
Decarbonisation Versus Profits
Mercedes Maroto-Valer discusses how the chemical industry can contribute to post-pandemic net zero
Mercedes Maroto-Valer discusses how the chemical industry can contribute to post-pandemic net zero
Malaysia has much to do, say Kok Siew Ng and Eleni Iacovidou
Grant Wellwood calls for manufacturers to include environmental impact labels on their products
Amanda Doyle looks at how the crisis of coronavirus is impacting the pressing need to go green
Claudia Flavell-While updates on the progress of IChemE’s learned society activities
Amanda Doyle discusses COP26 and why it is important
In November, the 26th UN Conference of Parties (COP) climate summit will take place in Glasgow, U...
Andrew Perry looks at the challenges of tackling global carbon emissions, and asks when the worl...
Obtaining wider support for CCS by emphasising its importance in decarbonising numerous industrie...
Elena Demou explains how IChemE is supporting members to influence policy
Raymond Tan and Dominic Foo explain how pinch analysis techniques can be used to optimise decarbo...
Stephen Drew reports on why classic pinch technology used in the NZ food industry is just as vali...
Samson Yosef explains how IChemE is supporting members to influence policy
IChemE President Ken Rivers explains the purpose of Strategy 2024 and why it is fundamental to t...
Nooryesha Choudhury explains how IChemE is supporting members to influence policy
Nick Starkey of the Royal Academy of Engineering explains why engineering input is so crucial for...
Conclusions from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s summit on future waste science policy.
Adam Duckett says Government must stand strong with British Steel
What does the latest Immigration White Paper mean for the UK engineering industry?
David Simmonds explains the challenges of pursuing major projects sustainably
Adam Duckett urges action on CCS
INDUSTRY will not achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals and waste by 2020 without...
A look at the the likely impact of a Brexit deal/no deal on the UK’s energy sector
UK Government needs to take a lead on forming evidence-based policy on rigs-to-reef decommissioni...
Amanda Doyle travels to Norway on a CCS safari
No deal is now the base case – are you ready for Brexit?
Increasing chemical engineering contributions to sustainable policy development: an Australian ...
As lessons emerge following the Grenfell Tower review, chemical engineers have a duty to share th...
Chemical engineers are well suited to assessing fire safety by applying systems thinking and a ri...
Erin Johnson, Ashok Kumar Fellow, talks to IChemE’s Rachael Fraser
What are the likely effects in the immediate and long term?
Working with members to develop a more effective strategy for policy
Since Brexit negotiations have entered full force, concerns are growing about the future of the U...
How landfill might be the better option for disposal of low-grade plastics
H21: why we need bold thinking for a greener, cleaner, low-cost future
An overview of the scientific and technical challenges that have surfaced because of shale gas
Hydrogen: a way to provide safe, sustainable and clean energy to satisfy rising demand and meet ...
Mobilising chemical engineering resources to mitigate drought
Chemical engineers: start answering climate change questions now
The BioFutures Programme will address the opportunities and challenges faced by the chemical engi...
THE appointment this week of a new head of decommissioning at the UK’s Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) ...
THE Scottish government’s recent announcement on fracking was no surprise. No amount of evidence-...
Adam Duckett praises Norway's industrial vision
STEVE Bagshaw, a Fellow of IChemE, has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List for his se...
WITH the editorial team having shut down their laptops until 4 January, we wanted to close with a...
THE UK Government has released its long-awaited Energy White Paper on how the country’s energy sy...
THE Climate Ambition Summit was held on 12 December to mark five years since the Paris Agreement,...
THE Climate Change Committee (CCC), an independent body that advises the UK Government on climate...
THE Danish Government has agreed to end all oil and gas exploration and extraction in the North S...
THE UK Government has announced that it intends to cut emissions by 68% from 1990 levels by 2030,...
CHEMICALS companies are being urged to get going on key actions as the UK counts down to its new ...
THE European Commission has unveiled its new chemicals strategy which aims to make chemicals prod...
IN what has been called a surprise announcement by multiple media outlets, Xi Jinping, President ...
THE UK Government has extended the deadline for UK chemicals companies to register their products...
CONCERNS have been raised by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) that the lack of a clear hyd...
THE UK’s Energy Systems Catapult, an independent centre designed to accelerate the UK’s clean ene...
THE UK Government has said that it will not align with EU chemicals policy, instead bringing in i...
THE UK Government has unveiled its UK Emissions Trading System (ETS) for a carbon trading market ...
THE COP26 climate change summit has been delayed for a full year until November 2021 due to the C...
