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The U.S. Will Cut Emissions In An Effort To Avoid ‘Climate Hell,’ Biden Says
Topline President Joe Biden addressed the United Nations Climate Change Conference Friday and said the U.S. will work to avoid a “climate hell” following a UN report indicating greenhouse gasses will ...
Our First Climate Targets- Why Kyoto’s Legacy Still Matters
Citizen activists in Kyoto, Japan hold up signs to celebrate the implementation of the Kyoto … [+] Protocol in 2005, 8 years after COP 3 in Kyoto. AFP via Getty Images This is the second article...
Global Carbon Emissions Showed No Signs Of Decline This Year, Scientists Warn
Topline Global carbon emissions continued to rise this year and have shown no signs of slowing down, the Global Carbon Project said Thursday, as world leaders push for new initiatives to halt climate ...
Elon Musk’s Personal Mouthpiece, Raging Arctic Wildfires—And A Simple Emissions Solution For Coal Plants
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images When you ...
How the UN’s Global Climate Conference First Started
The Rio Earth Summit established the UNFCCC and began the COP process. Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images This is the first article in a series exploring the global climate meetings, the Conference of the P...
Two Easy Wins, Three Challenges And A US$65 Trillion Bill
Prakash Sharma, Vice President, Multi-Commodity Research at Wood Mackenzie This year’s climate event comes at a time of uncertainty like no other. The pillars of the energy trilemma – affordability, s...
This Material Could Reduce CO2 From Coal Plants After Record Emissions Last Year, Study Finds
Topline Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) say that a material called aluminum formate could be used to scrub carbon dioxide from power plant smokestacks before i...
ESG And The Energy Workforce Of The Future
By Aparajita Datta, Gail Buttorff, Pablo Pinto and Ramanan Krishnamoorti BLACKSBURG, VA – APRIL 09: Mechanical Engineering students and Team Valor members (L-R) John … [+] Seminatore, Jame...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Will Rise 10% When They Urgently Need To Drop, U.N. Warns
Topline Global temperatures will increase by as much as 2.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the century under current conditions, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday, as scientists warn contin...
Emissions reductions pledges ‘nowhere near’ what’s needed, UN says
A boat photographed in Turkey. This year’s COP27 climate change summit will look to build on the work undertaken at COP26 in Glasgow. Temizyurek | E+ | Getty Images Countries are not doing enoug...
Galaxy Digital Revealed 68% Of Carbon Emissions From Bitcoin Mining Firms
Galaxy Digital, for the first time ever, conducted a sustainability report, revealing that 68% of carbon emissions are emitted from its bitcoin mining firms. In 2021, the company announced that Galaxy...
Daily ETH issuance drops 97% post-Merge, significantly cutting emissions
After its recent massive upgrade, which moved Ethereum (ETH) away from the Proof-of-Work (PoW) and into the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) validation protocol, validating transactions through staking, the netwo...
California’s Gasoline Price Blowout Is A Problem Of Its Own Making
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 18: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference … [+] at the California justice department on September 18, 2019 in Sacramento, Californ...
Ethereum Reduced its Emissions by 99%. But that 1%?
Crypto carbon: Investing in carbon offsetting projects, or by changing their business activities to adhere to the development of sustainable models, could make crypto even more sustainable, says Alexi...
Research Finds Bitcoin Mining Equates to 0.10% of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Mining Bitcoin News
According to a recent report published by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), bitcoin mining worldwide accounts for around 0.10% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or 48.35 mill...
Bitcoin accounted for 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2022, data finds
As more focus is put on the energy consumption and environmental effects of mining proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), a new study has found that the maiden token was responsib...
Ripple commits to zero carbon emissions by 2040
As Ripple’s legal battle against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rages on, the blockchain company is joining the efforts for a greener future, along with hundreds of other b...
Ripple joins over 370 businesses in committing to zero carbon emissions by 2040
As Ripple’s legal battle against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rages on, the blockchain company is joining the efforts for a greener future, along with hundreds of other b...
Ripple Labs Guarantees Zero Carbon Emissions
2 hours ago | 2 mins read Editors News Ripple Signed Climate Pledge on Tuesday. The Climate Pledge has now attracted over 300 businesses from 51 industries and 29 countries. As the US Securities and E...
A Way To Get Your EV Charged Under 10 Mins And Help Reduce Oil And Gas Emissions.
U.S. President George W. Bush (L) plugs a power cord into a Ford EV way back in 2007. Getty Images Why is this topic important to the oil and gas industry? The growth of electric vehicles (EVs) means ...
Amazon Will Power Trucks With ‘Electrofuel’ Diesel To Curb Carbon Emissions
Little room for error: An Amazon Prime truck driver attempts a turn in Los Angeles. AFP via Getty Images Amazon, with a massive fleet of tens of thousands of delivery vehicles, will begin using a new,...
The Merge To Proof-of-Stake Slashes Ethereum’s C02 Emissions by 99.99% Overnight: Crypto Sustainability Firm
A new Crypto Carbon Ratings Institute (CCRI) report says the successful Ethereum (ETH) blockchain merge brings the technology close to net-zero carbon emissions. The highly-anticipated Ethereum merge,...
Texas Is Primed To Be Our Nation’s Direct Air Capture Hub
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR NRG – The W. A. Parish power plant on Friday Sept. 5, 2014 in rural Fort Bend … [+] County, TX. Ground was broken today on the Petra...
White House Report Recommends Banning Bitcoin Mining to Slash GHG Emissions
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has released a report examining the connection between distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and climate change. The office determined t...
How Bitcoin Beats Wind And Solar In Reducing Emissions
The environmental impact of bitcoin mining has long been a topic of great debate in the community. Due to the amount of energy consumed by the high-powered computers that are required to solve complex...
Polygon: 99.1% of carbon emissions could be eradicated, thanks to…
Polygon [MATIC] had revealed earlier in April 2022 that it was working towards reducing the carbon emissions that emerge from its network. According to the company, achieving the goal of being carbon ...
Bitcoin projected to become first monetary system to hit net zero emissions by 2024
Bitcoin (BTC) continues to receive criticism regarding its carbon footprint impact as the asset records significant adoption in different jurisdictions. However, the situation might be changing, espec...
The World Won’t Get To Net Zero Emissions Without Nuclear Power
A construction worker works on the Phase II nuclear power plant at the LingAo nuclear power plant in … [+] Daya Bay, Guangdong province, China. The LingAo nuclear power plant is an excellent exa...
California’s Battery-Powered EVs Could Increase Emissions
Willow Creek Bridge, Big Sur highway in California. getty Come 2035, California residents will have to shop elsewhere for new gasoline powered vehicles. On August 25, the California Air Resources Boar...
California Sets the Pace on Zero Emissions. Car Makers, Old and New, Are Cheering.
Text size California is set to prohibit the sale of new gasoline-powered cars in the state by 2035. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California announced this week that it will ban sales of new gasoline-p...