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The climate change and environmental emergency: a comprehensive resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens
The ElephantThe climate change and environmental emergency: a comprehensive resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens
There Are Limits to Storing CO2 Underground To Combat Climate Change, Say Researchers
2024-08-29 in technologynetworks.comResearch shows that there are limits to how quickly we can scale up technology to store gigatonnes of carbon dioxide under the Earths surface.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage | CO2 | Climate Change
Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution — and swindled taxpayers out of billions
2024-08-08 by in Canada's National ObserverThe fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture bamboozle, explained.
Tagged under: Disinformation and Misinformation | Oil Industry | Fossil Fuels | Carbon Capture and Storage
Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution — and swindled taxpayers out of billions
2024-07-29 by in VoxOil and gas companies know carbon capture and storage isnt a climate change solution, per documents, whistleblowers and public comments.
Tagged under: Disinformation and Misinformation | Oil Industry | Carbon Capture and Storage | Climate Change | Shell | Exxon
Letters to the Editor: The false promise of carbon capture as a climate solution
2024-06-27 in Los Angeles TimesSchemes to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are risky and inefficient, and they serve to extend the lives of fossil fuel companies.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Explainer: How the world’s largest ocean decarbonisation plant will work
2024-03-04 by in Eco-Business.com - Asia Pacific's Sustainable Business CommunityThe plant, backed by Singapore's water agency PUB and US-based startup Equatic, aims to remove 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the ocean each day.
Tagged under: Asia | Carbon Capture and Storage | Decarbonisation | Oceans
Enhanced weathering in the US Corn Belt delivers carbon removal with agronomic benefits | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2024-03-04 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceTerrestrial enhanced weathering (EW) of silicate rocks, such as crushed basalt, on farmlands is a promising scalable atmospheric carbon dioxide rem...
Tagged under: USA | Agriculture | Carbon Capture and Storage
Olivine weathering - Works in Progress
2024-03-04 (or before) in Works in ProgressOlivine is a green mineral that reacts with CO2 in the ocean to form a harmless silt. This reaction might be the key to slowing down climate change, or reversing it altogether.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Exxon CEO Shares "Dirty Secret" Keeping Us From Net Zero Goals | Leadership Next
2024-03-04 (or before) in YouTubeAs CEO of the energy giant, Darren Woods is leading the third-largest U.S. company through the energy transition. While Exxon Mobil is investing in low-carbo...
Tagged under: ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance | Finance | Net Zero | Exxon | Carbon Capture and Storage | Renewable Energy
Misusing Carbon Removal as a Climate Response - Legal Planet
2024-02-29 by Dan Farber in Legal Planet - Environmental Law and PolicyIt seems clear that in some form, carbon removal is going to be an important component of climate policy, especially later in the century to deal with carbon levels that overshoot the targets in the Paris Climate Agreement. The problem is not with the concept but with its misuse. One of the risks that … Continue reading "Misusing Carbon Removal as a Climate Response"
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
For Captured Carbon, Scientists Plot a Sub-Ocean Tomb
2024-02-19 by in UndarkIt's a contentious idea, but supporters say storing CO2 under the seafloor could help address climate change—if it can scale up.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage | Oceans
UN Carbon Removal Estimates 'By No Means Feasible,' Scientists Warn
2024-02-08 (or before) in Yale E360Tagged under: Sustainability | Carbon Capture and Storage
COP28 Boosts Carbon Capture, a Long Shot Fix for the Climate - Bloomberg
2023-12-11 in BloombergFossil fuel producers at COP28 want to use technologies to cut emissions from dirty energy rather than target consumption. The US experience shows it’s not that simple.
Tagged under: COP28 | Carbon Capture and Storage
Can Rock Dust Soak Up Carbon Emissions? A Giant Experiment Is Set to Find Out
2023-12-08 (or before) in WIRED MagazineTagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
How carbon removal technology is like a time machine
2023-12-08 (or before) in MIT Technology ReviewSucking greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere could help address climate change. But so far, available technology is barely winding the clock back.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Unabated: the Carbon Capture and Storage 86 billion tonne carbon bomb…
2023-12-08 (or before) in Climate AnalyticsThe climate talks at COP28 have centred around the need for a fossil fuel phase out. Our analysis quantifies the risk posed by restricting a phase out commitment to only ‘unabated’ fossil fuels.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon capture is key to COP28 debate over ending or extending fossil fuels
2023-12-07 in NewsweekCarbon capture and storage technology has emerged as a central issue among U.N. COP28 climate negotiators considering a phaseout of fossil fuels.
