Physics World

AUGUST 1, 2021

Sprinkling powered basalt over natural ecosystems would remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere while also improving soils. But even in best case scenarios for renewable energy and industrial decarbonization, it looks certain that significant carbon dioxide emissions will continue for decades.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Carbon dioxide removal is key to meeting the climate goals outlined in the Paris Agreement. A new study analyzes what fair and equitable burden-sharing means for nature-based carbon dioxide removal in developing countries. Read the full story from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 3, 2022

The abstract: In the late 1960s, New Zealand and the United States collaborated to establish a southern hemispheric carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring station on New Zealand’s coastal cliffs. The New Zealand CO2 Project, as it came to be known, is an underappreciated landmark in the history of environmental monitoring.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The urgent need to remove excess carbon dioxide from Earth’s environment could include enlisting some of our planet’s smallest inhabitants, according to an international research team led by Michael Hochella of the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

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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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 10, 2021

from the Department of Energy (DOE) for a project leveraging technology that uses carbon dioxide (CO2)-rich gas, such as from corn grain ethanol refining, to make chemicals and fuels. Read the full story at Waste360. Climate technology developer and commercializer LanzaTech has been awarded $4.1M

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 10, 2023

To manage atmospheric carbon dioxide and convert the gas into a useful product, scientists have dusted off an archaic — now 120 years old — electrochemical equation. Read the full story from Cornell University.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 9, 2023

The study, published in Earth System Science Data, offers a top-down approach to quantify increases and decreases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations from 2015 to 2020, providing valuable insights into the carbon dioxide being emitted and absorbed by forests and other carbon sinks in these countries.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

People should be celebrating, not demonizing, modern increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) when he chaired the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. [At At one hearing, Wrightstone said, “Global warming will save lives.” Read more here.] We cannot overstate the importance of the gas.

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3BL Media

APRIL 21, 2022

to further develop and scale its next-generation capture technology for carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction from stationary sources and CO2 removal (CDR) from the atmosphere. DESCRIPTION: HOUSTON and LONDON, April 21, 2022 /3BL Media/ – Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, has acquired Mosaic Materials Inc.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 7, 2022

Researchers have developed a new membrane technology that allows for more efficient removal of carbon dioxide from mixed gases, such as emissions from power plants. Read the full story from North Carolina State University.

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Law Columbia

JULY 14, 2022

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be needed, alongside deep emissions cuts, to achieve global temperature goals. o C or 2 o c, in line with the Paris Agreement, global carbon dioxide emissions must reach net-zero between 2050 and the early 2070s. By Korey Silverman-Roati. Read the full paper here.

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3BL Media

APRIL 26, 2022

This is truly a global imperative, and this cooperation with Oxy Low Carbon Ventures reflects our dedication to building relationships across sectors and working with companies aligned with our sustainability goals.”. Together, UAV and OLCV will fund development work at Cemvita to convert carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons for SAF.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 18, 2022

The culmination of a series of five, virtual, multi-hour discussion group sessions and one presentation from a variety of practitioners in the ocean-based CDR space, the report details potential guidelines for exploring what governance structures, scientific research, and community engagement should look like as practitioners explore the possibility (..)

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Inside Climate News

MAY 23, 2022

The study found that limiting warming in coming decades as well as longer term requires policies that focus not only on reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, but also of “short-lived climate pollutants”—greenhouse gases including methane and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)—along with black carbon, or soot.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 17, 2022

Tweet me: The 2022 #FreezerChallenge, a competition promoting best practices in cold storage management from @my_green_lab & @i2sl_, saved a total of 6,732 metric tons of carbon dioxide, more than doubling the carbon reduction from last year’s challenge. Learn more: [link].

