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Mayors of 12 major cities pledge to procure only zero-emission buses from 2025; major areas to be zero-emission by 2030

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Mayors from more than 30 major cities including Paris, Tokyo, Barcelona, Cape Town and Quito met over the weekend with senior executives of some of the world’s largest companies, including Mastercard, Siemens and Volvo Bus Corporation in order to define solutions to the threats posed by climate change.

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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The team’s key objective will be to demonstrate an AIR2CO 2 material system that integrates advanced metal-organic framework sorbents and sorbent-binder slurry coatings to capture and release atmospheric CO 2. RTI International plans to develop two different novel materials, metal organic frameworks (i.e.,

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