Sentences with phrase «for the carbon they capture in»

Brazil's Paiter Suruí have taken a giant step towards changing that by becoming the first indigenous people to prove their actions save the forest and earning the right to generate credits for the carbon they capture in trees.

12 November 2013 WARSAW Poland India has a Constitution; Germany has a Grundgesetz; and the Terrestrial Carbon Accounting world has its Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF)-- a 5,000 - page compendium of science - based rules for measuring, monitoring, and accounting for the carbon captured in forests, farms, and prairies.

The plan was to save their forest and earn offsets for the carbon captured in trees under a financing mechanism know as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), but REDD project standards require a «Free Prior and Informed Consent» (FPIC, pronounced «F - pic») by the local people, a measure that requires disclosure, discussion and agreement — a process involving far more than just a few meetings between community leaders and a project developer.

Not exact matches

The coal industry was interested in ensuring that the Paris deal provides a role for low - emission coal - fired power plants and financial support for carbon capture and storage technology, the officials said.

The Governments of Alberta and Canada announced today that a final funding formula had been reached for Shell's Quest project, a carbon capture and storage operation housed at Shell's Scotford Upgrader in Fort Saskatchewan.

While it's always interesting to know about the top runners, renewable energy companies in various growth stages will become more important as government funding for research and development related to energy efficient, emissions reduction and carbon capture decreases.

The fact that the funding model has been agreed upon is great news, since although I have been critical of Alberta's carbon capture and storage strategy in the past, I think that these pilots provide a crucial opportunity for technological advancement.

However, absent rapid deployment of carbon capture and storage, it is difficult to see how there is room for this level of emissions growth in pan-Canadian climate plan designed to meet the commitments in the Paris Agreement.

«Previous governments in Alberta and Ottawa offered to provide a subsidy of $ 779 milliontoward the $ 1.4 - billion price tag for TransAlta's proposed coal - fired carbon capture and storage project, but even with taxpayers shouldering more than half the cost, there wasn't a viable business case and the project was shelved.

It's essential to extend and expand tax incentives for carbon capture, update state laws to include CCUS technology in clean energy standards, and fund continued carbon capture RD&D, among other things, if we are going to reach our emissions - cutting goals.

Additionally, we also aggressively recycle our brewing byproduct — our spent grain and yeast is sent to local dairy farmers for use as animal feed or soil fertilizers and we've invested in carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery systems that allow us to capture and reuse CO2 for carbonation and other brewery related processes.

Mass Audubon promotes conservation of our forest resources, including old growth reserves, for wildlife habitat and public benefit and for the capture of carbon from the atmosphere in forest growth and soils.

There will also be proposals for a full carbon capture storage project, with legislation in the next session.

Decision not to allow any new coal - powered plants to be built in Britain without carbon capture represents a major victory for the new Department for Energy and Climate Change and green pressure groups

This series of new computer models is the first step toward the design of cheaper, more efficient amine chemicals for capturing carbon dioxide — and reducing harmful CO2 emissions — in industrial installations.

Research published in the International Journal of Decision Support Systems investigates the pros and cons, assesses the risks associated with carbon capture and provides a new framework for assessing the necessary technology.

FuelCell Energy is one of a handful of companies investigating how to address one of the biggest barriers in trying to capture carbon dioxide from coal plants for later storage underground, an unproved concept.

Dubbed carbon capture and storage (or carbon sequestration), such technology will be fully demonstrated for the first time near Mattoon in southeastern Illinois, the FutureGen Alliance (a public — private partnership to build a prototype clean - coal plant) announced.

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There is a lot of interest in the northern hemisphere in proposals to capture carbon dioxide and get rid of it somewhere — on the sea bed or in deep rock layers, for instance.

When combined with a separate, related sequestration project starting this fall on the same corn processing plant, the initiative will pump more industrially captured carbon dioxide underneath the earth for permanent storage in deep saline rock reservoirs than ever has been attempted in the United States.

The President's initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug - in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high - efficiency deployment of power across «smart grids,» and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.

While carbon capture technology is common, it can be expensive and, in most cases, requires extreme and precise conditions for the process to be successful.

To make this assessment, Sutton - Grier and her colleagues evaluated how effectively each ecosystem captures carbon dioxide — for example, by plants using it to build their branches and leaves — and how long the carbon is stored, either in plant tissues or in soils.

In his letter on ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), Graham Cox suggests it could be used to fertilise surface waters with nutrient - rich deep water to promote plankton growth for carbon capture (1 December, p 31).

For example, the deep sea is a key player in our planet's carbon cycle, capturing a substantial amount of human - emitted carbon which impacts both weather and climate.

A new federal tax credit for carbon capture utilization and sequestration, or CCUS in industry jargon, has prompted a surge of interest in the sector (Greenwire, March 12).

«We capture impurities» While Huaneng is leading the way in capturing carbon for coal - fired power plants, an industry that is traditionally tied with CCUS, the Chinese coal giant Shenhua is trying to adopt CCUS technology in a new sector: factories that produce chemicals out of coal.

«There is no incentive for capturing carbon in the United States, India, or China.

In the latest round of federal elections, the governing Labor Party promised to implement power plant emissions standards and carbon capture requirements for new coal - burning generators.

