Carbon capture and sequestration

The Hellenic Hydrocarbons and Energy Resources Management Company (HEREMA) received a grant through the EEA Grants funded by Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway to draw up safety regulations at underground carbon dioxide storage facilities.

Environmental campaigners urged climate envoys from dozens of nations gathering Tuesday in Berlin to discuss a global deadline for phasing out fossil fuels and ways of increasing aid to poor countries hit by global warming.

Denmark inaugurated yesterday a project to store carbon dioxide 1,800 meters beneath the North Sea, the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad.

The CO2 graveyard, where the carbon is injected to prevent further warming of the atmosphere, is on the site of an old oil field.

New innovative technological solutions that contribute to the protection of the environment have always attracted Greek shipowners. It is no coincidence that they are also pioneers in investments in liquefied natural gas carriers.

Strasbourg – Slovenian Agriculture Minister Jože Podgoršek on Tuesday welcomed an initiative for a new business model for low-carbon farming that is based on the actual sequestration of carbon and involves the option of evaluating that on the market.