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Big Meat and Dairy Delegates Triple at COP28

DeSmogBlog

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Not the private interests of the biggest polluters on the planet.”

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Global Briefing: California unveils 'world first' net zero strategy

Business Green

California's new decarbonisation plan, Austria's windfall tax, and global methane reduction efforts. The agency said the strategy represened an unprecedented effort to drastically slash pollution and accelerate the transition to clean energy. "No California Air Resources Board publishes sweeping net zero strategy.

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How India’s Renewable Energy Sector Survived and Thrived in a Turbulent 2020

GreenTechMedia

Cheap renewables were favored on the grid last year, which caused coal use to fall as energy demand plummeted amid the economic slowdown. With power demand expected to triple by 2040 as India’s population continues to achieve upward mobility, fossil fuels are poised to see continued growth even as the clean energy market thrives.

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Crypto Mining at Gas Wells Sparks Regulatory Headaches, Outcry in Northwestern Pennsylvania

DeSmogBlog

This pad appears to be the first of its kind in Pennsylvania to go through a formal permitting process for the practice, which is gaining prominence throughout the Keystone State, home to hundreds of thousands of abandoned wells and rich methane stores. Crypto has the specter of restarting fossil [fuel] in Pennsylvania,” McPhedran said.

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A New Era for Germany’s Gas Industry Fuels Climate Fears

DeSmogBlog

That’s potentially very bad news for the climate: The huge amount of methane that leaks during the production, transport and storage of LNG means that the carbon emissions associated with importing the fuel could be up to ten times higher than for the equivalent amount of Russian pipeline gas, researchers say. Credit: DeSmog.

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How Will the Inflation Reduction Act Support a Clean Energy Transition in Business?

Green Business Bureau

Below you’ll learn what subsidies and incentives are available to help your business transition to clean energy and cut fossil-fuel energy demand and the costs associated. Fossil fuel operations generate over one-third of all methane emissions from human activity.

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Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero

DeSmogBlog

Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. From 2005 to 2015, dairy’s gaseous output increased by 18 percent. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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