Tagged under: COP28 | Fossil Fuels | Carbon Capture and Storage
Don't Fall for Big Oil's Carbon Capture Deceptions
2023-12-05 (or before) by in Scientific AmericanCarbon capture technology is a PR fig leaf designed to help Big Oil delay the phaseout of fossil fuels
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Carbon Capture and Storage | Disinformation and Misinformation
Heavy dependence on Carbon Capture and Storage ‘highly economically damaging’, says Oxford report
2023-12-04 (or before) in smithschool.ox.ac.ukHeavy dependence on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to reach net zero targets around 2050 would be “hugely economically damaging”, costing at least $30 trillion more than a route based on renewable energy, energy efficiency and electrification.
Tagged under: Net Zero | Renewable Energy | Carbon Capture and Storage
The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal
2023-11-30 (or before) in The State of Carbon Dioxide RemovalTagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
The U.S. has a controversial plan to store carbon dioxide under the nation's forests
2023-11-20 in NPRA proposed rule change from the US Forest Service would allow storage of carbon dioxide pollution under national forests. The plan comes as communities resist such projects in their areas
Tagged under: USA | Carbon Capture and Storage | Trees
Suck carbon from the air? US facility launches novel climate solution
2023-11-19 in The GuardianDirect air capture is a reality in California with plant that pledges not to take investments from oil and gas
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
The Lego-like way to get CO2 out of the atmosphere - The Washington Post
2023-11-13 in The Washington PostA company says it has found a way to remove CO2 from the air for less than $100 per ton.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon Capture and Storage - 'False solution' or vital tool to curb emissions?
2023-11-11 (or before) in DeSmogFor decades, the fossil fuel industry has pointed to a technology known as carbon capture and storage, or CCS, as a way to tackle the planet-heating emissions caused by burning coal, oil and natural gas. First developed by West Texas oilmen in the early 1970s, the approach works by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial […]
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Tree plantations have hidden impacts on tropical biodiversity
2023-10-10 (or before) in Earth.comAn escalating trend of carbon-capture tree plantations has been primarily driven by the urgency of the climate crisis
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Tory MPs Tout Carbon Capture at Chevron-Sponsored Event
2023-10-04 by in DeSmogMANCHESTER – Conservative MPs gave resounding backing to the fossil fuel industry this week at a conference event paid for by U.S. oil giant Chevron. The panel “Can fossil fuel companies play a role in the energy transition?” was hosted on Tuesday in Manchester by Conservative think tank Bright Blue and Chevron. Chevron is headquartered […]
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage | UK Politics | Chevron
Have some economists severely underestimated the financial hit from climate change? Recent evidence suggests yes
2023-10-03 by in The ConversationWhen economists model climate impacts, they look to what past weather shocks have done to the economy. But this does not remotely capture what climate change could do.
Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change Impacts | Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon Capture & Storage: More Useful for Producing Oil than Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
2023-09-17 (or before) in YouTubeCharles Harvey (https://cee.mit.edu/people_individual/charles-f-harvey/) is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT.Recor...
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Government confirms first wave of 21 North Sea carbon storage licenses
2023-09-15 in Business GreenNorth Sea Transition Authority reveals that 14 companies have accepted licenses awarded through the UK’s first-ever carbon storage licensing round
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
The world’s biggest carbon capture facility is being built in Texas. Will it work?
2023-09-12 in The GuardianThe plant will inject 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the ground each year – but is it just greenwashing from big oil?
Tagged under: Texas | Carbon Capture and Storage | Carbon Offsetting
Shell Silently Abandoned Its $100 Million-a-Year Plan to Offset CO2 Emissions - Bloomberg
2023-09-02 (or before) in BloombergA faltering offsets program points to new problems with the corporate world’s favorite “climate solution.”
