Carbon emissions

Britons Reach Africans’Annual Carbon Emissions in Just Two Weeks

The average British person will have emitted more carbon dioxide in the first two weeks of this year than a citizen of any one of seven African nations does in …

New Technology

Quantum Leap: How to Use Capture Technology to Eliminate Carbon Emissions

It’s not enough for countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change. They have to pursue ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

100% Wind, Water, & Solar Energy Can & Should be The Goal, Costs Less

The message from the COP 25 conference in Spain is that the world must rapidly decarbonize or face an existential crisis. No fooling. We have to slash carbon em…

EDF's Imtech Acquires Energy Performance Firm Breathe

Breathe was established in 2010 to deliver engineering solutions to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, renew infrastructure, save operating costs a…

Heat Pumps Could Substantially Cut Related Carbon Emissions

A new study says the wider use of heat pumps for heating and cooling homes and buildings could sharply reduce global fossil fuel emissions, but the solution has…

Scottish Faces 'Policy paradox' Over Support for North Sea Oil and Climate Crisis

The Scottish Government faces a “policy paradox” over its continued support for North Sea oil and gas extraction while also attempting to meet its ambitious c…

GenCell Develops Electric Generator Based on Hydrogen Energy Technology

GenCell, an Israeli company, has developed an electric generator that uses hydrogen energy technology to generate clean power in place of using diesel fuel, a f…

Coal Power

Natural Gas Surpasses Coal in Carbon Emissions

Carbon emissions from coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, are on a steady decline, and carbon emissions from natural gas now surpass coal. The new data adds fuel to…

CCS

Carbon Capture And Storage Projects Advancing at Ethanol, Coal plants

As a Richardton ethanol facility gears up to store its carbon emissions underground, the company that runs a coal-fired power plant north of Washburn has secure…

Climate Policy

Tighter Climate Policies Could Erase $2.3 Trillion in Companies Value

Tighter government climate regulations by 2025 could wipe up to $2.3 trillion off the value of companies in industries ranging from fossil fuel producers to agr…

28 Years Ago, Big Oil Predicted Carbon Tax was Necessary to Stop Global Warming

As far back as 1991, the Canadian arm of Exxon Mobil Corp.’s empire anticipated that a high tax on carbon emissions would be necessary to maintain a stable cli…

European Cities Commit Commit to Net Zero Carbon Buildings

On 4 December 2019, leading European cities and companies pledged to slash carbon emissions from their buildings to net zero. Helsinki, Finland and Valladolid, …

CCS

UK ‘Contemplating CCUS for Too Long’ Warns Industry Report

A new report has called for rapid action on a vital technology for reducing carbon emissions which the UK has been “contemplating for too long”.

Coal Mine

Anglo to Sell 12% of Australian Coal Mine to Japanese Partners

Mining group Anglo American is selling a 12% stake in its coking coal operations at Grosvenor in Queensland, Australia, to a group of Japanese partners for arou…

Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear Power Does Slow Climate Change

Indeed it does. Contrary to claims by those who just don’t like nuclear, every time nuclear plants close, carbon emissions go up. Using opaque financial jargon…