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Recent developments on carbon dioxide removal: Increasing policy support but governance issues remain

Law Columbia

Support for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is growing globally. In its Sixth Assessment Report , released last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that global carbon dioxide emissions must reach net-zero by the early 2050s to limit warming to 1.5 By Carolina Arlota and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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China’s Sinopec starts first carbon capture, storage facility, plans another two by 2025

Environmental News Bits

China’s Sinopec Corp said on Monday it has put into operation the country’s largest carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) facility in east China, and plans to build two more plants of similar size by 2025.

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Proposed DEP Regulation Would Require 22% Of Passenger, Light Duty Vehicle Fleet Offered For Sale In PA Be Zero Emission Vehicles Starting In 2025

PA Environment Daily

On October 14, the Department of Environmental Protection presented a proposed regulation that would adopt California’s existing Zero Emission Vehicle Program that requires 22 percent of the new passenger and light duty vehicle fleets offered for sale in the state be zero emission vehicles starting in model year 2025.

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Fighting Climate Change and Unhealthy Air, California Wants to Electrify Trucks, Too

Union of Concerned Scientists

Compared to a baseline business-as-usual scenario, CARB estimates the ACF will reduce climate-warming emissions from the state’s truck fleet by more than 40 percent by 2050, equating to a reduction of about 300 million metric tons of carbon dioxide over this timeframe. The rule would also reduce NOx and PM2.5

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Four South Asian cities show the way for collaborative, low-emission development

A Greener Life

To do this, the city government identified a mitigation potential of 133,346 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year by 2026-27 while addressing local climate risks through initiatives around solid waste, buildings, transport, water supply, street lighting, wastewater and drainage, urban biodiversity and air quality.

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Carbon removal using ‘blue carbon’ habitats “uncertain and unreliable”

Frontiers

The findings of their review, published today in the journal Frontiers in Climate , identify seven reasons why carbon accounting for coastal ecosystems is not only extremely challenging but risky.

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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data.