Tagged under: Shell | Carbon Capture and Storage
Scientists Find Success With New Direct Ocean Carbon Capture Technology - Inside Climate News
2023-09-02 by in Inside Climate NewsAs human activity and climate change increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the ocean, harming coral reefs and marine life, researchers have designed a new technology using aqueous sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate to remove carbon dioxide from ocean water, helping reverse acidification and reduce global warming. “It took years to pull this off […]
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Ocean Acidification | Coral Reefs | Innovation | Carbon Capture and Storage
Study shows making cities greener doesn’t just capture carbon – it reduces it
2023-09-02 (or before) in EurekAlert! Science News ReleasesDozens of European cities could reach net zero carbon emissions over the next 10 years by incorporating nature into their infrastructure, according to a new study.
Tagged under: Net Zero | Carbon Capture and Storage
Apple expands innovative Restore Fund for carbon removal
2023-08-25 (or before) in AppleA new fund with Climate Asset Management adds another option for securing high-impact, scalable, nature-based carbon removal offsets.
Tagged under: Innovation | Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon capture isn't just a disaster for the environment, it's entirely unworkable
2023-07-31 by in inews.co.ukThe Acorn project announced by Rishi Sunak is a dangerous flight of fantasy
Tagged under: Rishi Sunak | Carbon Capture and Storage
Seaweed farming for carbon dioxide capture would take up too much of the ocean
2023-06-19 (or before) in MIT Technology ReviewWe’d need to use a huge amount of ocean space to get even close to hitting targets.
Tagged under: Oceans | Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon removal market has lift-off
2023-06-16 by in Energy MonitorA spate of deals has seen the carbon removal market skyrocket by 300% in just two months. There is no putting the genie back in the bottle.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Problems at two CCS “success stories” cast fresh doubt on the technology
2023-06-15 in Renew Economy | News and analysis for the clean energy economyProblems at two long-running Norwegian carbon capture and storage projects are highlighting worrying challenges for the future, report finds.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Study: Direct Air Capture costs must fall by 75 per cent to drive widespread adoption
2023-06-05 in Business GreenNascent technology will need to scale at twice the speed seen in the solar sector, consultancy giant BCG warns
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Carbon Capture and Storage
Rock ‘flour’ from Greenland can capture significant CO2, study shows
2023-05-30 in The GuardianPowder produced by ice sheets could be used to help tackle climate crisis when spread on farm fields
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Scalable, economical, and stable sequestration of agricultural fixed carbon | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2023-05-26 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceWe describe a scalable, economical solution to the carbon dioxide problem. CO2 is captured from the atmosphere by plants, and the harvested vegetat...
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Government accused of 'dumping' infrastructure in Lincolnshire
2023-05-22 in The Lincolnite | MyLocalSolar farms, pylons, carbon capture and more
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Carbon Capture and Storage
Can ‘enhanced rock weathering’ help combat climate change? - BBC News
2023-05-21 (or before) in The BBC'Enhanced rock weathering' uses tiny volcanic rocks to capture the greenhouse gas carbon from the atmosphere.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Carbon Capture and Storage
Is carbon capture viable? In a new rule, the EPA is asking power plants to prove it.
2023-05-12 by in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.“The EPA is calling the bluff on the power industry.”
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
E-Fuels, Renewable Natural Gas, & Carbon Capture Are Deep Fakes
2023-05-12 by in Cleantech News Ñ #1 In EV, Solar, Wind, Tesla NewsE-fuels, renewable natural gas, carbon capture -- fossil fuel companies will stop at nothing to protect their business model.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Fossil Fuels | Carbon Capture and Storage
What is carbon capture and storage? EPA’s new power plant standards proposal gives it a boost, but CCS is not a quick solution
2023-05-12 (or before) in InklThe Biden administration proposed new power plant rules on May 11, 2023, that have the potential to be among the most stringent federal policy measures on coal, oil and gas power plants the United States has ever introduced.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
After court blocks renewables push, US promotes carbon capture & hydrogen
2023-05-11 by in Climate Home NewsThe Environmental Protection Agency will set limits on power plants' emissions, forcing them to clean up or shut down
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Hydrogen | Carbon Capture and Storage
Billions spent on unproven carbon capture could instead save households £9,000 each
2023-05-01 by in inews.co.ukAnalysis has found that putting CCS money towards home insulation would save around 30 per cent more carbon emissions
Tagged under: Insulation | Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative
2023-04-26 (or before) in NatureDrastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless. Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Carbon Capture and Storage
Shell Pulls Out of Large Carbon Capture Project in Northern England
2023-04-25 in jpt.spe.orgShell has decided to pull out of the Northern Endurance Partnership, one of Britain's largest carbon capture and storage projects.
