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The Energy Security Bill is having its first reading in Parliament today (6 July), with Ministers promising “secure, clean and affordable” energy for the long-term.

Edie

Energy Security Bill ‘a further missed opportunity’ to boost energy efficiency, green groups say

The government has presented further details of its plan for scaling up direct air capture, CCUS, and BECCS technologies in the coming decade

BusinessGreen

Is the UK's vision for a thriving carbon removals market starting to take shape?

The results of the latest survey conducted by the UK government show solar maintains its high level of affection among the public, even when respondents were asked their feelings about having a solar field installed nearby.

PV Magazine

 The British public back solar and nuclear, and carbon capture

Bidding for the UK's first ever carbon storage licensing round has opened amid a high level of interest.

Energy Voice

Bids for carbon storage licensing demand critical geological evaluation

Representative of world body says at Israel’s first carbon capture confab that country can be leader if it gets going now, but government says it has other priorities

The Times of Israel

UN official sees Israel primed to lead globe in developing carbon capture tech

The landmark Energy Security Bill announced as part of the Queen’s Speech, will be introduced into Parliament today by Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng.

UK Government

Plans to bolster UK energy security set to become law

Southern Green Gas has designed a unique modular system that runs completely on solar power.


Solar-powered direct air carbon capture tech from Australia

Development pledges and new policing powers on CCUS, hydrogen and decommissioning have been unveiled in the UK Energy Security Bill, marking the "biggest reform" of its kind in a decade.



Energy Security Bill delivers new powers on CCUS, hydrogen and decom

The Supreme Court’s recent climate ruling means carbon capture will likely form the backbone of any new EPA regulations targeting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, energy experts and legal analysts said.

E&E News

Supreme Court ruling opens door to carbon capture

The limited clothing line is an example of how fashion companies are experimenting with new technology to cut their carbon footprint.



Bloomberg

Zara’s Pink Party Dresses Are Made From Recycled Greenhouse Gases

A Swiss startup is working on a solution to that pesky carbon dioxide that is killing the planet: burying it underground

INHABITAT

World’s largest direct air capture plant coming to Iceland

A solar-powered and tent-sized Australian prototype machine that can suck CO2 from the air has secured a $700,000 contract to capture and store carbon.



The Guardian

Australian company secures $700,000 deal for carbon capture and storage machine

Malaysian national oil company Petronas has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan's Mitsui for the conceptual and feasibility studies on the carbon capture and storage (CCS) value chain, including the evaluation of carbon dioxide (CO2) storage sites in Malaysia. Significantly, Mitsui is a shareholder in UK-based carbon management business Storegga, that is developing the Acorn CCS project.


Storegga partner Mitsui teams up with Petronas for Malaysia CCS 

While many focus on moving to zero-carbon processes, such as using renewable energy, others look to mitigate existing emissions. Carbon capture and sequestration fall into this latter category.

Renewable Energy Magazine

History and Pitfalls of Carbon Sequestration

The facility will have a nominal CO2 capture capacity of 36,000 tons per year.

Interesting Engineering

World's largest direct air carbon capture facility begins construction in Iceland

What does the industry think about the recommendations of the government’s independent climate advisers?

Energy Live News

Climate Change Committee’s report triggers a tsunami of industry responses

ExxonMobil, Shell, CNOOC, and Guangdong Provincial Development & Reform Commission have signed a memorandum of understanding to evaluate the potential for a world-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the Dayawan Petrochemical Industrial Park in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China.


ExxonMobil, CNOOC and Shell team up for carbon capture and storage hub in China

This summer, Norwegian company Northern Lights will be drilling a second well line into an aquifer some 8,500 feet below the seafloor, getting it ready to receive liquefied waste CO2.

National Observer 

Carbon capture projects: Solution or Band-Aid?

Carbon capture and storage – capturing CO2 emissions from industrial source points and safely storing them underground – is often presented as a new technology, but it has been around for decades. It was first proposed in Texas in the 1970s.

Real Clear Energy

Carbon Capture: the “New” Technology that Can Help Solve the Climate Conundrum

Green hydrogen is often touted as the future of energy, providing a flexible and zero-emission fuel for transportation and electricity generation.

Reuters

Green hydrogen may be energy's future, but it's complicated

Tata Chemicals Europe hopes the process will reduce the greenhouse gas' emissions by 10% annually and supply high-purity C02 for industry

A Cheshire chemicals factory is to start capturing carbon dioxide on an industrial scale from energy generation in what is described as the UK's first major use of the emissions-reduction technology.


