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NetZeroPlus: Government funding boost for plans to deliver tree-planting to an area the size of Devon

Business Green

As part of a £166m industrial decarbonisation funding package announced this morning , the government earmarked over £30m for a series of five projects designed to deliver 'negative emissions' by enhancing the UK's natural carbon sinks.

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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

Grist

But even if the world aggressively electrifies cars and buildings and generates enough clean energy to power them all, experts say there are likely to be residual emissions from activities that are harder to decarbonize, such as farming, aviation, and chemical production. They can pay to destroy methane leaking from a landfill.

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? 2023’s Most Headliney-Headlines #178

Climate Tech VC

   ⚡ Aether Fuels , a San Francisco, California-based sustainable aviation fuel developer, raised $9M in Seed funding from Doral Energy-Tech Ventures, Foothill Ventures, JetBlue Ventures, Xora Innovation, and TechEnergy Ventures.   Clear(er) skies for IRA SAF tax credit.

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Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero

DeSmogBlog

Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. That’s a larger share of global emissions than aviation. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

The Fundamentals of Circular Packaging (Workshop): An increase in consumer awareness, corporate engagement and regulatory action has led more companies to set ambitious goals to reduce and reimagine their use of plastics and packaging. But there is a limited supply of RNG, and industries are competing for what little exists.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

It is significantly larger than the clean tech focused stimulus package the Obama administration passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which played such a big role in accelerating US renewables and electric vehicle deployment. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. of global warming by 2050.