THE Australian Government is looking to deploy a A$2bn (US$1.32bn) fund to support adoption of te...
THE engineering expertise of the UK’s gas network operators have joined forces to outline how to ...
MORE than 20 scientists, campaigners, and politicians have signed a letter in which they warned t...
ICHEME members are working with representatives of the wider engineering discipline to advise the...
A US$130trn investment to 2050 could help to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2060, according t...
US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over threats to the country’s power s...
UPTO 30,000 jobs in the UK's oil and gas industry are at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic and...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalised changes to a rule that requires coal a...
THE COP26 climate change summit, which was due to take place in Glasgow, UK, in November, has bee...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced temporary policy that will allow non-c...
A CONSORTIUM operated by BP is pitching for the UK Government to support the development of a net...
THE UK has confirmed in its budget today that it will invest £800m (US$1bn) in a carbon capture a...
IN A report to mark its launch, the Hydrogen Taskforce – which involves energy majors Shell and B...
BP HAS announced that it will leave the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), the...
ALOK Sharma has been announced as the new President for the COP26 climate summit, which is due to...
THE COP26 climate summit, due to take place in Glasgow in November, was officially launched on 4 ...
UNCERTAINTY remains over the future of chemicals regulations in the UK as the UK will only remain...
THE South African Government has been urged to restart its renewable-energy procurement programme...
THE UK Government has announced the details of a new fast-track visa scheme to attract overseas r...
ENGINEERING biology must learn to communicate better if the breakout discipline is to achieve its...
ENERGY efficiency can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but with efficiency improvements slow...
SOUTH Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has updated its Integrated Resou...
INTERNATIONAL students at UK universities will now be able to extend their stay up to two years a...
BP says it is deploying technology to continuously detect, measure and reduce methane emissions f...
THE UK Government has warned in a document it has been forced to disclose that a no-deal Brexit c...
OIL and gas companies have approved US$50bn of investment since 2018 in major projects that under...
THE National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) has published a manifesto for a prosperous and secu...
THE Science and Technology Committee (STC) has highlighted policy gaps in the Government’s plans ...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that top scientists will be allowed to apply for fa...
A REPORT by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has found that just 10...
THE All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for British Bioethanol has released a report saying that...
NUCLEAR industry representatives from across the supply chain have issued a manifesto outlining s...
FOUR countries have blocked an EU proposal which aims to set a net zero emissions target for the ...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has introduced a new energy rule that will extend th...
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that the UK will legislate to reduce CO2 emissions to...
THE UK Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, has come under criticism for claiming that adopting a strateg...
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for carbon capture and storage has issued a call for evi...
THE infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is set to shutdown due to government inaction.
THE UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said the country could feasibly emit no emissions ...
A CROSS-PARTY report from the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee has criti...
MEMBERS of Parliament speaking at an event to showcase clean energy have noted that in the wake o...
THE Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has formed a new CCUS Advisory...
THE UK’s first deep coal mine in 30 years has been given the go ahead by Cumbria County Council, ...
IN a reversal of roles, chemical engineers took the opportunity yesterday to quiz UK policy leade...
CHEMICAL engineering postgraduate Jeni Spragg has produced a report to help UK parliamentarians m...
The fatal Brazil dam collapse highlights failings in the mining industry. Amanda Jasi speaks to e...
THE UK Government has published draft legislation for chemical registration in the event of a no-...
FIVE years on from the publication of his engineering skills review for the UK Government, former...
ICHEME has launched an energy and resource efficiency guide which outlines how engineers and orga...
The UK has relaunched its search for a site to bury its nuclear waste after previous plans were h...
A SET of rules for enacting the Paris Agreement to limit climate change was agreed by 196 countri...
INDUSTRY has expressed mixed reactions towards the recently-released UK Bioeconomy Strategy. The ...
THE UK government has published additional documentation on how the UK will manage chemical regul...
SHELL has given in to pressure from investors to commit to specific goals in limiting climate cha...
THE UK government has unveiled an action plan for developing carbon, capture, utilisation and sto...
A REPORT by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has said that biomass has a role to play in a l...
THE House of Lords EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee has published a report expressing conc...
THE UK and Canada have signed a bilateral Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (NCA) which will ensure t...
A Royal Academy of Engineering report has found that more support is needed for the final develop...
MEMBERS of the European Parliament have called on the EU to improve its climate change commitment...
A COALTION of European chemicals NGOs has called on politicians negotiating the terms of Brexit t...
LIMITING global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid and unprecedented changes to society, UN climate ...
