DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Preliminary data shows that methane emissions jumped in 2020 by the largest amount since systematic record-keeping began decades ago. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 ppb rise in 2019. ppb rise in 2019. million years. Credit: NOAA.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 coal power has been replaced with gas power (methane/natural gas). . Can Coal Replace Natural Gas? In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The study found that an alternative method of quantifying the impact of methane emissions has led to a raft of industry-friendly findings that the livestock sector seems to be using to claim climate neutrality as they continue to pollute. GWP* prioritizes the trend over the last 20 years. Credit: Matt Brown/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2021

Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. And ratcheting down these emissions can lead to quick and significant wins for the climate. Slashing methane emissions represents prime targets for climate action.

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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. Many of those metrics have worsened since the group originally declared a climate emergency in 2019. trillion between 2015 and 2019. Climate change is not abstract right now.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 1, 2024

Oil and gas companies and their top trade groups were aware for decades that carbon emissions contribute to climate change, according to a scathing new report from congressional investigators. David Lawler, then-chairman and president of BP America, said publicly that “direct federal regulation of methane emissions is essential.”

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While the focus is usually on fossil fuel emissions as the main climate change culprit, a new analysis by the nonprofit Energy Vision concludes that reducing emissions from organic waste would more steeply reduce methane. announced their commitment to cutting methane emissions by 30% by 2030, as compared with 2020 levels.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

Sitting in their tiny conference room, nicknamed the “Pineapple Room” for a tropical rug that covered the floor, in the summer of 2019, he and his co-founders faced their primary investor to deliver a grim update. One of the company’s founders, Kevin Meissner, wanted to build a shrine of sorts to human-induced climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Released ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), the latest round of climate talks taking place in Glasgow, the report finds that net zero pledges could make a big difference. C, providing hope that further action could still head off the most-catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

“By mapping out how AD and biogas could help countries to dramatically cut their greenhouse gas emissions, especially methane, over the next decade and beyond, this report aims to put humanity back on track to deliver on the ambitions of both the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals.” Read the Executive Summary.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

International financing for clean energy and climate change resiliency will be a focus of COP26. Developed countries committed in 2009 to provide $100 billion annually in climate finance to developing countries by 2020. billion in 2019. The president announced in September that the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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Defend Our Future

JULY 26, 2019

She has established herself as such by embarking on a mission to raise awareness of the climate crisis and by demanding that elected leaders listen to the voices of us young people when making decisions that will determine what our futures will look like. Thunberg knows this. The estimated 1.5

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It is incredibly hard for investors to source, vet and execute investments across the many varied climate solution sectors," said Jan Van Dokkum, the former Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers partner who became chairman of Imperative in 2019, in a statement. "We

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. The science is also uncertain around soil’s ability to store carbon, which can be easily undone through erosion, or changes in land use or the weather.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

in backing for its plan to fund farmers' use of methane-reducing cattle feed through CO2 offsets. Companies and individuals may soon be able to pay cows to burp less in return for carbon offset credits, under plans being developed by Swiss-British agritech firm Mootral to fund the use of methane-cutting cattle feed on farms.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A month after the food summit, P2DNZ made a splash at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, where Tom Vilsack, the US Secretary of Agriculture – himself the former CEO of a major dairy industry lobbying firm – expressed his department’s “strong support”. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Fossil fuels, primarily gas, are a fixture in millions of American homes and businesses, but the building sector’s climate impact hasn’t received the same scrutiny as coal and gas in the power sector or oil in the transportation sector. Fortunately, that’s changing. As a result, the U.S. gas system each year.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. New research published in Nature Climate Change in March, which was able to pinpoint the warming caused by livestock emissions for the first time, has added to the pressure.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Image credit: © 2019 Barbara Mair, Universität Wien Georg Winkler working on a setup used to characterise the high-performance mirrors under vacuum conditions. in December 2019. M anufactured in a new process based on crystalline materials, these low-loss mirrors hold forth the promise of completely new application areas.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

