Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We already supply tens of thousands of tonnes of conventional LNG each year for industrial use, but as the UK moves towards a commitment to cut emissions to ‘Net Zero’ by 2050, Bio-LNG is perfectly placed to fuel industry. Bio-LNG is a highly sustainable version of LNG with almost the exact same chemical makeup.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Xcel Energy, provider of electricity and natural gas services to nearly 6 million customers in eight Western and Midwestern states, has committed to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from its natural gas business by 2050. RMI commended Xcel's desire to expand its net-zero target to its natural gas business.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Methane is a blow torch that’s cooking the planet,' scientists warn, as new study argues near term action could play a critical role in curbing global warming. Our study shows that phasing out fossil fuels is essential but must be paired with targeted action now on methane, black carbon soot, HFCs, and smog. by 2035 and 2C by 2050.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

New research from a group of scientists and experts at EDF shows that “Net Zero by 2050” — considered a key indication of ambition — does not guarantee that we achieve the climate benefits we desire. Specifically, early action on methane stands out as the most effective strategy to slow warming in the near-term. .

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EDF + Business

JUNE 9, 2020

Methane: Europe’s missing link for effective energy decarbonization. and Algeria, countries with sizeable methane emissions. This provides the EU with significant leverage when it comes to tackling emissions from the upstream segment, which is where the biggest part of the methane problem lies.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2022

Dairy giant estimates major on-farm pilot could cut methane emissions from cattle by almost a third. Cows are ruminants, which means that to digest their food they continuously burp, releasing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas which represents a major climate challenge for the meat and dairy industry.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

French green gas start-up Energo has demonstrated the injection of synthetic methane into GRDF’s gas distribution network. The demonstration, a first in France, was undertaken as a regulatory sandbox initiative to confirm the feasibility of synthetic methane injection in the network.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

The powerful climate pollutant methane is leaking out of dozens of oil and gas wells, pipelines, and storage tanks in Romania, adding to a growing body of evidence that methane leaks are widespread and pervasive in Europe. Turitto found methane leaks at nearly all of the sites he investigated, with some sites showing multiple leaks.

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Solar Power World

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Dominion Energy announced a significant expansion of the company’s greenhouse gas emissions-reduction goals, establishing a new commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. The goal covers carbon dioxide and methane emissions, the dominant greenhouse gases, from our electricity generation and gas infrastructure operations.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

New IEA analysis reveals methane emissions from the energy sector are 70 per cent higher than official reports, but could high gas prices finally prompt operators to tackle the problem. It is one of the biggest and most worrying mysteries in the field of climate science: where are all the methane emissions coming from?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Initiative marks a significant step up in global action on the potent greenhouse gas and could lead to a major crackdown on sources of methane globally. The US President stressed that reducing methane emissions would be critical to keeping the world on a 1.5C-aligned

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For all the attention to corporate net zero by 2050 commitments, the reality is that actions in this decade will be decisive for both the planet’s warming trajectory and energy firms’ viability in the energy transition. Methane: Leaders emerge as the global community wakes up to the challenge. This piece was co-authored by Erin M.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

A 2050 net-zero vision may be an inspiration, but it is not a plan. For example, in the oil and gas sector, investors can assess progress and pace toward net-zero by monitoring companies’ methane emissions, flaring intensity, capital expenditures, lobbying and governance. Integrate climate into core business. degrees Celsius scenario.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Note: this is the second installment of a dialogue Q&A series with private equity investors following a methane summit EDF recently hosted for portfolio companies of EIG Global Energy Partners (EIG) and Quantum Energy Partners. Andrew: Did you hear anything at the summit that influenced how you think about managing methane emissions?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

OGCI claims mobile carbon capture technologies aboard ships could help the global shipping sector reach its current climate target to cut emissions by 50 percent by 2050, from a 2008 baseline — a goal that has faced criticism from green groups for lacking ambition. It surpasses its target to cut methane intensity to 0.25

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. As such, the report emphasises that methane mitigation is "one of the best ways of limiting warming in this and subsequent decades".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Petronas today announced an "aspiration to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050", asserting its intention to operate as "progressive energy and solutions partner enriching lives for a sustainable future". "As