UK chemicals plant ready to start carbon capture rollout

Aidan Harrison disagrees with George Monbiot's assessment of farming's contribution to global warming

As a retired upland livestock farmer, I take issue with George Monbiot's article (Only a tiny minority of rural Britons are farmers - so why do they hold such sway?, 20 June). The 115,000 people who work in agriculture deserve respect, not abuse.


Livestock farmers are not the enemy in climate crisis battle

The new policy makes clear that the Biden Administration views the injection and storage of CO2 into federal pore space as one method for combatting the climate crisis, by reducing anthropogenic CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, and consequently, the impacts on climate from those emissions.

Lexology

The US Bureau of Land Management Issues New Policy Guidance for Onshore Development of Carbon Capture

Experimental results showed good CO2 uptake capacity of calcium hydroxide at low temperatures (between 20 and 150 °C). Performance improvements came from the fine granulometry due to the increased exposed surface area.

Nature

Post combustion CO2 capture with calcium and lithium hydroxide

Energy, industry and transport key to reaching Middle East's climate targets, study suggests

The National

Five ways that the Middle East can cut harmful emissions

Typically, any discussion of actively removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the earth’s atmosphere to help reduce the greenhouse effect of manmade emissions has so far centered on carbon storage and capture.

Forbes

AirCapture And 3D Systems Partner To Make Decarbonizing Our Atmosphere Profitable

"Innovation happens when two disciplines of science that normally don't intersect come together. 

A textile filter paves the way for eco-friendly carbon capture technology

anadian carbon capture and removal technology provider, Svante, hosted its ground-breaking ceremony this week in Burnaby, BC to launch the construction of its new world headquarters that it’s calling “The Centre of Excellence for Carbon Capture & Removal.”

Financial Post

Construction Begins for New "Centre of Excellence for Carbon Capture & Removal" in British Columbia

The world’s largest oil producer plans to increase fossil fuel production in the next decade while controlling the rise in emissions through measures such as carbon capture and storage.

Aramco’s Net-Zero Plan Will Have Net-Zero Impact Before 2035

In pursuit of its strategy to go beyond net-zero, oil and gas company Neptune Energy has teamed up with several firms – ExxonMobil, Rosewood and EBN – to pool resources for the development of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the Dutch sector of the North Sea.

Offshore Energy

Oil players join forces to develop ‘one of the largest CCS facilities in the North Sea

Exxon Mobil and Neptune Energy are among those who have today signed an agreement to progress a large-scale CCS project in the North Sea.

Exxon, Neptune and more sign agreement on large North Sea CCS project

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Monday that it was awarding $39 million in grants for 18 projects that will focus on developing materials and design and construction techniques that can turn buildings into net carbon storage structures.


Department Of Energy Awards $39 Million To Ten Universities And Other Labs To Develop Carbon-Storing Buildings

While efforts to reduce GHG emissions should always take priority, meeting climate goals will also require carbon dioxide removal (CDR) — systems that remove carbon directly from the air — likely at the billion-tonne scale by mid-century.

GreenBiz

6 things to know about direct air capture

A consortium hoping to use heat from the UK’s proposed Sizewell C nuclear power station to capture carbon dioxide from the air on a giant scale say they have successfully completed a research and development project and are ready to construct a demonstration plant.

World Nuclear News

'Megatonne' CO2 capture plant plan for Sizewell C

Carbon capture is a great area of current interest, being a method where greenhouse gases can be taken out of the atmosphere and stored elsewhere, such as in geological layers deep underground. To date, methods have only been tested on a small scale and are not economical. 

AZO Cleantech

High Hopes Labs: The World's First Scalable Carbon Capture

Jennifer Wilcox, who has a leading role in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, says yes, though there are significant challenges.



The New York Times

Can Carbon Capture Be Part of the Climate Solution?

The wonder material is single-handedly responsible for almost 10% of global warming — but solutions for cleaning up steel are expensive and hard to scale

Business Standard

Making steel without damaging the climate

'Overlapping' sea-based wind and CCS workable so long as close eye kept on seismic activity and CO2-driven pressure level rises in structures below seabed, says Fugro report

Recharge

 'Traffic lights' needed for offshore wind and carbon capture projects to operate safely

Boats have carried liquefied carbon dioxide before, but not for the large-scale purpose of transporting industrial emissions to long-term storage facilities. 

Ships May Soon Transport Captured Carbon to Storage Locations

The Netherlands is looking into whether areas of the North Sea could be used simultaneously for offshore wind and carbon capture and storage (CCS) developments.

