What role can #hydrogen play in accelerating industrial #decarbonisation in Southeast Asia? That’s a question we tried to answer in a new report together with @AgoraEW as part of an ongoing series on hydrogen as a potential clean energy carrier. 1/x
A Virgin Atlantic passenger jet - with no cargo or paying passengers - crossed the Atlantic Ocean Tuesday (London-to-New York) using 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
“Engines in commercial use are not yet certified to fly on more than 50% SAF and the vast majority of flights blend in a much lower amount of SAF with traditional jet fuel.”
SAF is used cooking oil + waste animal fat + “synthetic aromatic kerosene made from waste corn.”
Lots missing from the @Reuters story about “sustainable” aviation fuels
“#SAF production undermines global goals of limiting warming to 1.5 °C; a conflict that is neither recognised in the roadmaps nor in the public debate.”
The EU’s Hydrogen Bank has begun operations and is offering €800 million to hydrogen producers to kickstart demand for the fuel crucial to industrial decarbonisation.
By 2030, Europe wants to produce 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen annually. To get companies to switch, Brussels is footing the difference between their ability to pay and the high prices charged by producers of clean-burning gas.
We might presume this has something to do with this year's global economic upheavals, but the problem is that the #environment doesn't work to a political economic schedule.
With #Cop28 shaping up as likely to give the #business sector a pretty easy ride, the global business sector's already week moves towards #netzero look like they'll weaken further!
Have we though? Typically I taken that saying to mean we've made some good process but all the easy work was done first. (albiet I typically use low and not long, as in I'd "pluck" that before getting to the harder stuff)
But we haven't made any progress have we ? We haven't even even really retatrded emissions growth. We can see this by examining the Keeling Curve. Everythibg we're doing is wrong and yet some still think if we jist keep doing the same thing the same way, we'll get a different result.
"I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address these problems. But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation, and we scientists don't know how to do that." - James Gustave Speth
"Any genuine transport solution will not involve electrifying the world's currently growing addiction to private motor vehicles but by finding ways to avoid the need for private motor vehicles"
"Cycling and walking provide a particularly clearly win-win situation, offering both mental and physical health benefits while also decarbonizing Urban transport"
In a statement of “first ever joint commitment for collective action”, #UK museum leaders said they felt a “responsibility to speak out about the #climate & #biodiversity crisis”.
They pledged to use their “collections, programmes and exhibitions to engage audiences with the #ClimateCrisis and inspire them to take positive action”; to manage collections sustainably; to develop & implement #decarbonisation plans; and to increase biodiversity in museums’ green spaces."
The EU economies are in for a troubling few years. The European Commission is forecasting growth of just 0.8% for the EU as a whole in 2023, and little more in 2024.
Not all countries are equally affected, though. As our calculations show, they perform differently on the five major challenges that are facing all European economies.
Which EU country is winning our economic pentathlon?
Swiss technology group ABB Ltd (SWX:ABBN) said today it will provide electrical engineering support for a 1-GW green hydrogen project in the Danish seaport
In a nutshell, they are instruments to 'short #sustainability' - Yes, betting on our own self-destruction.
The more the World fails to achieve its carbon reduction targets, the more valuable these useless credits will be... but they have ZERO effect in reducing the CO2 in the air.
So we will end up with an overheated and unlivable planet, humanity at the brink of extinction... and a big pile of money...
Pathetic.
Carbon credits are the brainchild of someone who when presented with a disaster about to happen, doesn't search for solutions, but ways of profiting from it.
I don't even want to think about the new universe of carbon credit derivatives, futures, swaps and crypto tokens that will be build around this empty concept.
We need actual ways of removing CO2 from the atmosphere, so the big bucks and brains should be going to those ideas instead.
No more time and money spent on moving CO2 from left to right for a fee. This does not help at all.
Energy company confirms its Agile Octopus tariff paid some customers £22 to use more energy over the weekend in response to renewables generation surge
Wider diffusion of business model innovations like these is a critical component of #decarbonisation
For a long time in Scotland, Labour been pretty much the same as the Tories. Labour supporters deny this and get annoyed so am sorry to burst such folk's bubble but here is it straight from your leader's mouth.
Labour as a socialist party is dead and the only question that remains is which party left wing Labour supporters will vote for now? #Socialism https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/labour-real-conservatives-keir-starmer-protect-way-life-2337576
ABB wins electrical engineering job for 1-GW green hydrogen site (renewablesnow.com) German
Swiss technology group ABB Ltd (SWX:ABBN) said today it will provide electrical engineering support for a 1-GW green hydrogen project in the Danish seaport