Tagged under: Shell | Carbon Capture and Storage | Sustainability
Shell pulls out of UK carbon capture project
2023-04-25 by in Offshore Technology | Oil and Gas News and Market AnalysisShell on Tuesday pulled out of the Northern Endurance Partnership’s (NEP) carbon capture and storage project in eastern UK.
Tagged under: Shell | Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon dioxide removal: the tech that is polarising climate science
2023-04-25 in The GuardianFor some, CDR is crucial to staying below 1.5C. Others say it should not even be on the table. Why is it so controversial?
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage | Carbon Offsetting
Volcanic microbe eats CO2 ‘astonishingly quickly’, say scientists
2023-04-19 in The GuardianDiscovery of carbon-capturing organism in hot springs could lead to efficient way of absorbing climate-heating gas
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Exploring carbon emissions in peatland restoration
2023-04-15 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyPeatlands are important players in the global carbon cycle, storing vast amounts of carbon in the ground. Water keeps bog soils wet and anaerobic, which facilitates this storage and keeps the ecosystem thriving.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Cop28 president: world needs business mindset to tackle climate crisis
2023-04-07 in The GuardianExclusive: Sultan Al Jaber aims to use UN talks to set out how private sector can limit greenhouse gas emissions
Tagged under: COP28 | Fossil Fuels | Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon capture nets 2 billion tonnes of CO2 each year — but it’s not enough
2023-04-05 (or before) in NatureAs well as cutting emissions, governments need to ramp up investment in carbon dioxide removal technologies to hit climate goals, researchers warn. As well as cutting emissions, governments need to ramp up investment in carbon dioxide removal technologies to hit climate goals, researchers warn.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Reaching Net Zero: Does BECCS work?
2023-03-31 (or before) in YouTubeCurrent climate efforts are not progressing quickly enough to prevent the world from overshooting the global emissions targets set in the Paris Agreement.Att...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero | Carbon Capture and Storage
Is carbon dioxide removal ‘mitigation of climate change’?
2023-03-31 (or before) in Wiley Online LibraryTagged under: Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation | Carbon Capture and Storage
Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions
2023-03-28 (or before) in NatureNatural climate solutions are being advanced to arrest climate warming by protecting and enhancing carbon capture and storage in plants, soils and sediments in ecosystems. These solutions are viewed as having the ancillary benefit of protecting habitats and landscapes to conserve animal species diversity. However, this reasoning undervalues the role animals play in controlling the carbon cycle. We present scientific evidence showing that protecting and restoring wild animals and their functional roles can enhance natural carbon capture and storage. We call for new thinking that includes the restoration and conservation of wild a...
Tagged under: Rewilding | Carbon Capture and Storage
How carbon capture and storage was brought back from the dead, and what happens next - Sussex Energy Group at SPRU
2023-01-30 in University of SussexBy Marc Hudson Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is often promoted as a technology that will square circles. One of those circles, in the United Kingdom, is the political need to “level up” the industrial left-behind areas of the north…Read more ›
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Report: Paying farmers to sequester CO2 far cheaper than carbon capture tech
2023-01-20 in Business GreenSupporting farmers to manage land to expand carbon sinks offers a far cheaper route to net zero than scaling up bioenergy with carbon capture technologies, Green Alliance study argues
Tagged under: Farming | Land Use | Net Zero | Carbon Capture and Storage
🌎 Brilliant Planet is blooming algae back
2022-11-25 (or before) by in Climate Tech VC | SubstackHarnessing algae’s exponential growth for gigascale carbon dioxide removal
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
‘False solutions’: scepticism over Saudi carbon capture plan
2022-11-19 in The GuardianKingdom’s Cop27 announcement of new storage hub part of pattern of delaying fossil fuel transition, experts say
Tagged under: COP27 | Africa | Fossil Fuels | Middle East | Saudi Arabia | Carbon Capture and Storage
Young people's burden: requirement of negative CO2 emissions
2022-10-22 (or before) in ESDAbstract. Global temperature is a fundamental climate metric highly correlated with sea level, which implies that keeping shorelines near their present location requires keeping global temperature within or close to its preindustrial Holocene range. However, global temperature excluding short-term variability now exceeds +1 °C relative to the 1880–1920 mean and annual 2016 global temperature was almost +1.3 °C. We show that global temperature has risen well out of the Holocene range and Earth is now as warm as it was during the prior (Eemian) interglacial period, when sea level reached 6&ndash...