Offshore Wind

Netherlands Eyeing Co-Location of Offshore Wind and CCS Projects

The company is named Twelve, and it built a machine to capture CO2 and turn it into raw materials to produce durable goods. Mercedes is on board. So is Proctor & Gamble.

Inc.

The Stanford Lab Startup that Found a Constructive Way to Capture Carbon

The world airline industry, though the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has made a bold pledge to be “net-zero” in emissions by 2050. 

Airbus Outlines Five Ways U.S. Airlines Can Meet 2050 Net-Zero Commitment

As part of Bellona Europa’s Campaign #TenTTuesday, the author invites Anne-Mette Jørgensen, Carbon Collector’s external affairs manager, for a chat on the role and importance of multiple transportation modalities on the path to net-zero by 2050.

Bellona

Flexible transportation solutions for CO2 to Storage key to speed up deployment

Researchers found they could filter carbon dioxide from air and gas mixtures at promising rates using a proposed new textile-based filter that combines cotton fabric and an enzyme called carbonic anhydrase -- one of nature's tools for speeding chemical reactions.

Science Daily

Textile filter testing shows promise for carbon capture

Could hacking nature lead to a solution to climate change? Living Carbon, a public benefit company, enhances natural solutions in plants to improve carbon capture.

Genetically-engineered trees can capture more carbon

Can a Yale lecturer make a strong enough argument for carbon capture and other geoengineering methods to convince skeptics?

CleanTechnica

What’s Your Position On Carbon Capture For The Year 2100?

North Carolina State University researchers found they could filter carbon dioxide from air and gas mixtures at promising rates using a proposed new textile-based filter that combines cotton fabric and an enzyme called carbonic anhydrase—one of nature's tools for speeding chemical reactions.

Tech Xplore

BEIS Minister Greg Hands said it was 'crucial that our industries reduce their reliance on fossil fuels'.

Business Green

CCUS, hydrogen and e-fuels among projects to share in £31m government funding

TBRC’s market research report covers carbon capture, utilization, and storage market size, CCUS market forecasts, major CCUS companies and their market share, key strategies to undertake, and more.

Globe Newswire

Companies In The Carbon Capture, Utilization, And Storage Market Focus On The Adoption Of Direct Air Capture Technology To Extract CO2 Directly From The Atmosphere

Carbon | Carbon Capture & Storage

Restoring degraded environments, such as by planting trees, is often touted as a solution to the climate crisis.

The Conversation

No more excuses: restoring nature is not a silver bullet for global warming, we must cut emissions outright

Environmental advocates praise the plan and note a few flaws.


Grist

With ‘real zero,’ NextEra pushes back against deceptive carbon offsets

Australia's biggest polluters need a rigorous emissions reduction regime that avoids exemptions for trade-exposed industries, according to the Grattan Institute, which says decarbonising Australian industry is an "Industrial Revolution against a deadline".


'Industrial revolution': Australia's decarbonisation needs rigorous management

In order to reach global net-zero emissions by 2050, we must remove CO2 from the atmosphere as well as prevent further emissions.

UCTV

Carbon Dioxide Removal

The market for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is expanding rapidly, as major tech companies are funneling nearly a billion dollars to early-stage startups experimenting with various methods of carbon capture and sequestration to fight climate change.

CNBC

The rise of the carbon removal industry

From today, all Etihad New York and Chicago flights will be operated by the airline’s new A350 fleet, providing best-in-class inflight service

Zawya

Etihad Airways ‘Sustainable 50’ A350 makes inaugural flight to New York

(World Wide Fund for Nature Singapore) today launches a new report titled “Decarbonising Singapore’s Energy System in the Context of Cooling” authored by the Carbon Trust. WWF-Singapore worked with the National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS) to shape the study which focuses on the importance of clean cooling and provides viable recommendations on how it can play a critical role in achieving Singapore’s net zero ambition.

WWF-Singapore’s new report finds that clean cooling solutions are critical for Singapore to achieve climate targets

Moderna Co-Founder and Flagship Pioneering Founder & CEO Noubar Afeyan joins Emily Chang to discuss the need to quickly scale carbon removal technologies to fight climate change and how his Indigo Agriculture portfolio will provide farmers with funds to access the multi-billion dollar voluntary carbon market.

The Future of Carbon Removal Tech

Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a multi-million-dollar allocation of funding to seven global cities for the adoption of carbon-capturing biochar, in the same week that major milestones were marked for man-made carbon-sucking projects backed by private sector players like Alphabet and Stripe.

