Green Bonds: S&P Global has Bought Shades of Green Business

USA-based financial information and analytics company S&P Global Inc. has acquired the business Shades of Green, one of the world’s largest providers of second party opinions on green bonds, from CICERO (Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research), a Norwegian climate research center. According to S&P Global, the acquisition will be integrated into S&P Global […]

Japan to Strengthen Plastic Recycling

In April last year, the Act on Promotion of Resource Circulation for Plastics came into effect. According to a survey conducted in April 2022 in Japan, the majority of respondents did not know anything about the Plastic Resource Circulation Act, the website statista.com reported five months later. “Only 25.3 percent had a grasp of the […]

Unlocking New Value through Transformation of Industries

In January this year, the World Economic Forum published a new White Paper: “Circular Transformation of Industries: Unlocking New Value in a Resource-Constrained World”. The Circular Transformation of Industries is a new multi-stakeholder initiative at the World Economic Forum that aims to enable a growing, resilient and sustainable economy through adopting circularity at scale. According […]

Mission: Waste to Wealth

India is heading towards a zero-waste nation. The Indian population of more than 1.3 billion currently generates about 62 million tons of municipal solid waste annually. About 377 million Indian citizens residing in urban areas contribute an estimated amount of 55 million tons. Approximately 80 percent of the waste ends up in landfill, about 20 […]

Weltec Biopower Builds Biogas Plant in Taiwan

Construction is scheduled to begin in 2023; commissioning is planned for 2024. Together with its Asian partner Melchers Taiwan, the German manufacturer Weltec Biopower is building a biogas plant in the southwest of the island state. According to the company, it is its first biogas plant in the country. Regarding the 360-kilowatt plant, the German […]

UK: Breakthrough Regarding “Plastics Waste to Hydrogen“

Academics from the Universities of Oxford and Cardiff are working with CarbonMeta Research Ltd. to turn plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel and carbon nanomaterials. End of June, USA-based CarbonMeta Technologies Inc., a resource reclamation company that will process organic wastes, has announced that its British subsidiary, CarbonMeta Research Ltd., is commercializing a breakthrough technology […]

Hydrogen Fuel from Plastic Waste

Hydrogen is an energy carrier. This clean fuel can be produced from a variety of domestic resources, such as natural gas, nuclear power, biomass, and renewable power like solar and wind. Furthermore, there is a way to produce Hydrogen from plastic waste. As reported by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, scientists at the university […]

Partnership to Develop a Large-Scale Hydrogen-Based Value

The three enterprises ENGIE, OCI and EEW intend to realize a large-scale industrial value chain in Europe for the production of e-methanol. In May this year, ENGIE (the global point of reference in renewable hydrogen, low-carbon energy and services), OCI (Europe’s largest methanol producer), and EEW (a leading company in the production of electricity and […]

Switzerland: Hitachi Zosen Inova Starts Green Hydrogen Production Facility

Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) and the Aarau-Lenzburg Regional Waste Disposal Association (Gemeindeverband für Kehrichtbeseitigung Region Aarau-Lenzburg or GEKAL) will produce hydrogen at the waste-to-energy plant in Buchs (canton of Aargau). It is planned that the first hydrogen will be produced at the beginning of 2023. “Full operations will commence a few months later in the […]

Finland: VTT and Neste to Build a Power-to-Liquids Demonstration Plant

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Neste Oyj have agreed to build a technology demonstration facility. Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale, Neste underlined in June this year. E-fuels would offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing […]