mardi, février 26, 2013

Noticia brasileira sobre gestão de CO2

O Conselho Empresarial Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (CEBDS) lançou em dezembro a publicação Programa de Gestão de Carbono na Cadeia de Valor, em side event na COP-18 (Convenção do Clima), no Qatar. O projeto promoveu, ao longo de 2012, a capacitação de 32 fornecedores da Vale, Votorantim, Banco do Brasil e Itaú para elaboração de inventários de emissão de Gases de Efeito Estufa (GEE).
De acordo com o Registro Público de Emissões do Brasil, as emissões provenientes de fontes que não são controladas pela empresa (em geral, a cadeia de fornecedores) corresponderam, em 2011, a 88% do total das emissões de Gases de Efeito Estufa (GEE) das empresas que relatam seus inventários – um crescimento de 12% em relação a 2010.
Dos 32 fornecedores capacitados, 22 apresentaram inventários de emissão de GEE total ou parcialmente às empresas participantes. “O número aponta que o projeto teve um aproveitamento de aproximadamente 70% de fornecedores capacitados e se mostra uma importante ferramenta para as empresas que já perceberam que a maior fonte de emissão de GEE de sua produção está na sua
cadeia de fornecedores”, considera Malta.
A partir da experiência na primeira edição, o programa será replicado em 2013 com, no mínimo, o dobro de empresas participantes. Petrobras, Coca-Cola, Cemig, Votorantim, Vale, Itaú, Ipiranga e TKCSA já confirmaram participação na edição do ano que vem. A expectativa é capacitar cerca de 100 fornecedores dessas companhias na segunda edição do programa.

Confira o documento.

jeudi, février 21, 2013

2013 Energy outlooks

Hey there,
First a little consideration: China fêted its New Year recently, with reasons to celebrate: for the first time it has overtaken the USA in import and export activity, becoming the world’s principal trading nation. Year-on-year growth of 9.3 per cent and trade covenants with a constellation of up-and-coming African and Asian nations have assured that China’s star will continue to wax while others wane, yet this expansion is not assuredly infinite. China is already the world’s largest energy producer, consumer and the third largest importer of oil.
I did like the above quote very much, but it is not from me. Lately I've been too busy to really find time to mash things and offer my points of view (probably a lack of wit didn't help neither :-P). For that reason I'll just make another copy-paste (like the oilfield supervisors love to say whenever they can spot a copy-paste practice on a field job instruction report: "fucking engineer!!"), I'm piled between lab work for one project and preparation to sign the other one... busy busy bee!
Nevertheless, I have some outlooks here, one from BP, along with some nice infografics. Another outlook from the ECEEE, do not ask me why such an acronym but nevertheless it seems interesting enough.


Lastly, I fetched some nice page from the US government, a daily updated US energy prices.

Enjoy!

jeudi, février 14, 2013

What's cooking in Sustainable Brazil

Brazil is one big supporter of wind energy with Bahia state leading the effort (e.g. Salvador's football stadium is self sustainable), watch this nice video:


lundi, février 04, 2013

CO2 NEWS

Between Christmas, New Years Eve and the hot Brazil summer (plus a damn iTunes re-install meaning I had to re-organize all my library O_o) I have not had much chance to post anything new but the news were not very much around neither, seems that everybody was on days off, not just Brazil!! I'm using a rather lazy morning to do my CO2 "fun" fact hunting. Just like Batman if you're the Joker, you never know it's hitting you until (batman) actually does! I do not know if these facts are that fun, or what it really means in 20 years time. But yesterday I came across that sad article about disappearing island due to rising sea level. Seeing your whole World disappearing is surely not what nobody wants to see. Especially since we know that no countries really want to your face poping up the immigration list. This time they cannot send you back home because there is no taxi way for the plane to land on!! These people must feel like that guy landing in a country and showing his passport to hear from the immigration guy that his country disappeared over night, hence his passport is no longer valid. You just loose your citizen origins which is quite a complication if your not physically is the given country. And when you look at some quick slides what do you see? That the major CO2 emission countries are the least impacted!

But it's not all that bad now see what is been done lately to help slow down the process:
 canadians are developping a process to pull CO2 out of thin air. Norway's TCM are launching a CCS test centre network in Mongstad.I can't help noticing and won't stop repeating that the oil companies brought us fossil fuel and "burry us" with it, they will also be the major responsible for redirecting our energy focus towards renewable. Probably through government incentive (it goes without saying). Big Oil, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly all at once!
Started in 2011 and quite popular last quarter of 2012 (maybe thanks to the end of the World) there was a lot of discussions about risks in CCS business resulting in this risk management guidelines from DNV.
Last but not least, norwegian are re-iterating that the reservoirs burried beneath the North are able to hold a lot of CO2, like hundreds of year of an entire country emission. Unfortunately they only said Norway, I wish they'd say China or USA... or even Europe. It's not so bad anyway for a start, hopefully more country will evaluate their own ground capacities.

Ta-da!