Category: Carbon
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Rethinking Europe’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (FREE)
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Trump administration cancels billions for chemical decarbonization (FREE)
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African leaders are selling their lands to discredited carbon offsetting program (FREE)
African leaders are selling their lands to discredited carbon offsetting greenwashing program. This is a FREE article
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Will the voluntary carbon market survive mistrust and regulation?
As more companies eye carbon credits to meet net-zero pledges, scrutiny is growing over the future of the voluntary offsets market.
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New carbon market code of practice discourages companies from greenwashing
The greenwashing recipe needs a “healthy” revamp? Why not mix it with aspartame?
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Are ‘carbon neutral’ claims dead?
Carbon neutral claims are under the cosh, so will the world’s major food brands continue to use them? — The EU Commission has helped build and promote a carbon offsetting scheme but it recently realised it’s all greenwashing.
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DOE Launches New Energy Earthshot to Decarbonize Transportation and Industrial Sectors
The Clean Fuels & Products ShotTM Will Reduce Emissions and Develop Cost-Effective Fuels and Products for Aviation, Marine, and Other Hard-to-Decarbonize Sector
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DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office Launches New Renewable Carbon Resources Webpage
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) has launched a new, comprehensive webpage dedicated to one of its priority subprograms, Renewable Carbon Resources(RCR), which helps develop RCR technologies and creates strategies for bioenergy and bioproducts production.
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Malaysia New Voluntary Carbon Market Disappoints
The first auction on Malaysia’s new voluntary carbon market, the Bursa Carbon Exchange (BCX), took place on 16 March, with around RM7.7 million in carbon credits sold.
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Gevo Enters Joint Development Agreement with Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy to Measure, Report & Verify Carbon Intensity
Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) announced today that it has entered into a joint development agreement with Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy (SIRE) to measure, report and verify carbon intensity (CI) through the entire value chain, inclusive of climate-smart agriculture practices to lower the carbon footprint of SIRE’s product portfolio.
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Trouble with Carbon Markets
A more radical level of accountability is needed for carbon markets. It is also time to establish minimum price floors, in order to crowd out poor-quality offsets and actors, especially for the Global South, says Simon Zadek.
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Biggest Rainforest Carbon Credit System is a Scam
In January, a nine-month investigation by the Guardian, the German weekly Die Zeit and SourceMaterial found widespread problems with the system
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Student NGO Wages War on Carbon Projects Greenwashing
Launched by 17-year-old Green School Bali student Freddie Hedegaard, Dungbeetle uses NFT technology to verify small-scale carbon projects.
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Bio-based Acrylonitrile for Carbon Fiber Manufacture
The quest for a sustainable source of acrylonitrile for carbon fiber manufacture has made the leap from the lab to the market.
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How Waste-Eating Bacteria Digest Complex Carbons
A common environmental bacterium, Comamonas testosteroni, could someday become nature’s plastic recycling center. While most bacteria prefer to eat sugars, C. testosteroni, instead, has a natural appetite for complex waste from plants and plastics.
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How Will EU Green Tariff Impact China Carbon Market?
The EU’s newly agreed carbon border levy may act as an ‘external incentive’ to motivate China’s carbon market to grow
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BC Biocarbon and Ripple Partner on Biochar Carbon Removal Credits
BC Biocarbon and Ripple Announce $6.7M CAD Purchase of Biochar Carbon Removal Credits. Multi-Year Agreement to Supply High-Quality Verified CO2 Removal Certificates — Carbon trading and net zero schemes are environmental scams. Cryptocurrencies are hollow and are just another platform for gambling. So they need to give some “content” (through smart contracts etc) to avoid…
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US Lab Develops New Catalyst to Convert CO2 into Ethylene
New hybrid catalyst could help decarbonization and make ethylene production more sustainable
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EU Could Act Against carbon-neutral greenwashing
The EU could be about to take a giant step against carbon-neutral greenwashing
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Microplastics Affects Ocean Carbon Sequestration Process
How does microplastics affects the carbon sequestration process of the oceans?
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US Decarbonisation Roadmap
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) “Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap” identifies four key pathways to reduce industrial emissions through innovation in American manufacturing.
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EUBP on the Need for Accurate Biogenic Carbon Accounting
Transition to climate neutrality needs accurate accounting for biogenic carbon says EUBP MD on Politico — Indeed, there’s the need for honesty & transparency regarding carbon accounting of biobased feedstock including the accounting of fertilizers, pesticides, agricultural operations, uptake of soil carbon, transport, etc.. There’s also the need to remove dogmas and commercial interests out…
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Engineering Nonphotosynthetic Carbon Fixation for Bioplastic Production
Engineering nonphotosynthetic carbon fixation for production of bioplastics by methanogenic archaea
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US Expands Industrial Assessment Center Program
Coincidentally, I had recommended this idea in one of my previous posts and the US administration seems to deploy this initiative with great professionalism. The US administration is efficient, the European Union could learn from it.
