EU project aims to curb release of world’s most potent GHG

A major new Horizon Europe project is seeking to reduce the release of a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential more than 25,000...

Newly discovered microbes guzzle greenhouse gases (and maybe oil spills)

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin’s Marine Science Institute have discovered nearly two dozen new types of microbes, many of which use...

GIB invests £28m in Edinburgh EfW plant

UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) has today committed £28m of debt finance to a new £142m energy-from-waste (EfW) plant at Millerhill in Midlothian,...

£1.2 million government funding aims for lower-emissions freight

Drones will be used to deliver packages on remote Scottish islands - that, at least, is among the visions intimated by nine new freight...

Stratospheric risks?

The news that a US start-up has pressed ahead with experiments involving the release of aerosols in the upper atmosphere - without the consent of the wider world - has roused fears that DIY geoengineering might become a thing, and prompted an effort to update the risk calculations behind this kind of work.

“The end of the fossil fuel era” may be in sight following COP pledge

The end of the fossil fuel era appeared to have come a significant step closer with the signing of a joint commitment to phase...

With 25% of Europe’s greenhouse emissions coming from buildings, scientists suggest fundamental policy changes

To live up to their climate pledge under the Paris agreement, EU lawmakers must ensure all 250 million existing as well as all new...
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First continuous air quality monitoring for Faroe Islands

THE Environment Agency of the Faroe Islands together with the municipality of Tórshavn has installed two ambient air quality monitoring stations as part of...
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Gas analyser suits CCS

TESTING equipment specialist Quantitech has commissioned an advanced Gasmet FTIR multiparameter gas analyser at the UK Carbon Capture & Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) facility...
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Clean Growth Strategy represents huge opportunity for cleantech

The company behind the Cleantech Innovate showcase has described the government’s new Clean Growth Strategy as a ‘huge opportunity for cleantech in the UK’.

Could Autonomous Electric Vehicles help close the decarbonisation ‘transition’ gap?

PwC’s latest LCEI analysis appears to reveal the potential for A-EVs to bridge around one third of the gap between current decarbonisation rates and the rate needed

London ULEZ expansion could cut emissions from worst polluting vehicles by up to 98%,...

New analysis of real-world emissions data collected in London and throughout Europe by the TRUE Initiative appears to detail the significant impact on a...
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Time for adaptation?

"The Glasgow COP is going to fail us," writes Rupert Read in one of the essays in a new collection, Climate Adaptation. Speaking at the launch of the book in Glasgow on 30 October, he shared some of his views on the measures that might constitute a successful COP, or a not-entirely-disastrous-one, at least.
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Looking back on the future

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe - or, if it's too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. That doesn't mean to just shrug and say "let's make the best of it", but rather to embrace - as an accompaniment to ever more concerted emissions reduction - planning for a world that is changing drastically, as Envirotec discovered.

Scotch whisky industry renews commitment to sustainability

A series of seemingly amibitious environmental targets was announced by the Scotch Whiskey Association (SWA), the principal trade body for the sector, on 21...
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Recruits bring environmental expertise

Environmental monitoring and management specialist enitial has appointed two employees with expertise in the air quality sector and solar energy to develop and improve...

Legal action on the horizon over UK wastewater failures

THE UK faces legal action from the European Commission over failures in its collection and treatment of wastewater. Around 17 localities were highlighted by a...

120-fold increase in CCUS needed to hit global net zero target

CCUS needs new business models; state subsidies alone may not create needed growth, says says McKinsey & Company report Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS)...

Government must commit to fair jobs transition in net zero plans, says new CCC...

A new briefing from  the Climate Change Committee (published on 24 May) calls for more decisive efforts to tailor the government's skills and jobs...
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Variable speed drive recycling win

POWER and automation company ABB says it has recycled 100 tonnes of old variable-speed drives since it began a recycling scheme in the UK...