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A tech-backed mission to monitor methane pollution launches today

The Verge: Energy

Image: MethaneSAT via EDF A mission to map and track global methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas, is scheduled to launch today after years of collaboration between some of the biggest names in tech. It also routinely escapes from oil and gas fields, pipelines, and even home appliances.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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Ground Flare At Mammoth New Exxon SABIC Plastics Plant Likened to A Harmless ‘Barbecue’ In Corporate Video

DeSmogBlog

The site is home to the world’s largest ethane steam cracker plant, which will feed the production of nurdles – tiny pellets that form the building blocks for plastic products. As the planet warms, hurricanes are intensifying more quickly, leaving less time for facilities to shut down before they are potentially hit.

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'Half measures won't halve emissions': The green economy reacts to IPCC's climate solutions report

Business Green

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Tory MP Leading Net Zero Backlash is Linked to Lobbyist With Hidden Fossil Fuel Interest

DeSmogBlog

The chair of a campaign by backbench Tory MPs against climate action runs a parliamentary group with a lobbyist who has an undeclared interest in the continued use of fossil fuel-powered vehicles, DeSmog can reveal. The MPs included former Brexit minister Steve Baker and Mackinlay, who described the report as “ground-breaking”.

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How can the world kick its oil habit?

Mr. Sustainability

Don’t agree on the assessment or the different pathways to get rid of fossil fuels? This is a review of an article from the Financial Times , which first appeared in February 2020 just before the fossil fuel industry had its worst year ever. Our usage has jumped 62 per cent over the course of a few decades — up from 61.6