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JUNE 1, 2010

An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. Tags: Catalysts Climate Change Emissions Fuels Solar. Source: Sandia. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 9, 2022

In fact, GML has been supplying bus bodies for various EV makers such as BYD and CRRC to several markets including Malaysia, Singapore, Australia since 2015, and we expect more countries to catch up with the transition to EV as an increasing number of climate change mitigation commitments have been announced by governments around the globe.

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JULY 23, 2011

Two researchers, respectively from the Centre for Climate Change at the University Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Spain and the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the United Kingdom, have found that 80% of global climate data cannot be used by scientists in digital format.

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JUNE 19, 2021

The Origin platform converts C-6 cellulose into four isolated building-block chemicals in one chemo-catalytic step in liquid-phase reactors with almost zero carbon loss. The assessment studies Origin products across four environmental criteria: climate change; ecosystem quality, resource consumption; and human health.

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MARCH 20, 2023

This marks the first investment made through the US$100-million Yamaha Motor Sustainability Fund established in June last year specifically for investing in early stage companies working to address climate change. Andes is researching methods to use naturally occurring microorganisms to durably store atmospheric CO₂ in the soil.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

Vertimass and European Energy have completed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to integrate technologies for capturing carbon dioxide and converting it into hydrocarbon products around the world. —Vertimass CEO Charles Wyman. Blue Biofuels expands technology license agreement with Vertimass.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It is a strategy rooted in cross-cutting research and engineering to enable industry stakeholders, communities, government agencies, and early adopters to meet their climate goals. In NREL’s bioenergy program, for example, we have chemists studying the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass and waste materials into fuel.

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APRIL 27, 2012

‘Business-as-usual’ projections of future conversion rates, based on historical rates over the past two decades, indicate that 6–9 Mha of peatland in insular Southeast Asia may be converted to plantations by the year 2020, unless land use planning policies or markets for products change.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

LanzaJet, a sustainable fuels technology company and renewable fuels producer, has secured financing for its Freedom Pines Fuels plant in Soperton, Georgia ( earlier post ), through the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund. LanzaJet produces SAF and renewable diesel from low-carbon, sustainable ethanol sources.

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JULY 21, 2022

The aviation sector is responsible for about 5% of global anthropogenic emissions causing climate change. The ceria—which is not consumed but can be used repeatedly—converts water and CO 2 injected into the reactor into syngas, a tailored mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

INEOS Bio, a subsidiary of INEOS, the world’s third-largest chemicals company, has started a feasibility study for a plant in the UK to convert locally generated biodegradable household and commercial wastes into carbon neutral road transport fuel and clean electricity, using the INEOS Bio technology process. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 19, 2011

A new study led by Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology has found that the expansion of sugarcane crop in Brazil in areas previously occupied by other Brazilian crops cools the local climate. The study is published in the second issue of Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/nclimate1067.

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MARCH 12, 2010

Courtesy of YouTube and the Hermosa Beach City website and converted and enlarged through the magic of Greenius we bring you this exclusive look at the Carbon Neutral ClueTrain leaving the Hermosa Beach station this week. And speaking of work, it was a great week for the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group and for 350.org

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FEBRUARY 16, 2020

According to a report produced by Deloitte for Environment and Climate Change Canada , Canada disposed of nearly 3.3 Additionally, due to the increased transparency reciChain brings, the platform can provide better assurance to brand owners of the validity of the certificates they purchase from recyclers and converters.

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MARCH 6, 2018

Our work with Synthetic Genomics on algae biofuels continues to be an important part of our broader research into lower-emission technologies to help reduce the risk of climate change. The new outdoor phase is a critical next step in determining a path toward large-scale, commercial production.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Neither the Kyoto Protocol, nor the existing or proposed climate legislation in Europe and the United States, currently applies limits to emissions from land use such as deforestation. In Case 2, where there is less willingness to convert land, the economics of biofuels would be favorable sooner. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Their cost-effective synthesis procedure, coupled with the high stability of the photocatalyst, provides an economically feasible way to convert waste carbon dioxide and water into useful hydrocarbon fuels using sunlight.

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JUNE 30, 2023

Moreira’s technology also helps to track the effects of climate change. While leading a research team at the DLR in the early 1990s, Moreira saw the potential of using information gathered from such radar satellites to help address societal issues such as sustainable development and the climate crisis.

