By Reuters Staff
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Major energy companies are turning their carbon sequestration technologies and projects into business ventures, converting some efforts that help pump more oil and gas into profit-making ventures while burnishing their environmental reputations.
The efforts could help big greenhouse gas emitters reduce their carbon emissions intensity and move closer to Paris Agreement climate change targets. Energy giants view these efforts as balancing customer demands for more oil and gas while fitting in a lower-carbon energy world.
Carbon removal technologies will be necessary to limit the increase in planetary warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, the goal of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, the United Nations has said.
14 Mar 2021 - 8:45
Northwestern Qatar students Evghenia Scripinc (left) and Farina Amir
The Peninsula
Doha: Northwestern Qatar students have provided additional content on Wikipedia to give voice to underrepresented people and topics from the Global South. In a class on intercultural and international communication, the students submitted and edited English-language entries on cultural, social, and political topics related to the Global South.
Northwestern Qatar Professor Banu Akdenizli teaches the course and said that the project is “an attempt to decolonize Wikipedia” by contributing content on regions that have historically suffered from a lack of representation in academia, media, and the online world.
Gov. Ron DeSantis outlined the possible timetable for when every adult in the state could have access to the COVID-19 vaccine during a news conference from a church in Sebastian on Friday.Three thousand doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are being administered at Concordia Lutheran Church in Sebastian through Monday. No more appointments are available at this time.DeSantis held a news conference from the church on Friday afternoon, where he discussed what Floridians can expect moving forward.Click the Facebook video player below to watch the entire news conference:On Monday, everyone 60 and older will be eligible to receive the vaccine following Gov. DeSantis new executive order. “As the 60 plus get in, we’re looking forward to a lot of those folks being able to get the vaccine, said DeSantis. I think you’ll see hundreds of thousands of them over the next week who are going to be eligible will likely be able to get it. DeSantis also talked about the need for Flori
Tauranga company increases revenue 88 per cent and doubles staff numbers amid pandemic
12 Mar, 2021 11:53 PM
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Bluelab chief executive Greg Jarvis. Photo / File
Bay of Plenty Times
Covid has been the catalyst for an award-winning Tauranga company to seize global opportunities that have seen its revenue grow 88 per cent, staff numbers double and allowed a major expansion. Bluelab is no stranger to success but when Wuhan in China went into lockdown last year it forced the company into a make-or-break situation, as the manufacturer of one of their critical components was in the epicentre of the pandemic.
Award winning Tauranga company Bluelab is back in the spotlight as it seizes global opportunities. Photo / Supplied