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EU Set to Ratify Paris Climate Accord

04.10.2016 - At an extraordinary summit in Brussels on Sept. 30, the EU’s Council of Ministers agreed to ratify the landmark Paris climate agreement. The European Parliament, which had urged...

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MEPs Urge Paris Climate Accord Ratification

21.09.2016 - The European Parliament (EP) should give its consent to the ratification of the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, members of the Environment Committee (ENVI) have urged in a...

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China Petchems Firms Plan CO2 Benchmarking

01.09.2016 - Chinese refiners and petrochemical producers plan to set up a system for benchmarking their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as the first step toward setting up an emissions market...

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AVA-CO2 Starts Phosphorus Recovery Pilot Plant

13.07.2016 - Swiss biotech company AVA-CO2 has commissioned a pilot plant in Karlsruhe, Germany, to demonstrate its cleanphos process that recovers phosphorus from sewage sludge. First results...

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CEFIC to Give Views on Europe’s ETS Reform

27.06.2016 - The European Parliament will hold an event on Jun. 28 to discuss and assess the impact of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) as it works towards gathering evidence to support the...

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Covestro Aims to Halve CO2 Emissions by 2025

03.05.2016 - Engineering plastics producer Covestro, the former Bayer MaterialScience, has announced plans to reduce its CO2 emissions by 50% against the 2005 level as part of its commitment to...

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China to Launch Carbon Trading Market by 2017

18.06.2015 - China is poised to start its national carbon-trading scheme in late 2016 or early 2017, as part of its strategy to promote green, low-carbon economic development, officials said at...

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CCS to be Commercialized at Grangemouth

17.04.2015 - The UK and Scottish governments plan to invest more than €5 million in engineering and feasibility studies for a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)-equipped coal gasification power...