But before that happens, leaks from across the natural gas supply chain — from the drilling process to gas stoves — can unintentionally vent methane into the atmosphere. That’s especially bad news, since methane is roughly 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2. In some ways, the methane findings are a good thing.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Britons consume four times as many animal products as people in Haiti and ten times as much meat and dairy as those in Mozambique, two countries most affected by climate change worldwide. The complaint was not upheld.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emissions cause heat to be trapped in the atmosphere which is warming the globe and driving climate change. Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). degrees Celsius or 2.7

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 12, 2024

Offshore gas fields worldwide are major sources of emissions of methane, a powerful, short-lived greenhouse gas. The International Energy Agency and UN agencies have said urgent cuts to methane are essential to meeting climate targets, and have warned that new fossil fuel exploration is incompatible with a 1.5

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

In a 2019 report , the Croatan Institute, a research institute based in Durham, North Carolina, found some $47.5 Project Drawdown, a climate change mitigation think tank that ranks climate solutions, estimates that some 1.6 billion worth of investment assets in the U.S. with regenerative agriculture criteria.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

However, Harris has embraced a number of causes that are seen as progressive priorities, including action on climate change. During the campaign for the nomination, she unveiled plans for a $10tr climate investment blitz designed to deliver a net zero emission economy. "As

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Carbon markets offer an immediate and straightforward means of financing technology to combat methane emissions at landfill sites, explains Margaret Williams of the American Carbon Registry. Methane is a potent gas, from the perspective of climate at least. And to do that, we need to look beyond burping cows.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

MtCO2e in 2019. . Deforestation to create pastures and feed for livestock releases CO2; methane is emitted from animals and their manure; and fossil fuels are used to transport animals and power the globalized meat supply chain. No company that buys meat from JBS can claim to be serious about climate change.”.

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Business Green

JULY 10, 2022

Nusa Urbancic, campaigns director at Changing Markets Foundation, said that following the food price spike spurred in part by Russia's war in Ukraine the world was "currently at a crucial crossroads that will determine the future of food production for decades to come".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2022

However, green hydrogen is prohibitively expensive to make, and as of 2019, accounted for just 1 percent of hydrogen production. Since 2019, there has been a renewed focus for a Canada-first energy strategy and a homegrown solution to climate change that will positively impact other parts of the world.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Did you realize that by throwing food out, you’re also wasting water and causing climate change? in comparison to 2019, making up 18% of total retail sales globally. The entire amount of greenhouse gasses (such as carbon dioxide and methane) produced by human actions is known as a carbon footprint. Approximately 1.3

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

They also are more equipped with the vital skills to adapt and be resilient to climate change when disaster strikes, and to influence how their communities mitigate against it. It would seem that climate tech’s moment has arrived. In 2019, just 2.8 From classrooms to boardrooms. economy to net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emissions are warming the globe and driving climate change. According to a 2019 study there is currently more CO2 in the atmosphere than there has been in at least 3 million years. degrees Fahrenheit as agreed to in the Paris Climate Accord). percent in 2019. degrees Celsius or 2.7

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Since the last climate conference took place in Madrid in 2019, we’ve seen wildfires in Greece, Australia, Canada, and South America, biblical floods in China, the UK, Germany and America, and record-breaking hurricanes, cyclones, and tornadoes across the globe. Coal is the single biggest contributor to global climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

But TC Energy, the Canadian owner of a major regional gas pipeline, has asked federal regulators to approve a plan that would dramatically expand the line’s capacity, flooding the region for decades with new supplies of methane gas – even as demand dwindles. Credit: Rogue Climate. percent a year on average through 2050.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 3, 2020

These heatwaves triggered an epidemic of wildfires in 2019 effectively illustrating the fact that these fires have become the new abnormal. On December 22, Morrison incorrectly told journalists it’s "not credible" to suggest a link between climate change and any individual wildfire.

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