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Predictions | Climate Change | Sea Level | Climate Change Impacts | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2022: Carbon removal factory | MIT Technology Review
2022-10-20 (or before) in MIT Technology ReviewTagged under: Climate Change | Innovation | Carbon Capture and Storage
The ill-fated Petra Nova CCS project: NRG Energy throws in the towel
2022-10-11 (or before) in IEEFA | Institute for Energy Economics and Financial AnalysisNRG Energy Inc. just sold its 50 percent stake in the world’s largest carbon capture plant for only about $3.6 million, less than a half-percent of the Texas project’s roughly $1 billion construction costs.
Tagged under: Texas | Carbon Capture and Storage
Atmospheric methane removal: a research agenda | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
2022-09-06 (or before) in Royal Society PublishingAtmospheric methane removal (e.g. in situ methane oxidation to carbon dioxide) may be needed to offset continued methane release and limit the global warming contribution of this potent greenhouse gas. Because mitigating most anthropogenic emissions of ...
Tagged under: Methane | Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon capture is not a solution to net zero emissions plans, report says
2022-09-01 in The GuardianThe technology, put forward as part of the UK’s net zero strategy, could extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure
Tagged under: COP26 | Fossil Fuels | Net Zero | Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon capture: climate change’s “healthy” cigarette
2022-08-17 by in Harvard Public HealthThe tobacco industry made millions selling “healthy cigarettes” even when it knew smoking killed. Decades later, will the fossil fuel industry get away selling us “healthy” carbon using the tobacco industry’s playbook?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon Capture Won’t Work, But It Will Funnel Billions to Corporations
2022-07-31 by in Truthout - Fearless Independent JournalismFossil fuel interests persuaded the government to waste billions on false schemes that don’t solve the climate crisis.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
‘Carbon Capture’ Is No Fix. Big Oil’s Known for Decades | The Tyee
2022-07-08 (or before) in The Tyee British ColumbiaThe touted tech is still scarce and pricey, and even oilsands allies counsel caution.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Greenpeace | Sustainability | Carbon Capture and Storage
A new algae farm will capture CO2 equal to exhaust of 8,000 cars
2022-07-05 (or before) in FortuneU.K. startup Brilliant Planet is racing to turn marine algae, one of Earth's most effective air purifiers, into a vital carbon-sequestration tool.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Cars | Carbon Capture and Storage
'Mammoth' new plant will suck 36,000 tonnes of CO2 a year from the air
2022-06-30 (or before) in EuronewsA climate tech firm plans to launch this direct air capture plant in the next two years.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Opinion | Let’s Not Pretend Planting Trees Is a Permanent Climate Solution
2022-06-04 in The New York TimesTagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon capture and storage at the end of a lost decade
2022-05-30 (or before) in Cell PressCarbon capture and storage (CCS) provides a direct means to achieve the transition to net-zero. We show that the gap between what is expected from CCS and what has been delivered is still significant. Facility deployment, proven storage capacity, and storage rates must increase to play a part in CO2 mitigation. There must also be a greater global effort with government and multinational corporation engagement, and a rapid step-change in policy to avoid disillusionment toward the usefulness of CCS.
