The agreement reached at COP28 was, in some ways, a milestone, in that for the first time for nearly 30 years, specific mention of fossil fuels has been made.
The COP28 talks have been the first to directly mention fossil fuel usage in a global climate agreement. However, countries have been wrangling over the text of this agreement.
Innovation funding is the crucial missing piece of the puzzle needed to start driving clean energy technologies forward at the pace required.
By Andrew Keen, Head of Content, Energy & Resources, Industrials at Edison Group
A new report from Carbon Brief suggests that China’s carbon emissions will decrease in 2024 due to a significant increase in clean power generation.
Research by the energy think tank Ember indicates that around half of the world’s economies have already passed their peak in power generation from fossil fuels.
Calpine has opened a carbon capture demonstration pilot project at its 500 MW Los Medanos Energy Centre CCGT in Pittsburg, California, USA.
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business and Northern Lights, a Norwegian company developing infrastructure for cross-border CO2 transport and storage in Europe, have signed an MOU to enable development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions.
Pham Minh Chinh, Prime Minister of Vietnam, has approved a $134.7 billion power plan for this decade for new power plants and grid networks.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed new air pollution regulations to reduce carbon emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to adopt requirements for gas-fired power generators to capture the CO2 emissions of their facilities, according to a report in Reuters.