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Innovators in 2023 Carbon Removal Landscape

Ivy Protocol

The year 2023 stands as a testament to this synergy, with a plethora of companies innovating in the carbon removal terrain with a shared goal of fighting climate change. Meeting the recent pathways laid out by the IPCC will require total cumulative net carbon dioxide removals of 20–660 GtCO2 by 2100. World likely to breach 1.5C

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Space for all: here are some of the huge commercial opportunities away from Earth

Physics World

In fact, the market is expected to grow from $886m in 2020 to $2.5bn in 2027, according to the firm Marketwatch. Weighing just 260 kg each, they will fly in very-low-Earth orbit at heights of roughly 550 km, which means that atmospheric drag will pull them down within a few years so they don’t end up as yet more space junk.

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From Dust You Were Made, From Dust You Shall Return: On Human Composting & Upcycling (in some cases)

Acoel

Earlier this year California became the most recent state to approve a human composting bill, although it’s not set to go into effect until 2027. While the cremation process burns fossil fuels and emits carbon dioxide and particulates into the atmosphere, the environmental impact of cremation versus burial is arguably about the same.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

It would require standardized reporting of GHG emissions (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) by firms doing business in California with total annual revenues more than $1 billion. [19] The vote on it was 24-9. Scope 2 emissions are those attributable to producing the energy (principally electricity) that the company buys.

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A new cosmic dawn: peering across the universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

Physics World

The JWST’s main exoplanet task will be to probe the atmospheres of these distant worlds as they pass between the telescope and their parent stars. Today we know of thousands of worlds beyond our solar system, and – all being well – the JWST will be in prime position to study their atmospheres.

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