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A resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
The ElephantA resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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