Day: 12 August 2022

Intel Achieves Net Positive Water in 3 Countries

Stuart Mitchell

Chip giant Intel have achieved net positive water use in 3 countries – they put he following om their website here: Intel’s operations in the United States, Costa Rica and India are officially net positive on water use. In those countries, Intel restores and returns more freshwater than it takes in. That may sound like creative accounting or a magic trick, but dig deeper and you’ll find Intel’s long-running commitment to conserve water and minimize its impact on the planet – one that goes beyond the bounds of Intel’s campuses…

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Climeworks becomes first supplier of long-term, technology-based carbon removal to Microsoft, as the companies sign a 10-year offtake agreement

Stuart Mitchell

In 2020, Microsoft announced its pioneering commitment to be carbon negative by 2030 and remove all of its historic CO2 emissions by 2050. One year later, Climeworks’ carbon dioxide removal was the only DAC solution selected by Microsoft for its first carbon removal portfolio, after successfully passing an extensive review process. Climeworks is proud to take its collaboration with Microsoft one step further by becoming its first long-term carbon removal supplier. The two companies signed a 10-year carbon removal offtake agreement, where Climeworks will permanently remove 10’000 tons of CO₂…

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Drax submits plans to build world’s largest carbon capture and storage project

Stuart Mitchell

Renewable energy company Drax has submitted plans to build the world’s largest carbon capture facility at its North Yorkshire power station. The company plans to invest £2bn in the 2020s in its plans to develop two bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) units, creating and supporting thousands of jobs in the North and enabling the UK to lead the world in a vital new technology needed to address the climate crisis. Work to build BECCS at Drax could start as soon as 2024 and once operational the two units…

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Imperial College London and Hitachi to launch a joint research centre for decarbonisation and natural climate solutions

Stuart Mitchell

Imperial College London (Imperial), Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Europe Ltd. (Hitachi) recently announced that they have signed an agreement to establish a joint research centre for decarbonisation and natural climate solutions. Together, they will collaborate in fundamental and applied research, addressing key challenges in decarbonisation and climate repair in order to achieve a Net Zero future. The new Centre, named the ‘Hitachi-Imperial Centre for Decarbonisation and Natural Climate Solutions’ will enable a fundamental and applied research programme to be established where Imperial and Hitachi will collaborate on selected research projects,…

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Cynozure’s ‘IMPACT’ initiative to provide pro-bono data expertise to not-for-profit organisations

Stuart Mitchell

Data consultancy Cynozure has created IMPACT, an initiative to support not-for-profit organisations access and benefit from expert advice, guidance and hands-on help to improve how they use data, and in turn improve the quality of service for the people they serve, be empowered to achieve organisational goals, and  ensure better outcomes for stakeholders. Through IMPACT, Cynozure will connect its community of data leaders and professionals with not-for-profit organisations to collaborate on data challenges – from shaping data strategy, to solving data management problems, to building dashboards and data science products.…

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