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Yale E360

MARCH 15, 2023

degrees C of warming, scientists warn that rising temperatures are degrading the Earth's ability to soak up carbon dioxide, threatening to further exacerbate climate change. As the planet rapidly approaches 1.5 To keep warming in check, they stress, countries must make steep cuts to emissions in the next few years.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This Innovation Roadmap presents an overview of the current status, innovation needs, and research efforts in Mission Innovation (MI) Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Mission member countries for three CDR approaches: direct air capture with storage, enhanced mineralization, and biomass with carbon removal and storage.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

In fact, in 1938 Sir George Simpson, a leading meteorologist, dismissed the link between rising carbon-dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration and temperature as “ rather a coincidence ”. Callendar’s 1938 paper “The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature” ( Q.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 11, 2022

Pumping carbon dioxide underground may help combat the warming of the atmosphere but finding appropriate underground sites that could safely serve as reservoirs can be complicated. Read the full story from Penn State University.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2022

According to the IPCC, to achieve net zero emissions, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be needed to “counter-balance hard to abate residual emissions” from sectors like agriculture, shipping, and aviation. Previous papers have discussed seaweed cultivation and ocean alkalinity enhancement for CDR. Combining AU with AD—i.e.,

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A study led by the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA) and the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA CSIC-UIB), both belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has shown that injecting billions of tons of atmospheric CO2 (carbon dioxide) underground … Continue reading Storing carbon (..)

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Two proposals for carbon pipelines throughout the Midwest would pipe carbon dioxide from dozens of ethanol plants to rock formations in North Dakota and Illinois where the CO2 would be buried deep underground. Read the full story from KCUR.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

March 8, 2023, marked the start of the demonstration phase of Project Greensand , shipping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from Belgium for storage in a depleted oilfield in the North Sea off the coast of Denmark. on the Export of Carbon Dioxide Streams for Disposal in Sub-Seabed Geological Formations for the Purpose of Sequestration.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As carbon dioxide levels rise and the Earth’s poles warm, researchers are predicting a decline in the planet’s wind speeds. This ‘stilling’ could impact wind energy production and plant growth and might even affect the Gulf Stream, which drives much of the world’s climate. Read more on E360 ?.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Alibaba Group said it had saved 619,944 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in emissions across 12 months by tapping cleaner energy sources as it strives to hit its carbon neutrality target. That saving is on a par with the carbon dioxide generated by 12,915 U.S. SOURCE: Alibaba Group.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 6, 2023

On many summer days, trees, shrubs, and grasses across the New York metro area soak up as much carbon dioxide as is generated by all cars, buses, and trucks, according to new research. Read more on E360 →.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 29, 2022

., a manufacturer and supplier of chillers for the industrial and beverage processing market, developed the idea of a CO2 chiller that brought big dividends to a California … Continue reading Carbon dioxide chiller provides ample cold for dairy and replaces propane heat for hot water.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Air Company, a carbon technology company that creates carbon-negative alcohols and fuels from Carbon Dioxide (CO2), has launched its Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) made from captured CO2. The post Air Company Launches Sustainable Aviation Fuel Made from Captured CO2 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Sabin Center today released the second in a series of white papers discussing legal issues associated with different ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques. the growing of kelp and other macroalgae which may be harvested for food, bioenergy, or other uses or sunk in the ocean to sequester the carbon it contains.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 19, 2023

million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent to methane emissions by 2030. With this new initiative, Danone expects to remove 1.2 The post Danone to Reduce Methane Emissions from Dairy Supply Chain by 30% appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 10, 2021

To get climate change under control, the scientists say humans must not only stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we also have to take the extraordinary step of actually removing CO2 that’s already there. Read the full story at KNAU. There is a tiny industry that does this now, but it is not profitable.…

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

The law provides $140 billion in tax incentives, direct loans, and grants to replace fossil fuels with cleaner renewable energy that lowers emissions of carbon dioxide. Gevo asserts its “farm-to-flight” project will release 80 percent less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than ethanol produced by a conventional plant.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

million from the DOE as part of its CarbonSAFE initiative to evaluate the feasibility of permanently storing captured carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial operations. Carbon Storage Funding Awarded to the Port of Corpus Christi appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. The largest port in the U.S. received $16.4

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

million from the DOE as part of its CarbonSAFE initiative to evaluate the feasibility of permanently storing captured carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial operations. Carbon Storage Funding Awarded to the Port of Corpus Christi appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. The largest port in the U.S. received $16.4

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 23, 2023

Up to 50,000 tons of carbon dioxide yearly could be saved by replacing 1,000 existing diesel trucks with their electric counterparts.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 30, 2021

Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is one of several proposed techniques for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in the oceans. In OAE, alkaline materials such as ground rock are added to ocean waters, increasing pH levels (and thus reducing acidity) and enabling greater uptake of carbon dioxide.

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