Tagged under: Net Zero | Climate Change Mitigation | Carbon Capture and Storage
In a Bid to Save Its Coal Industry, Wyoming Has Become a Test Case for Carbon Capture, but Utilities are Balking at the Pricetag - Inside Climate News
2022-05-29 by in Inside Climate NewsPipe Dreams: Fourth in a continuing series on whether capturing carbon is a climate solution or a dangerous distraction. Wyoming has bet its future on carbon capture technology. The state has poured money into research on how to remove carbon dioxide from industrial emissions, and what to do with the gas once it has been captured. State […]
Tagged under: Coal | Carbon Capture and Storage
World’s first zero-emissions cement developed in Cambridge
2022-05-16 in cambridgeindependent.co.ukTedchnique uses existing methods differently rather than waiting for carbon storage or hydrogen options
Tagged under: Hydrogen | Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon Dioxide Removal from our oceans. Can we achieve 20 BILLION tonnes per year?
2022-05-08 (or before) in YouTubeCarbon Dioxide Removal is the latest buzz phrase in the climate world. The IPCC tell us it will be essential to meet the goals of the Paris Accord. But it's ...
Tagged under: Oceans | IPCC | Ocean Acidification | Carbon Capture and Storage
Climate change: IPCC scientists to examine carbon removal in key report - BBC News
2022-03-21 (or before) in The BBCThere's likely to be a new emphasis on technology to suck CO2 from the air in IPCC report on mitigation.
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation | Carbon Capture and Storage
Shell’s Quest blue hydrogen plant emits more carbon than it captures
2022-02-16 by in Energy MonitorJust 48% of the plant’s carbon emissions were captured over a five-year period, finds NGO Global Witness research.
Tagged under: Shell | Carbon Capture and Storage
A Research Strategy for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration
2022-02-16 (or before) in The National Academies PressDownload a PDF of "A Research Strategy for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration" by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for free.
Tagged under: Oceans | Carbon Capture and Storage
Shell’s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It’s Capturing
2022-01-22 (or before) in VICEA new Global Witness report found that it has the same carbon footprint per year as 1.2 million gas-powered cars.
Tagged under: Shell | Cars | Carbon Capture and Storage
Australia’s 2050 net zero emissions plan relies on ‘gross manipulation’ of data, experts say
2021-10-29 in The GuardianEstimates for carbon dioxide storage in trees and soil go far beyond upper bounds of what peer-reviewed science suggests is possible
Tagged under: COP26 | Greenhouse Gases | Net Zero | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
Microsoft’s million-tonne CO2-removal purchase — lessons for net zero
2021-10-05 (or before) in NatureStrengthen markets, measures and definitions for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to fight climate change. Strengthen markets, measures and definitions for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to fight climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Net Zero | Carbon Capture and Storage
The fossil fuel industry’s CCS offsets scheme is aggressively absurd
2021-10-03 in Renew Economy | News and analysis for the clean energy economyThe fossil fuel industry has won a fight to enable the granting of offset certificates to carbon capture projects. It’s so much worse than it sounds.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon capture and storage eligible for emissions reductions credit
2021-10-01 (or before) by in Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.auAngus Taylor says the addition of the controversial technology as an eligible emissions reduction technique will help blue hydrogen production and gas exports.
Tagged under: Hydrogen | Carbon Capture and Storage
'The amount of energy required by direct air carbon capture proves it is an exercise in futility'
2021-09-14 in Recharge | Latest renewable energy newsRemoving CO2 directly from the air requires almost as many joules as those produced by burning the fossil fuel in the first place, writes Leigh Collins
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture & Storage
2021-09-11 (or before) in YouTubeThe Australien Government has made an ad about Carbon Capture and Storage, and it‚Äôs surprisingly honest and informative.üëâ Ways you can support us to keep ma...
