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Carbon Call: Microsoft, EY, and UN join global push for improved CO2 accounting

Business Green

Microsoft, EY, and the Corporate Leaders Group Europe are among 20 leading organisations which have today launched a joint drive to develop a universal carbon accounting system in a bid to improve the transparency and reliability of greenhouse gas emissions data.

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How Microsoft Plans To Eliminate All The Carbon It Ever Emitted

R-Squared Energy

to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they have emitted since they were founded. He added that energy demand is expected to continue growing, and thus there is a growing need to address the associated carbon emissions. ambitious goal and a detailed plan ?to

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Former GIB boss Shaun Kingsbury joins The Conduit Investment Advisors as CEO

Business Green

He currently sits on the Advisory Board of Envision Energy in Shanghai, a leading global producer of wind turbines and energy IoT systems, and chairs Sustainable Investment Management , a boutique finance firm focused on producing and financing sustainable agriculture and carbon offsets.

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Biomass Energy: Pros and Cons Explained

Hydrogen Fuel News

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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2022 Decarbon8 AgTech funding round open now

E8 Cleantech Angels

Agriculture accounts for about 20% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, including a major share of methane and nitrous oxide ( McKinsey ). Critical issues also include regenerative inputs, carbon emissions, productivity, water quality and scarcity, soil health, crop diversity, labour supply and food supply.

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#Greentown10: Celebrating Greentown Alums’ Climate Action

Greentown Labs

Here’s how Via Separations’ technology works as a “pasta strainer for carbon,” resulting in 90 percent lower energy costs. Kuva Systems offers a solution for the oil and gas industry to continuously monitor and quantify methane and VOC emissions with low-cost IoT cameras, providing actionable alerts with no false-positive readings.

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The case for raising up women in climate tech

GreenBiz

It got me thinking: Could we boost the carbon drawdown potential of clean technologies even further by supporting more women-led startups in the burgeoning climate-tech ecosystem? Carbon removal. Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels.

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