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. Australia, the U.K., Forests cleared in Brazil for agriculture.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

EDF recently hosted a virtual summit for private equity firms Quantum Energy Partners and EIG Global Energy Partners to engage their portfolio companies, which include more than 50 producer and midstream companies on the business importance of methane mitigation. Andrew: Divestment of oil and gas is gaining momentum. Sean: It’s very simple.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

The Caieiras landfill has a biogas-fueled thermal power plant, where methane (CH 4 ) from decomposing organic matter drives electricity generators. In 2019, when the study was conducted, these two landfills had installed capacities of 8 megawatts (MW) and 29 MW respectively. “That would correspond to between 4.9 million and 57.2

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

The declaration claims the UK's AD and biogas industry can play a crucial role in decarbonising the UK economy, while also creating up to 60,000 direct and indirect jobs by the end of the decade, but only if the government urgently provides a supportive policy and regulatory environment for the sector. million homes.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C, we have eight years to almost halve greenhouse gas emissions: eight years to make the plans, put in place the policies, implement them and ultimately deliver the cuts. Nations need to put in place the policies to meet their new commitments, and start implementing them within months. The potential of methane and market mechanisms.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Governments must implement stronger policies to tackle still rising demand foe fossil gas if they are to deliver on their net zero emission goals by 2050, according to a new report this week from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The annual increase in global demand for natural gas is teh expected to hit an average of 1.7

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

1 With agriculture estimated to have been the source of 48% of the UK’s methane emissions in 2020 – an increase of 1.3% on 2019 2 – the trend towards on-farm AD is set to continue. or visit www.gfdl.co.uk Notes [1] ADBA’s Anaerobic Digestion Policy Report, April 2023 [2] [link].

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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

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. These include feed additives to reduce methane in cow burps and “biogas digesters” to capture and burn methane from lagoons of liquid manure.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The thesis: The most successful climate-tech startups will be those with early access to economic analysis, policy resources, financing and technical support. Frost Methane : An offsets market being created around methane flaring activities.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In 2019, more than 20 California cities jump-started a building decarbonization movement when they took steps to eliminate gas from new buildings, ensuring they will instead be constructed with electric appliances such as heat pumps. Fortunately, that’s changing. As a result, the U.S. gas system each year. gas system each year.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Ultimately, the challenge faced by California and Germany with high-level penetrations of renewables is one that many federal and local governments must grapple with as they pursue policies in an attempt to mitigate the most dangerous impacts of climate change. and even more so for the myriad targets that have been adopted globally.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

Oil and gas giant details climate policy misalignments with several major global trade associations in latest review. It follows Shells decision in 2019 to leave the American Fuel & Petrochemical Association due to "material misalignment" on climate policy. "We

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

in comparison to 2019, making up 18% of total retail sales globally. Ecommerce businesses gain from this in various ways, such as enhancing their corporate reputation, being ready for climate change policies, maintaining industry competition, and appealing to consumers and workers. The Need for Sustainability. Starving Stomachs.

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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). According to a 2019 study there is currently more CO2 in the atmosphere than there has been in at least 3 million years. The impacts of GHGs are being felt here and now.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When asked about this by DeSmog, Stafford – who worked for Shell prior to becoming an MP in 2019 – defended the oil and gas funding for the hydrogen APPG, which, like other APPGs, is set up to lobby on specific policy areas. “On Using methane – [to make] blue hydrogen – always results in some residual emissions.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World Missing Methane: The decarbonization risks and opportunities of financed methane emissions Financed emissions reporting by the six biggest US banks doesn’t show if they’re improving. Focusing on methane can yield results. Focusing on methane is part of the answer.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Transition risks could also arise, as technological and policy advancements cause the value of high-emitting companies to decline. Bank of America: Bank of America has committed to allocating $300 billion to sustainable business between 2019 and 2030. degree scenario.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Seven projects received funding through SCALEUP 2019, according to the program’s website: Autogrid Systems – $2.25 Scaling Disruptive Methane Leak Detection and Quantification. Highly Scalable Virtual Power Plant (VPP) PLATFORM for Mass Storage and EV Deployments. Redwood City, CA. Bridger Photonics – $4.6 Bozeman, MT.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This has improved air quality but these scrubbers do not reduce climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions like carbon and methane. In 2019 the Chinese government reduced renewable energy subsidies and as a consequence investment in renewables declined by 39 percent in the first half of 2019 compared with the same period in 2018.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

According to a 2019 study there is currently more CO2 in the atmosphere than there has been in at least 3 million years. 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 ). In 2019, total greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high of 59.1

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

In addition to carbon dioxide emitted from combustion of natural gas, its production, transmission and distribution results in significant emissions from methane — a greenhouse gas 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide during the first 20 years after its release. Equity must be at the core of policies and reform processes.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

A policy touted as lowering greenhouse emissions from Alberta’s oil and gas sector is instead paying for Facebook advertisements designed to expand that sector. The province earlier set aside a budget of $80 million for the Canadian Energy Centre in its 2019 Budget, paid for by climate taxes on the province’s biggest polluters.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The blend would use 5 to 10 percent hydrogen, with the remainder made up of conventional methane gas. As of 2019, approximately 684,159 pounds of toxic chemicals were released into West Eugene, accounting for 96 percent of the entire city’s toxic releases. Five percent hydrogen and 95 percent methane,” Arkin said.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2020

But while a transition to natural gas is already underway, it’s unclear what the future of that fossil fuel will look like as policies shift and other, cleaner resources become more competitive. Potential solutions include blocking methane leaks, investing in carbon capture and sequestration, and purchasing carbon offsets, she said.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

But the recovery in activity in the second half of 2020 and “a lack of clean energy policies” caused emissions to rise a further 2 per cent year on year in December. The only way our collective and individual targets can be run down is by thinking big but starting small – or to put it another way, think global but act local.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Thereafter, as previous IPCC reports have indicated, global emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030, in addition to a reduction in methane emissions of around a third, from 2019 levels. There are policies, regulations and market instruments that are proving effective. goal set out in the Paris Agreement.

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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. 2) UK Policy: With offshore wind an obvious path to bumper renewable output, it makes sense that the sector’s leading market, the U.K.,

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Both were purchased in September 2019 by major renewables investor Greencoat Capital. Low Carbon Farming has urged the government for a favourable policy environment for the nationwide roll-out of its technology, in particular through the extension of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI).

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

The resulting biogas - or biomethane - offers a lower carbon alternative to fossil fuel-based methane, and can be directly injected into the existing gas grid to help reduce the emissions intensity of heating homes and businesses. The green gas tariff scheme is expected to help save 21.6

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 7, 2020

This transition is being aided by policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as rapidly declining costs for renewables like wind and solar power. Just as natural gas production surged, propane production jumped from 182 million barrels in 2005 to nearly 600 million barrels in 2019. HYDROGEN PRODUCTION.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. Yaw to discuss the Chester terminal, Michał Kurtyka, who served as Polish environment minister between 2019 and 2021, joined by video to speak in favor of the plan. Credit: Edward Donnelly.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

In the presence of the sun’s rays, nitrogen molecules set of a chain of reactions that produce ozone and destroy free-floating atmospheric methane. Some of these reactions, like the methane destruction, help cool the Earth. It’s tough to pin down the meaning of all this chemistry. Others warm it.

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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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