Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A scientific paper published in the peer review Journal, Aquatic Conservation says that measures to address climate change and reach the Paris Agreement will not succeed unless the ocean is taken into account. It is also the largest carbon sink on Earth. The six proposals in the paper are: 1.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Using real world data from 2019, the paper sets out the opportunity for massively improving the climate benefits of recycling food waste to produce renewable energy and green fertiliser for farmers. This showcases the importance of anaerobic digestion (AD) as a vital player in addressing the Climate Emergency.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

Enhancing the ocean’s ability to remove CO2 from the atmosphere will be crucial in the fight against climate change, according to a new research paper, published on 21 December in the journal Joule. At present, around 25% of all CO2 emitted to the air is absorbed by the oceans.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2020

Several European countries who are considered leaders in climate protection owe their apparently good emission reductions to biomass. These might turn out to look quite different in the future, if carbon-accounting under the Emissions Trading System (ETS) were to be based on science and the real effects on climate.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, a group of 14 heads of government [3], ‘The expected impacts of climate change on the ocean economy’ assesses global to local climate impacts on three of the largest sources of ocean-based revenue and jobs – coral reef tourism, wild capture fisheries and marine aquaculture.

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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. Drax’s biomass supply chain is so highly emissive, that with or without CCS, it makes climate change worse.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos. billion (13.3

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The creation of biochar, a charcoal used as a soil amendment, from Japanese knotweed plant waste is a carbon negative process which harnesses the carbon-scavenging power of Japanese knotweed in a positive way and contributes to the fight against climate change by locking carbon away for thousands of years.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Drax power plant in North Yorkshire is the UK’s biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide emissions, and is fed by a constant supply of wood pellets shipped to the UK on enormous vessels, mostly form North America. Estonia, and Canada – and the UK–the world’s top importer of wood pellets for biomass energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

A seemingly first-of-a-kind project will support the decarbonisation of the UK’s largest waste-to-energy facility, while also contributing 3% of the UK Government’s 2035 target for negative emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To achieve this it will require an annual reduction in carbon intensity of 9.7%, according to the latest “Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI)” produced by professional services firm PwC. However, the rate of progress has slowed and the gap to meet climate targets is widening. If the UK is able to achieve the required 9.7%

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

UK energy-from-waste (Efw) operator enfinium has launched the UK’s first carbon capture pilot at an EfW site, the group announced on 16 September. The launch is described as a milestone for the sector and for the group’s plans to deploy Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology across its UK facilities to generate carbon removals at scale.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

For that project, greenhouse gas emissions were cited as the most significant factor for refusing permission in Ellesmere Port, with the Secretary of State stating that ‘every tonne of carbon contributes to climate change’. When it came to Dunsfold, the Secretary of State reached a different decision.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2021

We can now harness the carbon scavenging power of Japanese knotweed and other invasive plants, explains Nic Seal, Founder and MD of Environet, a UK specialist in the topic. From one tonne of knotweed rhizome (wet weight) we can create around 150-200kg of charcoal which is 99% pure carbon. Bagged biochar.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2024

Innovative farming methods will be used to help address the affects of climate change, in a new project announced on 21 March by Blenheim Estate. The group will be working in partnership with British climate tech firm A Healthier Earth on the ForestFactory concept.

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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

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. Any UK Government climate plan that relies on BECCS at Drax is extremely high-risk.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2023

The ocean will play a key role in efforts to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The use of so-called “negative emissions technologies” to enhance carbon sequestration and storage in the ocean is increasingly being discussed.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Randeep Somel explores an important issue pertaining to how climate targets will be reached. This November, world leaders, climate activists, and business executives have been gathering in Sharm El-Sheikh for COP27, the UN’s annual Climate Change Conference. Enabling solutions: Shrinking your digital carbon footprint.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Although the full conference agenda is yet to be released, the New Statesman magazine has published a list of firms that will be sponsoring its panel events. In May, former Green Party MP Caroline Lucas pulled out of the New Statesman’s energy and climate change conference over its sponsorship by the oil company Equinor.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

All the more so when a greenhouse gas—carbon dioxide—is used to power the process. Municipal wastewater treatment plants in large cities are insulated from the negative effects of climate change, and treated wastewater can serve as a potential water source, provided appropriate sustainable and cost-effective technologies are available.”.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” Peterson Academy will also offer a course from Michael Shermer, the editor-in-chief of Skeptic Magazine, on “critical thinking and scientific reasoning.”

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Those that can create artificial sinks with technological carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Labour Party has been accused of helping biomass energy giant Drax engage in “green spin” by holding a climate event at its upcoming conference sponsored by the North Yorkshire company. million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2020, including 13.2 Drax – which emitted 19.4 at the Labour conference in Brighton on Monday.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Launching a consultation on the agency’s flood strategy, she said: “We can’t win a war against water by building away climate change with infinitely high flood defences.” However, flood risk is now addressed on a wider catchment scale so that initiatives in one part of a catchment do not have negative effects further downstream.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Labour’s energy spokesperson has said he stands “completely” with biomass giant Drax, despite admitting that its use of wood pellets in its North Yorkshire power station is not carbon neutral. The speakers at the panel event, “How Can the UK Build a Zero Carbon, Lower Cost Energy Future?” Completely With Them’.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Another cause for optimism is that climate change and the potential for a green recovery have captured the attention of the general public, creating appetite for change like never before. million homes,” he said. Although this does not prevent objections to individual developments,” he adds.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 2, 2024

This contributes to climate change and negates some of the benefits of using natural gas, which has lower carbon emissions than coal or oil. Hydrogen extraction produces no direct carbon emissions and, under perfect conditions, would generate only water vapor when burned. 2021;192(1):11. Gaucher EC. 2020;16(1):8-9.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Amid increasing pressure from climate change and urbanisation, OTT’s UK Managing Director Nigel Grimsley explains the growing demand for monitoring technology that enables more effective water management. Flood risk is now addressed on a wider catchment scale so that upstream initiatives do not have negative effects further downstream.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Now is the time for real action to ensure societies stop wasting resources with all the related negative consequences. In many places, the pandemic helped to meet Paris Climate Agreement goals,” underlines Volker Rehrmann, Executive Vice President and Head of TOMRA Recycling/Mining & Circular Economy Division.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today, aquifers help to mitigate half of the losses in agriculture caused by drought, a phenomenon which is only expected to increase in the future due to climate change. Around 70 per cent of groundwater withdrawals are used for agriculture, oftentimes when there is not sufficient water from above-ground sources available.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

Kelp is also able to naturally remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mitigating rising temperatures and climate change. ” Minimizing its carbon footprint is another crucial mission for AKUA. As a comparison, this is the same amount of carbon created by just 300 cheeseburgers.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Population aging and economic development setbacks may outpace the health benefits of less air pollution and slowed climate change, according to a group examining air quality and the factors most likely to impact future premature deaths. Emerging markets like China and India contribute to?less

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Since no fossil fuels or other pollutant forms of energy are required, wind energy will provide your business with clean, low carbon energy. Since onshore turbines tend to be built on the top of hills, these can be seen as negative blights on some landscapes. The pros. • It is one of the cleanest forms of energy.

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