International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has started global talks to bring about a consensus or aviation climate pact on reducing airline emissions. ICAO is United Nations specialized agency. It meets every three years. The airline sector, the same as the overall global economy, had suffered severely due to the pandemic. And now the global rise …
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Decades of intensive agriculture in Britain caused their arable soils to lose more than half of their carbon from the overall soil structure. Also, the country faces with downhill in the numbers of agricultural species. Thus, the revolution in growing food is a matter of life. Sustainable agriculture in growing food is a must. The …
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The U.S. Energy Department issued a plan to implement the government strategy for boosting the production and use of green airplane fuel, or SAF (sustainable aviation fuel). Exactly twelve months ago, the administration of U.S. president Joseph Biden announced that the government intends to provide a minimum of 3 billion gallons of SAF annually by …
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British power generator Drax signed an initial memorandum of understanding with U.S. carbon finance firm Respira International. Drax will sell approximately 2 million carbon removal credits from its proposed biomass projects in the United States. Drax has developed technology to capture and store emissions from its power plants. Its plants burn wood-based biomass pellets in …
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Vienna-based oil giant OMV has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Lufthansa Group in order to deliver more than 800,000 tons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from 2023 to 2030, OMV says in a press release. The businesses want to broaden their current relationship to incorporate new SAF production technologies, new SAF delivery …
Approximately 1.23 million tonnes of biodiesel and hydrotreated vegetable oil were used for blending in the first six months of this year, which represents an increase of 6.3% from the same time last year. Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft (eng. Agricultural Market Information Society) reports that during this time, the market for diesel climbed 1.6% to 15.15 million …
At least 10 airlines have signed contracts with California-based low-carbon biofuel company Aemetis, which will supply $7 billion worth of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD) to the airlines. This deal includes the contract with Cathay Pacific, amounting to 916 million gallons of blended SAF. Aemetis previously disclosed a deal for 450 million …
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Drax Biomass Inc, an energy company located in North Yorkshire, and Princeton Standard Pellet Corporation (PSPC) have agreed to buy a pellet factory in Princeton, British Columbia, The Business Desk reported. The facility, which has been in operation since 1995, is capable of producing 90,000 tonnes of wood pellets annually, mostly from sawmill waste. Drax …
In a move to commercially produce sustainable aviation fuels from leftover hemp biomass, Atlantic Biomass and Bionoid signed a Letter of Intent. The parties highlighted that this cooperation will enable the development of SAF and other bioproducts from harvests of leftover hemp biomass totaling up to 190,000 tons annually. The initial phase of this initiative …
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The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) won the first-ever “United Nations (UN) SIDS Partnership Award” in the environmentalist category in recognition of its essential support of sustainable development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The recognition of the Agency’s response to a call for action under the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (S.A.M.O.A) Pathway is …