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ZWE on Changes to EU Renewable Energy and Emission Trading
Zero Waste Europe endorses ENVI Commitee decisions on RED III and ETS
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EMRC and Woodside Partner on Carbon Capture
EMRC and Woodside collaborate on innovative carbon re-use pilot project
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Origin Materials and Mitsubishi Chemical Partner on Carbon Negative Tires
Origin Materials and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Group Partner to Develop Advanced Carbon-Negative Materials for Tires
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Ocean Carbon Uncertainties
A critical part of the Earth’s carbon cycle occurs in the ocean, where microscopic plants (plankton) take up CO2 from the atmosphere.
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Scotland Launches CO2 Utilisation Challenge Fund (FREE)
£5m fund launched to develop carbon dioxide utilisation technology
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Left Wing Criticises Macron Decarbonisation Circus
Press release from the delegation of the social and ecological left
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Australian Tech Instantly Converts CO2 to Solid Carbon
Researchers have developed a smart and super-efficient new way of capturing carbon dioxide and converting it to solid carbon, to help advance the decarbonisation of heavy industries
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Metabolic Potential of Plastics as Biotech Carbon Sources
The metabolic potential of plastics as biotechnological carbon sources – Review and targets for the future
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Mitsui and Origin Materials Partner on Carbon Negative Materials
Origin Materials and Mitsui Form Strategic Partnership to Industrialize Advanced Carbon-Negative Chemicals and Materials
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Guidance for Ocean Based CO2 Removal
Guidance for Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal Projects Report
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EU Sustainable Carbon Cycles
European Commission Publishes New Communication on Sustainable Carbon Cycles
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EU Proposal for Carbon Fiscality
The Commission proposes the next generation of EU own resources
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EU Proposal to Remove, Recycle and Store Carbon
European Green Deal: Commission proposals to remove, recycle and sustainably store carbon
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France to Announce Decarbonisation Strategy
Barbara Pompili will announce the decarbonization strategy for French economic sectors on Friday, December 03 in Loire-Atlantique (44)
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Amnesty International on Carbon Markets
Cop26: States Risk Bulldozing Human Rights Of People Most Affected By The Climate Crisis
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First Carbon Producing Microbes
Discovery of first carbon-producing microbes presents biochemical mystery
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Carbon Clean Breakthrough Carbon Capture Solution
Carbon Clean launches breakthrough industrial carbon capture solution
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EU Circular Biocarbon
Turning carbon of complex organic urban waste streams into value-added products.
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Producing Chemicals by Carbon Monoxide Hydrogenation
Efficient and New Production Methods of Chemicals and Liquid Fuels by Carbon Monoxide Hydrogenation
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DeZeen Top 10 Carbon Storing and Emission Reducing Materials
DeZeen idnetifies Ten materials that store carbon and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions including bioplastics
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New Global Voluntary Carbon Exchange and Marketplace
DBS, SGX, Standard Chartered and Temasek to take climate action through global carbon exchange and marketplace
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Turning Steel Process Gas into Chemicals
Waste carbon from steel production can be recycled into new products
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White Rot Fungi Uses Lignin as a Carbon Source
Groundbreaking Research into White-Rot Fungi Proves Its Value in Carbon Sequestration from Lignin
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Old Large Trees Dominate Carbon Storage
Old large trees are the only hope to stop climate change
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Carbon Levy on EU Imports
Carbon levy on EU imports needed to raise global climate ambition. We saw this one coming.
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Bank of England Told to Stop High Carbon Bonds
A group of British MPs said on Monday that the Bank should stop buying bonds from businesses whose activities accelerate global warming
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Covestro Gets ISCC Certification
Covestro receives ISCC Plus certification for its Antwerp and Uerdingen sites
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The Net Zero Carbon Myths
Carbon neutrality targets are often not as ambitious as they sound, relying on problematic carbon offsets and unproven technologies
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Worlds First Large Scale Carbon Removal Purchase Tool
The move is aimed at promoting new technologies that still need to prove themselves.
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Captured Carbon Diamonds
Diamonds could now be the environment’s best friend after eco-friendly versions of the stones were made using carbon sucked from the air.
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Carbon Neutral Milk in New Zealand
Danone’s New Zealand Karicare milk formula brand commits to carbon neutrality.
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Measuring Soil Carbon Sequestration
One step closer to a new system for measuring carbon sequestration in dairy production.
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Renewable Carbon Used by Chemical Industry
This summer the first survey on renewable carbon in the chemical industry was conducted. 20 to 25% of the carbon supply is already renewable.
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