Science Never Sleeps, Green Hydrogen & Biochar Edition
Researchers are deploying biochar to boost energy efficiency and cut the cost of green hydrogen from water electrolysis.
Researchers are deploying biochar to boost energy efficiency and cut the cost of green hydrogen from water electrolysis.
Carbonfuture, the leading MRV Infrastructure provider for durable carbon removal, will host its second annual summit dedicated to carbon dioxide removal (CDR), in partnership with Reuters Events on June 13th in London. The invite-only summit aims to bring together industry leaders in the fast-growing approach to climate change. Panel discussions … [continued]
Reversing climate change and safeguarding your morning cup of coffee in a one-two punch? That’s what Cotierra, a Swiss-Colombian carbon removal and AgTech startup aim to do with the $1 million in pre-seed funding they just received from a consortium of environmental and climate-focused investors. The investment will support the … [continued]
China controls 90% of all the graphite used in lithium ion batteries in the world. CarbonScape thinks it has an answer.
Biochar is often overlooked as a means of sequestering carbon, but it is effective and inexpensive compared to many techno-fixes.
An interview with Hannes Junginger, CEO of Carbonfuture, on how to achieve a gigaton-scale carbon removal market Can you give a simple explanation of the Carbonfuture platform and who it is designed for? We provide carbon removal you can trust. The value of the carbon market is bottlenecked by verification. … [continued]
Carbonfuture has announced a new partnership with Swiss climate consultancy South Pole, with the goal of maximizing the scalability and efficiency of its global CDR projects. Carbonfuture is a fully digitized end-to-end carbon removal platform. Current customers include Microsoft, with the target of helping the tech conglomerate achieve its pledge … [continued]
This month it was announced that Microsoft had selected Carbonfuture to be an integral part of its carbon removal portfolio. This deal aims to support Microsoft’s ambitious climate pledge to become entirely carbon negative by 2030, and stands as yet another indicator of much-needed climate action. In terms of carbon … [continued]
In the realm of carbon sequestration in agriculture there are practical approaches like regenerative agriculture, including methods like biochar produced by pyrolysis of biomass in the absence of oxygen and returned to the soil, and overarching ideas like permaculture, which is an ethical framework that is used to design regenerative … [continued]
Made of Air, a Berlin based startup, has developed a new carbon negative thermoplastic. The material is developed using waste from forests and farms in the countryside surrounding Berlin. The material, also called Made of Air, is 90% carbon and stores two tonnes of CO2 for every tonne of plastic. … [continued]