Canadian team one of two to win $20-million global tech competition yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WE ARE XPRIZE
In 2015, Carbon XPRIZE sponsors NRG and COSIA put up 20 rocks to jumpstart the carbontech economy and tackle global warming. The results are in, and they are thrilling.
In 1919, a hotelier announced a challenge that captured the worldâs imagination: He offered $25,000 to the first person who could fly non-stop from New York City to Paris. Over the next 8 years, nine entrepreneurial teams would spend $400,000 to make the impossible real, igniting public interest in flight and accelerating aviation technology in the process. Your fifth grade social studies teacher taught you the rest; a U.S. Air Mail pilot won the prize, and a lauded place in history.
Canada s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance and University of Calgary Celebrate Pioneering Wetland Reclamation Research streetinsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from streetinsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Group including Climate Action Network Canada executive director Catherine Abreu and Assembly of First Nations Yukon Regional Chief Kluane Adamek will be able to draw upon the resources of Environment and Climate Change Canada and other government departments to conduct emissions modelling or other analysis, and can be briefed by public servants on federal programs.
The Oil Industry Jumps On The Low Carbon Bandwagon
There are two main roads leading to a low-carbon future. The first involves decreasing our combustion of fossil fuels via conservation and a switch to renewable energy. The second is via the increased capture of carbon dioxide out of the air.
Big fossil fuel providers are not in the business of decreasing the use of their products, which is why it is unsurprising that oil giant ExxonMobil XOM -1.2% XOM -1.2% announced its plan to accelerate carbon capture and to invest $3 billion over the next five years to advance 20 new opportunities. In doing so, they unveiled an initial plan for how they can continue to operate their core business in a carbon constrained world. Theirs is just the latest in a series of responses from oil and gas companies starting to answer this crucial question.