Health vs climate? How an EU chemical ban could hinder the energy transition
The European chemicals industry has gone into a near-panic about a draft proposal presented in February to the European Chemicals…
Chemicals
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Good news: ozone treaty delays ice-free Arctic by 15 years
The 1987 Montreal Protocol has delayed the first ice-free Arctic summer – a major milestone for climate change – by…
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Energy-slashing ‘universal sieving’ technology awarded $5.5m
UniSieve, a Swiss cleantech firm, has raised $5.5m in a seed funding round aimed at expanding its membrane-based separation technology,…
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Weekly data: how ambitious is the chemicals sector about setting decarbonisation targets?
Last week, the chemicals sector faced an urgent call to establish decarbonisation strategies in line with a 1.5°C future from…
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Market interventions killing industry’s access to renewable power – BASF Renewable Energy CEO
At the beginning of the year, Germany’s BASF, the world’s largest chemicals company, announced it was bundling all its activities…
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Decarbonising petrochemicals by 2050 will cost $759bn
The petrochemicals sector can reach net-zero emissions by investing an extra $759bn in the transition by 2050, according to a…
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EU chemicals industry: A carbon border tax will not save us
Energy-intensive industries are indispensable to the energy transition, but also difficult to decarbonise. Marco Mensink, director general of the European…