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DECEMBER 30, 2009

The resulting CO can be used to convert water to hydrogen via the water gas shift reaction. Tags: Catalysts Climate Change Emissions Fuels Hydrogen. The reaction also shows a new economical way to oxidize aromatic aldehydes, and could be applied in pharmaceutical synthesis. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja909038t.

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APRIL 2, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. Effects of BC on climate, as compared to GHGs. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

When our South Bay 350 Climate Action Group asked for Congresswoman Jane Harman’s help with our October 24, International Day of Climate Action we got it. I’ve also been pounding away about the climate fate of the vulnerable small island states and sea level rise for many months now. Thank you Congresswoman Harman.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Converting oil shale to gasoline via the Alberta Taciuk Processor (ATP)—an above-ground shale retort—results in fuel-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of ~130-150 g CO 2 equivalent/MJ of gasoline produced, according to a new analysis by Dr. It is especially crucial that this occur before the development of an oil shale industry in the United States.

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MAY 7, 2012

of StormGeo’s shares through a mutually convertible capital issue. DNV and StormGeo will co-operate to continue developing world-leading risk assessment and efficiency programs for all types of entities operating in rough climates. StormGeo currently operates out of 12 offices in 9 countries. —Henrik O.

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APRIL 8, 2022

United and OLCV have previously worked together on new approaches to combat climate change. Together, UAV and OLCV will fund development work at Cemvita to convert carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons for SAF. If performance targets are achieved, UAV and OLCV plan to form a joint venture to commercialize the technology.

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AUGUST 5, 2023

Although neither ice sheet is expected to melt completely anytime soon, their incredible scale makes even small changes consequential for the future of our planet. And the data that Peregrine will gather will help scientists to understand how these critical areas will respond to climate change.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

California’s Climate Protection Strategies do not help meet NAAQS Standards. If the near zero technologies outlined in this paper are developed in the time frame described herein, they will dramatically enhance the state’s ability to meet air quality standards and climate protection objectives. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

The study, published as an open access paper in the journal Nature Climate Change , shows that deforestation for the development of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo is becoming a globally significant source of carbon dioxide emissions. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/nclimate1702. Curran, Gregory P.

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JUNE 11, 2019

By using light-activated quantum dots to fire particular enzymes within microbial cells, the researchers were able to create “living factories” that eat CO 2 and convert it into products such as biodegradable plastic, gasoline, ammonia and biodiesel. A paper on their work appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Ding et al.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Health and other non-climate damages by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). Nonclimate-related damages for corn grain ethanol were similar to or slightly worse than gasoline, because of the energy needed to produce the corn and convert it to fuel.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

That’s three times the amount estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and stratospheric ozone destruction. This multi-site experiment clearly establishes streams and rivers as important sources of nitrous oxide.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

UK-based ITM Power has been awarded a grant by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to undertake a £100k (US$160k), 12-month engineering feasibility study of producing synthetic methane using carbon dioxide from industrial processes and hydrogen produced by electrolysis.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

The technology group Wärtsilä has issued a report ahead of COP26, the UN’s Climate Change Conference to be held in Glasgow this autumn, describing the environmental and economic opportunities for states that decarbonize rapidly. Major carbon savings can be made in the short term, enabling national climate targets to be achieved.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

GoinGreen was founded in 2002 with the mission to minimize the effects of climate change by encouraging carbon-neutral motoring. The company pioneered electric vehicles (EV) in the UK with the G-Wiz, an EV designed in California and manufactured in India by the Indo-Reva Electric Car company.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Scientists at Stanford University have developed electrochemical cells that convert carbon monoxide (CO) derived from CO 2 into commercially viable compounds more effectively and efficiently than existing technologies. Electrolysis must convert CO into products at a high rate with a low overall energy demand in order to be viable.

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MAY 20, 2015

Otherwise, fuel switching can produce net climate damages (more radiative forcing) for decades. since natural gas has relatively low carbon intensity, releasing less carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) per unit of usable energy than other fossil fuels, it is often assumed that switching to natural gas is comparatively beneficial for the climate.

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APRIL 30, 2019

And the EPA is warning others to prepare for climate change—as it maintains it's not really an issue yet. Just a year after converting Smart into. Faraday Future announced two new investments that could keep it afloat long enough to build its long-awaited FF91. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Biochemtex is also developing a new technology called MOGHI to convert lignin into bio-diesel and other aromatics, largely used in the industrial field. Biochemtex’s total investment of €133 million (US$183 million) will create new jobs for highly qualified researchers and scientists.

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