Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Methane update reveals that reduced demand for oil and gas during the pandemic's shutdown of industry and travel saw methane emissions drop 10 per cent in 2020. Companies have also touted sizeable new investment programmes to detect and fix methane leaks.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. is California’s aggressive push toward a carbon-neutral future. Jim Robbins.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

A cohesive value chain is essential for realizing hydrogen’s potential, encompassing low-carbon hydrogen production, storage, and distribution infrastructure, which align with end-user demand. The energy transition necessitates new low-carbon hydrogen facilities. The most prevalent is steam methane reforming (SMR).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

New report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) highlights the need to control methane slips on ships that have switched to using LNG as fuel. The researchers comes amidst predictions demand for LNG fuel for ships trading within the European Union could triple between 2019 and 2030.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined. Yet while those transport sectors are advancing towards low-carbon solutions — with promising technologies cultivated by multilateral accords — industrial heat lacks any consensus plan and has a long to-do list to develop low-carbon alternatives. .

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Fossil fuel companies confirm plan to review collective methane targets for 2025 and onwards in light of new goal. They have also pointed out that methane's relatively short atmospheric lifetime means action taken now would have a far more rapid impact than action on carbon.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The climate impact of methane emissions from hundreds of new coal mines currently planned worldwide could strike a major blow to efforts to avoid catastrophic levels of global warming, according to the startling results of a first-of-its-kind study released today. million tonnes of methane each year.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 24, 2021

For companies that produce, process or sell beef, pork and/or dairy, there’s an often overlooked, invisible source of climate pollution lurking in the supply chain: methane. An extremely potent greenhouse gas, methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide in the short term.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

By the end of this year, says Grolsch, more than two-thirds of its heat demand will be met by sustainable heat from waste management company Twence , delivered through a new underground pipeline. With this heat supply, not all of Grolsch’s biogas can be used directly for its own heat demand anymore. Biogas upgrading.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

By Ben Ratner At the behest of the American Petroleum Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to eliminate nationwide limits on methane pollution, sending America’s natural gas industry backwards to the days of uncontrolled emissions. In a climate conscious world, there is less demand for dirty gas.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

A new advance opening the way for Mg-ion batteries, protections for birds around networks, Enel Green Power’s Sicily hydrogen lab and a plan to power Bitcoin mining with methane from landfills are in the technology radar. Landfill methane for Bitcoin mining. Out with lithium, in with magnesium. Now with funding of $4.3

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This exquisite instrument will act as the “eye” of the satellite, allowing us to detect, pinpoint, and quantify point source emissions of methane and carbon dioxide. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Detecting methane from space An engineer prepares the imaging spectrometer instrument for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at JPL.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

THE IMPORTANCE OF CARBON FOOTPRINTS. Businesses today need to know and understand their carbon footprint in order to make progress toward becoming a more sustainable and eco-friendly business. You can also use it to determine the amount of carbon offsets to purchase in order to get to carbon neutral. .

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But balancing a reduction in carbon emissions with the need for profit isn’t always easy. 1 With agriculture estimated to have been the source of 48% of the UK’s methane emissions in 2020 – an increase of 1.3% Marc McElhinney is Managing Director of GFD. on 2019 2 – the trend towards on-farm AD is set to continue.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The CDP has begun production of low-cost, low-emission hydrogen and graphitic carbon , marking a pivotal moment for the company. At the heart of this technological leap is the Hazer Process – a unique approach to producing hydrogen that also sequesters carbon in the form of high-quality graphite.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 19, 2024

But global oil demand does not have to grow for these deals to make sense. In fact, Exxon and Chevron are calculating that demand for oil and gas could decline and these deals would still work. Wagering big on growing demand would look different: allocating capital to new greenfield exploitation and development.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

So as the aviation industry has gradually climbed aboard global pledges to get rid of carbon emissions, it has mostly promised to make up for its damage elsewhere — through offsets that might involve planting trees, restoring wetlands, or paying people to preserve ecosystems that otherwise would have been razed. Others warm it.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 17, 2021

BloombergNEF estimates that clean hydrogen could meet up to a quarter of the world’s energy demand by 2050. New research on blue hydrogen (produced from natural gas with carbon capture and storage), published by scientists at Cornell and Stanford, finds that its carbon intensity may be higher than previously thought.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

The key question we will have to answer is, will we see spending plans, policies and packages that support a low-carbon future or not? Maintain energy security : The need to meet rising energy demand and protect industry jobs means that fossil fuels will remain part of the global energy mix for some time to come.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2022

With immediate government backing, this gas demand could be directly replaced with home-grown biomethane within the next four years. Finally, biomethane is generated by recycling methane emitting organic wastes. Therefore, the AD sector alone could deliver 20% of the UK’s commitment to the Global Methane Pledge.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Researchers will develop new ways to monitor carbon emissions from vast swathes of peatland after winning almost half a million pounds to develop new sensors that can be used in remote areas. Peatlands store around one-third of the world’s soil carbon, playing a vital role in reducing carbon emissions and combatting climate change.

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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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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Growing demand for natural gas will start to be curbed in the coming years, but more needs to be done to meet net zero goals, IEA report warns. Natural gas demand is expected to rise by 3.6 The annual increase in global demand for natural gas is teh expected to hit an average of 1.7

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

A Chinese study published in December aims to quantify the role of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) – and its predominance as a way of measuring organic pollution – in causing unnecessary GHG emissions. million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, which amounts to the annual carbon sequestered by China’s wetlands.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

I look forward to tapping into that desire and building on the strong foundation that Bob has built as we meet society’s demand for cleaner, better energy," he added. One obvious way to deliver more energy with less carbon, Looney said, is "more renewables and gas, pushing coal out of power.". Playing catch-up on renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The promise of a hydrogen economy to replace fossil fuels is commonly centered on the potential for ‘green hydrogen,’ generated via electrolysis of water with carbon-free electricity. But natural gas can also be converted to hydrogen without the carbon emissions, via another spectrum of the hydrogen palette.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 15, 2020

Andrew and Ratnika are joining EDF at a pivotal time, as we continue to build momentum among investors, corporates, and policymakers to eliminate oil and gas methane emissions and advance the low-carbon energy transition. The post The low-carbon energy transition: a new chapter appeared first on EDF+Business.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The reforms, set out by the EU's executive body yesterday, have been designed to accelerate uptake of low carbon gases, such as hydrogen, that could replace fossil fuels and help deliver on the EU's goal of reducing emissions by at least 55 per cent by 2030 on 1990 levels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

And with global demand for oil soaring, the pipeline project is more important than ever.”. The “responsibly-produced” oil that will be pumped through Trans Mountain could release 15 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. But certain facts were left conveniently unstated.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. The science is also uncertain around soil’s ability to store carbon, which can be easily undone through erosion, or changes in land use or the weather.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

As energy demands increase for heavier and longer-distance transport, the energy efficiency equation for fossil based-fuels becomes harder to displace. These industries now have a mandate to slash emissions even as fuel demands increase , and existing decarbonization solutions for lighter transportation aren’t up to snuff.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2024

billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at their Genesee Generating Station, claiming it is “technically viable but not economically feasible.” Julia Levin, associate director of National Climate with Environmental Defence, characterized the cancellation as yet another failure for carbon capture.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

The world's largest oil companies have today announced a new target to reduce carbon intensity across the industry, in a bid to bring its upstream greenhouse gas emissions into line with the Paris Agreement. Oil and Gas Climate Initiative hails 'further step in support of the Paris Agreement' as national oil majors back new emissions goals.

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