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US government unveils joint strategy to decarbonize all transport

Charged

Governments around the world are taking measures to accelerate the decarbonization of transport. However, too often these are piecemeal efforts that lack strategic vision and fail to address the entire transport ecosystem. Improve Efficiency by expanding public transportation and rail, and improving the efficiency of all vehicles.

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Carbontech is getting ready for its market moment

GreenBiz

Carbontech, a category of climate tech I’d love to see break through next year. It plans to supply Alaska Airlines with sustainable aviation fuel for the three most popular routes flown by its employees between Seattle and Silicon Valley, via a partnership with SkyNRG, which produces it from waste oil and agricultural residue.

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Revealed: How Car and Airline Advertising ‘Misleads’ the Public and Threatens Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

A DeSmog investigation, commissioned by Greenpeace Netherlands, analysed more than a thousand Facebook and Instagram adverts placed by ten well-known European transport brands in the last year. scenario for decarbonizing the transport sector, which requires a rapid scale-up of battery electric vehicles.

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 3)

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

CARB doubles down on LCFS Program and liquid transportation fuels. The program’s original target was to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuel used in California by 2020 at least 10% from a 2010 baseline. Transportation fuels sold in California with CIs higher than the benchmark generate deficits. By Joshua T.

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A fat load of good? Sourcing feedstocks for aviation biofuels looks not-so-simple

Envirotec Magazine

Are fats and oils the key to the aviation fuels of the future? Envirotec writes Many are betting on sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) as the pathway to meeting ambitious net zero targets in the sector, with 2040 and 2050 being oft-cited deadlines. Biodiesel production in the laboratory. What is SAF? Destined for a back seat?

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? Fueling carbon-free transport

Climate Tech VC

The Tank-up of Tomorrow Transportation accounts for ~16% of global GHG emissions , and while passenger vehicles have likely gone the way of EVs, cleaning up the remaining 55% of hard-to-decarbonize aviation, heavy ground transport, and maritime shipping is still—well, hard! Engines are optimized for fossil fuels.

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? High-flying fuels

Climate Tech VC

In 2022, aviation accounted for 2% of global CO2 emissions. There are two categories of solution: bio-SAFs which are derived from biomass and e-SAFs, also called power-to-liquid (PtL), which are derived from captured CO2, green hydrogen, and renewable energy.   But all this travel comes at a steep carbon cost.