Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Syngas can be subsequently burned to generate electricity or processed into transportation fuels.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

A study conducted by the University of Kentucky found that the dominant contributor to the carbon footprint and variable costs of field-grown trees is equipment use, or, more specifically, the combustion of fossil fuels which occurs at harvest time. Organic waste in landfills generates methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C It’s really about production at the end of the day.”

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

Fossil fuels are a leading cause of climate change and research shows that ubiquitous spills and leaks are often far worse than reported. Ohio fracking well Another epic spill that has turned out to be worse than originally thought is the 2016 Porter Ranch methane leak.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

A study conducted by the University of Kentucky found that the dominant contributor to the carbon footprint and variable costs of field-grown trees is equipment use, or, more specifically, the combustion of fossil fuels which occurs at harvest time. Organic waste in landfills generates methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Industrial agriculture contributes to deforestation, water pollution, biodiversity loss, and considerable methane emissions. It’s also heavily reliant on fossil fuels for vehicles, pesticides, fertilisers, and the transport of food – and often subjects workers to low wages, insecure employment and dangerous working conditions.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels not only requires reducing fossil fuel emissions but removing around 500 gigatons of atmospheric CO₂ by 2100. That carbon is then integrated into the soil by insects. According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 They also manage the grasses, mitigating the risk of wildfires.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Meanwhile, global emissions are spiralling upwards again as the economy recovers and surging fossil fuel prices are driving fears that a new wave of high carbon infrastructure investment could yet be unleashed. Altogether, that would make for a 40 per cent cut in overall methane emissions by 2030. pathway by 2030.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 9, 2020

Sixty-five percent of Russia is covered by permafrost and this threatens fossil fuel infrastructure like pipelines. As the leading source of climate changing greenhouse gas emissions fossil fuels are problematic but they are far more problematic in the Arctic. These feedback loops exacerbate Arctic warming.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. Fossil fuels, you might say, are an aged form of blue carbon.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Commonly known as soot, it is formed from wildfires and fossil fuel consumption and contributes to climate change. SLCPs include black carbon, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Adaptation.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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GreenTech Gazette

MARCH 1, 2023

The resulting biogas can be used as a source of renewable energy, while the compost can be used as a soil amendment. Biological recycling is an environmentally friendly alternative to landfilling, which can produce harmful methane emissions.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  And below we start the week off with a walk down memory lane of the year’s top CTVC headlines.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Rearing livestock is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, in part because it contributes to deforestation as land is cleared either to rear animals or to grow crops to provide animal feed and in part through methane emissions from cattle. And that's where the seaweed comes in.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Trees, soils and oceans naturally store some carbon dioxide, but human activities produce about five times more than nature can handle. That's why technologies that can reuse carbon dioxide to avoid fossil fuel use - or even better, lock it away in long-lived products like cement - are essential.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

The primary cause of greenhouse gas emissions is the burning of fossil fuels, which is occurring at a current rate at which the environment’s natural reuptake and stabilization cannot keep up. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels not only requires reducing fossil fuel emissions but removing around 500 gigatons of atmospheric CO₂ by 2100. That carbon is then integrated into the soil by insects. According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 They also manage the grasses, mitigating the risk of wildfires.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

And in less than a year, Charm went from a struggling alternative fuel startup to one of the most credible carbon removal companies on the market. To prevent the most devastating effects of climate change, it’s essential to cut greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out fossil fuel use. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Grist

AUGUST 2, 2019

The heat is drying out deeper into the soil, which means the duff layers lower down are much more susceptible to burning,” said Carly Phillips , a scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center on Cape Cod who studies carbon cycling in northern ecosystems. That includes up to ten times more methane than your typical flame-driven fire.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. In this context, the meat industry is increasingly viewed as a sector where greenhouse gas emissions cuts can and should be made, just like the fossil fuel industry.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. 50 companies , representing over 40% global oil production, committed to reduce methane emissions to 0.2% Execution questions marks. and raising the remaining $23.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Due to human activity - largely the burning of fossil fuels - concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are higher than at any time in the last two million years, with concentrations continuing to increase in 2020 despite the temporary dip in annual global emissions that resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the report.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

To me, this would include halting climate-destructive practices such as tropical deforestation, flaring and fugitive emissions of methane, and "black carbon" emissions from biomass burning, dirty cookstoves and other sources. To achieve such rapid cuts in emissions, we need to deploy the fastest possible climate solutions.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 7, 2022

Rapid changes, which are fueled by human activity, in the global climate are the main contributors to extreme weather conditions across the world. And these human activities include but are not limited to deforestation, burning fossil fuels, pollution, and overpopulation. Severe Widespread Drought. Final Words.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. Trees are cut down for pasture, fossil fuels are used as fertilizer for feed, and that feed is transported across borders, and sometimes the world, using even more fossil fuels.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. Seaweed's potential as a solution to this crisis is two-fold, scientists and environmentalists say.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Waste and waste by-products can easily make their way into the air, soil, and water sources. Yet the most common waste types here are industrial non-hazardous waste and fossil fuel combustion waste. This is because composting facilities optimize the organic breakdown of food to reduce the amount of methane emitted.

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Grist

JULY 26, 2019

In their letter, the 30-some authors describe how the microbes in their respective area of study — the oceans, the soil, in and on animals, the Arctic tundra, and even the air — are impacted by, and in turn impact, climate change. Humans have made the mistake of ignoring microbes in the past.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A study published in Science last year found that even if emissions from fossil fuels ceased right away, projected eating habits would make it impossible to keep global average temperature rises to 1.5C. But that trend sets the world on a collision course with the climate targets laid out in the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Russia is waging a war on European soil, with global implications for energy and food supplies. Some leaders who a few months ago were vowing to phase out fossil fuels are now encouraging fossil fuel companies to ramp up production. Today, the world looks ever more complex.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Rather, by using an alternative resource to fossil fuels, biodegradable straws enable a reduced ecological footprint across the whole of the product lifespan – from production to disposal. Similar chemicals are released by plastics that go to landfill, and local soil systems and rivers can suffer as a result.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Another pledge by more than 100 countries to cut methane by 30 per cent by 2030, essential for reducing this potent and prevalent greenhouse gas. A mixed result of negotiations was that mention of the reduction of fossil fuels was included in the final agreement for the first time since the original 1995 COP.

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