Iceland: Rebuilding Trust | Global Finance Magazine

On October 27, Global Finance conducted a Sub-custody Roundtable, moderated by publisher and editorial director Joseph Giarraputo. As of June 2021, the island nation met the FTSE Quality of Markets’ necessary criteria for attaining Secondary Emerging market status, with the minimum investable market capitalization and securities count requirements. “Even though external investors have been returning […]

Novel artificial leaf captures 100 times more carbon than other systems – Inceptive Mind

This novel artificial leaf works in the real world, unlike other carbon capture systems that could only work with carbon dioxide from pressurized tanks. The previous design proposed in 2019 consisted of a standard artificial photosynthesis unit that was encased in a transparent capsule made of a semi-permeable membrane of quaternary ammonium resin and filled […]

Tax credits for carbon capture projects will just encourage more carbon emissions – Toronto Star

On Jan. 19, more than 400 Canadian scientists and energy experts wrote to Chrystia Freeland, the federal finance minister, and two of her cabinet colleagues urging the Trudeau government to scrap a forthcoming tax credit designed to hasten CCUS development. The report found that since it went into production, in 2015, Quest has prevented about […]

RichQUACK to Launch Tokens Supporting an Incubated Project – CryptoNewsZ

The Earthling eco-project empowers individuals, businesses, and families to actively participate in the restoration of nature by buying carbon credits and helping in the elimination of carbon emissions. The carbon credits usage, which incentivizes individuals and companies to emit less carbon dioxide, is a great valuable asset used towards the goal for a greener environment […]

Carbon Trading 2.0 | Global Finance Magazine

On October 27, Global Finance conducted a Sub-custody Roundtable, moderated by publisher and editorial director Joseph Giarraputo. Early in November eight titans of 21st-century industry—including Amazon, Alphabet/Google, Microsoft and Netflix—formed the Business Alliance to Scale Climate Solutions, or BASCS. The same goes for a Delta Airlines flight from Paris to New York, oil that Shell […]

Researchers Find New Way to Kick-Start Process of Making of Carbon Fiber | NC State News

In the Journal of Applied Polymer Science, researchers reported results from an experiment where they added two biologically derived chemicals found in certain fruits into a precursor material for carbon fiber. Before they used the chemicals in the lab, researchers turned to computer modeling to get a preview of what would happen when they added […]

Market Issues to Track for 2022 – American Farm Bureau Federation

Rising prices, strong worldwide demand and more than $27.2 billion in government payments drove net farm income in the U.S. The pandemic continues as new variants emerge, constantly redefining the crisis and shifting the shape of supply and demand and its impact on the farm economy. In response to the pandemic and its economic fallout, […]

Crypto bubble: The hype machine behind a $70,000 carbon credit – Climate Home News

At the time, millions of credits from the same project were trading on the market for less than $20 each. To find answers, Climate Home News dived into a community of cryptocurrency investors, connecting on messaging apps Telegram and Discord. Since November 2021, SPE has sold 1,000 limited edition carbon credits as NFTs, from credits […]

Schlumberger Secures Work at Northern Lights Carbon Capture Project

The project comprises transportation, receipt, and permanent storage of CO2 in a reservoir in the northern North Sea, and will be open to third parties. “For CO2 transportation and storage, Schlumberger digital solutions are used for subsurface characterization and dynamic reservoir simulation, which are key to understanding storage site capacity and the potential for injecting […]