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The first onshore Carbon Dioxide Removal project in the European Union was announced on Monday between carbon storage start-ups RepAir Carbon and C-Questra. The partnership will see the bloc’s first onshore Direct Air Capture and Storage (DACS) in France and could help Europe achieve its climate ambitions by removing carbon from the atmosphere. The Dutch carbon storage start-up C-Questra announced the partnership with the American carbon removal company RepAir Carbon, meaning carbon will be captured and stored. Current DAC solutions consume a lot of energy and can emit more CO2 than they captu...
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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — Civil society groups and communities most affected by the effects of climate change are calling on the Indonesian government to include them in the decision-making process of climate policies. Groups such as those representing the urban poor and the disabled say they haven’t been meaningfully involved in the process, particularly the drafting of Indonesia’s revised goals and commitments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Every country that has signed up to the Paris climate deal must submit a list of these commitments, known as...
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On the cusp of the Olympics, popular athleisure brand and official Team Canada outfitter Lulumon has been accused of greenwashing in France. Canadian environmental campaign group Stand.earth filed a legal complaint yesterday based on the retailer’s ‘Be Planet’ campaign, which it says contradicts the company’s climate record. This follows a similar legal complaint in Canada, and recent protests at Lululemon shops including at the company’s flagship Vancouver store. “We are asking French officials to investigate how Lululemon can claim to ‘Be Planet’ while creating more planet-harming emissions ...
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EU hopes of locking tremendous volumes of CO2 underground to mitigate climate change have hit another obstacle, with big emitters warning that prospective storage operators are demanding the greenhouse gas first be purified to a point where it ceases to be economically viable. The European Commission yesterday published fresh guidelines for the implementation of a CO2 Storage Directive dating back to 2009, but the trade association Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Europe has warned the EU executive has failed to address the issue of CO2 purity. Director Chris Davies said the law was essential ...
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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — Publicly funded multilateral development banks (MDBs) like the World Bank might finance a wave of “captive” coal expansion in climate-vulnerable countries vulnerable to climate change, which will speed up global warming. A new report reveals that the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), has indirectly financed at least one captive coal project on Indonesia’s Obi Island via its financial intermediary client, Hana Bank Indonesia. The IFC originally invested $5 million in 2007 to support Hana Bank Korea in establishing an In...
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The world's first hydrogen-powered commercial passenger ferry will start operating on San Francisco Bay as part of plans to phase out diesel-powered vessels and reduce planet-warming carbon emissions, California officials said Friday, demonstrating the ship. The 21-metre catamaran called the MV Sea Change will transport up to 75 passengers along the waterfront between Pier 41 and the downtown San Francisco ferry terminal starting 19 July, officials said. The service will be free for six months while it's being run as part of a pilot program. "The implications for this are huge because this isn...
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Last June, France formally introduced a ban on domestic short-haul flights in an effort to bring down carbon emissions. In theory, the regulation prohibits flights where a rail alternative under 2.5 hours exists. Critics at the time said it didn’t go quite far enough, targeting very few routes and not including connecting flights. The aviation industry has fought back claiming the regulation is unfair. So, just over a year after it was introduced, what impact has France’s short-haul domestic flight ban had so far? Has France’s domestic flight ban cut emissions?Before the ban’s introduction, th...
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Intense wildfires above the Arctic Circle this June have released megatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, according to EU scientists. Data from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) shows that a majority of the fires are burning in the Sakha Republic in Russia's Far North. These seasonal blazes are moving north as climate change causes temperatures to rise in the Arctic. They tear through tundra and boreal forests, releasing greenhouse gases from the carbon-rich soil. ‘The largest increase in extreme wildfires over the last two decades’The Sakha Republic has seen much higher te...
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Multinational carmaker Stellantis, owner of brands including Vauxhall, Citroen, and Peugeot, could halt car production in the UK unless the state budges on its current EV quotas. "Stellantis UK does not stop. Stellantis production in the UK could stop," said Maria Grazia Davino, the firm's UK managing director. Speaking at the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders' annual summit in London earlier this week, Davino said a decision would be made in "less than a year". The UK's emissions targets require UK car manufacturers to sell a minimum percentage of fully electric cars, amounting this ...
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Rebuilding Gaza after Israel’s bombardment will come at an environmental cost of 60 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, according to a new study. Israel’s unprecedented assault on Gaza since the Hamas attack of 7 October, which killed approximately 1,200 Israelis, has caused widescale death, displacement and destruction of infrastructure within the Palestinian territory. The first four months of conflict have caused $18.5 billion (€17.1 bn) damage to Gaza’s infrastructure according to the World Bank and UN, destroyed up to 66 per cent of buildings and half of the territory’s trees, and killed mo...
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