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Backlash continues to grow against the Trump administration’s efforts to deregulate methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. 24, offers downstream energy providers a key opportunity to publicly add their voice to the broad set of stakeholders supporting federal regulation of methane in the oil and gas sector. By rvelleu.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Southern Company has joined other major U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Government and devolved administrations team up to explore how to accelerate adoption of methane-busting feed products for cattle and sheep. However, the new call for evidence is likely to receive a mixed welcome from green groups, given methane-reducing supplements have been shown to curb emissions rather than eradicate them altogether.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

billion by 2050. Reduce methane emissions : Agriculture is one of the top reasons methane exists in the atmosphere. Methane is released through beef and dairy products and projected into the atmosphere. Countless dairy farms have been opened over the past decade, and they are the hub of generating methane gas.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

With this year’s Earth Day seeing a continued climb in carbon emissions, what will our climate be like on Earth Day 2050? This increase in global temperatures is mirrored by rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases including CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide that attained record levels last year. What’s the roadmap to 2050?

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

The document highlights the extremely high global warming potential of largely unrecorded methane leakages along the whole natural gas supply chain. Methane emissions have a lifetime in the atmosphere of only about 10 years, which is ten times shorter than that of carbon dioxide. We can’t argue our way out of drastic changes.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

According to Thomson, hydrogen will play a critical role in allowing countries around the world to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Thomson’s research focuses on methane pyrolysis, a process that utilizes heat to break down natural gas into hydrogen gas and solid carbon particles and does not produce carbon dioxide.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

European Commission unveils flurry of major policy plans as it seeks to help deliver on 2050 net zero goal, but green groups warn bolder action is still required. The green recovery starts at home," he said. "We

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Alongside these deep emissions cuts, the Carbon Law suggests ramping up carbon removal projects , which will take many years to develop and deploy at sufficient scale, between now and 2050. Because carbon removal projects are still very small, the Carbon Law allows time for them to spin up between now and 2050 (Figure 4).

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

US oil major ExxonMobil announced yesterday that it plans to achieve net zero across its "operated assets" by 2050, tapping a range measures from energy efficiency and electrification to methane mitigation and equipment upgrades to slash emissions from its own operations.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

BP has today become the latest oil major to set a net zero emissions goal , announcing that it aims to deliver net zero emissions across its operations and its oil and gas production basis by 2050 or sooner.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The hydrogen economy is at the start of a period of growth, with the size of the global market predicted to be as much as US$12 trillion by 2050, according to recent research findings. Conventionally, hydrogen has been produced via steam methane reforming (SMR) using natural gas as the feedstock.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Landfills in the United States generate 15 percent of the country’s emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas with a potential warming impact 34 times that of carbon dioxide. The broken system that sends most food waste and organic matter to landfills. Fri, 09/04/2020 - 00:15. How about this for a series of maddening statistics?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2022

The industry realizes they have a problem with methane emissions,” Tim Donaghy, a senior research specialist for Greenpeace USA and a coauthor of the report, told DeSmog. LNG deal over concerns about runaway methane emissions in American fracking fields. Data Problems Obscure Methane Emissions. Cheniere Energy Inc.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2020

New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act ( CLCPA ) targets 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Tags: new york stranded assets Con Ed natural gas methane

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

If the federal and provincial governments live up to their climate commitments (namely on methane reduction, industrial carbon pricing, an emissions cap and ensuring that new LNG projects reach net zero on scope 1 and 2 emissions), over eight Site C’s worth of additional electricity would be required to electrify the six LNG projects in B.C.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 17, 2021

Though Wall Street has directed unprecedented attention to climate over the past year, it can and must do more to remain competitive in a business landscape oriented towards net zero emissions by 2050. Address methane. As the IPCC noted, methane mitigation is essential to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

But the vast majority of today’s industrial hydrogen production is ‘grey,’ made from natural gas via steam methane reforming — a process that emits carbon dioxide, but at a low cost that electrolysis will struggle to beat over the coming decades. On Tuesday the Santa Barbara, Calif.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The researchers advocate these measures in partnership with other strategies on the farm to mitigate climate change, for example nutritional supplements to reduce methane emissions from ruminants. But soil carbon sinks are an important, natural way of balancing the emissions that remain in 2050 – to help us achieve Net Zero by mid-century.”.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

It’s not much compared to other big industries but a study has found this figure may rise to as much as 17% by 2050 if the industry doesn’t become more sustainable. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is eager to prevent this from happening and has set a goal to reduce emissions by 50% by 2050. Increased use of cleaner fuel.

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