India historically contributed to 5% warming: UNEP

Current and historical emissions are highly unequally distributed globally, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Monday referring to India’s example. Per capita territorial GHG emissions vary significantly across countries. They are more than double the world average of 6.5 tons of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) in the Russian Federation and the United States of

Diana Shipping to get onboard CCS system

Ballast water management system specialist Ecochlor has signed a letter of intent with Greek bulker owner Diana Shipping and carbon capture and storage specialist Sinotech for the installation of a scrubber and CCS system onboard Diana Shipping’s 2014-built, 179,492 dwt capesize dry bulk carrier G.P. Zafirakis. This system is designed to capture 25% of the

GAIL does world’s first ship-to-ship LNG transfer

Top gas firm GAIL has done the world’s first ship-to-ship liquefied natural gas (LNG) transfer to save on shipping costs and cut emissions as the state-owned entity looks at innovative ways as a pivot to boost business, company officials said. GAIL has contracted 5.8 million tonnes per annum of LNG (natural gas super-cooled to liquid

NYK, CODELCO developing zero CO2 ammonia bulker

NYK Bulk & Project Carriers (NBP), Oshima Shipbuilding, and Sumitomo have signed a memorandum of understanding to study, design, and construct the world’s first ammonia dual fuel handymax bulk carrier that is claimed will reduce CO2 emissions to zero. This MoU comes a year after Chilean state-owned copper producer Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile

HLCP begins CO2 injection at North Dakota ethanol plant

Carbon dioxide (CO2) injection has begun at Harvestone Low Carbon Partners’ (HLCP’s) Blue Flint ethanol carbon capture and storage (CCS) project facility near Underwood, North Dakota. The site is believed to be the first of its kind in the US to begin actively capturing and injecting CO2 after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act,

New technology for converting CO2 to CO holds potential

A new energy-efficient carbon dioxide capture technology that converts carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide under electro catalytic conditions under ambient temperatures in the presence of water has been developed with potential for application in the steel sector. In efforts to support India’s goal for net-zero emissions by 2070, the DST-supported National Centre of Excellence in

Carbon budget for 1.5°C will run out in six years

If humanity wants to have a 50-50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, we can only emit 250 another gigatonnes (billion metric tonnes) of CO₂. This effectively gives the world just six years to get to net zero, according to calculations in new paper published in Nature Climate Change. The global level of emissions

Japan’s Mol, Germany’s Hy2gen tie up on e-methanol

Japanese ship operator Mitsui OSK Lines (Mol) and German hydrogen developer Hy2gen will work together to explore the use of e-methanol from Hy2gen’s Nautilus project in Lower Saxony, Germany. Mol’s agreement with Hy2gen Deutschland, Hy2gen’s wholly owned subsidiary, also involves exploring the use of e-methanol as a marine fuel in the Atlantic region. Hy2gen’s Nautilus

easyJet completes multi-million-pound tech installation to save 88,600 tons of CO2

easyJet has announced the completion of its fleetwide retrofit, which has seen Airbus’ Descent Profile Optimisation (DPO) state-of-the-art technology now fitted on all of its aircraft, alongside Continuous Descent Approach (CDA) for compatible, newer aircraft in the easyJet fleet. Descent Profile Optimisation (DPO) is a fuel-saving initiative which updates the Flight Management System (FMS) to

Vale, Petrobras to partner on the development of low-carbon solutions

Mining giant Vale signed a protocol of intent with Petrobras to develop low carbon solutions, taking advantage of the technical expertise of both companies and their synergies. The partnership is for a two-year period and will assess joint decarbonization opportunities, including the development of sustainable fuels—such as hydrogen, green methanol, biobunkers, green ammonia and renewable