Climate

High Quality Carbon Offsets — a Catalyst to Net-Zero

The lack of regulation in the voluntary carbon market has caused a proliferation of low-quality carbon credits, the purchase of which can lead to reputational damage as well as environmental and social harm. The startup hold.earth has set out to address this issue, focusing on high-quality credits acquisition.

In the area of tension between security of supply and climate protection

The world is experiencing a turning point in international economic and energy policy. A turning point that is accompanied by rising energy prices and disrupted supply chains and has a direct impact on global industrial production. At the same time, more and more manufacturing companies are making their contribution to combating climate change. In this area of tension, solutions need to be found quickly: politically, economically and especially technologically.

Vattenfall inaugurates new heat plant Carpe Futurum in Uppsala, Sweden

Vattenfall's new biofuel heat plant Carpe Futurum in Uppsala, Sweden, has now been inaugurated and taken into operation. The new plant will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 200,000 tonnes per year, compared with when peat and other fossil fuels were used. This will halve the climate footprint for the around 170,000 Uppsala residents who are connected to Vattenfall’s district heating grid in the city.

Perstorp and Project Air renew EU application for major green chemistry investment

Sweden’s leading chemistry group Perstorp, and partner companies Fortum and Uniper, today submitted an EUR 97 million application to the EU Innovation Fund for Project Air. This unique project aims to build a production facility for sustainable methanol in Stenungssund, Sweden, which could reduce global CO2 emissions by 400,000 tonnes, equivalent to approximately 1% of Sweden’s territorial emissions.

HP Accelerates Partner Sustainability Programing Centered on Climate Action, Human Rights and Digital Equity

Expands Amplify Impact program to more than 40 countries to connect business impact with purpose and values

Builds on >$3.5 billion in Sustainable Impact-related new sales by extending competitive edge to partners1
Enables >10,000 partners to drive meaningful impact for a more sustainable, equitable and just future
Recognizes partners via certification and annual awards program

Agmatix Launches a New Plant Nutrition Carbon Footprint Optimizer to Reach Crop Yields Targets with Lower Carbon Footprint

New simple solution that quantifies and shows the carbon footprint of nutritional plans and crop management practices, provided to ag-professionals using the Agmatix platform at field level
New feature added to Agmatix’ Data Technology Platform, leverages field trials and research data to calculate the environmental impact of individual crop nutritional plans, allowing ag-professionals to decrease carbon footprint

New Elkem project aims to eliminate CO2 emissions from silicon production

The Research Council of Norway has granted Elkem NOK 16 million to develop a new concept for silicon production where all direct CO2 emissions are eliminated. This may become a game changer for the global silicon industry. Silicon is a critical material for digital technologies and the green transition.