Supply is down, but innovations are up
Welcome to our 2025 CO2 issue. There’s always lots to talk about when it comes to carbon dioxide – but now more than ever, since there has been a wave of innovation in recent times as part of decarbonization efforts to drive the push for Net Zero.
Our cover story this month picks out ten moves. Between them, they serve to illustrate how innovation in CO2 is changing the game in North America and around the world.
Electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030 to around 945 terawatt-hours (Twh), according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report.
The US position of using tariffs as a commercial negotiating tool appears to be bearing fruit in places, with Taiwan considering tripling US LNG imports to avoid tariffs.
EU member states have postponed tariffs which were due to start 15 April by 90 days.
US fertiliser firm CF Industries – together with other US and Japanese partners – has unveiled plans for a $4bn integrated blue ammonia and CCUS plant in Louisiana.
US liquefied natural gas business NextDecade Corporation has signed a 20-year LNG sales and purchase deal with a subsidiary of Saudi oil and gas giant Aramco.
Japanese oil company ENEOS Corporation will provide $100m in funding to support the development of the Beaver Lake Renewable Energy project in Louisiana, led by Denmark-based green methanol company C2X. C2X is backed by majority...
The increasing sense of the US becoming an international outlier was underlined in the latest Executive Order promoting coal development, as much-publicised new tariffs swing into effect.
Integrated tech and engineering company Honeywell has launched Protonium, a collection of technologies enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and powered by machine learning that are designed to make the production of green hydrogen more efficient...
The Great Plains – or Plains for short – is a vast, flat expanse of grasslands that stretches from the Rocky Mountains to the Missouri River in the US. The region is the largest supplier...
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved Class VI permits for carbon management specialist Occidental and its subsidiary 1PointFive to sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) captured in Ector County, Texas.
