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Nations approve new UN rules on carbon markets at COP29
Nov 11, 2024 (AFP)
On the opening day of the UN climate talks in Azerbaijan, nearly 200 nations agreed a number of crucial ground rules for setting a market in motion after nearly...
Low latency carbon budget reveals significant drop in 2023 land carbon absorption
Nov 09, 2024 (SPX)
Philippe Ciais, from the French Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences and co-author of the paper, noted, "In 2023 the accumulation of CO2 in the atmo...
UN aims to set standards for scandal-hit carbon markets
Nov 08, 2024 (AFP)
Carbon credits are generated by activities that reduce emissions, like tree planting or replacing polluting coal with renewable energy, but buyers have long rel...
UN urges leveraging carbon markets to help poorest countries
Nov 04, 2024 (AFP)
A report from the UN trade and development agency UNCTAD highlighted the potential of carbon markets -- which enable corporations and countries to offset their ...
Reactor developed at Rice could cut energy costs in direct air capture
Oct 30, 2024 (SPX)
Published in *Nature Energy*, the study details the three-chambered reactor's modular structure, which centers around a specially designed porous solid electrol...
Newly isolated cyanobacteria strain shows promise for carbon capture
Oct 30, 2024 (SPX)
"Dissolved carbon is relatively dilute compared to all the other molecules in the ocean, and that limits the growth of photosynthetic organisms that live there....
Greenhouse gases hit new record highs in 2023: UN
Oct 28, 2024 (AFP)
Levels of the three main greenhouse gases -- the climate-warming carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide -- all increased yet again last year, the UN's weathe...
Carbon Capture Innovators Lead $339BN circular economy with affordable CO2 Tech
Oct 23, 2024 (SPX)
As the circular economy market is expected to reach $339 billion by 2026, CC&C leads the charge with its advanced CO2 capture technology. "Turning carbon dioxid...
Getting carbon capture right will be hard - but that doesn't make it optional
Oct 22, 2024 (SPX)
Could the whole debate be missing the point? I think it is better to focus on the big picture - why we need CCS to work - rather than playing whack-a-mole with ...
Plant CO2 absorption increases by nearly one third in new global estimate
Oct 22, 2024 (SPX)
The process of removing CO2 through plant photosynthesis, known as Terrestrial Gross Primary Production (GPP), is the largest carbon exchange between land and t...
Visible light energy yields two-for-one deal when added to CO2 recycling process
Oct 18, 2024 (SPX)
One way that chemists recycle CO2 into valuable products is through a process called electrochemical reduction, where a stream of CO2 gas moves through an elect...
STEP Demo pilot plant hits full speed in initial testing phase
Oct 17, 2024 (SPX)
"Achieving full operating conditions while connected to the grid is a major advancement of the commercial maturity of these transformative power systems," state...
China-EU EV tariff talks in Brussels end with 'major differences': Beijing
Oct 12, 2024 (AFP)
Brussels has decided to impose swingeing new tariffs of up to 35.3 percent on imports of Chinese-made electric cars. Representatives from Beijing and the 27-mem...
Carbon Mapper Shares First Methane and CO2 Emissions Data from Tanager-1 Satellite
Oct 11, 2024 (SPX)
Just over a month after its launch on August 16, Tanager-1 has already started delivering key data. This satellite is part of a larger fleet being developed by ...
Hidden biological processes slow the ocean's carbon storage
Oct 11, 2024 (SPX)
"We haven't been looking the right way," said Manu Prakash, senior author of the study and associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford. "What we found und...
A plasma-based design boosts graphene production efficiency by 22 percent
Oct 11, 2024 (SPX)
The breakthrough, which builds on an existing patent, utilizes plasma technology, often referred to as the fourth state of matter. Plasma, a partially ionized g...
First Satellite Greenhouse Gas Plumes Identified with NASA-Designed Instrument
Oct 11, 2024 (SPX)
Carbon Mapper's goal is to pinpoint greenhouse gas emissions from sources worldwide and provide data that can be used to mitigate these emissions. Tanager-1, wh...
South Dakota landowners, legislature at odds over Summit carbon pipeline
Oct 04, 2024 (UPI)
Despite South Dakota's Public Utilities Commission denying Summit's application to build nearly 500 miles of pipeline through South Dakota, the state legislatur...
UK's Starmer hails 'landmark' carbon capture funding
Oct 04, 2024 (AFP)
Starmer announced the GBP21.7 billion investment over 25 years to support three carbon capture projects in Teesside and Merseyside in northern England. "It is a...
UK announces 22bn pounds for carbon capture projects
Oct 03, 2024 (AFP)
The money will fund "carbon capture clusters" in Merseyside, northwest England, and Teesside, northeast England. The new Labour government has launched a new pu...
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