upstream: Worley wins direct air capture engineering deal from Occidental in US Permian basin
„Green contract win comes as Australian company also reveals sharp decline in profits for the first half of the financial year.“
Monat: Februar 2021
The Guardian: Soil carbon: what role can it play in reducing Australias emissions?
„We break down the facts around one of the Coalition’s five priority areas in its ‘technology, not taxes’ response to the climate crisis.“
Blog: Robert Höglund: Net-zero today?
„Is trying to reach net-zero targets as fast as possible the most climate-effective approach?“
Call for Participation: AirMiners Boot-Up
„The Air Miners Boot-Up is designed to help you more deeply understand carbon removal approaches, learn about companies and organizations in the space, make new CDR friends, and figure out where you want to go next.“
Gagern, Antonius; Kapsenberg, Lydia (2021): Ocean Sequestration: Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
Gagern, Antonius; Kapsenberg, Lydia (2021): Ocean Sequestration: Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). A pre-reader for the January 27th funder meeting. climateworks.
„This report provides a detailed overview of several promising ocean-based approaches that may be able to achieve carbon removal at a multi-gigaton scale.“
Rueda, O.; et al. (2021): Negative-emissions technology portfolios to meet the 1.5 °C target
Rueda, O.; Mogollón, J. M.; Tukker, A.; Scherer, L. (2021): Negative-emissions technology portfolios to meet the 1.5 °C target. In Global Environmental Change, p. 102238. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102238.
„Here, we present a comprehensive framework, integrating NETs’ critical performance aspects of feasibility, effectiveness, and side impacts, to define the optimal technology mix within realistic outlooks.“
Grist: The First 100 – A climate tech agency takes shape
„Instead of funding energy innovations, ARPA-C would support new and potentially groundbreaking climate technologies — everything from capturing, removing, and storing carbon emissions to developing sustainable fuels for airplanes and ships.“
Reuters: Russias far east aims for unexpected climate target: net zero by 2025
„The Sakhalin region plans to move away from fossil fuels and pilot the first carbon market in an oil and gas-rich country widely seen as unambitious on climate action.“
Blog: Gernot Wagner: A tale of two carbon prices
„The Biden administration has opened up enormous opportunities to push forward an ambitious climate agenda by updating this one number: the social cost of carbon, or SCC.“
Forbes: Commercial Carbon Capture And Use Takes A Step Forward With Carbon Clean
„The US Department of Energy has awarded a grant to RTI International, CEMEX (a leading supplier of cement, concrete and aggregates), Carbon Clean and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to jointly work on development of a CO2 capture system and commercially viable carbon utilization solution.“