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Doubts about CCS
With industrial production estimated to be responsible for an ever greater proportion of global CO2 emissions, the International Energy Agency is advising that the world needs more than 3,000 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) plants by the year 2050.
Nick Otter, chief executive of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, is upbeat, telling the Financial [...]
Business matters: Trends
The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that manufacturing industry can improve its energy efficiency by an impressive 18 to 26%, while reducing the sector’s CO2 emissions by 19 to 32% based on proven technology.
If governments continue to make good on pledges to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy, and businesses maintain investments in climate [...]
Carbon capture and storage:
A necessary climate mitigation tool
Helge Lund, President and CEO of Statoil, illustrates the growing importance of new carbon capture and storage technologies.
Biofuels: a right to food perspective
Jean Ziegler, vice-chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2000-2008).
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Every five seconds a child below ten years of age dies from hunger. Every four minutes somebody loses his/her eye-sight from a lack of Vitamin A. Every day 25,000 people [...]
Bioenergy development in sub-Saharan Africa
Stephen Karekezi and John Kimani – AFREPREN/FWD (Energy, Environment, and Development Network for Africa), a non-governmental organization based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Recent high oil and coal prices, as well as an intensified debate about climate change, have led many analysts to suggest that modern bioenergy development could mitigate the negative impacts of unstable fossil fuel [...]
Why we need to green the global automotive industry
GARETH LEATHER suggests that emerging markets, rather than the developed world, will be the first to adopt environmentally friendly vehicles.
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