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The United States hosted a technical program on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) from March 3-5, 2025, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX. The event featured presentations and discussions on various themes including subsurface storage, site selection, injectivity challenges, and global CCUS implementation. Companies like Net Power, ExxonMobil, and Chevron participated, highlighting advancements in CO2 storage and utilization technologies. The program also included discussions on policy innovations for CCUS in India and a model for developing oil and gas regions globally, such as the Niger Delta.

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India is aiming to produce 5 million metric tonnes of green hydrogen annually by 2030, and potentially 10 million tons by the same year. The country's National Green Hydrogen Mission, supported by industrial clusters like Mundra Port, focuses on reducing production costs to less than $2 per kilogram by leveraging renewable energy and optimizing energy demand. Mundra Port, near the world’s largest renewable energy park (30 gigawatt Khavda facility), integrates hydrogen production with industries such as chemicals, cement, and fertilizers, facilitating both domestic use and export.

India aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070. Kerala, India, is leading the adoption of hydrogen-powered vehicles for transport, aiming for net-zero emissions by 2050. The Kerala Green Hydrogen Valley project, led by ANERT, seeks to establish a fully integrated hydrogen ecosystem, including hydrogen-powered buses, trucks, and boats. The project includes subsidies for refueling stations and tax incentives for hydrogen production, and aims to overcome infrastructure gaps and high production costs of green hydrogen.

Bangladesh has received $1.16 billion in financing from the World Bank for inclusive and climate-resilient development. The funding supports policy reforms to improve public planning and financing for green and climate-resilient interventions, reduce air pollution, and enhance sustainable water and sanitation services. Projects include a $500 million green and climate-resilient development credit, a $379 million health program, and a $280 million water supply improvement project in Chattogram.

The Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) published \"Sustainable Cooling: How to Cool the World Without Warming the Planet\", a book exploring sustainable cooling solutions. The book proposes policy recommendations, financing solutions, and technological insights to accelerate the adoption of low-carbon cooling systems and mitigate climate change.

India's Chennai Metro and Delhi-Meerut RRTS projects have implemented Building Information Modeling (BIM) for vibration management during construction and operation. BIM has optimized design and construction, improving stakeholder collaboration. Mitigation measures included vibration-absorbing rail pads, noise barriers, advanced tunneling techniques, floating slab tracks, and resilient fasteners to minimize vibrations near sensitive areas like hospitals and schools. The projects used global standards (ISO 14837, BS 6472-1:2008, FTA Guidelines) and conducted baseline vibration assessments to evaluate impacts.

Researchers from China, Turkey, Sweden and Pakistan have developed a new Rb-promoted Fe/CeO2 nanocatalyst that achieves 100% aniline conversion with 91% selectivity for azoxybenzene production using H2O2 as an oxidant. The catalyst represents a green, low-cost approach using non-noble metals under mild conditions for selective chemical synthesis.

Indian researchers from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology and other institutions have synthesized two new copper-based metallacycles that demonstrate catalytic properties. The compounds show potential for industrial catalysis applications, particularly in polymer synthesis through ring-opening polymerization.