New Scientist

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Billions of dollars are pouring into the carbon dioxide removal industry, which aims to clean up emissions and slow global warming, but few companies have delivered results. Is the technology a planetary saviour or a risky bet?

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Law Columbia

APRIL 2, 2024

Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal © 2023 by Ocean Visions Ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is attracting increased attention as a possible climate change response strategy. ocean alkalinity enhancement ) theoretically able to remove 1 gigaton or more of carbon dioxide annually. degrees Celsius.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The construction industry as a carbon dioxide sink? For optimal applicability, they process the biochar into pellets and use … Continue reading Building on carbon dioxide Researchers are working on this.

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New Scientist

JUNE 19, 2023

By combining a solar fuel cell that converts carbon dioxide into fuel with a plastic recycling system, researchers can create sustainable fuels and useful chemicals

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A phenomenon called the Fermi resonance, which affects how molecules vibrate, is responsible for a large part of carbon dioxide’s planet-warming effect

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New Scientist

AUGUST 25, 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope has made the first clear detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant world, and there is also an unexpected bump in the data

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 29, 2023

The new system mimics a natural chloroplast to convert carbon dioxide in water into methane, a valuable fuel, very efficiently using light. This is a promising discovery, which … Continue reading New photocatalytic system converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel more efficiently than natural photosynthesis

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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

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Plans for a pipeline that would have transported carbon dioxide from Iowa for eventual storage in central Illinois are off the table – for now.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It draws on interviews withmembers of the First Movers Coalition (FMC), who have each committed to contract for 50,000 tonnes – or $25 million worth – … Continue reading Carbon Dioxide Removal: Best-Practice Guidelines: What Companies Can Learn from First Movers

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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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Yale E360

AUGUST 15, 2023

Spreading volcanic rock dust on cropland could help the world reach a key carbon removal goal, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Recent progress in carbon dioxide capture technologies: A review. Bhatti, U. H., & Fan, X. Clean Energy Science and Technology 1(1). link] Abstract The continuous increase in anthropogenic CO2 emissions is widely acknowledged as one of the main reasons for global climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 30, 2024

This paper presents recommended actions that federal agencies could take, under existing law, to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S.

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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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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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New Scientist

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Despite urgent calls to slash fossil fuel use to meet climate targets, the Global Carbon Budget report shows that 2023 emissions will be about 1.1 per cent higher than last year

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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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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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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say new technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere must be developed faster to meet goals to reduce global warming.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 30, 2023

Scientists have been using powerful computer models combined with laboratory experiments to study how a kind of clay can soak up carbon dioxide and store it. Read the full story from Sandia National Laboratories.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers, along with scientists from more than a dozen institutions, have completed a first-of-its-kind high-resolution assessment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in the United States.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 25, 2024

An international consortium of geoscientists has reconstructed atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide going back 66 million years using proxies in the geological record. Read the full story from the University of Utah. Today’s concentration, 420 parts per million, is higher than it’s ever been in 14 million years.

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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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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). As evidenced by the 150-plus people in attendance, ocean CDR is attracting growing attention as a possible climate change mitigation option. It is not hard to see why.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Sabin Center published a new report today recommending actions that federal agencies could take to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. A variety of ocean-based CDR approaches—i.e., Those activities could raise a host of legal issues. and the U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Researchers developed an efficient process that can convert carbon dioxide into formate, a nonflammable liquid or solid material that can be used like hydrogen or methanol to power a fuel cell and generate electricity. Read the full story from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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 28, 2024

In this Issue Brief, a working group of Carbon Business Council mCDR member companies and partners highlight the mCDR opportunity; identify pathways to enable research, development,and deployment; and offer a set of focused recommendations for policymakers and other CDR ecosystem stakeholders to responsibly accelerate the advancement of mCDR.

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