Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a critical necessity for the oil and gas industry to meet the Paris Agreement’s commitments, but according to Wood Mackenzie, it will only become financially viable if firms collaborate to develop shared-CCS hubs.
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Australia/China – IRENA and the MEE of the People’s Republic of China have extended existing cooperation on energy transition.
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Sweden – The IKEA Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation are teaming up to create a $1 billion worldwide platform to combat climate change and energy poverty.
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Public opinion in the EU strongly supports more ambitious national climate targets, according to a new YouGov poll conducted in 12 European countries.
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Sweden – Vattenfall plans to seize the opportunities for creative and innovative solutions that climate change is providing. Vattenfall’s goal to enable fossil-free living within one generation means making its own energy mix 100 per cent fossil free. It aims to do this through large investments in fossil-free energy and phasing out fossil energy sources. […]
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United Kingdom – Floating solar farms could help to protect lakes and reservoirs from some of the harms of climate change, a new study from Lancaster University suggests. Scientists from Lancaster University and the University of Stirling have completed the first detailed modelling of the environmental effects of floating solar installations on bodies of water. […]
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Like aviation and land transport, also shipping must drastically reduce CO2 emissions. If it were up to the European Parliament, the maritime transport sector would have to produce at least forty percent fewer emissions annually by 2030. There will also be a special ‘Ocean Fund’ to make ships more energy efficient and to invest in […]
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Cefic identifies that an overhaul of the current legislative and policy framework is needed to meet the climate-neutrality challenge and the huge societal transformation that it requires. In March this year, the European Commission presented its proposal for the first EU-wide climate law. The law, once finalised, intends to enshrine the EU objective of climate […]
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