Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In an apparent first of its kind within the UK, a pharmaceutical manufacturing site in Northumberland has been equipped with an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant to recycle waste solvents into low carbon gas, which is being injected into the national gas grid. It will also produce enough energy to power an equivalent of 6,000 homes.

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POWER Magazine

MARCH 1, 2024

GW Drax Power Station in northeastern England—once Western Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant—is poised to pioneer bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a negative emissions The post UK’s Drax Eyes U.S. for Bioenergy CCS Expansion Drive appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Government of the Hong Kong SAR is introducing an innovative floating solar farm to overcome limited land resources as it pursues its plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The Floating solar farm at Plover Cove Reservoir: What it will look like on completion.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

Veolia has launched what it calls the world’s largest biorefinery project “producing CO2-neutral bio-methanol from a pulp mill, located in Finland” The project aims to unlock the potential of this alternative source of feedstock for biofuel that is almost completely unexplored to date.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

Funded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, the project is centred on Worthing Crematorium in West Sussex and is part of Adur & Worthing Council’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2030. Green hydrogen is also produced without any carbon emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

However, current filtration membranes have a hard time if the water is extremely dirty or has small, neutral molecules, such as boric acid – a common insecticide used on crop plants. Scott Shell and colleagues wanted to use computers to design the inside of a carbon nanotube pore to filter boric acid-containing water.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Energy-from-Waste (EfW) operator enfinium signed an agreement – on 19 March – with green technology company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) to install the UK’s first carbon capture pilot plant at an EfW facility. The aims of the pilot is to demonstrate the use of carbon capture technology at EfW facilities.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While the use of biogas as a carbon-neutral fuel is rapidly expanding, it is also used as a substitute for natural gas in Europe and the US. The trial will use biogas derived from sewage sludge at the Kojima Sewage Treatment Plant. The technology will also be applied to CO2 separation and recovery from gases other than biogas.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 3, 2024

The pledges of many countries to reduce carbon emissions essentially don’t require them to deviate from business-as-usual trajectories, at a time when global climate targets can no longer be achieved unless drastic measures are taken. The findings were published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The envisaged Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) implementation at LIPOR’s Energy Recovery Plant consists of capturing, extracting and purifying the biogenic part of CO2, present in about 60% of the carbon dioxide emissions generated as a result of the incineration process.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

No carbon-neutral, cost-competitive and easy-to-integrate solution currently exists. Buildings & Construction Hyperion Robotics Oy, Finland, [link] Hyperion Robotics designs, engineers and manufactures sustainable concrete structures, helping clients save time, money and embodied carbon.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2022

DAC works by capturing CO2 in the air and then either sequestrating it or using it to manufacture carbon neutral fuel. Although we recognise there will be some emissions that we cannot reduce in the short-term, London Luton Airport is committed to achieving carbon neutrality in 2023 and net zero for airport operations by 2040.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The city of Kansas City, MO announced last week that it is committing to an all-electric fleet for new vehicle purchases as part of its’ pledge to reach climate neutral citywide by 2040. Electrification of our fleet is a necessary step to reach the city’s goal of carbon neutrality for municipal operations by 2030.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

Swedish performance EV firm Polestar has declared a “moonshot goal” to create “the first truly climate neutral car by 2030.”. The Polestar 0 project will aim to cut carbon emissions by changing the way that cars are made, says the firm, rather than using traditional processes and then planting trees to offset CO2e.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A report from NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) seems to strengthen the case against Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), currently a key ingredient of the UK government’s climate plan. Released on 13 October, the NRDC report summarises its latest investigation into BECCS.

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new solar array is part of Evergy’s plan to be carbon neutral by 2045. Combined, it is 50-percent carbon free. Evergy plans call for the retirement of nearly all remaining coal generating plants by 2040 with the addition of nearly 4,500MWs of renewable and zero-carbon emitting resources over the second decade of the plan.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

