climate technology Archives

13 Feb

Socio-economic equality- a critical aspect of climate mitigation strategy.

Amruta Joshi0 CommentsClimate Education, Climate Changeclimate technology

The 21st century has witnessed occurrences of some of the worst natural calamities as a result of climate change and has therefore seen a lot of action in terms of climate mitigation, right from the surge in climate technologies to the amendment or formation of policies of decarbonization of various sectors. However, what is also happening in the 21st century is that the gap between the poor and rich is constantly increasing with the rich getting richer and the poor even poorer. Although the two scenarios seem to be independent like chapters from two unrelated books, the issues are much…

Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilisation

Climapreneur0 CommentsClimate Education, Climate-tech, Fashion, InnovationCarbon capture storage utilisation, climate technology

The global climatic conditions are deteriorating with every passing day. No statistics could possibly describe the severity of the damage that has been incurred by the environment due to anthropogenic activities. There are various contenders for global climate changes, of which, greenhouse gases are the key players. Greenhouse gases are the ones responsible for trapping excess solar energy and increasing the global temperature by 1.20 C over the last few decades. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. The amount of (CO2) in the atmosphere is 441parts per million. Apart from the obvious effect of…

Algae-The future of Carbon Capture Technology

Vaibhav Singhai0 CommentsClimate-tech, Startupalgae, carbon capture, climate technology

Carbon emissions are the biggest threat to life on our planet and yet every year about 35 billion metric tons of CO2 is released into the atmosphere. Cutting down the release of carbon emissions is not enough, the enormous amount of life-threatening carbon that has already been released into the atmosphere must also be removed. But how? Luckily, Brilliant Planet, a London-based startup, has found a solution. The CEO of Brilliant Planet, Adam Taylor says that "It takes time to change people, governments, and companies. We’ve got to do something about it." So in 2013, Taylor with his team of…