Environment

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.

That’s the gloomy suggestion made in the Energy Institute’s latest Energy Barometer report, which surveyed more than 350 UK professionals from across the sector.

Some 75% of the emissions reductions necessary to meet net-zero are dependent on technologies which have not yet reached commercial maturity, new analysis from the International Energy Agency (IEA) has found. EURACTIV media partner, edie.net, reports. The Agency’s clean energy innovation report warns that net-zero targets, which now cover half …

German lawmakers have voted a roadmap for the coal-free era in the country, which includes abandoning nuclear power by 2022.

One of the direct impacts of gas flaring in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria is acid rain. The flared stack from associated gas in crude oil production emits huge deposits of toxins, which are a major cause of acid rain. There is now a consensus in our country’s science …

The work for the project is expected to be finalised by the end of 2023.

The East-Asian country plans to begin to shift away from thermal and nuclear power generation to a larger proportion of renewable energy.