DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

But the only commitment they’re making is to eliminate methane [emissions] and stop flaring,” said Ioualalen. In October, COP28 President Al Jaber said that eliminating methane leaks and flaring is the fastest way to make the biggest impact on short-term operational emissions. Oil and gas companies are committing to net-zero.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

As a result of this rapid expansion, overall emissions from Ireland’s agricultural sector, which had been declining slowly up until around 2010, rose by a massive 19.3 An analyst with Rabobank described the atmosphere in the dairy sector at the time as being “like the night before Christmas”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The science behind the hockey stick graph has been continuously upheld as accurate, and is among key findings that prove burning oil, coal, and methane gas is the primary driver of the climate crisis. Mann and other scientists have steadily pointed out that climate deniers took the emails out of context. —

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Most hydrogen produced today is made by splitting it from methane gas, generating carbon dioxide as a byproduct. Only 252 megawatts of electrolyzers were in operation worldwide between 2010-2019, according to WoodMac. The project received £7.5 million in funding. Green hydrogen uses renewable power to create H2 via electrolysis.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Widely known as “laughing gas”, used for its anesthetic effects, nitrous oxide (N2O) is also regarded as the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane. TgN y-1 (approximately 10% of the global total) between 2000–2005 and 2010–2015.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). percent per year since 2010, but in 2019 they grew by 2.6 The impacts of GHGs are being felt here and now. In 2019, total greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high of 59.1

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

It calls for CO 2 emissions to be reduced by 45% by 2030 relative to 2010 levels and for CO 2 emissions to reach “net zero” by “around mid-century”. It also encourages parties to reduce methane emissions by 2030.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 9, 2020

Melting permafrost Warming Arctic temperatures are releasing carbon and methane , the two most serious GHGs. For years scientists have observed massive quantities of methane emanating from melting ice on the sea floor in the Arctic. This was 930,000 square kilometers (359,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 May average.

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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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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

percent per year since 2010, to 2.6 In 2019, total greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high of 59.1 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e). Emissions have increased from an average 1.4 percent in 2019. A total of 33.1

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since 2010, private equity firms have invested more than $1 trillion in fossil fuel assets – double the combined market value of ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Shell. In that scenario, disclosure requirement norms can keep the sector from becoming a haven for climate holdouts. Thoughtful Asset Acquisition.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. The commercial explained that by changing a cow’s diet, Burger King was able to reduce their methane emissions by 33%.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Yet the material itself did feel fairly stale, taking 2010 as its benchmark year while looking forward to 2050. Current trends are sliding to a nearly 600 million-hectare “land gap,” between global agricultural land area in 2010, and expected agricultural expansion by 2050. That’s an area nearly twice the size of India.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 29, 2020

In 2010, Geim was recognized for his pioneering work with graphene and awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Methods of creating graphene required, as Chemical & Engineering News cited, “expensive substrates on which to grow graphene and/or reagents such as methane, acetylene and organic solids that must be purified before use.”

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

The head of FTI’s Strategic Communications for the Americas is a man named Brian Kennedy, who was the communications strategist for drilling contractor Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. A screenshot from FTI Consulting’s 2015 presentation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The findings further fuelled the cautiously optimistic mood that has built up during the first week of talks at COP26, which has seen a raft of new net zero pledges from emerging economies and a series of global deals to increase flows of climate finance, better protect forests, accelerate clean tech deployment, and curb methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

A comprehensive review of national climate plans from the 191 countries and states signed up to the Paris Agreement - known as 'nationally determined contributions' (NDCs) in UN jargon - calculates global greenhouse gas emissions are set to rise by 16 per cent by 2030 against 2010 levels. Achieving the Paris 1.5C within reach.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

On November 29, Coterra Energy and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) signed a consent order allowing the operator, one of the largest natural gas producers in the state, to drill laterally beneath an area that has been mostly fracking-free since 19 households found methane in their water in 2008 and 2009.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Thereafter, as previous IPCC reports have indicated, global emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030, in addition to a reduction in methane emissions of around a third, from 2019 levels. Even if emissions are halved by 2030 and methane is cut by a third in the same timeframe, it is "almost inevitable" warming will rise above that 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