Cities bag Bloomberg funding for biochar as private sector bets on man-made carbon capture technologies

Energy Monitor caught up with Puro.earth’s CEO and co-founder to find out how the company verifies and monitors the fast-growing carbon removals industry.

Energy Monitor

How to verify carbon removals

Record-high gas prices mean efforts to cut UK carbon emissions could save the economy 0.5% of GDP, says the Climate Change Committee (CCC).

Carbon Brief 

Costly gas means reaching climate goals ‘could save UK 0.5% of GDP

Commodities trader Louis Dreyfus Brazil's chief executive said on Tuesday that if society wants to tackle deforestation seriously, mechanisms need to be put in place to compensate farmers for conserving trees.

Dreyfus Brazil CEO says tackling deforestation involves compensating farmers

As climate change and global heating approach critical points of no return, experts gathered in Seoul at the World Forestry Congress to assess an often overlooked but increasingly important resource for limiting carbon emissions— the forests of Central Africa.

CIFOR

Central African forests essential, and need more support for ecological role

Climate-intervention strategies to durably remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere must have no harmful ecological consequences.

Removing carbon dioxide: first, do no harm

Reaching global net-zero emissions requires a massive effort from private industry, but there'll be plenty of money to go around for those who chip in, according to Morgan Stanley.

Business Insider

Aiming for net-zero emissions could help the global offset market swell to $35 billion by 2030

The market for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is expanding rapidly, as major tech companies are funneling nearly a billion dollars to early-stage startups that are experimenting with various methods of carbon capture and sequestration to fight climate change.

Why Big Tech Is Pouring Money Into Carbon Removal

Japan is pushing to remove a target for zero-emission vehicles from a G7 communique expected this week, according to a proposed draft seen by Reuters, a move that would water down language on climate change from the leaders’ summit in Germany.



Japan pushes to remove zero-emission vehicle target from G7 statement, draft shows

As one of the major Chinese Internet companies at the forefront of environmental trends, Tencent has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality in its own operations and supply chain, and to use green power for 100% of all electricity consumed by 2030, contributing to the global push in fighting climate change. 

Tencent’s Approach to Carbon Neutrality — Together for a Greener Future

Performing a prospective life cycle assessment for two promising technologies in a series of climate change mitigation scenarios, we find that electricity sector decarbonization and Direct air capture (DAC) technology improvements are both indispensable to avoid environmental problem-shifting

Environmental trade-offs of direct air capture technologies in climate change mitigation toward 2100

The study will focus on the advancement of a direct air capture and utilization system (DACUS), which can remove 5,000 metric tons per year of CO2 from ambient air and then permanently mineralize it in concrete products. If built, the designed system would be larger than any existing direct air capture system (DAC).

Business Wire

University of Illinois Receives $3.5 Million from the Department of Energy to Advance Air Capture and Storage Study 

Engineered carbon removals need to penetrate voluntary carbon markets if they are to scale at the rate required to tackle climate change, argues BeZero Carbon’s Ted Christie-Miller

Carbon removals must harness the power of voluntary carbon markets

Many multinational companies have committed to net zero carbon goals. But with industrial activity producing too much carbon for life on Earth, corporations can't simply look to repair the damage they've done - they need to reverse it. 

How Microsoft Is Leading the Response To The Climate Crisis

Report from BeZero predicts that carbon removal credits could become the dominant player in global carbon markets by the end of this decade

'We need to drastically reduce the price of carbon removal': Are voluntary carbon markets ready for a new type of credits?

The road to decarbonisation requires commitment and collaboration between the private and public sector to ensure that companies and countries reduce their carbon emissions. Logistics is one key area where there is vast room for improvement.

Eco-Business

Sustainable supply chains and the road to net zeroThe road to decarbonisation requires commitment and collaboration between the private and public sector to ensure that companies and countries reduce their carbon emissions. Logistics is one key area where there is vast room for improvement.

A new research project is looking to genomics as a solution to decarbonization by genetically engineering plants to not only absorb more carbon from the atmosphere but hold on to it longer.

S&P Global

Researchers set out to engineer crops that absorb CO2 faster, longer

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report

McKinsey & Company

Accelerating sustainable and inclusive growth

More than a third of world's largest publicly traded companies now have net-zero targets, up from one-fifth in December 2020, according to a global stocktake of net-zero commitments from the Net Zero Tracker initiative.


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