Carbon dioxide

Green News

How cutting traffic by a quarter could save 200 lives in Barcelona

From superblocks to port electrification plans, Barcelona’s traffic pollution is slowly improving.

25/03/2025

Europe News

Oil and gas majors demand massive public support for carbon capture

The clock is ticking on a legal deadline for the petroleum industry to deploy carbon capture and storage (CCS) infrastructure – a technology it has championed for decades – at an unprecedented scale by the end of the decade.

17/12/2024

Europe News

Green groups wary as EU bets on future carbon capture

As EU officials host a two-day summit on carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the south of France, environmental groups are questioning the underlying assumption that the technology is a viable way to keep billions of tonnes of planet-heating CO2 out of the atmosphere.

11/10/2024

Eco-Innovation

Scientists plan to add iron to the ocean to up carbon absorption

There has been public backlash against the controversial technique, known as ocean iron fertilisation, in the past.

17/09/2024

Green News

EU states lagging on carbon emission reductions, Commission tells MEP

Several member states still need to send their energy and climate plans to the European Commission, where strategies to slash emissions are laid out.

14/09/2024

Green News

Not just CO2: what are the greenhouse gases driving global warming?

Though it is the most well-known and second most abundant greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide is only one of the gases we need to tackle.

10/09/2024

Green News

European food banks boosted by Taylor Swift’s ‘substantial’ donations

The donations will fund hundreds of thousands of meals to help feed the growing number of Europeans and Americans grappling with rising food and housing costs.

26/08/2024

Green News

Germany is moving ahead with controversial carbon capture

Opponents say that carbon capture and storage is unproven and not as effective as reducing emissions by switching to renewables.

23/08/2024

Green News

Industry backers say Europe needs a carbon capture tsar

With real-world development lagging far behind the rhetoric of policy makers in Brussels, industry groups and big oil agree the EU needs a 'CCS tsar' to make the case for a climate solution that still attracts a lot of mistrust

15/05/2024

Eco-Innovation

Iceland: See inside the world’s biggest plant sucking CO2 from the air

Climeworks is harnessing Iceland’s geothermal power, while gearing up for megatonne capacity around the world.

09/05/2024

Eco-Innovation

How climate change is threatening one of Portugal’s best carbon sinks

For each kilogram of cork produced, the trees can capture 73 kg of CO2, according to Portugal's leading cork company.

28/04/2024

Green News

Scientists warn about rise of greenhouse gas 24,000x stronger than CO2

An electrifying China is largely behind the increase in emissions of SF6, which is used to insulate power lines.

07/04/2024

Green News

These 20 airports produced as much CO2 as 58 coal power stations

New research takes stock of the impact of passenger flights and, for the first time, air freight at 1,300 airports around the world.

28/02/2024

Green News

‘Time has run out’: Why is Germany planning to store carbon undersea?

Campaigners have criticised the underground carbon storage plan as 'expensive' and encumbering for future generations.

27/02/2024

Eco-Innovation

Carbon capture key to net-zero goal, but climate chief urges caution

A warning from the climate commission Wopke Hoekstra that carbon capture is no magical cure for global heating comes as new policies show the EU is banking on a huge and rapid deployment of the 'unproven' technology to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century.

07/02/2024

United Arab Emirates

Fossil fuels and adapting to climate are still sticking points at COP

Negotiators are urged to narrow down their options in order to agree on how to save the planet from disastrous levels of warming and help vulnerable societies adapt to weather extremes.

10/12/2023

Green News

Is the UAE’s blue ammonia really ‘low carbon’? Experts aren’t so sure

COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber promotes blue ammonia as a decarbonisation solution. We spoke to various experts who disagree.

02/12/2023

Ocean

Could Europe's coastal wetlands address our climate change concerns?

In partnership with the European Commission

From Ireland's salt marshes to the Netherlands' peatlands and Italy's underwater seagrass; Ocean investigates whether Europe's coasts could hold the answer to our carbon questions.

28/11/2023

Ocean

Interview: What makes salt marshes such effective carbon capturers?

In partnership with the European Commission

Ocean speaks with Dr Grace Cott from the University College Dublin's Blue Carbon group and Andrea Fuchs, an environmental scientist about why coastal wetlands are more effective than tropical forests when it comes to fighting climate change.

28/11/2023

Eco-Innovation

78% of carbon capture projects are used to boost oil production

Here's why carbon capture is no easy solution to climate change.

25/11/2023