100 days to COP26 and still no Roadmap from China or India and an underwhelming reaction to the recent one from Indonesia which pretty much sticks to existing targets Company news BP snaps up Open EnergiThe oil and gas giant announced today that Open Energi will join its BP Launchpad portfolio of start-up and scale-up … Read More
“Perfect is the enemy of good” was a quote attributed to Voltaire. Maybe he was dreaming of the Chinese ETS when he said it. UK news 40 waste-to-hydrogen refuelling stations planned for the UKElement 2 and Ways2H have joined forces to deliver as many as 40 waste-to-hydrogen refuelling stations in the UK as part of … Read More
One has to admire the Climate Change Committee. They are not afraid to apply a cattle prod to the posterior of this lackadaisical government Company news Drax joins with Bechtel to seek bioenergy CCS projectsDrax has joined with engineering, construction and project management company Bechtel to identify opportunities to construct new ‘bioenergy with carbon capture … Read More
Good to see that the Electric Highway has been put out of its misery. A prime example of how being the first into a market does not guarantee that you are a winner Company news Drax and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries sign negative emissions project dealDrax Group and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, part of Mitsubishi Heavy … Read More
Regular readers will know the exasperation that each successive report from the IEA generates. Every year they have to upgrade their forecasts for renewables sales and downgrade the costs. Imagine our surprise when they finally stop playing catch-up and publish their Net-Zero roadmap (see below). Do not underestimate the significance of this. Despite their failings … Read More
We have all heard that the recovery from the pandemic will be a great opportunity to “build back greener”. Governments all over the world have proclaimed this as a silver lining to the misery of the last 18 months, but which countries are actually delivering on this promise? This chart from the Oxford Global Recovery … Read More
The Trump years created such an air of despondency within the environmental industries that we felt that it would take years to recover the lost ground. Team Biden seem to be doing a great job of helping lift the gloom by moving quickly to reverse the harmful legislation and doing so with a purpose. Company … Read More
This week has been dominated by politics, so it is with Titbits, although we have tried to keep it light and bite-sized. Our prime minister seemed to do likewise at the Biden Summit, where I suspect he will be remembered for coining the new enviro badge of honour: I am a Bunny Hugger. Greta has … Read More
In the week that us Brits are allowed out more, it seems fitting to devote more space to the natural world, water, forestry, seagrass and even bison. On the water story, chapeau to Frazer Solar for designing a brilliant solution to solve a serious problem and to execute it really quickly (see below) Company news … Read More
I seem to have run into a lot of sea related news this week, possibly driven by the controversial documentary on Netflix called Seaspiracy. I haven’t seen it yet but it has stirred up strong emotions. George Monbiot and others have praised it for pointing the finger towards the real mass killers of the sea, … Read More