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XPrize in Carbon Removal Goes to Enhanced Rock Weathering

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More than a dozen organizations globally are developing enhanced rock weathering approaches at an industrial scale, but Matis tech-heavy verification and software platform caught the XPrize judges attention. Mati will use the $50 million to expand to more smallholder farmers globally. The Musk Foundation funded the competition.

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World Engineering Day Focuses on Shaping a Sustainable Future

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The global initiative celebrates engineering achievements and recognizes engineers contributions to progress. Air pollution kills about 7 million people annually, with 99 percent of the global population breathing unhealthy air, according to the World Health Organization. Circular economy and waste management.

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Plasma Gasification Promises the World, Fails Everywhere—Pune Was No Exception

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The citys waste problem would be solved, and India would get a head start in the global hydrogen economy. That was the pitch when Pune Municipal Corporation and The Green Billions Limited announced Indias first waste-to-hydrogen project. The idea was seductive: turn Punes mountains of garbage into clean hydrogen fuel.

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Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

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Saying that “ investment-grade climate change and clean energy policy is required to shift private sector investment from high-carbon to low-carbon assets ”, a group of 285 investors has urged governments and international policy makers to take new and meaningful steps in the fight against climate change.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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The plant will feature SGH2’s technology, which will gasify recycled mixed paper waste to produce green hydrogen that reduces carbon emissions by two to three times more than green hydrogen produced using electrolysis and renewable energy, and is five to seven times cheaper. The facility will process 42,000 tons of recycled waste annually.

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Baker Institute team says fossil fuel subsidies need global reform

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There is evidence that fossil fuel subsidies are socially inequitable, that they encourage smuggling and waste, and distort economies in ways that undermine economic efficiency while harming the environment and the climate,” wrote Jim Krane, the Wallace S.

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Study finds urban waste heat affects temperatures across thousands of miles, warming some areas and cooling others

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The extra waste heat generated from buildings, cars, and other sources in major Northern Hemisphere urban areas causes winter warming across large areas of northern North American and northern Asia. At the same time, the changes to atmospheric circulation caused by the waste heat cool areas of Europe by as much as 1 degree C (1.8

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