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by Nora Buli (Reuters) The UK emissions trading scheme (ETS) will be reformed next year to tighten limits on carbon dioxide pollution and expanded in 2026 to include new sectors, the relevant authority said on Monday. Introduced in 2021 for an initial phase lasting until 2030, it replaced the UK’s participation in the European Union’s ETS. Designed to incentivise industry to cut emissions, the scheme forces participants from energy intensive industries, the power generation sector and aviation to buy permits to release CO2. Building on the first years of trading and a consultation held la ..read more

(Gasnam/AltFuels) Decarbonizing heavy transport largely depends on the use of renewable gases and their derivatives. This is one of the main conclusions of the report “The decarbonization of heavy transport in Spain and Portugal”, carried out by the Technological Research Institute of the Comillas Pontifical University and commissioned by Gasnam-Neutral Transport, which informs that these fuels have prevented emissions to the atmosphere of 500,000 tons of CO2 in the Iberian Peninsula in 2022. The study carries out a diagnosis of the current state and the use of alternative fuels in the la ..read more

(Hexagon Agility/AltFuels)  As previously disclosed, Hexagon Agility, a business of Hexagon Composites, signed a master services agreement in October 2019 with UPS to supply CNG fuel systems for medium- and heavy-duty trucks. The world’s premier package delivery company will power these vehicles with renewable CNG. Deliveries of the new orders will commence in the third quarter of 2023. Under this agreement, Hexagon Agility has received additional 2023 orders of USD 20.9 million for delivery of natural gas fuel systems. This is in addition to the USD 19 million of previously announce ..read more

(Lhyfe)  The HOPE (Hydrogen Offshore Production for Europe) project is being coordinated by Lhyfe (France) and implemented by eight European partners: Alfa Laval (Denmark), Plug (the Netherlands), Strohm (the Netherlands), EDP NEW (Portugal), ERM (France), CEA (France), POM-West-Vlaanderen (Belgium) and DWR eco (Germany). This project of unprecedented scale (10 MW/up to 4 tonnes of green hydrogen produced a day) has been selected by the European Commission as part of the European Clean Hydrogen Partnership, under which it has been awarded a €20 million grant. HOPE will be located in the N ..read more

(UKPIA)  UKPIA is calling on the UK Government to set an achievable target for the amount of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) used by UK airlines in 2025 or risk higher prices for passengers. In response to the Government’s consultation on Developing the UK Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mandate, UKPIA says that setting a target for SAF above 0.5% as a proportion of jet fuel in 2025 would be unachievable, even according to the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) own modelling of low carbon fuel feedstocks. While the UK Government accepts that 0.5% is ‘highly ambitious,’ it is considering SA ..read more

As governments are now aligned with the industry’s commitment to decarbonize aviation by 2050, IATA’s World Sustainability Symposium (WSS) will bring together industry and governments to debate and discuss the key enablers for aviation’s successful decarbonization. The aim of WSS is to gather and support the global community of sustainability experts needed to realize aviation’s biggest challenge ever. The WSS will facilitate critical discussions, in seven key areas: The overall strategy to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 The crucial role of government and policy suppor ..read more

by Joana Colussi, Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, and Jim Baltz (University of Illinois/FarmDocDaily)  Brazil, the world’s second-largest producer of ethanol, has experienced a dramatic increase in the growth of ethanol processing plants in the nation’s Center-West. In contrast to the United States, the world’s largest ethanol producer, most Brazilian ethanol is made from sugarcane. However, corn ethanol plants are being built throughout the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, and Goiás – where the volume of the second crop of corn has grown rapidly in the last decade ..read more

by Amie Simpson (Brownfield Ag News)  The president and CEO of CountryMark says liquid fuels shouldn’t be counted out as energy transition and carbon reduction policies are shaped to address climate challenges. Brownfield spoke with Matt Smorch during the recent Indiana Climate Summit. “Liquid fuels are still a viable part of any (climate) solutions that could happen, and it seems like there are more and more policies like those in California trying to get rid of the internal combustion engine and those things that use our products,” he says. “For example, EPA recently came out with ..read more

The aviation sector represents nearly 3% of global carbon emissions, and there are myriad efforts underway to decarbonize the sector. For example, numerous Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) technologies are under development, and ambitious goals being set by the federal government and aviation industry participants. What does a vision for decarbonization contemplate and on what timescale? How do various SAF technologies work and what is their potential? Are existing state and federal legal frameworks set up to manage them? What does sound policy look like with respect to incentives and subsidies ..read more