Tag: carbon
“Navy advanced biofuels program will create 35,000 new jobs by 2020.”
Tweet Today on Twitter: MattMcGovern Navy advanced biofuels program will create 35,000 new jobs by 2020, many in rural areas. #gjgj2013 RWLWater ”The price of perfection” regarding food waste. Turn price of food waste into energy? #biofuels zixri_net Carbon Neutral Energy: Taking Biofuels to the Next Level OECD: What is the future of biotechnology? Is there more to [...]
Study shows carbon debt on arid biofuels production difficult to pay back
Tweet In Belgium, a new study led by researchers from the University of Leuven shows that converting arid or semi-arid land to biofuel crops such as biodiesel could be counter-productive to environmental goals. The study says that 30 years would be required to repay the carbon debt from jatropha production—if the yield reached 9 to [...]
GIC says Commodity-plus-carbon contract expected to launch in 2013
Tweet In Washington, GIC Group said that it has reached 60% completion in Stage 2 Proof of Concept with its CPC (Commodity Plus Carbon) futures contract and said that it expects to launch the project in Q3 2013. A CPC derivative contract is based on the underlying value of commodities that feature GHG reducing traits [...]
US land could provide 25 percent of advanced biofuels requirement without carbon debt, indirect land-use costs
Tweet In Washington, a study published in Nature found that successional herbaceous vegetation, once well established, could provide up to 5.55 billion gallons of ethanol towards the US Renewable Fuel Stadnard mandates. The researchers performed quantitative modelling of successional vegetation on marginal lands, constrained by the requirement that each modelled location be within 80 kilometres [...]
Canadian researchers land grant to improve carbon economic models
Tweet In Canada, researchers are developing economic models that aim to reduce the economic costs associated with implementing policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and encourage low-carbon innovation. “The idea is to try to develop some models regarding carbon policy that can tell a story from a sound academic basis rather than the extreme views on [...]
UK government mulls adding aviation emissions to national carbon targets
Tweet In the UK, Green AIr Online is reporting that the Committee on Climate Change has advised the UK government to include both aviation and marine emissions in the country’s overall 2050 carbon targets. In part, the new policy, the CCC contends, would add pressure on airlines to meet their self-imposed target of holding industry [...]
Cool Planet BioFuels wins California OK to fleet test green gasoline
Tweet In California, Cool Planet BioFuels announced today it has received approval from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to begin fleet-testing its negative carbon gasoline. Cool Planet BioFuel’s technology converts low-grade biomass such as grass and woodchips into high-grade fuel. This process also produces a byproduct, which can be used to sequester carbon and [...]
EEASC says EU double counting biofuels carbon savings
Tweet In the EU, the European Environment Agency Scientific Committee, according to a report in the International Herald Tribune, has issued an opinion that biofuels carbon savings should only be counted if they represent incremental savings over what would have been absorbed by existing cropland, forests and grasslands. The scientists said that the EU has [...]
EU: oilseed biofuels will miss carbon thresholds
Tweet In Belgium, the European Commission’s unpublished impact assessment on biofuels shows that biofuels produced from oilseeds will fail the minimum GHG thresholds no matter what ILUC factor is added as a way to counter indirect effects. By eliminating the use of oilseed-based biofuels, GHG savings could reach 70% by 2020 compared to 15% if [...]
CARBON CORNER: New Carbon Opportunities Coming to Market for Agriculture
Tweet by Dawson Williams and Rick Gilmore, GIC Group Despite a dim future for climate legislation at the national level, efforts at the regional level and among leading voluntary carbon schemes are opening new GHG reduction avenues for agriculture. The Climate Action Reserve (CAR), which was chartered by state legislation in California in 2001, has [...]
