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Pathways to Reduce Carbon Emissions in China

Fulfilling the ultimate goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change — keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, if not 1.5 C — will be impossible without dramatic action from the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, China.

9 Jul 2019

Breeding Cattle to Reduce their Methane Emissions

An international group of researchers has demonstrated that cattle can be bred to minimize their methane emissions.

8 Jul 2019

New Model Accounts for Uncertainty in Energy Strategy Decisions

A new model developed by EPFL researchers can help policymakers to account for uncertainties when plotting their energy strategies.

5 Jul 2019

Expert Calls for Strategic Initiative to Develop Green Burial Corridors

A leading public health expert has been demanding a strategic program to create green burial corridors together with main transport routes as British graveyards and cemeteries are quickly running out of space.

5 Jul 2019

Earth Could Support Enough Additional Trees to Cut Carbon Levels

Scientists have conducted the first research to determine the number of trees the Earth can hold, the location, and the amount of carbon they could store. They reported that the Earth can hold enough additional trees to reduce the atmospheric carbon levels by almost 25%, which is lower than any levels observed for around a century.

5 Jul 2019

TIPA® Receives Technology Pioneer Award from World Economic Forum

TIPA®, an Israeli company that produces compostable packaging, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers”.

From TIPA Compostable Packaging 5 Jul 2019

Aerothermal’s First Thermal Hydrolysis Unit Operational

AeroThermal Ltd has announced that its first Thermo-Pressure Hydrolysis (TPH) vessel was onstream processing bio-waste for the first time for a renewables company in the UK.

From AeroThermal Group 5 Jul 2019

Mita-Teknik Launches Next-Generation Blade Pitch Technology

Mita-Teknik, a global provider of wind turbine control and pitch technology, announced today the launch of its new generation of blade pitch system for onshore and offshore wind turbines.

From Emerson Electric Co 5 Jul 2019

Impact of Power-to-Power Technologies on Switzerland’s Energy Strategy

A team of researchers, as part of a joint research project of five Swiss Competence Centres for Energy Research (SCCER), has prepared a white paper on “Power-to-X” technologies for consideration by the Swiss Federal Energy Research Commission (CORE).

4 Jul 2019

Researchers Identify Restoration Hotspots to Boost Climate and Environment

Scientists have identified over 100 million hectares of lost lowland tropical rain forests that are spread out across Southeast Asia, Africa, and South and Central America. These observations have been reported in a peer-reviewed report released recently.

4 Jul 2019