How gas leak detection will help the world keep its methane reduction promise
The signing of the Global Methane Pledge at last year’s COP26 marks a vital step in reducing the impact of industrial activities on the...
Kwasi Kwarteng says biomass wood imports are “not sustainable”
Cooling towers at Drax, North Yorkshire (image credit: Shutterstock.com / Phil Silverman).
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told a private meeting of MPs this week that...
100-MW green hydrogen facility to be built at Port of Felixstowe
Scottish Power has announced (8 August) plans to build a 100-MW green hydrogen production facility at the Port of Felixstowe, on the Suffolk coast....
Multi-million pound investment needed in carbon capture technology to mitigate CO2 emissions, report finds
Multi-million-pound investment is urgently needed in technologies including direct air capture (DAC) if the UK is to make ‘green’ airports a reality in the...
Two million UK micro-businesses don’t believe reducing their own emissions will make a difference...
Millions of micro-business owners do not believe they can have a positive impact on the UK’s targets for a net-zero economy, according to research...
UK aviation sets sights on net zero by 2040
A new “Jet Zero Strategy” seemingly commits UK domestic aviation to achieving net zero emissions by 2040, and for all airports in England to...
£3 million funding for direct air capture technology in the UK
Almost £3 million in funding has been secured for the direct air capture technology, SMART-DAC, developed by start-up firm CO₂CirculAir BV. It was awarded...
A bad bet on biomass? Critics respond to Drax announcement
UK energy utility Drax has unveiled plans to build "the world’s largest carbon capture facility", with the goal of removing more CO2 from the...
UK’s biggest CCU plant opens
Presented as a key milestone in the UK's race to meet its net zero targets, a new Carbon Capture and Usage (CCU) plant has been opened in Northwich, Cheshire by Tata Chemicals Europe.
Leakier than we thought
A new analysis seems to reveal that the supply chains for biogas and biomethane leak twice as much methane as previously thought.
No slowdown for lockdown
It seems that methane emissions continued their unrelenting rise in 2020 despite the economic slowdown that accompanied the response to COVID-19. A team of scientists from the University of Leeds has used data from the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite to pinpoint locations with large surges in these emissions, and has reflected on the conclusions that can be drawn.
SPONSORED CONTENT: Continuous mercury monitoring has edge on periodic sampling
The latest changes to the WI BATC document came in December 2019. This document describes the abatement techniques and associated emission levels (BAT-AELs) for waste-to-energy plants, as monitoring expert Gasmet explains.
Groundbreaking begins on new CO2 direct air capture facility
Swiss firm Climeworks says work has begun on the construction of its newest and largest carbon dioxide direct air capture and storage plant -...
Comment: Clearer direction needed to hit net zero in construction
Simon Richards writes about how the construction industry is taking the lead ahead of the Government when it comes to setting targets to achieve...
Data driven methods to boost microalgae production and CO2 capture
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is coordinating a two-year research project involving the University of Jyväskylä, Neste and seven Finnish SMEs, jointly addressing...
Government U-turn on promise to reform farming post-Brexit
New farming policy stripped of ambition to aid nature recovery, says conservation group
The Government has broken its promise to reform farming post-Brexit. In its...
Including non-CO2 emissions shortens timeline to reach 1.5°C
Countries around the world pledged in the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5°C, or, at most, 2°C. As emissions rates gradually begin to...
New ADEPT president launches climate change policy position
Mark Kemp, the new President of the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT), has launched the group's new Climate Change...
Half of UK councils not confident of meeting self-imposed net zero targets, survey finds
Senior figures in local government doubt their authorities are on track to meet net zero targets, a new survey by E.ON and the Local...
Academic collaboration boosts SME efforts to reach net zero
Twenty-two companies have so far collaborated with Lancaster University as part of the Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory (LCEI), a business support programme which aims to...
