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ECOS reviews proposed `Carbon Farming Initiative`

The CFI aims to enable Australian farmers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and generate tradeable carbon credits. The agricultural sector accounts for over a quarter of the nation’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions. It also offers significant opportunities for emissions reductions through tree conservation and planting, improved land management, and new technology. Challenges ...

May 12, 2011

By CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

`Carbon farm` project will study ways to capture atmospheric CO2

Imagine a new kind of farming in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta - 'carbon-capture' farming, which traps atmospheric carbon dioxide and rebuilds lost soils. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the University of California, Davis plan to make it happen. DWR has awarded USGS and UC Davis a three-year, $12.3 million research grant to take ...

Jul. 25, 2008

By U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Desert plantations could help capture carbon

Planting trees in coastal deserts could capture carbon dioxide, reduce harsh desert temperatures, boost rainfall, revitalise soils and produce cheap biofuels, say scientists. Large-scale plantations of the hardy jatropha tree, Jatropha curcas, could help sequester carbon dioxide through a process known as 'carbon farming', according to a study based on data gathered in Mexico and Oman that was ...

Aug. 26, 2013

By SciDev.Net

Airport Operators Association Awards Lightsource Best Environmental Initiative!

Our Crookedstone solar farm, which powers Belfast International Airport, scooped the award for Best Environmental Initiative at the Airport Operators Association awards last night. In order to win, Lightsource had to be nominated by Belfast International Airport into the AOA awards and both marketing teams worked closely together to produce the award entry. Judges were particularly impressed ...

Nov. 22, 2016

By Lightsource BP

America can learn from Australia’s new clean energy future package

Australia, one of world’s most carbon-intensive countries, recently began implementing a comprehensive national policy to address climate change and transition to a clean-energy economy. Yesterday, WRI had the pleasure of hosting Mark Dreyfus, Australian Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, who outlined his country’s plans to a group of business, ...

Sep. 27, 2012

By World Resources Institute WRI

Cypress Creek partners with Starbucks for building solar farms in US

Starbucks has separately invested in six solar farms of Cypress Creek in Texas, which represents a total of 50 megawatts of solar energy Cypress Creek Renewables, a solar power company, and Starbucks have reportedly announced a partnership to build solar farms across Texas, United States. Apparently, the partnership will also involve two of the existing farms operated by Cypress Creek supply ...

Apr. 17, 2019

By CMFE Research

Iberdrola Renewables Announces Additional Blue Creek Wind Farm Customer

Iberdrola Renewables announced Ohio State University, in its ongoing efforts to become a carbon-neutral campus, has purchased 50 megawatts (MW) from its Blue Creek Wind Farm, located in Van Wert and Paulding counties in Ohio. “This commitment to wind energy is a great example of Ohio State’s leadership in sustainability issues,” said Ron Sega, vice president and enterprise ...

Apr. 9, 2013

By Iberdrola

Minnesota Doubles Summer Biofuel Mandate for Diesel

On August 3, 2017, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton announced that the state will implement a new biodiesel standard in May 2018 that will increase the biodiesel blend mandate from 10 percent (B10) to 20 percent (B20) between April and September each year. Currently under the state’s biodiesel program, diesel fuel sold in Minnesota must contain at least 10 percent biodiesel during the summer ...

Aug. 11, 2017

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Vattenfall speeds up delivery of offshore wind power potential

Vattenfall, the owner of the second largest fleet of offshore wind farms in the world, joins the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator. Vattenfall has tied up a strategic collaboration with the Carbon Trust's £45m research, development and demonstration programme - Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), as part of their commitment to help drive down the cost of offshore wind power. Vattenfall, ...

Jan. 17, 2013

By Carbon Trust

Green mountain power-Shelburne farms solar project moves ahead

Green Mountain Power and Shelburne Farms are working together to build solar generation at Shelburne Farms. Under the terms of a 25-year cooperative agreement, Green Mountain Power will install a 770 solar panel array at Shelburne Farms. The panels will occupy three quarters of an acre in a field that Shelburne Farms has recently designated as a "Solar Orchard." Mary Powell, Green Mountain Power ...