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World’s biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland
2021-09-09 in The GuardianOperators say the Orca plant can suck 4,000 tonnes of CO2 out of the air every year and inject it deep into the ground to be mineralised
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Fossil Fuel Companies Are Quietly Scoring Big Money for Their Preferred Climate Solution: Carbon Capture and Storage - Inside Climate News
2021-08-17 in Inside Climate NewsOver the last year, energy companies, electrical utilities and other industrial sectors have been quietly pushing through a suite of policies to support a technology that stands to yield tens of billions of dollars for corporate polluters, but may do little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These policies have fast-tracked environmental reviews and allocated billions […]
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon removal hype is becoming a dangerous distraction
2021-07-10 (or before) in MIT Technology ReviewCorporations and nations are touting plans to suck greenhouse gases out of the air. But the crucial priority this decade is slashing emissions.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Carbon Capture and Storage
Work begins on first carbon capture plant in Scotland – Daily Business
2021-06-24 in Daily Business – Your agenda, fresh and informedUK company Storegga and Canadian firm Carbon Engineering have begun engineering and design of a carbon capture facility in the north east of Scotland.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon Purchase Agreements, Dactories, and Supply-Chain Innovation: What Will It Take to Scale-Up Modular Direct Air Capture Technology to a Gigatonne Scale
2021-06-23 (or before) in internal-journal.frontiersin.orgNatural and engineered carbon dioxide removal have become regular features of climate models which limit warming to 1.5°C or even 2°C above pre-industrial levels. This gives rise to an assumption that solutions, for example Direct Air Capture (DAC) - involving the direct removal of carbon dioxide from ambient air - can be commercialised and deployed at the necessary speed and scale to have a material impact, on the order of gigatonnes, by mid-century. Modular, solid-sorbent DAC, with a modular, solid sorbent approach on a gigatonne scale, will require the mass mobilisation of supply-chains to manufacture millions of modu...
Tagged under: Innovation | Carbon Capture and Storage
Few realistic scenarios left to limit global warming to 1.5°C
2021-05-16 (or before) in Science DailyOf the over 400 climate scenarios assessed in the 1.5°C report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), only around 50 scenarios avoid significantly overshooting 1.5°C. Of those only around 20 make realistic assumptions on mitigation options, for instance the rate and scale of carbon removal from the atmosphere or extent of tree planting, a new study shows. All 20 scenarios need to pull at least one mitigation lever at 'challenging' rather than 'reasonable' levels.
Tagged under: Oceans | Global Warming | IPCC | Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation | Carbon Capture and Storage
The Mother Tree Project
2021-04-25 (or before) in The Mother Tree ProjectThe Mother Tree project is a research project investigating forest renewal practices that will protect biodiversity, carbon storage and forest regeneration as climate changes.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
Billions of extra trees may give us 20 years to tackle climate change
2021-04-18 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Rainforests | Amazon Rainforest | Climate Change | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
7 Reasons Why Artificial Carbon Removal is Overhyped | by Dr. Jonathan Foley | GlobalEcoGuy.org
2021-04-03 (or before) by Dr. Jonathan Foley in GlobalEcoGuy.orgArtificial carbon removal is a sideshow. At best, it may grow into a minor climate solution. At worst, it's a distraction from reducing emissions .
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Soil Carbon Storage
2021-03-24 (or before) in NatureSoil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Carbon Capture and Storage
The Only Carbon Capture Coal Plant in the US Just Closed
2021-03-03 (or before) in Earther | GizmodoLast week, NRG Energy announced that it would shut down the only commercial carbon capture project in the U.S., ironically due to low oil prices. The closure of the Petra Nova plant may be one of the last gasps for the technology in the U.S.
Tagged under: Coal | Climate Change Mitigation | Carbon Capture and Storage
Fiercer, more frequent fires may reduce carbon capture by forests
2021-02-25 in The GuardianGlobal study shows blazes diminish forest density and tree size, making woods likely to sequester less carbon
Tagged under: Wildfires | Greenhouse Gases | Forest Fires | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
Could we ever pull enough carbon out of the atmosphere to stop climate change?
2020-11-22 in Live SciencePlanting trees helps, but what are other ways?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon Captured
2020-07-14 (or before) in MIT PressA comparative examination of domestic climate politics that offers a theory for cross-national differences in domestic climate policymaking.Climate change threatens the planet, and yet policy responses have varied widely across nations. Some countries have undertaken ambitious programs to stave off climate disaster, others have done little, and still others have passed policies that were later rolled back. In this book, Matto Mildenberger opens the “black box” of domestic climate politics, examining policy making trajectories in several countries and offering a theoretical explanation for national differences in the ...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Legislation | Barack Obama | Japan | Carbon Capture and Storage
Pulling carbon from the sky is necessary but not sufficient
2020-07-09 (or before) in NatureCarbon dioxide removal is becoming a serious proposition. But it is not a substitute for aggressive action to cut emissions. Carbon dioxide removal is becoming a serious proposition. But it is not a substitute for aggressive action to cut emissions.
