Businesses, governments, NGOs, and private sector individuals continue to voluntarily seek ways to offset their carbon emissions by purchasing carbon credits for a more climate secure world. But figuring out how best to calculate the amount of carbon pulled out of the atmosphere and how to make CO2 removal scalable are two pain points looking to technology for solutions.
A team of Israeli entrepreneurs and scientists says their mix of AI, remote sensing, and image processing offers a hardware-free way to monitor the carbon dioxide removed by plants and soil.
Jacques Amselem, co-founder and CTO at Albo Systems explains that carbon sequestration is a process to capture and store atmospheric carbon dioxide as one way to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and, using photosynthesis, converted to organic carbon.
Huge shortfall in financing for climate adaptation measures means global efforts to tackle the climate crisis are akin to 'going into battle blindfolded with one hand tied behind our backs', UN warns
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IMAGE: Shell Scientist Christian A. Davies, Ph.D., has been named the recipient of the 2021 Edith and Peter O Donnell Award in Technology Innovation from TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and. view more
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HOUSTON - Shell Scientist Christian A. Davies, Ph.D., has been named the recipient of the 2021 Edith and Peter O Donnell Award in Technology Innovation from TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas). He was chosen for his development of a broad suite of alternative carbon management technologies to reduce emissions for a lower carbon future.
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Big Oil Is Getting Serious About Carbon Capture By Irina Slav - Jan 07, 2021, 3:00 PM CST
Five years ago, a handful of oil majors launched what they called the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative with the stated aim of accelerating the energy industry s response to climate change. One of the ways to do that was carbon capture, storage, and potential reuse. Now, five years later, Big Oil has little to show for it. Yet it is starting to take carbon capture seriously.
In December last year, BP said it had acquired a majority stake in the largest carbon offset project developer, Finite Carbon. The company, according to the supermajor, develops projects that enable landowners to generate revenue from the protection, restoration, and sustainable management of forests. The acquisition will help Finite Carbon expand internationally, targeting landowner revenues of $1 billion by 2030.
2020 has been a year of nature-based solutions.
So what awaits us in 2021?
NbS must empower the indigenous and local people and engage them in their design and implementation, and must not be enforced from outside. Photo:Philip Gain
In 2020, Nature-based Solutions, or NbS, has emerged as a much-talked-about environmental concept in Bangladesh. While the Covid-19 pandemic has put the whole world in turmoil, we do have other challenges to tackle climate emergency, disaster risks, food and water insecurities, extreme poverty, and unprecedented biodiversity loss. In simple terms, NbS are the actions we take with the help of nature to overcome these societal challenges.