Jul. 17, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Loeriesfontein wind farm turbine foundations amongst the world’s greenest

Loeriesfontein Wind Farm has announced that its wind turbine foundations are utilising one of the world’s lowest quantities of Portland cement in the concrete formulation. The foundations are designed using an 89% replacement of cement, resulting in, what we believe to be, one of the world’s lowest carbon footprints for any wind farm foundation; according to research scientist, and ...

Nov. 9, 2015

By Mainstream Renewable Power

UK should cut emissions by 60 percent

The UK Committee on Climate Change has recommended a carbon budget for 2023-27 for Britain and a target for a 60% cut in emissions by 2030 - halfway between now and 2050. The recommended target for 2030, to cut emissions by 60% relative to 1990 levels (46% relative to current levels), would then require a 62% emissions reduction from 2030 to meet the 2050 target in the Climate Change Act. It ...

Dec. 13, 2010

By GLOBE SERIES

EPA Finalizes 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards to Help Promote American Energy Independence, Reduce Carbon Pollution/EPA also announces steps to address concerns about the E10 blend wall

As part of an ongoing effort to enhance energy security and reduce carbon pollution, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized the 2013 percentage standards for four fuel categories that are part of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program established by Congress. Most of these fuels are produced by American farmers and growers domestically and help reduce the carbon ...

Aug. 6, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Is This the Future of Sustainable Energy?

Sustainable technology is becoming increasingly essential in today’s world. Finding ways to solve more than one problem at the same time is not only environmentally critical it can also be financially beneficial as well. As the principal by-product from incineration is heat, which in most cases just flows harmlessly out of the chimney and into the air. However hot air has many valuable ...

Sep. 22, 2017

By Addfield Environmental Systems Ltd.

IKEA to only use renewable electricity generated by its own wind turbines in Sweden

As a step towards using only energy from renewable sources in its global operations, IKEA Group is investing in a new wind farm with 30 wind turbines on Glötesvålen, a mountain in Härjedalen, Sweden. This is one of the largest investments to date in a wind power project in the Nordic countries and one of the largest land-based wind power project that work has started on so far in ...

Jun. 27, 2012

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Greensburg, Kansas` third anniversary of devastating tornado begins with green dedication of the Greensburg wind farm

On Friday, April 30, 2010 residents of Greensburg, Kansas will witness a milestone in the town's recovery and its effort to become 'the greenest town in America.' Greensburg Mayor Bob Dixon will accept a plaque on the steps of the newly rebuilt City Hall, officially recognizing the environmental benefits from the Greensburg Wind Farm and recognizing the thousands of business and individual ...

Apr. 28, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Big bucks from carbon sequestration - fact or fiction?

With carbon credits in the news and Australia developing policies to meet its Kyoto targets, many farmers are intrigued by soil carbon’s potential to not only boost soil productivity but put money in the bank by selling carbon credits. But just how realistic is that goal? Dr Jeff Baldock of CSIRO Land and Water, SA, will address this and other aspects of soil carbon in the Grains Research and ...

Mar. 6, 2009

By Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Green growth real and happening in Scotland

Chris Huhne will today put the spotlight on the economic benefits to Britain of investing in green energy in Scotland. This financial year renewable energy developers have announced plans in Scotland for £161.7m investment, with the potential to create over 400 jobs, as the nation begins to realise its huge economic potential and produce clean, home-grown energy. Speaking at an annual ...

Oct. 26, 2011

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Clarke Energy Joins The World Biogas Association

The World Biogas Association (WBA) was launched in November 2016 at the COP22 in Marrakech. The WBA is partnering ABDA for this year’s UK AD & Biogas Expo 2017 to carries out its’ mission to facilitate the adoption and growth of biogas and anaerobic digestion technologies worldwide. World Biogas Association The WBA aims to provide a global voice for the biogas industry by ...

Jul. 4, 2017

By Clarke Energy

Sequential cropping could unlock huge sustainable biogas potential

In a recent study for the Italian Biogas Consortium (CIB), Ecofys has found that agricultural crop yields can increase dramatically without negative environmental impacts if sequential cropping is introduced. In Europe, agricultural land is usually fallow during winter time. In a sequential cropping scheme, a winter cover crop is cultivated in addition to the usual summer crop. Ecofys assessed ...

Feb. 1, 2017

By Ecofys

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