Paul Zakkour
- Sep 29, 2015
CO2 reuse prizes show a new way forward for technology innovation
Today XPrize, the world's largest technology prize foundation, launched the Carbon XPrize. The prize, sponsored by NRG and COSIA, aims to: "...incentivize development of new and emerging CO2 conversion technologies, accelerating them from laboratory testing to demonstration under real world conditions. The prize will help identify the most promising pathways for CO2 conversion and prove they can be deployed at power plants and other industrial facilities. Ultimately, the impa


Greg Cook
- Sep 14, 2015
Assisting Chile to implement its Carbon Tax
Carbon Counts, alongside Chilean partners, has been asked by the World Bank’s Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR) to work with the Ministry of Energy in Chile to analyze interactions between the country’s planned Carbon Tax (Ley 20.780) and other existing and planned energy policies in the country. Carbon taxes can be effective in mediating economy-wide actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and thereby complement other policy measures aimed at e.g. promoting renewabl
