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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As Louisiana attempts to spew less climate-warming pollution, which disproportionately comes from industry, fossil-fuel companies have convinced lawmakers to jump onto the bandwagon of carbon capture and storage (CCS), a controversial and unproven method of addressing the issue.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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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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CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

Joint effort focuses on developing technologies and management practices to accelerate reductions of methane emissions across the global oil and gas industry. The agreement enables joint collaboration on projects that test technologies and emerging strategies to continue to improve methane management. BP took such a step today.”.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

When shipping giant Maersk announced last month it would operate a “carbon-neutral” vessel by 2023, the Danish company committed to using a fuel that’s made from renewable sources, is free of soot-forming pollutants — and is currently in scarce supply. E-methanol is made by combining hydrogen with carbon dioxide.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

Large amounts of organic matter are removed during treatment processes to meet environmental standards, and as a result, significant amounts of GHGs such as methane are released into the atmosphere. They found that the amount of methane released from the treatment of recalcitrant organic matters in 2018 could have been as high as 38.22

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As the oil and gas industry achieves success in pushing the world towards widespread adoption of methane-based blue hydrogen, some unexpected voices are calling out the industry on its deception of selling blue hydrogen as an affordable and clean source of energy. . In April, CGEP released a paper advocating for large investments in the U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2021

Amy Townsend-Small has been chasing methane her entire professional life. Sniffing out the potent greenhouse gas, which traps 86 times as much heat as carbon dioxide after it’s emitted into the atmosphere, has required her to breathalyze cows and take chemical measurements at large manure lagoons. Christopher Collins.

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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

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And consider – after the US and China, wasted food is the third-largest carbon dioxide generator in the world. Between 8% and 10% of the world’s carbon emissions result from all these unconsumed products. billion tonnes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) equivalent to carbon dioxide are emitted annually due to food waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

” The biopolymers are combined with graphene, a variant of carbon (or allotrope , to be precise) whose modern rediscovery and isolation at the University of Manchester in 2004 led to a Nobel Prize. In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2.

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Grist

AUGUST 2, 2019

And their expectation is that this summer isn’t a once-in-a-lifetime fluke; rather, it’s indicative of rapid changes that could alter the fabric of Arctic ecosystems, unleashing even more billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Not to pick on Belgium again, but that’s the same amount of carbon the country emitted in all of 2018.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. billion tons of CO 2 in 2018.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

The waste management sector bears an essential role in the EU’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the group explained in a statement in early February. In 2018, Waste-to-Energy plants supplied electricity to 18 million EU citizens and heat to 15 million EU citizens.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The findings, published ahead of the Brazilian company’s annual general meeting on Friday, prompted renewed calls from climate campaigners for asset managers to divest from JBS – despite its pledge to hit net zero carbon emissions by 2040. MtCO2e in 2021 – an increase of 51% over five years. MtCO2e in 2019. . In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Perhaps the most obvious use for green hydrogen is to simply replace the large amounts of the gas that are already produced using carbon-intensive methods to satisfy the needs of industry. million metric tons (Mt) of hydrogen were used for oil refining in 2018 and another 31.5 Based on International Energy Agency figures, 38.2

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

The plan also includes $1 billion to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, which are responsible for almost 10 percent of the province’s greenhouse gas emissions About $215 million of that money will help fund projects for thermal waste treatment — methods that transform waste into energy that can be used for such things as heating.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A recent study has found it is currently “not feasible” for the global livestock industry to sequester enough carbon to cancel out its planet-warming emissions — and that policy efforts geared toward that goal may be deeply misguided. 135 gigatons is roughly equal to all the carbon lost due to agriculture over the past 12,000 years.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China is now the world's second largest economy and the largest carbon emitter. Their coal powered economic growth has unleashed a carbon bomb. Overall the country's carbon output tripled between 2000 and 2018, and its CO2 emissions now represents almost one third of the global total.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) — which represents 12 of the world’s largest oil and gas companies including BP, Shell, Exxon, Chevron, Aramco and Petrobras — revealed recently it is funding research alongside Stena Bulk into mobile carbon capture on board ships out at sea.

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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). This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ).

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

According to the nomenclature used by market research firm Wood Mackenzie , most of the gas that is already widely used as an industrial chemical is either brown, if it's made through the gasification of coal or lignite; or gray, if it is made through steam methane reformation, which typically uses natural gas as the feedstock.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2021

From devastating wildfires to rising methane emissions, Earth’s vital signs are continuing to deteriorate, scientists warn. Both methane and carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have reached new record highs, the study reveals. trillion between 2018 and 2020. Australia, the U.K., Credit: CIFOR. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) — which represents 12 of the world’s largest oil and gas companies including BP, Shell, Exxon, Chevron, Aramco and Petrobras — revealed recently it is funding research alongside Stena Bulk into mobile carbon capture on board ships out at sea.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

The UK government's post-Brexit ambition for a net zero carbon market could be world-leading - but the plans released earlier this month repeat many of the mistakes of the EU system, including a very loose cap on emissions, and a market so complex it would make Rube Goldberg weep. This is below the current EU ETS price of €23 (£20.50).

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In 2018, when ExxonMobil announced its intention to reduce its methane emissions and gas-burning, many welcomed and celebrated the news. Newly leaked documents reveal that Exxon actually plans to increase its carbon production by 17% by the year 2025. This increase would be equivalent to the total annual emissions of Greece.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2022

The 100-year old Saltend Chemicals Park is gearing up to become a test ground for hydrogen and carbon capture industrial decarbonisation technologies - BusinessGreen visits the UK's ground zero for net zero. We are decarbonising energy and we are decarbonising products.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 3, 2020

The move to exit merchant generation while retaining its three nuclear power plants “could reduce overall business risk and earnings volatility, improve our credit profile, and enhance an already compelling ESG position driven by pending clean energy investments, methane reduction and zero-carbon generation,” Izzo said.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

electric sector reduced its carbon emissions by 26 percent from 2005 to 2018. Preliminary estimates for 2019 indicate that this trend is accelerating, with another 10 percent drop just from 2018 to 2019. As a result, the U.S. Building-sector emissions, on the other hand, remain largely unchanged despite energy efficiency gains.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

The groups argued that California utilities shouldn’t be adding new carbon and pollution-emitting resources when the state is trying to meet ambitious zero-carbon goals. Counting costs and carbon impacts. Now PG&E is planning to rely on mobile diesel generators instead, at least for this year.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

The Hywind Tampen project, in the works since 2018 , will see 11 floating turbines constructed in water as deep as 300 metres, around 150km from the shore. Norway's petroleum ministry has approved plans for an 88MW floating wind project set to power state-backed oil company Equinor's offshore operations in the North Sea.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This annual report looks at where we are compared to where we need to be in terms of GHGs (see previous reports 2012 , 2018 and 2019 ). gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e). billion tons of CO2e were dumped into the atmosphere in 2018 and coal power spewed a record breaking 10 billion tons of carbon into the air in 2019.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Kingsbury, who was awarded a CBE in 2018, was the first CEO of the UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) and led the state-backed bank from its formation in 2012 to its £2.3bn sale to Macquarie in 2017. He is also the chairman of CNG Fuels , a leading provider of bio-methane for HGV vehicles. "I

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