Projects include hydrogen-powered cornflake production and low-carbon Scottish whisky distillation. And one of Scotland’s oldest whisky makers, Annadale Distillery, seemingly takes a step towards a low-carbon future with the help of a £3.6 million to turn biomass and waste, such as sewage, into hydrogen with carbon capture.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012. To help businesses create their individual decarbonisation strategies, Siemens has published a new whitepaper suggesting a range of specific steps towards carbon neutrality. Shift to low-carbon heat.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Tata Steel UK has a declared ambition to reduce all CO2 emissions by 30% by 2030 and to be a CO2 neutral steelmaker by 2045 – in support of the UK’s ambition to be net-zero by 2050.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The city of Kansas City, MO wants to know how climate change is and will impact you and what actions the city should take now to become carbon neutral, equity focused and resilient by 2040. The post Tell Kansas City how to fight climate change appeared first on Greenability Magazine. In 2020, the K.C.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

This will include developing a Carbon Management Plan for the event and working with key suppliers to build a sustainable supply chain. The work will be led by a multidisciplinary team including carbon consultants, transport planners, waste experts and sustainable supply chain specialists located in Arup’s Glasgow and London offices.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

53% of emissions can be reduced, eliminated or captured through a combination of fuel switch, power sector decarbonisation and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS). Making Net Zero Concrete and Cement Possible appears to show, through its Net Zero scenario, how the sector can reach net zero GHG emissions and comply with a 1.5°C

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Despite popular belief, electrification does not always lead to a reduction in carbon footprint. It may seem counterintuitive, but when we convert transportation systems from fossil fuel energy sources to electric systems carbon emissions may actually indirectly increase, as fossil fuels often generate the electricity required.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

The construction industry’s introduction of initiatives to help improve carbon footprint and become carbon neutral by 2050, means that supply chains must support objectives concerning emissions and sustainability.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

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 atmosphere than it produces, and thereby securing “carbon negative” status. But campaign groups continue to insist that the maths behind biomass doesn’t add up.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

“Many carbon credits will be created through the protection of forestry.” ” By Mike Edwards, Chairman of Ora Technology PLC (Ora), a company focused on carbon trading, and attempting to facilitate the process of buying, selling, and retiring carbon credits in the voluntary carbon market (VCM).

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

Zero Carbon Farms runs a microgreens salad and herb growing operation in former WWII air-raid shelters in Central London. Through its sustainable growing and on-site packaging practices, and its supply to local retailers and restaurants, Zero Carbon Farms has exceeded its zero carbon footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

Removing barriers to green energy is vital because 80% of the borough’s carbon emissions come from buildings. With 4,000 listed buildings in Kensington and Chelsea, we’ll need more of these homes and businesses running on renewables if we are going to be carbon neutral by 2040.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

The new material exhibits 68% higher adsorption of Cs+ in acidic conditions than in neutral conditions, and ushers in the possibility of designing high-performance adsorbents. It does not release air pollutants and greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide as by-products. The team found that at pH 5.5

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

Toyota and Woven Planet are studying a number of pathways to carbon neutrality and consider hydrogen to be a promising solution with significant advantages. In the future, Toyota expects hydrogen will be generated with very low carbon emissions and used in a wider variety of applications.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2024

A Healthier Earth’s ForestFactory concept tackles these issues, using synthetic biology to deploy geo-specific and genetically diverse forests that sequester carbon from the atmosphere.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The report’s author and IEMA’s Policy and Engagement Lead, Nick Blyth, said: “We know from IEMA members’ experience that a range of carbon reduction measures are available and are being deployed. Good practice should continue to see carbon reduction targets addressed separately from compensation measures.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Zero Carbon Farms run a microgreens salad and herb growing operation in the most unusual of places, in former WWII air raid shelters in central London. Zero Carbon Farms use Aranet wireless sensors for multiple reasons: Easy installation and deployment – no hard wiring and simple pairing procedure to the router.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

A team of experts has launched a project in London’s borough of Greenwich to assess the feasibility of switching gas-heated, owner-occupied homes in high density areas to low carbon heating in the form of networked ground source heat pumps.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2020, including 13.2 million from burning biomass, according to environmental law charity ClientEarth – is sponsoring an event called “How Can the UK Build a Zero Carbon, Lower Cost Energy Future?” Drax – which emitted 19.4 at the Labour conference in Brighton on Monday.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

In absolute terms, China’s emissions will reduce by 70%, following a path close to meeting its target of carbon neutrality by 2060. From a position where, in 2023, China was responsible for a third of the world’s energy-related CO2 emissions, by 2050 that share will have reduced to a fifth.

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