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts of CO2 from air
2020-07-08 in The GuardianIt may be best near-term way to remove CO2, say scientists, but cutting fossil fuel use remains critical
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Carbon Capture and Storage
The inherent dangers of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)
2020-02-25 (or before) in EURACTIVAs the European Commission considers its long-term strategy to cut EU greenhouse gas emissions, Julia Christian says they must reject an unproven and dangerous technology in favour of protecting and restoring natural forests.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
Enhanced Weathering for Carbon Capture | Earth.Org
2020-02-10 by in Earth.OrgIn enhanced weathering, ocean alkalinity is increased through depositing rock particles into the ocean, mitigating ocean acidification.
Tagged under: Oceans | Ocean Acidification | Carbon Capture and Storage
Planting trees is only a good news story if it’s done right | Bibi van der Zee
2019-12-25 by Bibi van der Zee in The GuardianIn the fight against global warming, we’d be better off preserving natural forests than planting new monoculture plantations, says Guardian journalist Bibi van der Zee
Tagged under: Global Warming | Activism | Carbon Capture and Storage | Forests | Trees | Deforestation | Climate Change
Sanders’s Climate Ambitions Thrill Supporters. Experts Aren’t Impressed. (Published 2019)
2019-11-14 in The New York TimesTagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Carbon Capture and Storage
10 Carbon Capture methods compared: costs, scalability, permanence, cleanness - Energy Post
2019-11-11 in Energy Post - Daily reports on the European and Global energy transition -We need to understand carbon capture, storage and utilisation (CCUS) better. To do so, this article looks at 10 methods and estimates how much CO2 each will take out of the atmosphere by 2050, and the cost per tonne. In their list the authors, Ella Adlen and Cameron Hepburn at the University of Oxford, cover […]
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage
Why carbon offsetting is not the panacea Harry and Meghan might think it is
2019-08-20 by Emine Saner in The GuardianElton John claimed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s private jet use was ‘carbon neutral’. The reality is more complicated
Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage | Carbon Offsetting | Air Travel | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis
2019-07-04 in The GuardianResearch shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide
Tagged under: Deforestation | Greenhouse Gases | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage | Carbon Offsetting
An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth: Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
2019-05-22 by in Pro PublicaThe hunger for these offsets is blinding us to the mounting pile of evidence that they haven't — and won't — deliver the climate benefit they promise.
Tagged under: Deforestation | Climate Change | Forests | Carbon Capture and Storage | Carbon Offsetting | Trees
We are not yet doomed: the carbon cutters determined to save the world
2019-04-18 in The GuardianAn orchestra, a village, an entire country: the movement to rein in greenhouse gas emissions is growing
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Fossil Fuels | Carbon Capture and Storage
Why Aren't We Using More Nature-Based Solutions to Fight Climate Change? - Pacific Standard
2019-03-08 (or before) by in psmag.comForests, mangroves, and wetlands are sometimes seen as the easy option—yet using nature to tackle climate change can be surprisingly controversial.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Wetlands | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage
Could carbon-capture technology be a silver bullet to stop climate change?
2018-10-17 in The GuardianFew companies specialize in carbon removal and the tools they produce are currently still expensive
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Carbon Capture and Storage
The Geoengineering Fallacy | by Barbara Unmüßig - Project Syndicate
2017-10-12 by Barbara Unmüßig in Project SyndicateBarbara Unmüßig raises serious doubts about the viability and safety of proposed technological fixes for climate change.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Climate Change | Geoengineering | Carbon Capture and Storage
What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change
2014-11-18 in IEEE SpectrumToday’s renewable energy technologies won’t save us. So what will?
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Solar Energy | Coal | Climate Change | Economics | Innovation | Carbon Capture and Storage
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