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Landmark court ruling will see Shell reduce emissions by 45% by 2030
IN A landmark ruling, the Netherlands’ District Court of The Hague has ordered international energy company Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 45% by 2030. Shell intends to appeal.
Type: News
Naomi Atkinson talks about her role in ensuring safe and compliant manufacture of therapeutics and vaccines
Type: Feature
Digitalisation: Integrating it in Education
Jarka Glassey talks to Amanda Doyle about the vital work of CHARMING
Type: Feature
Darrell Patterson awarded Bath’s first ever posthumous professorship
DARRELL PATTERSON is the first person to be awarded a posthumous professorship by the UK’s University of Bath.
Type: News
OFGEM, the UK’s energy regulator has launched a formal investigation into power company Drax to determine if the wood pellets burnt to generate electricity at its Selby plant breach sustainability rules. The regulator said however that the opening of this investigation does not imply that it has previously made “any findings about possible non-compliance”.
Type: News
Volunteer Spotlight: Clare Sheppard
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
US ammonia tanker spill kills five, injures seven
ANHYDROUS ammonia released from a tanker during a traffic incident in Teutopolis, US, is believed to have killed five people and hospitalised a further seven. Hundreds of residents were also evacuated as a precaution but were allowed to return home some hours later when it was determined the danger to the area had passed.
Type: News
ALVIN NIENOW, a pioneer of biochemical engineering, has died aged 85.
Type: News
Hundreds of schoolchildren visit IChemE to be inspired by chemical engineers
ICHEME has hosted more than 300 schoolchildren at its UK headquarters where they met with real-life engineers and took on engineering challenges, to inspire them about the prospects of a career in chemical engineering.
Type: News
Negotiators agree on rulebook for Paris Agreement at United Nations meeting
A SET of rules for enacting the Paris Agreement to limit climate change was agreed by 196 countries at the UN’s 24th Conference of Parties climate summit (COP24). However the final rulebook has sparked criticism over vague language and a lack of serious commitments.
Type: News
IPCC climate change report signals ‘code red for humanity’
THE frequency and intensity of extreme weather events associated with human-caused climate change is going to get worse as the world reaches 1.5oC of warming in the next 20 years, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, there is, it says, still time to limit the damage.
Type: News
A new gallery celebrating engineers opens at the Science Museum
AN exhibition called Engineers opened today at the Science Museum in London dedicated to world-changing engineering innovations and the diverse and fascinating people behind them. I caught up with the engineers featured in the gallery and those who created it to ask what they hope it will achieve.
Type: News
From methane reduction to water efficiency, David Pearce and Peter de Jong look at how dairy farmers and engineers are paving the way for a greener future
Type: Feature
Ethics Series - For the People: By the People
Mark Miodownik discusses ethical research goals and the power of citizen science
Type: Feature
Miguel Johansson Finguerut describes his work on community water projects in central Mexico
Type: Feature
A long-term moral perspective to process safety is needed, says Marc Reid
Type: Feature
INWED: Female chemical engineers recognised for green leadership
AS celebrations get underway for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), we caught up with the six chemical engineers who today were announced as winners of the Top 50 Women in Engineering, for their work on sustainability.
Type: Feature
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) and IChemE
Macsene Isles-Ahite shares her vision for ED&I in IChemE and the chemical engineering profession.
Type: Feature
The Right Balance: Women in Engineering
Orla Douds, Anousha Khan, Martyna Cepaite and Jessica Pidgeon share their experiences of gender balance at university and in industry
Type: Feature
Adam Duckett asks what are men doing to help support gender diversity and inclusion?
Type: Feature
