Carbon

CCS

Oil Major BP Drilling Appraisal Well in Texas for Carbon Sequestration

Oil major BP has begun drilling an appraisal well in Texas for its U.S. carbon capture and sequestration business, an executive said on Monday.

Carbon Emissions

Chicago Announces Plan to Power City With 100% Renewable Energy

Chicago’s public buildings could all be powered by renewable energy under a plan announced by Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Aug. 8.

Carbon Emissions

Climate Change Compensation Fight Brews Ahead of COP27 Summit

Tensions are mounting ahead of this year's U.N. climate summit, as vulnerable countries ramp up demands for rich countries to pay compensation for losses inflic…

Carbon Emissions

U.S. Fuel Retailers Rail Against Green Aviation Fuel Tax Credit

U.S. fuel retailers are fighting the inclusion of a tax credit for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Democrats' $430 billion spending bill, arguing SAF is more…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

TNB, Petronas, IHI Hold Ammonia Combustion Test for Coal-Fired Generation

This will help decarbonise Malaysia’s power sector.

Carbon Emissions

Inexpensive Melamine Used to Capture Carbon Dioxide in Energy-Efficient Process

Chemists have used melamine to create an inexpensive and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide, an advance that could one day be scaled down and employ…

Novel Technology can Help to Tackle Climate Change

Northumbria University's Dr Shafeer Kalathil is among a team of esteemed academics behind the project, which uses a chemical process that converts sunlight, wat…

Carbon Emissions

Plant-Based Beef Alternatives Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions, but Could Disrupt the Agricultural Workforce

Plant-based alternatives to beef have the potential to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but new economic models show their growth in popularity could disru…

Net Zero Emission

Decarbonisation Barred by Energy Sector Challenges – WEF

The transformation of industrial sectors is pivotal to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, however, decarbonisation is lagging due to the complex nature of cha…

Testing Hydrogen Blends to Decarbonise Peaker Plants

Investment firm Climate Adaptive Infrastructure (CAI) and developer Meridian Clean Energy said they will partner to demonstrate decarbonisation in peaker plants…

Net Zero Emission

Europe to Install 45 Million Heat Pumps in the Residential Sector by 2030

Norway and Italy frontrunners, but UK falls behind in heat power decarbonisation

Hydrogen Production

Big Names Including Amazon, Honeywell, Mitsubishi Line Up Behind Green Hydrogen

Even as the overall VC market slows during the second half of 2022, investments in climate tech — particularly technologies that could enable green hydrogen to…

Carbon Emissions

Novel Photocatalyst Sheet Helps Curtail the Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Addressing the global energy crisis and moving away from a dependency on fossil fuels is key to combating climate change and thus moving towards a more sustaina…

Carbon Emissions

Tata Power Unit Commissions 225MW Hybrid Power Project in Rajasthan

This is Tata Power’s first hybrid project.

Carbon Neutral

Australian Pension Fund Dumps $133 Mln in Oil, Gas Stakes in Carbon Neutral Push

Australian pension fund NGS Super on Thursday said it had sold all its holdings in oil and gas companies, worth A$191 million ($133 million), in a drive to achi…