DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

It’s mind-blowing that JBS can continue to make climate claims to investors, even as the company massively increases its emissions,” said Shefali Sharma, Europe director for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a nonprofit advocacy organisation, which calculated the estimates. MtCO2e in 2019. . million cattle, 46.7

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

The impact of poor air quality The release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is well known to contribute to climate change, with carbon dioxide and methane being the subject of many global and national mitigation strategies that aim to break the vicious cycle of global warming. trillion, equivalent to 6.1

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

in comparison to 2019, making up 18% of total retail sales globally. According to a poll of 6,000 customers in North America, Europe, and Asia, 72% of respondents are already actively purchasing more environmentally friendly goods. According to an FAO estimate, a staggering 690 million people experienced hunger in 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Green hydrogen could replace methane to generate heat or power. When the country first set out the net-zero goal in June 2019, that changed, he told GTM in a recent interview. It’s a trend now repeating around Europe with other markets not far behind. It could even be used as a fuel in heavy transport.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

And while it's not a central concern today for those companies (Enel, EDP, BayWa and others) or industry groups (SolarPower Europe and WindEurope), all see green hydrogen playing a vital role in achieving deep decarbonization of the energy system. for production using steam methane reformation. per kilo, compared to $0.90

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

In the initial phase, 25 terawatt-hours (TWh) per year of green methane, from which more than half a million metric tons of hydrogen can be produced, will be imported into Wilhelmshaven. In the current volatile situation, I understand that you have brought forward the timelines for the project to help address the security crisis in Europe.

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The assertions also lack detail, face technical problems, ignore leaking methane emissions, and depend on government subsidies for funding. To complicate matters further, new research suggests that fugitive methane emissions from fracking operations are far higher than official data indicates. August 29, 2019. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 20, 2022

Proposed by New Fortress Energy (NFE), the planned facility will be a floating offshore export terminal that would treat, liquefy, and store methane gas before loading it onto ships headed abroad. Shell’s floating LNG facility off the coast of Australia has been mired with problems nearly since it first shipped cargo in 2019.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin. Fracking was remarkably unpopular with the public, with the UK government's own surveys in 2019 finding that opposition to fracking outnumbered support by four to one.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

Entire sections of wetlands are being filled in and paved over to build LNG export terminals, which will ship fracked gas to Europe and Asia. have become increasingly intertwined and inextricably linked to markets in Europe and Asia. However, the LNG buildout is now in limbo. gas prices closer to those other, costlier regions.

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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. This is particularly relevant in regions like East Asia, where nitrogen fertilizer could be used more efficiently without reducing crop yields.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

With widespread commitments made to reducing CO 2 emissions, attention is turning to other greenhouse gases, specifically methane and nitrous oxide as the next largest contributors. Another driver of new alternatives in Europe at least is the proposal to regulate SF 6 in the EU rules on fluorinated greenhouse gases, currently under review.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

The target covers both carbon dioxide and methane emissions from OGCI member companies' operated upstream oil and gas exploration and production activities, as well as emissions from associated imports of electricity and steam. So it's for this reason that we welcome attempts to reduce emissions, for example flaring and methane leakage.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The chief of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), the joint sustainability initiative backed by the world's biggest miners, is confident Europe's drive to shore up mineral security and deliver on climate goals could result in a cleaner and greener future for the global mining industry. "I

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Compare that to the hundreds operating across North America, and similar numbers across Europe. In 2019 we had more than two months without rainfall, so it really drives drought here. One study found methane emissions were actually two-times lower from managed plantations than they were from natural, tropical peatland rainforest.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? The sources cited by Garson are a 2019 article in the New York on-line news service vox.com, and a 2014 feature on the website Ecowatch. Carbon Foregone. Default Firewood.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s disconnected from reality, a reality that’s playing out right now in Europe,” a September 29 American Petroleum Institute post reads. Shale gas could change all that, McClendon argued, by making methane supplies abundant. Trump participates in a walking tour of Cameron LNG Export Terminal May 14, 2019, in Hackberry, Louisiana.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In near continuous operation since the mid-90s, and the largest CCS project yet conceived in the North Sea and Europe, Sleipner has a capacity to sequester almost a million tonnes of CO2 annually. Ranked in 2019 as the ninth most carbon-emitting power plant in the U.S., Parish power facility near Houston, Texas.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Only 6-7 percent of the overall emissions associated with such projects are generated during the process of cooling the gas, according to a 2019 study by the Department of Energy. Opponents point out there’s a big catch, however. And that impact could be considerable. NextDecade did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows. Several times a year I would hear a huge purge.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The report also calls into questions plans by a company called Drax, one of the largest sources of CO2 emissions in Europe, to eventually capture up to 16 million tons of CO2 annually using Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). “So If emissions had peaked back in 2000 we would be skiing down a bunny slope toward 1.5C.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

This is considerably higher compared to 2019, when the 4+ year old ice extent stood at 55,000 square kilometers. With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) Lot’s of Methane. Some of you might already be aware of the ticking time bomb called methane.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Heatwaves in Europe. Preliminary data shows that global CO2 emissions from January to May 2022 were above the same period in 2019, largely driven by increases in the US, India, and most European countries, it explains. Colossal floods in Pakistan. Prolonged and severe droughts in China, the Horn of Africa and the United States.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

The reports show that the facility has released numerous chemicals, including benzene, a known human carcinogen, and methane. It will also make it possible to help Europe break free from its dependence on Russian natural gas, they argued. “We Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Rearing livestock is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, in part because it contributes to deforestation as land is cleared either to rear animals or to grow crops to provide animal feed and in part through methane emissions from cattle. A study from Penn State University in 2019 found that replacing just 0.5

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  SPAC valuation ).

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog. 20 percent of posts focused on corporate climate plans and projects.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

And she has a more direct tie to the GWPF, too: her leadership bid was partly funded by a £10,000 donation from a company owned by Terence Mordaunt, who chaired the charity between 2019 and 2021. Ahead of the 2019 election, she received a £3,000 donation from GWPF donor Michael Hintze. Michael Ellis – Attorney General.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

As I began identifying leaders to include on this third annual list, I was inspired by the introduction to " All We Can Save ," an essay and poem collection co-edited by marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (who you can find on this year’s list) and Katharine Wilkinson (who we recognized on the first Badass Women list in 2019). .

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In it, BP notes that it played a leading role in an influential 2019 carbon capture study from the National Petroleum Council , a government advisory committee that represents industry views to the Department of Energy. A 2019 Shell executive committee document on the company’s U.S. Another document furthers those concerns.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

The mine was expected to produce enough lithium to power over one million electric vehicles, making it one of Europe's biggest lithium mines by output, in addition to a host of other materials for various applications.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

So that’s the loose relationship between the two, but regulating CO 2 doesn’t do anything for the other greenhouse gases that EPA regulates [fluorinated gases, methane and nitrous oxide]. Europe is ahead of even the Obama standards. We’re seeing it in China, we’re seeing it in Europe. So, the agencies have a number of options.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

Combined, these companies have raised more than $440M since 2019, and the recent milestones are tangible steps toward turning big ideas into solutions for tough decarbonization problems. ☀️ PVcase , a Kaunas, Lithuania-based solar design software provider, raised $100M from Highland Europe, Elephant, and Energize Ventures.

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