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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Plastic pollution may be accelerating global warming by disrupting Earth’s carbon cycles
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A laser-based saturated-absorption cavity ring-down technology for precise biobased content analysis of plastic samples
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Perfect Blend for Bioplastics: Prickly Pears, Microalgae, and Carbon Nanoparticles
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Carbon Sequestration of Fungi
Fungi Are Capturing More Carbon Than We Thought
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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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Covestro Carbon2Polymers Update (FREE)
Second project phase of Carbon2Polymers.
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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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Canada Carbon Offset System
Canada Proposes Federal Carbon Offset System
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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…
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Covestro Gets ISCC Certification
Covestro receives ISCC Plus certification for its Antwerp and Uerdingen sites
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Carbon to Value Request for Application
They’re looking for carbon-to-value startups.
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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…
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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…
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