THE UK government has outlined a framework for regulating chemicals if a no-deal Brexit occurs, s...
THE Trump administration has rolled back two Obama-era laws on reducing methane emissions in the ...
JENNIFER Spragg, a postgraduate student in bioenergy at the University of Leeds, UK, will advise ...
THE chair of IChemE’s Malaysia board, Christina Phang, has met with the country’s new energy mini...
The Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) have released a joint report outli...
THE UK Chancellor has warned that the chemicals sector will be one of the hardest hit by a ‘no de...
A JURY has ruled in favour of a terminally ill cancer patient who claimed that Monsanto’s glyphos...
THE EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) has announced that it is giving a ...
THE carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) cost challenge taskforce has released a report settin...
A REPORT by the Environmental Investigations Agency (EIA) has discovered widespread use of the ba...
THE UK government has unveiled a £200m (US$262m) deal in partnership with the nuclear industry th...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revised how it determines risks associated with ...
FIRE safety is important to all of us, both in residential buildings and on industrial sites, and...
EUROPE has proposed a law banning or restricting single-use plastics, the UN has released a polic...
BUSINESS secretary Greg Clark has announced that the UK government will take a £5bn ($US6.7bn) st...
VIVERGO, the UK’s largest bioethanol plant, has reopened after a four-month shutdown period. Howe...
AN INDUSTRY forum held in Texas has discussed the response of chemical companies to Hurricane Har...
THE UK’s gas and electricity operator, National Grid, has set out its long-term goals in its repo...
CHEMICAL engineer Andrew Liveris will step down in April as executive chair of DowDuPont, the hol...
AN ANALYSIS by climate science website Carbon Brief has shown that the UK's carbon dioxide emissi...
ICHEME has backed calls for the UK to remain within the EU’s chemicals regulation (REACH) despite...
FORMER IChemE president Geoffrey Maitland has spoken to MPs about the impact of Brexit on chemica...
BP has released its annual Energy Outlook report, which suggests a significant increase in the us...
THE Singapore budget has revealed that companies emitting more than 25,000 t/y of greenhouse gase...
A REPORT has evaluated the potential of negative emission technologies (NETs) in the context of m...
THE Future Climate-Engineering Solutions (FC-ES) project, of which IChemE is a member, has releas...
PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s administration has revealed a plan to open almost all US offshore waters...
A BILL banning new fossil fuel exploration licences in France immediately and all fossil fuel ext...
THE UK’s largest bioethanol producer has halted production at its plant in East Yorkshire, blamin...
UK BUSINESS secretary Greg Clark has announced that Coventry and Warwickshire will host the UK’s ...
THE UK government has published its long-awaited Industrial Strategy as it seeks to boost industr...
UK CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond announced in his 2017 budget on Wednesday an investment of £123m (US...
THE UK government made “grave strategic errors” in its approach to Hinkley Point C, the UK’s firs...
MAJOR issues that could face industry, society and the environment as a result of the growing bio...
THE Global CCS Institute says that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is vital to meeting the Paris...
SPEAKERS at an IChemE-hosted event at the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, ha...
THE UK government has announced that it has appointed Patrick Vallance as its chief scientific ad...
THE Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has given the first regulatory nod to a commercial ...
METHANE emissions from natural gas have been underestimated by governments, and the “bridging fue...
THE IChemE Energy Centre has welcomed the UK’s Clean Growth Strategy and investment in carbon cap...
RUSSIA has signed agreements to build a nuclear power plant and a research centre housing a multi...
SINGAPORE has put innovation and building skills at the heart of a new strategy to boost its ener...
A NEW proposal from the Australian government seeks to remove renewable energy subsidies and prom...
THE SCOTTISH government has announced an effective ban on fracking activities, following “overwhe...
SEVEN British universities have been named as founding partners of the £65m Faraday Battery Insti...
AMERICA’S power markets could move away from renewables and natural gas towards coal and nuclear,...
NORTH Sea oil and gas exploration will receive £5m (US$6.7m) in funding from the UK government in...
AN ENGINEERING approach towards designing and managing complex systems could transform health and...
A SCIENCE and technology agreement between the UK and US was signed yesterday, which is the first...
CHEMICAL engineer Max Lu has been appointed to the UK Council for Science and Technology (CST), a...
SARAWAK’S state government plans to set up its own oil exploration company, despite the national ...
A MEMORANDUM of understanding between three industry giants and Singapore’s public sector was sig...
RISK MANAGEMENT firm DNV GL predicts that global energy demand will peak in 2025 and plateau afte...
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