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June 30, 2022

Google Cloud to show users their carbon footprint in Gmail, Docs

Google Cloud has expanded its suite of tools to reveal the carbon footprint for its Workspace apps, which include Gmail and Docs, aiming to help its customers assess their environmental impact.
June 21, 2022

Zara presents a party dress made from recycled greenhouse gases

Spanish fast fashion brand Zara last week released a series of limited clothing collection and drew public attention with one pink dress sourcing in part from collected carbon emissions. The launch marks one of the company’s steps toward a more sustainabl
June 21, 2022

IATA launches online tool to help travelers calculate flight emissions

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) unveiled on Sunday the ‘IATA CO2 Connect’, an online service that provides airlines, travel agents, corporate organizations, and passengers with accurate carbon emission calculations.
May 30, 2022

Japan creates world’s fastest system to remove carbon dioxide from air

Tokyo Metropolitan University researchers have developed a new way to capture carbon emissions. The technology, using isophorone diamine (IPDA) in a “liquid-solid phase separation” system, can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with 99% efficiency.
April 15, 2022

Scientists use AI to speed up climate change mitigation

A group of scientists has developed a new AI-based technology that can help lock up greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in porous rock formations faster and more precisely than ever before.
March 21, 2022

Coffee grounds and hydrogen could be pathway to green steel

The Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) Center at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has recently published three research papers, showing that waste coffee grounds and hydrogen may be utilized to produce green steel.
March 17, 2022

Hemp rebar could be eco-friendly alternative to easily corroded steel

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in the United States have developed a hemp-based alternative to steel rebar. Researchers believe that the new option can avoid corrosion while reducing carbon emissions from construction, according to
March 07, 2022

UK’s new low carbon cements can cut carbon emissions by 4m tonnes per year

New low-carbon cements with up to 60% lower embodied CO2 emissions than Portland cement, the current market leader in the UK, have been created and tested thanks to Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator, a UK government-backed research program.
January 20, 2022

New CO2 conversion technology offers new route for carbon storage

As climate crisis worsens, reducing carbon dioxide emissions becomes the world’s primary task. Researchers at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, have developed a new method to instantly convert carbon dioxide into solid carbon that can be
January 14, 2022

Built of hemp, France’s Pierre Chevet sports hall may become a carbon sink

Located in Croissy-Beaubourg, France, the Pierre Chevet sports hall is made from hempcrete (a mix of hemp, lime, and water) blocks and has become the world’s very first carbon-negative public building.

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