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Agenda for Minimizing Carbon Emissions in the Shipping Sector

A shipping sector summit has been investigating the ways of reducing its contribution to the worldwide greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the Paris Agreement. However, the difficulty in achieving this is not a lack of low carbon technologies.

17 Apr 2018

Innovative Technology for Using Waste Carbon Dioxide to Produce Plastics

Researchers have discovered a technology for transforming waste CO2 into a molecule, forming the basis of producing plastics. The ability to use global ethylene is enormous, making use of half a billion tonnes of carbon emitted each year & counteracting global carbon emissions.

12 Apr 2018

Study Shows Many Different Carbon-Pricing Approaches Would Help Curb Emissions

Placing a tax on carbon, together with returning the yielded revenue to the public, can be an effective approach to controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

6 Apr 2018

Capturing and Converting CO2 into Useful Molecules

It is hoped by the next decade, CO2 waste could be affordably captured & transformed into useful molecules for renewable fuels, pharmaceuticals or biofuels.

2 Apr 2018

Harvesting of Wood Pellets Might Prove Detrimental to the Survival of Ecosystems

William Schlesinger has reported in an Insights article published in Science, that a return to firewood would prove detrimental to forests and the climate.

29 Mar 2018

Study Reveals Payments are Not Attractive Enough to Protect Forests in Southeast Asia

According to researchers, efforts to safeguard tropical forests for the carbon they store may be unsuccessful as protection payments are extremely low.

7 Mar 2018

Continental Shelves Become Important Carbon Dioxide Sinks

As carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere, the global ocean takes in the excess, storing almost 30% of the CO2 emissions generated from human activities.

1 Feb 2018

MIT Panelists Weigh Advantages and Disadvantages of Carbon Pricing

Many economists across the political spectrum agree that carbon pricing could provide a cost-effective strategy to accelerate a transition to a low-carbon economy and reduce carbon emissions that play a key role in global climate change.

31 Jan 2018

U of T Researchers Develop Innovative Catalyst for Simulating Photosynthesis

Scientists from U of T Engineering have now reached close to achieving artificial photosynthesis, where similar to plants, renewable energy is used to transform carbon dioxide, or CO2, into stored chemical energy. They achieved this by developing an innovative catalyst.

21 Nov 2017

Direct Conversion of CH4 and CO2 into Liquid Fuels to Arrest Gas Flaring in Oil Wells

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have achieved a remarkable advancement in directly transforming methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into chemicals and liquid fuels that can assist in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and also synthesizing precious chemical feedstocks.

9 Oct 2017