebounded well above their 2019 levels to 7.5 billion tonnes.
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With additional support from Innovation Norway and Norwegian Research Council, the IPN project contributes to a body of fluid dynamics research, addressing the heat and mass transport phenomena required to improve the process configuration and control for floating gas distribution systems. —Stian Magnusson, ECONNECT Energy CIO.
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