Chinese utility company Huaneng and U.S. company Duke Energy Corp. signed a cooperation agreement this year calling for a study to determine the feasibility of applying Huaneng's carbon capture process at Duke Energy's coal - fired power plant in Indiana.

In a greenhouse - like lab, carbon dioxide captured from a nearby coal - fired power plant flows into hundreds of tubes and becomes an essential food supply for microalgae.

She checked the historical records and in 2011 began surveying the Mara River annually, measuring the carbon, phosphorus, and nitrogen content of carcasses; counting the numbers of scavengers; testing water quality; and capturing fish for chemical analyses of the sources of their nutrients.

«These permeable silicone beads could be a «sliced - bread» breakthrough for CO2 capture — efficient, easy - to - handle, minimal waste, and cheap to make,» said Stuart Haszeldine, a professor of carbon capture and storage at the University of Edinburgh, who was not involved in the research.

Millet is a so - called C4 plant, which has a very efficient photosynthetic system for capturing carbon dioxide, whereas most other plants that grow in northern China are less efficient C3 plants.

To do this, facilities would have to incorporate carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in their construction, a promising but relatively new method of capturing CO2 and either storing it underground or using the gas for industrial purposes.

From the International Energy Agency to the United Nations — sanctioned Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), such carbon capture and storage (CCS), particularly for coal - fired power plants, has been identified as a technology critical to enabling deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

For the first time, carbon dioxide emissions from an electric power plant have been captured, pumped underground and solidified — the first step toward safe carbon capture and storage, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Science.

In a paper published in the journal Nanotechnology [«Static micro-array isolation, dynamic time series classification, capture and enumeration of spiked breast cancer cells in blood: the nanotube - CTC chip»], Panchapakesan's team, which includes graduate students Farhad Khosravi, the paper's lead author, and researchers at the University of Louisville and Thomas Jefferson University, describe a study in which antibodies specific for two markers of metastatic breast cancer, EpCam and Her2, were attached to the carbon nanotubes in the chiIn a paper published in the journal Nanotechnology [«Static micro-array isolation, dynamic time series classification, capture and enumeration of spiked breast cancer cells in blood: the nanotube - CTC chip»], Panchapakesan's team, which includes graduate students Farhad Khosravi, the paper's lead author, and researchers at the University of Louisville and Thomas Jefferson University, describe a study in which antibodies specific for two markers of metastatic breast cancer, EpCam and Her2, were attached to the carbon nanotubes in the chiin the journal Nanotechnology [«Static micro-array isolation, dynamic time series classification, capture and enumeration of spiked breast cancer cells in blood: the nanotube - CTC chip»], Panchapakesan's team, which includes graduate students Farhad Khosravi, the paper's lead author, and researchers at the University of Louisville and Thomas Jefferson University, describe a study in which antibodies specific for two markers of metastatic breast cancer, EpCam and Her2, were attached to the carbon nanotubes in the chiin blood: the nanotube - CTC chip»], Panchapakesan's team, which includes graduate students Farhad Khosravi, the paper's lead author, and researchers at the University of Louisville and Thomas Jefferson University, describe a study in which antibodies specific for two markers of metastatic breast cancer, EpCam and Her2, were attached to the carbon nanotubes in the chiin which antibodies specific for two markers of metastatic breast cancer, EpCam and Her2, were attached to the carbon nanotubes in the chiin the chip.

Long has been exploring MOFs as gas adsorbers for a decade, hoping to use them to capture carbon dioxide emitted from power plants or store hydrogen in hydrogen - fueled vehicles, or to catalyze gas reactions for industry.

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Scientists in Australia are trialling a carbon capture system that turns emissions into green building materials, while a consortium led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland says it has created a more economical and ecological carbon capture system for use at power plants.

The air extraction device, in which sorbents capture carbon dioxide molecules from free - flowing air and release those molecules as a pure stream of carbon dioxide for sequestration, has met a wide range of performance standards in the GRT research facility.

It shows that for this «plan B» to be on the table, we will need vigorous development, deployment and acceptance of technologies like sustainable biomass in conjunction with carbon capture and storage,» says IIASA Deputy Director Nebojsa Nakicenovic, a co-author on the paper and a co-chair of the GCP scientific steering committee.

Technologies for capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions hold tremendous promise for addressing climate change, but much work remains to ensure timely, cost - effective deployment in key markets such as the electric power industry.

Methods: One option for storing carbon dioxide is to capture the gas and inject it deep underground in porous rock formations.

This understanding will provide the foundation for new «catch - and - consume» approaches in which carbon dioxide is not only captured, but also converted into useful products such as fuels.

In 2006 CATF supported an evaluation on biochar research gaps and co-founded the International Biochar Initiative (IBI), which seeks to develop practical demonstrations and commercial development for capturing and storing carbon from a wide range of feedstocks, including wastes and manures.

Over the past 14 years, governments have announced a total of $ 24bn in funding commitments for carbon capture and storage projects, according to the Bloomberg New Energy Finance research firm.

It would further allow for greater use of biofuels, which combined with carbon capture and sequestration techniques could drastically reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere and keep global temperature increases to less than two degrees Centigrade in 2100.