DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Australian sheep meat is a “climate-neutral” product. The study found that an alternative method of quantifying the impact of methane emissions has led to a raft of industry-friendly findings that the livestock sector seems to be using to claim climate neutrality as they continue to pollute.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

The IFA has worked closely with controversial California-based air quality scientist, Frank Mitloehner, to argue against the need to sharply curtail methane emissions from livestock. According to the California Air Resources Board , livestock emissions in 2019 “are 18 per cent higher than 2000 levels”. Steep Cuts for Other Sectors.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. LNG as cheap, reliable, and the best bet of any energy source to meet Germany’s 2045 target for carbon neutrality. At a June event with German gas lobby group Zukunft Gas in Berlin, Rice promoted U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

In the initial phase, 25 terawatt-hours (TWh) per year of green methane, from which more than half a million metric tons of hydrogen can be produced, will be imported into Wilhelmshaven. The Hydrogen Council estimates that hydrogen can address 18% of global energy demand and abate one-fifth of carbon emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

2019 Sustainability Report confirms oil giant is making progress with a raft of low carbon initiatives, but concerns remain over incremental pace of decarbonisation. The new report also reveals that in 2019 the Net Carbon Footprint fell slightly from 79gCO2e/MJ in 2016 to 78gCO2e/MJ last year.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Let’s halt bioenergy, reduce emissions and protect natural carbon sinks and landscapes rather than relying on false solutions.” Burning trees to reduce our carbon footprint is oxymoronic.” Carbon Debt.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog. A Focus on ‘Net Zero’.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

The UK government's post-Brexit ambition for a net zero carbon market could be world-leading - but the plans released earlier this month repeat many of the mistakes of the EU system, including a very loose cap on emissions, and a market so complex it would make Rube Goldberg weep. Sources: UK verified emissions were 129m in 2019 (EUTL).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

To do so, they draw on friendly science, the promise of technological innovation and slick marketing campaigns – which promise “climate neutral” or “climate smart” meat and dairy – to create the idea we can continue eating vast quantities of the stuff while meeting our climate goals. The science shows that for humanity to stay below 1.5C

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

For example, in 2019 L’Oréal USA announced that 14 of its factories were "carbon neutral," and the beauty giant continues to look for renewable options for all of its thermal loads as part of its science-based targets. Apple, for example, last year announced a carbon-neutrality target throughout its entire supply chain.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

UN Secretary-General António Guterres will today appeal for businesses, banks and investors to team up with governments in the developed world to help wean coal-reliant countries off the carbon-intensive fossil fuel, warning that "an avalanche of action" is needed to avoid planetary catastrophe.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. The key will be making low-carbon fuels without creating new problems. Worried about the climate crisis?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Meanwhile, for reducing the amount of cow burps, the report praises the Dutch company DSM for “its product called 3-NOP that reduces these methane emissions by 30% in tests, and does not appear to have health or environmental side effects.” . Livestock genomics and regen ag left in the dirt.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

. “It is incredibly hard for investors to source, vet and execute investments across the many varied climate solution sectors,” said Jan Van Dokkum, the former Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers partner who became chairman of Imperative in 2019, in a statement.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

” But Sridhar placed even higher expectations on a longer-range plan to adapt Bloom’s solid-oxide fuel cell technology, originally designed to run on natural gas and emit carbon dioxide, to generate electricity from hydrogen, make "green" hydrogen via electrolysis or capture the carbon from "blue" hydrogen made from natural gas.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The OECD's update reveals the grand total of climate finance mobilised by rich countries for developing nations in 2019 stood at $79.6bn, an increase of just two per cent on the year before. within reach.". warming pathway. The UK's headline aims to "assign coal to history" and "keep 1.5C

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2020

“We’re flexing the power of a municipal utility to act as a load-serving entity,” explained Dustin Jolley, founder and principle of OurEnergy, a technical advisory firm and project developer that's advised the city on designing the plan and the 2019 RFP that selected Concentric.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. Studies show these activities represent the majority of the sector’s emissions, yet many meat companies exclude them when calculating their carbon footprint. Jennifer Jacquet, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This might be the quickest and cheapest way for you to become carbon neutral, without retrofitting your vessels at all. It should be noted that there are many possible ways to reshape the current carbon-intense industry, the below case is but one example. Where exactly will we obtain vast quantities of hydrogen and carbon?

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

This is considerably higher compared to 2019, when the 4+ year old ice extent stood at 55,000 square kilometers. Lot’s of Methane. Some of you might already be aware of the ticking time bomb called methane. This ‘active ingredient’ in natural gas, is up to 28 to 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

It should be noted that there are countless ways to reshape the current carbon-intense industry, this article suggest merely one of many possibilities. The alternative to fossil feedstock, is to replace it with hydrogen and carbon in other sustainable forms. > A source of carbon. Power plants and open-source carbon sinks.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 1, 2021

For example, in 2019 L’Oréal USA announced that 14 of its factories were “carbon neutral,” and the beauty giant continues to look for renewable options for all of its thermal loads as part of its science-based targets. Companies are banding together to reach breakthroughs faster. Biomethane.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

The carbon footprint of a business is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released by an organization. More and more businesses are disclosing their carbon footprint due to increased stakeholder pressure and as a response to climate change. . 18 ways business leaders can lower their carbon footprint .

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

The carbon footprint of a business is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released by an organization. More and more businesses are disclosing their carbon footprint due to increased stakeholder pressure and as a response to climate change. . 18 ways business leaders can lower their carbon footprint .

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes. Pushback on Gas Hookup Bans.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise. And What They Deliver.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Unplugged wells frequently continue to emit methane , a greenhouse gas with a warming impact many times that of CO2. Aera Energy spokesperson Kimberly Ellis told DeSmog that the company had plugged more than 5,000 wells since 2019. “We According to a 2023 Carbon Tracker analysis , the state’s wells produce on average a mere 3.9

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

As I began identifying leaders to include on this third annual list, I was inspired by the introduction to " All We Can Save ," an essay and poem collection co-edited by marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (who you can find on this year’s list) and Katharine Wilkinson (who we recognized on the first Badass Women list in 2019). .

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