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. EQT was initially permitted for the well pad in 2010, DEP records show.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. The commercial explained that by changing a cow’s diet, Burger King was able to reduce their methane emissions by 33%.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

To keep temperature increases under that critical threshold, carbon emissions must be halved by the end of the decade compared to 2010 levels, according to the analysts, and all greenhouse gas emissions cut by roughly 40 per cent in the same time frame. The five broad, interconnected "shifts" that could steer the globe on to a 1.5-degree

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The outdoor NO2 standard was only revised in 2010 and regulations for NO2 still stop at the doorway of U.S. So you can see just how powerful an influence these AGA-funded studies had in shifting the balance of evidence in the industry’s favor. This influence continued over subsequent decades. The science has also grown.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

3 Its author is Duncan Brack, who was an adviser to Chris Huhne when he was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012. S Fairlie, Meat: a Benign Extravagance, Permanent Publications, 2010, pp 35-43; also “Eating the Platter Clean”, The Land 24, 2019. Brack’s report caused quite a stir.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Airbus studied hydrogen aircraft in the 2000s but shelved their plans in 2010 due to technical issues that are yet to be resolved. Before it becomes a reality, many problems must be solved, especially in the field of safety, and new technologies must be developed. Financial support from governments means taxpayers pay …most of whom never fly.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

NDC of 50 to 52 percent below 2010 emissions by 2030. [3] Technical Support Document: Social Cost of Carbon, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide Interim Estimates under Executive Order 13990” (Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, United States Government, February 2021), [link]. [3] NDC Scenario.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

To achieve this the IPCC calculates that annual global emissions of CO2 must be reduced to 45 per cent below their 2010 level by 2030, which was roughly 1.9 To limit global warming to a peak of 1.5C, which the impacts we are experiencing at 1.35°C gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year). Nature is no longer on our side. The choice is ours.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In an email chain forwarded to Friedman by Crawford in 2010, Dye and a co-worker unsuccessfully attempted to divert West Linn Paper Co. While taking a close look at boiler operations following a 2010 equipment upgrade, Hart noticed fluctuations in efficiency that could only be explained by lower-quality gas, and contacted NW Natural.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Shell, which was identified as the second worst offender in the study, currently channels 90 percent of its long-term investments into fossil fuels, according to recent analysis, and between 2010 and 2018, it was reported to have dedicated just 1 percent of its investments to sources of low-carbon energy such as wind and solar.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

We're working with the energy industry on accelerating decarbonisation, reducing methane and expanding hydrogen. "As long as the world still uses hydrocarbons, we must ensure they are the least carbon intensive possible," he said. Let's keep our focus on holding back emissions, not progress.".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Since 1990, methane emissions from agriculture have increased nearly 17 percent , largely because of the way manure is managed on large farms. The audit also found that in 2010 and 2011 the NCBA charged the travel costs of at least 20 staffers traveling to D.C.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Credit: Julie Dermansky Air Products plans to build a manufacturing complex near Burnside, a small town in Ascension Parish, that will transform the methane in natural gas into ammonia and blue hydrogen while using technology to capture up to 95 percent of the CO2 emissions created in the process. It seems that those efforts are backfiring.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Overall, soil degradation was calculated in 2010 to cost the UK £1.2bn every year. The climate impact of farming practices are significant too - in the UK, agriculture and land-use are responsible for around 12 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, including almost half of the country's methane emissions.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 average. Lot’s of Methane. Some of you might already be aware of the ticking time bomb called methane. In 2008, scientists found that a giant amount of methane (about 50 gigatons) is trapped in the form of permafrost in Arctic regions. Further Viewing.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

To stay below the 1.5ºC warming threshold , we have to cut global emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, meaning we have just under a decade. The Biggest Opportunity of Our Generation Image credit: Joel Pett Scientists have made it abundantly clear we have very little time left to ensure Earth remains habitable for humans. million.

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