Environment

The French government has launched a new Covid-19 recovery plan that includes €30 billion to invest in the energy transition. The top priority is the creation of a hydrogen economy, with €2 billion to be invested by the end of 2022 and €7.2 billion up to 2030. The money will …

Business and government representatives and researchers from Russia and Germany want to establish a bilateral cooperation on hydrogen, the German-Russian Resources Forum (DRRF) announced after a meeting on 28 August. “Germany was, is and will remain dependent on energy imports, and hydrogen will play a central role in energy and …

In April, carbon dioxide emissions from petroleum and coal consumption fell to their record low, according to a report.

Southall in Ealing, Cromwell Road in Kingston, Romford Road in Newham are the three most-diesel polluted locations, according to a new report.

Funding will be shared over three years by three laboratory-led research projects, which are focused on different major approaches to capturing carbon.

The chemical processes taking place in rocks deep in the Himalayan core are a signficant source of emissions, a new study finds.

Proposals are being sought to address issues related to changing emissions and exposure patterns and health impacts on groups of people most at risk.

Scientists from ExxonMobil, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a new material that could capture more than 90 percent of CO2 emitted from industrial sources, such as natural gas-fired power plants, using low-temperature steam, requiring less energy for the overall carbon capture process. Laboratory tests …

The process uses microbes to convert carbon dioxide emissions and turn them into high-value proteins.

The oil giant says this was achieved in less than five years of the plant’s operations and it is equivalent to the annual emissions from about 1.25m cars.