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China should accelerate the research and application of carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) technologies and include such projects in the national offset programme, a top official at oil giant Sinopec has called for.

The rocket's failure to launch is a significant blow to the country's space plans.

A Senate committee on Tuesday released its inquiry report into the Safeguard Mechanism without shifting the debate much as opposition parties published their own dissenting reports, while new Australian Carbon Credit Issuance (ACCU) remained modest.

The failure of Pete Buttigieg, the US secretary of transportion, to appear for nearly three weeks recalls the incompetence of Fema during Hurricane Katrina

“Where’s Pete Buttigieg?” someone shouted at a February 15 town hall meeting in East Palestine, Ohio. “I don’t know,” Mayor Trent Conaway replied.

Twelve days earlier, a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals had derailed near the town. Three days later, the company announced it was going to carry out a controlled burn of vinyl chloride that would send dangerous gasses into the air, forcing many of East Palestine’s 4,700 residents to evacuate. They returned after receiving assurances that the air and water were safe, but a strong chemical odor clung to the town, and many continued to complain of headaches, nausea, and burning throats. And so several hundred residents had crowded into a local school to demand answers. Conaway said that two weeks had passed before anyone at the White House had contacted him, and the US secretary of transportation still hadn’t materialized.

Michael Massing is the author most recently of Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

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The Japanese government has committed A$2.35 billion ($1.6 bln) to develop a controversial hydrogen supply chain project that utilises a process known as brown coal gasification combined with CCS, to produce and liquefy the fuel for shipping from Australia to Japan, it was announced on Tuesday.

It took almost 20 years. but the world has finally agreed on the so-called High Seas Treaty to better protect marine life in unregulated waters Sarah Lothian, Lecturer and Academic Barrister, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A survey of institutional investors with a combined $2.1trn under management finds net zero goals getting more ambitious, including forms of fossil fuel exclusion.

The post Three quarters of institutional investors include fossil fuel bans in their climate policies appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Japan Suiso energy boss says hydrogen project incorporating carbon capture and storage ‘truly a watershed moment’ in decarbonising

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Japan is putting $2.35bn into a project to turn coal from Victoria’s Latrobe valley into “clean hydrogen” using carbon capture and storage technology.

The investment marks the start of the “commercial demonstration phase” of the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project which last year delivered a world-first cargo of liquefied hydrogen to Japan on a purpose-built ship.

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Australian company that is largest solar developer in US says Canberra should be focused on solar supply chain, not matching US on green hydrogen support.

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The spate of heatwaves across Australia has coincided with some wind and solar output records. So how much storage will we really need?

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UK emissions fell in 2022 due to strong renewables growth and high fossil fuel prices. The last time coal demand was this low was when George II was king.

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A controversial project that uses brown coal and carbon capture to make "blue hydrogen" has won $A2.3 billion in Japanese government "green" funding.

The post Japan throws $2.3bn at project to make “clean” hydrogen from Latrobe Valley brown coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions could save millions of pounds in flood damage costs.

A US-headquartered carbon offset trader and originator has secured a project pipeline that exceeds 1 billion tonnes, with the firm also aiming to transact over 50 million VERs this year separate from its own initiatives, company executives told Carbon Pulse.

Spain-based wind energy giant wants to invest billions in the development of gigawatts of new utility-scale solar and wind – including in Australia.

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The ‘stickering’ of houses under section 124 of the Building Act, and decisions about when it’s safe to return, need to be informed by science. Affected communities should be involved at every stage. Martin Brook, Associate Professor of Applied Geology, University of Auckland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Businesses are discovering tweaks that can dramatically reduce the environmental impact of their websites.

The UK's largest landowner has launched the first round of formal engagement with industry stakeholders on Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) technology, issuing a survey on the market requirements specifically for future seabed and subsurface carbon store development.

Queensland Labor says it will build the $5bn transmission link that promises to unlock gigawatts of new renewables and power major industrial and mineral growth.

The post Queensland buys $5bn Copperstring project to unlock 6GW of “bulk renewables” appeared first on RenewEconomy.