Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Since the EU-wide lifting of milk quotas in 2015, Ireland’s dairy sector has expanded rapidly , adding around half a million cows. The IFA has worked closely with controversial California-based air quality scientist, Frank Mitloehner, to argue against the need to sharply curtail methane emissions from livestock. Irish Agriculture.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to arrive at the session with concrete commitments for phasing out fossil fuels, observing in his opening remarks that “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” Despite its name, ambition was largely lacking at mid-September’s Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations in New York.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

A number of big polluters, including fossil fuel companies, support and are involved in the UK’s CCS plans. . oil major Chevron, in partnership with other fossil fuel giants. It also asserted that fossil fuels need to be rapidly reduced by 2030, and completely phased out thereafter.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28. Greenhouse gas emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, of course.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

“I am here to sound the alarm alongside my German colleagues: This is destruction masked as economic development, and we will do everything we can to protect our homes and to stop it,” said Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , a New Orleans nonprofit working with communities affected by the fossil fuel industry.

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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. the spokesperson stated.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Climate campaigners, however, see the new piers and pipelines as ominous signs that the gas lobby has finally achieved a long-standing goal to lock Germany into the $100 billion global LNG market – threatening to keep Europe’s biggest economy hooked on fossil fuels for decades to come. “A It’s fossil fuel madness.”.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Arlene Karidis Wed, 07/15/2020 – 01:00 One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is “clean hydrogen” made from trash. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The world's decarbonisation efforts may have taken a massive step forward since the 2015 signing of the Paris Agreement, when the global economy was commonly thought to be on track for 3-4C of warming. The need for continued action, regardless of the feasibility of the 1.5C

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Factors like abundant land and energy resources, status as a major energy exporter, skilled workforce, over-reliance on imported fuels, and declining reserves make hydrogen a very excellent proposition to solve a lot of the country’s energy troubles, both short and long term. International certification scheme for hydrogen. kg by 2025.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

Rio Tinto's $2.4bn Jadar mining project would have made the Anglo Australian firm one of the world's top producers of lithium, which has found itself in increasing global demand as a key raw material for EV batteries and other clean tech products. As such, Guterres said that "the battle to keep the 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Paris Summit in 2015 was a genuine turning point in the world's response to the climate crisis that will define the century one way or another, and as such it should be remembered by historians as an event of global import. In some ways this is an absurd contention.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2020

Based on our scenario of a 10 billion global population consuming 80g per day - the current average - there would be a 33 per cent increase in protein demand by 2050. Red meat from cows, sheep and goats is a particularly large source of greenhouse gases due to the methane produced in ruminant digestion. Figures from nutrition.org.uk

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Part of the reason behind China’s coal expansion is it’s growing demand for power. China’s electricity consumption was 33 percent higher in 2020 than in 2015. percent lower in 2020 than 2015. . coal power has been replaced with gas power (methane/natural gas). China’s Coal Expansion. For comparison, U.S. In the U.S.,

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

above pre-industrial levels after more than a century of burning fossil fuels and current policies are expected to lead to global warming of 2.8C The report also warned that emissions from existing fossil fuel infrastructure will exceed what is left of the global carbon budget for 1.5C Global temperatures have risen to 1.1C

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Such businesses better meet the demands of the regulatory environment while coming into alignment with investor, consumer, and employee preferences. The Paris Climate Agreement : COP21 took place in Paris 2015, and marked a new momentum for climate action. With these targets in mind, 2015 marks a significant point in our history.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. and regulators in different drilling regions face different issues.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Monica Weiss attended her first fossil-fuel divestment protest on a frigid February day in 2015. Subsequently, two independent reports suggested that the funds would “face high potential risk for economic disruption from the transition to a low carbon global economy” if they continued to invest in fossil fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Already, politicians and major corporations, including oil and gas producers, are hard at work promoting the idea that the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goals can be met if the financial world coalesces around “net-zero” climate initiatives. special envoy on climate, has called humanity’s “last best chance” to curb the climate catastrophe.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. A decade ago, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

My ears perked up when Bren Haase, the current executive director of the CPRA, profusely thanked Eric Beightel, the head of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council established in 2015. T-shirts with sponsors’ names worn by guests at a Katrina 10-year anniversary event in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward on August 29, 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. A decade ago, the U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2024

Natural gas is 70 to 90 percent methane, a greenhouse gas that’s about 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the short term. “We don’t have existing fossil fuel refineries here. Do you know an organizer standing up to the fossil fuel industry on behalf of their community (like Bekah Hinojosa)?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It was also the fifth anniversary (though delayed by a year due to Covid-19) of the historic Paris Agreement, executed in 2015, making it a milestone year in which countries were mandated to revisit and update their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). So, what happened? Did COP26 deliver what it hoped to achieve?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

State of Montana that the state’s ongoing support for and promotion of fossil fuel development — including directing state regulators not to consider a project’s climate impacts during the permitting process — violated Montana’s constitutional guarantee of the right to a clean and healthful environment, which extends to a stable climate.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

At a time when scientists warn there can be no new fossil fuel developments if the world is going to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, oil and gas executives are turning to a technology known as carbon capture and storage , or CCS, to convince investors, politicians, and the public their expansion plans are climate-safe.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” Based upon Val Verde, since the 1970s, U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Most of these carbon-capture projects are run by fossil fuel companies. Big Oil likes to celebrate the technology: By putting carbon back in the ground, the industry can provide consumers with the benefits of fossil fuel without the full climate impact. “If That number, about 0.1% Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

A Few Relevant Data Points With the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, humans began their dependence on the burning of fossil fuels?coal Source: UCSUSA 2015 Both China and the United States depend heavily on the burning of coal to produce electricity. coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

But 2021 also saw a significant number of victories against the expansion of the fossil fuel industry in the U.S. The year started with a conspiracy-fueled coup plot on the U.S. Those moves signaled an intention to prioritize climate change during the Biden era after years of giveaways to the fossil fuel industry.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 percent of its GDP. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Global energy shortages and a recent spike in oil prices to a three-year high above $80 a barrel, have dimmed hopes that governments will announce bold new plans to rapidly ditch fossil fuels at the October 31st to November 12th summit. is closing fast. Global carbon emissions fell by a record 5.8

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2021

Meanwhile, new fuel efficiency standards from the Transportation Department are set to require efficiency increases of eight per cent a year from 2024 through 2026. The standards are set to be accompanied by further measures to expand the US EV charging network and drive demand for zero emission models, including from the federal fleet.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

In March, the UK government ignored campaigners’ calls to end the issuance of offshore oil and gas licences and reverse its policy of maximising economic recovery of fossil fuels in the North Sea, leaving the door open for more privately-owned and less-transparent companies to purchase and profit from North Sea assets.

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