News
All the latest stories, press releases and newsletters from the Carbon Trust.
Journalist Lucy Siegle presents an overview of how we help the most promising clean tech entrepreneurs move from idea to investment to income, to make their ideas commercially viable. The video explains the challenges low carbon innovators face and features real businesses that have benefited from working with us.
Watch a
short version or view the
full ten-minute film.
The Carbon Trust has created a consortium of British businesses to pioneer the development of a world-class, commercially viable process to turn municipal and wood waste into transport biofuel which could lead to carbon savings of 95% compared to fossil fuel. The Carbon Trust is also working with the University of York to research how using microwave technology could turn garden and wood waste into biofuel to power our cars and lorries.
The Carbon Trust Standard has launched their latest campaign featuring interviews with 15 Standard Bearers including Andy Bond CEO of ASDA, Chris Pilling head of direct banking HSBC - first direct, and Jo Fox deputy director of ‘The Bigger Picture’ of Sky. Hear about why tackling carbon is important to their organisations and how the Carbon Trust Standard is benefiting them.
Watch the videos at www.carbontruststandard.com
The Carbon Trust, fund manager Threadneedle and developer Stanhope plc are to partner in a new fund that aims to significantly increase the availability of high specification low carbon commercial property in the UK. The Threadneedle Low-Carbon Workplace Trust aims to raise £100m in the next 12 months and up to £350m within three years from institutional investors.
Read the full press release.
Carbon Trust backs innovative waste treatment technology
The Carbon Trust has made a new investment alongside Bridge Ventures in Aerothermal Group. Based in Dorset, Aerothermal has developed an innovative waste treatment system which significantly increases energy generation from waste. The funding will be used to build a full-scale Aerothermal Advanced Anaerobic Digestion (AAD) system which uses an innovative autoclave based steam treatment technology to process numerous waste streams, increasing biogas yields and diverting waste from landfill.
Further details will be available shortly. Visit the Aerothermal website.
Offshore wind is the greatest engineering challenge of the decade, but will the UK get the benefit? In February the Carbon Trust, in association with the BWEA, held a lively debate on this subject providing an opportunity for industry stakeholders, trade bodies, NGOs and senior representatives from the offshore wind and energy sectors to come together to explore the potential and challenges for industry in the UK.
Watch the debate and read about the work of our Offshore Wind Accelerator.
Carbon Trust Investments Ltd has invested in Oxford based company Oxsensis, a developer of ultra-high temperature sensors for use in power stations. The sensors are capable of measuring heat and pressure in the harshest conditions where temperatures can reach over 1000°C: the equivalent of molten lava and hundreds of degrees hotter than traditional sensors can stand. The company received a total of £3m from Carbon Trust Investments and existing investors which will enable to company to improve efficiency of power generation.
View the Oxsensis press release.