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Health and safety

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25/2/2026 Feature / Charlie Bush

Medical and physiological effects of CO₂ exposure: implications for CCUS deployment

While low ambient concentrations of CO₂ are harmless, acute exposure in enclosed environments can lead to symptoms ranging from headache and dizziness to loss of consciousness and death. Understanding these physiological mechanisms is essential for developing safety thresholds and exposure limits that underpin regulatory standards and emergency response planning, with particular implications for carbon capture use and storage (CCUS) development. Charlie Bush reports.

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

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7/9/2022 Feature / Luiza Nolasco,Guilherme Castro

Liberalising the Brazilian energy market

Brazil’s energy market is on the road to liberalisation and modernisation, according to Luiza Nolasco, Strategic Regulatory Affairs Specialist at Enel in Brazil, and Guilherme Castro, Solutions Consultant for Energy & Utilities at Dataiku and Chair of the EI London Young Professionals Network. Regulators have a vital role to play in adapting the system and incentivising new business models.

Energy storage

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24/9/2025 Feature / Andrew Mourant

Weeding out the duds: what’s driving growth of long-duration energy storage in the UK

A big breakthrough or just another small forward step? One key part of the UK government’s drive to hit net zero targets is by boosting national energy storage to help smooth out gaps between supply of intermittent renewables and variation in electricity demand. In spring 2025, energy regulator Ofgem announced plans to incentivise the best schemes while weeding out the no-hopers. The industry is still digesting how this might work out to everyone’s benefit, reports Andrew Mourant.

Emissions management - methane emissions

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1/6/2022 Feature / Georges Tijbosch

Can the oil and gas sector abate methane emissions?

Methane emissions from the oil and gas sector are an immense challenge, but they can also be an exciting opportunity. Georges Tijbosch, CEO of MiQ, explains how independently certified gas can accelerate methane abatement in the oil and gas industry.

Energy efficiency

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6/11/2024 Feature / Charlie Bush

Save it: Why tackling energy efficiency in European buildings is a priority

Faced with escalating climate change challenges, enhancing energy efficiency in buildings is a priority. Buildings in the European Union account for 43% of final energy consumption and present a major opportunity to reduce emissions and conserve energy resources. Charlie Bush reports.

Biomass

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20/11/2024 Feature / Michelle Meineke

The ‘push-pull’ debate around using biomass

Is biomass an environmentally-friendly component of the energy transition amid net zero targets or adding to emissions? There’s no simple answer, explains sustainability consultant Michelle Meineke.

Building Energy Management Systems

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29/5/2024 Feature / Andrew Mourant

Cold comfort: improving the energy-efficiency of UK building stock

Cold, damp, shoddily-built properties blight millions of British lives. Yet opportunities abound to do something better, and there are great examples of forward-thinking building and retrofit, using fabric and design that create far warmer homes, their energy use greatly reduced. Why is there not far more of this, and what is the UK government doing about it? enquires Andrew Mourant.

Decommissioning

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4/2/2026 Feature / Charlie Bush

Barriers to plug and abandonment in the North Sea

Plug and abandonment (P&A) is emerging as one of the biggest operational and policy challenges facing the North Sea as the basin transitions from late-life production to large-scale decommissioning. Between 2023 and 2032, operators are forecast to spend £27bn on decommissioning across the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), with well P&A accounting for roughly half of that expenditure. Charlie Bush reports.

Shipping

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1/5/2024 Feature / Eirik Nyhus

Is the maritime industry’s approach to GHG emissions fuzzy for future regulations?

As shipping strives to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a raft of regulatory changes are on the horizon. But do they fudge the complex issue of maritime emissions reduction, asks Eirik Nyhus, Vice President, Director Environment, DNV, who outlines what lies ahead.

Shipping

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25/9/2024 Feature / Selwyn Parker

All aboard for decarbonisation: How IMO is embarking on a voyage to a net-zero 2050

Net-zero goals set by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) a year ago include long-term ambitions and short-term actions, and have already begun to impact the maritime world, reports Selwyn Parker.

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Medical and physiological effects of CO₂ exposure: implications for CCUS deployment

Liberalising the Brazilian energy market

Weeding out the duds: what’s driving growth of long-duration energy storage in the UK

Can the oil and gas sector abate methane emissions?

Save it: Why tackling energy efficiency in European buildings is a priority

The ‘push-pull’ debate around using biomass

Cold comfort: improving the energy-efficiency of UK building stock

Barriers to plug and abandonment in the North Sea

Is the maritime industry’s approach to GHG emissions fuzzy for future regulations?

All aboard for decarbonisation: How IMO is embarking on a voyage to a net-zero 2050