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January 26, 2012
Advanced biofuels are set to become an important factor in the global economy and could replace more than 50% of the world's gasoline demand in 2030, according to a report by Bloomberg...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/Study-Biofuels-Could-Replace-50-percent-of-Gasoline-by-2030_40779.html January 26, 2012
The Asian Development Bank (ADB; Manila) says it will help China set up a pilot provincial emissions trading system that could pave the way for a national scheme and lower greenhouse...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/Pilot-Carbon-Emissions-Trading-System-Readied-in-China_40775.html January 25, 2012
Solvay has created Solvay Energy Services, a new business selling expertise within the group and to third parties to optimize energy costs and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Solvay...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/Solvay-Creates-Energy-Services-Business_40687.html January 19, 2012
The European Commission says it has launched an online public consultation on possible measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ships. All interested stakeholders can...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/European-Commission-Launches-Maritime-Emissions-Consultation_40592.html January 19, 2012
The Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills (BIS; London) says the U.K. government and an industry consortium have launched a hydrogen fueling study, dubbed UKH2Mobility...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/U-K-Launches-Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell-Electric-Vehicle-Study_40548.html January 16, 2012
Solvay and Air Liquide have entered into an agreement to create a global fluorine (F2) gas production joint venture. The business will make F2 onsite for manufacturers of flat...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/Solvay-and-Air-Liquide-Form-Global-Fluorine-Gas-JV_40457.html December 20, 2011
The European Commission says it has opened an antitrust investigation into agreements between Honeywell and DuPont for the development of a new refrigerant for air conditioning systems...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/EU-Launches-Antitrust-Investigation-of-Honeywell-and-DuPont-over-Car-Refrigerant_39898.html December 14, 2011
Canada’s environment minister Peter Kent has announced that the country is withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, the world’s only legally binding instrument set up in 1997...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/Canada-Withdraws-from-Kyoto-Protocol_39723.html December 12, 2011
No one gave it a cat’s chance in hell of succeeding, but COP 17, the United Nations climate change summit held in Durban, South Africa at its close yesterday delivered a partial...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/World-Agrees-Roadmap-for-Curbing-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions-China-and-U-S-Join-In_39693.html December 7, 2011
The Chinese government says that China will agree to participate in a legally binding treaty on climate change after 2020, on certain conditions. The conditions include new...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/China-Sets-Conditions-for-Binding-Climate-Change-Commitments-After-2020_39551.html December 6, 2011
Verdezyne (Carlsbad, CA), a renewables start-up backed by BP and DSM, has started pilot-scale manufacturing of biobased adipic acid. The company says the unit will allow it...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/Verdezyne-Starts-Adipic-Acid-Pilot-Plant_39546.html December 6, 2011
The European Commission has published plans to invest €80 billion ($108 billion) in research and innovation across the European Union between 2014 and 2020. Named Horizon 2020...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/EU-Unveils-$108-Billion-Research-and-Innovation-Program_39407.html December 6, 2011
The Chinese government says that the Chinese delegation to the climate change conference currently underway at Durban, South Africa is open to discussing binding emission cut for China...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/China-Agrees-to-Discuss-Binding-Emission-Cut-After-2020_39517.html November 29, 2011
The U.K. government says it will provide a reported £250 million ($390 million) in tax relief and compensation to energy intensive companies faced with higher costs from its...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/U-K-Government-Offers-Industry-Relief-on-Energy-Costs-and-R-and-D-update-2_39380.html November 29, 2011
Solvay is set to have the greatest exposure of more than a dozen leading chemical companies in the next phase of the European Union’s (EU) Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)-- due to...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/Solvay-Predicted-to-be-Most-Exposed-Financially-to-EU-Emissions-Trading_39263.html November 25, 2011
Solvay says it will acquire Société Générale's 50% stake in the companies' Orbeo joint venture. Orbeo will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Rhodia...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/Solvay-Takes-Control-of-Emission-Abatement-Firm_39344.html November 23, 2011
The Chinese government says it has issued a white paper yesterday, on its policies and actions to address climate change. The white paper, titled China's Policies and Actions for...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/China-Issues-White-Paper-on-Climate-Change-Approves-Emissions-Trading-Project_39262.html November 22, 2011
If European companies in the four highest emitting sectors of utilities, materials, energy and industrials - including chemicals - achieved their current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/EU-Companies-Require-Quantum-Leap-to-Decouple-Emissions-from-Economic-Growth_39239.html November 22, 2011
Novozymes says later today that it will open new R&D laboratories and customer solutions facilities for biofuel enzymes at its site in Araucária, Brazil. The facility has...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/Novozymes-Opens-Enzymes-R-and-D-Lab-in-Brazil_39236.html November 4, 2011
Huntsman increasingly is focusing its R&D activities on the development of products designed in response to challenges such as higher energy prices and scarcer water resources...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/climate_change/Huntsman-Intensifies-R-and-D-Focus-on-Sustainability_38823.html |
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