03 Dec 2024
The UK has called for views on changes to its emissions trading system (ETS) that could see the shipping sector join its carbon market from 2026. Britain’s ETS is part of its wider efforts to meet climate targets and was launched in 2021 to replace its participation in the European Union’s ETS after it left […]
30 Oct 2024
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has offered advice on the level of the country’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the UK Government, at the request of Secretary of State for Energy, Ed Miliband. The CCC recommends that the UK’s NDC commits to reduce territorial greenhouse gas emissions by 81% from 1990 to 2035. This is based […]
24 Sep 2024
Small marine crustaceans, like Antarctic krill, are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, according to new research. The study reveals that krill store comparable amounts of carbon to ‘blue carbon’ habitats such as mangroves, saltmarshes, and seagrasses. Lead author Dr. Emma Cavan from Imperial College London said, […]
17 Sep 2024
The movement of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the surface of the ocean, where it is in active contact with the atmosphere, to the deep ocean, where it can be sequestered away for decades, centuries, or longer, depends on a number of seemingly small processes. One of these key microscale processes is the dietary preferences of […]
21 Aug 2024
UKWIR has published a new report ‘The greenhouse gas emissions of nature-based solutions for wastewater treatment’. Abstract: Using a systematic global literature review, factors were collated that increased or decreased emissions from methane, nitrous oxide and carbon from various typologies of constructed wetland, enhanced septic tank-nature-based solutions (NBS) and stabilisation ponds. Responses were gathered from water […]
31 Jul 2024
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has published four technical outputs as an early step in the process for the revision of the SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard. The SBTi announced the timeline and published the Terms of Reference for the review of the Corporate Net-Zero Standard in May 2024, ensuring that the Standard continues to […]
06 Jul 2024
Scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) and its commercial subsidiary PML Applications, have confirmed the viability, and potential scalability, of a novel “ocean” or “marine” carbon dioxide removal (oCDR or mCDR) technique designed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by enhancing the alkalinity of treated wastewater before it is discharged out at sea. In […]
26 Jun 2024
Reported in The Ecologist and elsewhere, the Supreme Court has ruled that environmental impact assessments should consider the climate impacts that would inevitably arise new projects, known as ‘Scope 3’ or ‘downstream’ emissions. The case was brought against Surrey County Council and its decision to grant planning permission for oil drilling at Horse Hill, near […]
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