Politicians have waited so long to get serious about tackling rising global temperatures that preventing the most dangerous warming will likely require capturing carbon dioxide at source and removing already emitted carbon from the air. The US has a head start on CCUS and CDR in part because the country’s oil and gas industry has […]
The credits used come from two different offset projects; the first is a wind farm in northern China, initially developed under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism , the Hebei Guyuan County Dongxinying 199.5MW Wind Power Project, which is claiming credits for displacing coal in power generation. Using a high-integrity credit to offset an oil […]
The importance of hydrogen to get Europe to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 shone through in the European Commission’s ‘Fit for 55’ climate and energy package. Hydrogen advocates were enthusiastic. She cited how “fossil-based” hydrogen was excluded from certification under the EU renewable energy directive, but given support through continued free EU carbon credits […]