Greenhouse gas emissions
Resources technology roadmap builds on Australia’s competitive advantages
APPEA welcomes today’s launch of the Resources Technology & Critical Minerals Processing National Manufacturing roadmap, which is a key priority under the Federal Government’s $1.5 billion Modern Manufacturing Strategy. APPEA’s Chief Executive, Andrew McConville, a member of the industry-led taskforce that guided the development of the Resources Technology & Critical Minerals Processing roadmap, commended the …
What are the key technologies in the Coalition’s low emissions roadmap, and can they deliver? | Australia news
The Coalition government this week released its much-anticipated Low Emissions Technology Statement that targeted five different technologies for rapid development: clean hydrogen, energy storage, low-carbon materials (steel and aluminium), carbon capture and storage and soil carbon. The plan was immediately criticised by many experts for shunning proven renewable energy generation, but others were cautiously optimistic. …
The government’s sudden passion for climate technology is newfound and insincere | Simon Holmes a Court | Opinion
If you’re committed to the Paris agreement – to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below two degrees above pre-industrial levels, and pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees – then at a minimum, logically, scientifically, you’re committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. So far, at least 77 countries …
Government to take ‘technology over taxation’ approach to climate change | Environment
Scott Morrison has described a report he may adopt a technology investment target to avoid signing up to a commitment of zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as speculation, but confirmed his government will take a “technology over taxation” approach to climate change. On Tuesday, Morrison told reporters in Melbourne the report in the Australian …
‘We are a role model’: how James Shaw pushed New Zealand towards a zero-carbon future | World news
When James Shaw’s zero-carbon bill passed with bipartisan support in parliament on Thursday, New Zealand became one of the first countries in the world to enshrine its climate change targets in law. But for someone at the centre of a landmark piece of legislation, Shaw is a reluctant politician. Although the Green’s co-leader has been …
How Alberta’s oil and gas sector is using technology to fight climate change
As governments and economies across the world wrestle with how to tackle climate change, Alberta’s oil and gas sector is developing technology to help minimize greenhouse-gas emissions and lessen its environmental footprint. In early September, Suncor Energy announced it would be making a $1.4-billion investment to build a new power cogeneration plant just outside Fort …
Most of world’s biggest firms ‘unlikely’ to meet Paris climate targets | Environment
More than four fifths of the world’s largest companies are unlikely to meet the targets set out in the Paris climate agreement by 2050, according to fresh analysis of their climate disclosures. A study of almost 3,000 publicly listed companies found that just 18% have disclosed plans that are aligned with goals to limit rising …
Global climate strike: Greta Thunberg and school students lead climate crisis protest – live updates | Environment
8.41am EDT 08:41 Kate Connolly Numbers at Berlin‘s Klimastreik have reached 100,000, it has just been announced Carola Rackete, the SeaWatch Captain who was arrested in Italy several weeks ago addressed Berlin’s Klimastreik, to huge applause. She told them: We adults are responsible for the fact that the earth is dying….we should not be under …
UN launches drive to suck back carbon and reverse climate change | World news
A new effort to rally governments and corporations behind technologies that suck greenhouse gases from the atmosphere to help stave off disastrous global heating will be launched at the United Nations on Tuesday. The first annual Global Climate Restoration Forum, held in New York, aims to spur international support for emerging and sometimes controversial methods …
Low-carbon technology fund is tonic for Scottish gin maker | Environment
A craft distillery in Scotland could become the greenest gin and whisky producer in the world as part of the government’s plans to cut industrial climate emissions. The Orkney Distillery has secured a slice of the government’s £390m fund to help develop low-carbon technologies that could reduce carbon emissions from industry. It hopes to use …
