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I am grateful to have met and learned from people who experience on a daily basis the devastation wrought by fossilfuel production and fossilfuel-driven climate change—and who are now campaigning for a fossil-free Niger Delta. COP29 is a key moment for climate finance.
Carbondioxide and methane (a short-lived but extremely powerful global warming gas) are emitted during the extraction, processing, storage, transportation and combustion of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum fuels used by our vehicles. Despite its emission reduction potential, this technology comes with caveats.
Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossilfuel phaseout to meet climate goals. The industry is pushing a narrative that misleadingly calls out emissions , not fossilfuels as the problem. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019.
This year has brought new evidence of what major fossilfuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. But these technologies are no substitute for sharp cuts in fossilfuels if we keep the goals of the Paris climate agreement within reach.
Yet, driven by vested interests in the fossilfuel industry , misleading narratives aim to distort and hinder meaningful climate commitments. Fossilfuels are the problem It’s pretty simple: the burning of fossilfuels is the main driver of climate change. billion tons of the 40.5
Production and combustion of fossilfuels imposes enormous costs on society, which the industry doesn’t pay for. One option, a tax on carbondioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. A more promising alternative might be a clean-up tax on the fossilfuel industry.
The decision at the Glasgow climate conference to phase down fossilfuels is an important step forward — and not just because of climate change. We think of fossilfuels as a source of climate change, but that’s only a one part of the problem. Fossilfuels are a case in point. Consider coal.
Fossilfuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.
And fossilfuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbondioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data.
The main objectives included: Approving and adopting outlines for the three major working group reports and an additional methodology report on carbondioxide removal (CDR). This debate is not just technicalit is deeply tied to ethics, governance, and the role of the IPCC in assessing emerging technologies.
The main objectives included: Approving and adopting outlines for the three major working group reports and an additional methodology report on carbondioxide removal (CDR). This debate is not just technicalit is deeply tied to ethics, governance, and the role of the IPCC in assessing emerging technologies.
A word about CCS : this technology has existed for decades but is only used at a handful of fossil energy facilities. C to 2°C,” and, “Implementation of CCS currently faces technological, economic, institutional, ecological-environmental, and socio-cultural barriers.” Who needs units anyway?
Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossilfuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of
A transition to 100 percent renewable energy is about more than just technology. The shift from fossilfuels in the 100% RES scenario reduces the amount of harmful air pollution from power plants much more than in our “No New Policy”/business-as-usual scenario. by 2035 is needed. And our modeling shows renewables’ power.
utilities have been slower to adopt the energy- and emissions-saving technologies than those in other parts of the world. Despite the economic advantages of these technologies and their potential environmental benefits, U.S. Despite the economic advantages of these technologies and their potential environmental benefits, U.S.
The shift from fossilfuels in the 100-percent RES scenario reduces the amount of toxic power plant air pollution much more than what we called a “no-new-policy,” or business-as-usual, scenario. Emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants in alliance states drop 88 percent and 77 percent respectively by 2040.
Because one of Pennsylvania’s two hubs, ARCH2, is also proposing to be heavily reliant on fossilfuel-based hydrogen production projects, I also detailed the serious risks of policymakers propping up such an approach. Here are three critical flags with pursuing a fossil-based “clean” hydrogen future.
In fact, in 1938 Sir George Simpson, a leading meteorologist, dismissed the link between rising carbon-dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration and temperature as “ rather a coincidence ”. Then in 1896, preliminary calculations by Arrhenius hinted that humanity’s burning of fossilfuels could raise CO 2 levels and warm our planet.
With an outsized credit for the lowest-carbon tier, the incentive’s aim is clear: Drive deployment of hydrogen production technologies that will be needed by, and aligned with , the nation’s overall clean energy transition. How do biomethane, lifecycle carbon accounting, and the tax credit interact?
However, make no mistake: Technological advancement did not create the production boom by itself. Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossilfuel industry players would want you to believe. Don’t believe the industry spin.
That requires bringing global energy-related carbondioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. Meanwhile, annual reports show corporations are pushing ahead with plans to expand production, betting on new technologies to somehow make it all okay in the future. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
But while the scoping plan talks a lot about the low carbontechnologies we need, it also should be clearer about the implications for the technologies we are leaving behind, so everyone can plan for what comes next. What is a petroleum phaseout plan and why does California need one?
Each credit one metric ton of carbondioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low CarbonFuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.
Assessments by the IPCC have made clear that the most feasible way for the world to meet its target of restricting climate change to below two degrees Celsius of warming includes rapid and massive expansion of carbon removal technology – technology that would extract carbondioxide and permanently sequester that carbondioxide underground.
Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbondioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. Its primary component is methane.
by Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University Two centuries of burning fossilfuels has put more carbondioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere than nature can remove. As that CO2 builds up, it traps excess heat near Earth’s surface, causing global warming.
While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossilfuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossilfuels” in the final decision document.
An equitable and people-centered transition of this nature will require changes that go beyond the necessary technological shifts and must focus on overcoming significant social, institutional, and behavioral barriers. In other words, technological solutions are necessary but not sufficient. How do we make this transformation happen?
by Kevin Trenberth, University of Auckland When politicians talk about reaching “net zero” emissions, they’re often counting on trees or technology that can pull carbondioxide out of the air. There are … Continue reading How not to solve the climate change problem.
In his 1874 novel, The Mysterious Island , Jules Verne wrote that “water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.” kg of carbondioxide emissions.
CCS is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle that doesn’t come close to the hype, has significant safety risks, and is a substantial distraction from real climate solutions, such as building more renewable energy, increasing electricity transmission infrastructure, and developing and using storage technology. Want proof?
In this blog, we’ll take a look at the technologies that are being sold as climate saviours when their real objective is to prolong the life of the polluting fossilfuels which are driving climate change: carbon capture, offsets and ‘blue’ hydrogen. Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute .
This event offers a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements, strategies, and solutions in carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in thought-provoking discussions and network with professionals working in the carbon capture space.
It is a highly professional and analytically competent organization, rather conservative, and quite sympathetic to the perspectives and business needs of the energy sector, including fossil-fuel producers. Not this time. Compared to IEA’s regular reports, this study reversed the logic.
But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. But for many of these use-cases, hydrogen doesn’t do the job particularly well, at least as compared to existing technology.
CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. at 528–529. Post, at 20. We answered no, given the existence of Section 111(d). American Elec.
The Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold an informational meeting September 19 on carbon capture technology and related legislation. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Majority Chair of the Committee, announced his intention to introduce legislation to promote carbon capture, utilization and sequestration.
One strategy is to counterbalance carbondioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees. By Department of Conservation & Natural Resources Efforts to slow or stop global warming involve many strategies working together.
Environmental justice advocates have long opposed efforts to build carbon capture infrastructure in marginalized communities. Fossilfuel power plants might linger, their life span extended by a technology that captures carbondioxide but not smog and soot. Their worries are manifold. Pipelines could burst.
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volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbondioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone. Fluorocarbons Carbon-fluorine compounds that often contain other elements such as hydrogen, chlorine, or bromine.
The Better Path Coalition and the PA Climate Convergent Network are hosting an April 26 webinar on No Miracles Needed - How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate, Clean Our Air from Noon to 1:00 p.m. We still have time to save the planet without resorting to 'miracle' technologies.
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