Mixed momentum on methane mitigation
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
It’s been a year since the Global Methane Pledge promised action to reduce emissions by 30 percent between 2020 and 2030, but few countries have formally introduced policies.
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GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
It’s been a year since the Global Methane Pledge promised action to reduce emissions by 30 percent between 2020 and 2030, but few countries have formally introduced policies.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Sharp falls in transport emissions during Covid-19 lockdowns partly explain why a key greenhouse gas hit record high levels in 2020, research suggests. Reduced transport emissions led to lower levels of hydroxyl radicals – which could be said to act like a detergent to remove methane from the atmosphere, researchers say. ppb in 2019.
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Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
A newer, more accurate method for calculating methane emissions from offshore oil and gas production suggests that the United Kingdom severely underestimates its greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers conclude that as much as five times more methane is being leaked from oil and gas production than reported.
The Verge: Energy
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
A rendering of MethaneSat | Image courtesy of Google Google announced a partnership with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today to map methane pollution and oil and gas infrastructure from space. Landfills and livestock are also big sources of methane pollution. The timing really matters.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 24, 2022
According to the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, the top 10 largest methane emitting coal mines in Europe are in Poland. Collectively, these mines released around 282,300 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere in 2020.
The Verge: Energy
MARCH 4, 2024
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. After all, so-called natural gas is mostly just methane. The group has documented massive amounts of leaking methane already.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 17, 2019
Methane biodigesters. City greenzones. Connected schoolbuses. There's a lot in store for the next year in mobility.
Energy Central
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
By Dan Grossman Photo from “Romanian Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas” project, part of “Methane Goes Mobile – Measurements and Modeling (MEMO2)” campaign sponsored by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program- to assess context and quantity of Romania’s methane emissions Amidst all (..)
EDF + Business
JANUARY 16, 2023
The global dairy company Danone is taking a big step forward by pledging to work with its farmer suppliers to reduce methane emissions from its fresh milk supply chain by 30% by 2030. . It aims to achieve significant methane cuts while feeding a growing population and protecting the livelihoods of farmers around the world.
Business Green
JANUARY 17, 2021
Methane update reveals that reduced demand for oil and gas during the pandemic's shutdown of industry and travel saw methane emissions drop 10 per cent in 2020. Companies have also touted sizeable new investment programmes to detect and fix methane leaks.
EDF + Business
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
The UN climate talks hosted in Dubai this month will shine a bright light on the pivotal role national oil companies, like UAE’s Abu Dhabi National Company (ADNOC), can and ultimately must play in the fight against climate change – particularly the urgent need to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas supply chain.
Business Green
MARCH 10, 2023
The report claims West Cumbria Mining's estimates that the project could produce three to seven tonnes of methane emissions per tonne of coal produced is likely to be a significant underestimate. Failure to do so would be incompatible with the Methane Pledge."
Business Green
MARCH 9, 2022
Fossil fuel companies confirm plan to review collective methane targets for 2025 and onwards in light of new goal. They have also pointed out that methane's relatively short atmospheric lifetime means action taken now would have a far more rapid impact than action on carbon.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
New report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) highlights the need to control methane slips on ships that have switched to using LNG as fuel. The report calculatres that switching to LNG could deliver carbon emissions savings, but these could be partially offset by increased methane emissions.
EDF + Business
JUNE 15, 2023
Natural gas pipelines are ubiquitous throughout the United States and pipeline leaks are a safety risk, a waste of a valuable energy resource, and a source of methane pollution that accelerates climate change. Methane emissions pose urgent and material risks to oil and gas companies, the financial sector, and capital markets.
Business Green
MAY 25, 2022
Methane is a blow torch that’s cooking the planet,' scientists warn, as new study argues near term action could play a critical role in curbing global warming. Our study shows that phasing out fossil fuels is essential but must be paired with targeted action now on methane, black carbon soot, HFCs, and smog.
Business Green
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Tackling methane from oil and gas operations among 'best near-term opportunities’ for combatting climate change, IEA argues. Methane, which is largely released from abandoned coal mines, oil and gas operations, and farming, has a far greater global warming potential than CO2.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
New IEA analysis reveals methane emissions from the energy sector are 70 per cent higher than official reports, but could high gas prices finally prompt operators to tackle the problem. It is one of the biggest and most worrying mysteries in the field of climate science: where are all the methane emissions coming from?
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
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Business Green
JANUARY 17, 2023
Green Alliance estimates proposed coking coal mine in Cumbria could emit as much methane each year as 120,000 cows. However, the UK, along with scores of countries around the world, is committed to collectively reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030 as part of the Global Methane Pledge.
Business Green
AUGUST 4, 2020
The current iron pipes carry methane-based natural gas. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with global warming potential that is 21 times greater than that of CO2. We need to decarbonise the gas that we use.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Just 50 nations worldwide now outside initiative that aims to cut methane emissions 30 per cent by 2030. First launched with just over 100 national backers at the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow a year ago, the Global Methane Pledge commits signatories to collectively reducing emissions of the gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Mon, 10/26/2020 - 00:05. Meanwhile, the OGCI today announced that its members collectively have reduced the cut their absolute upstream methane emissions by 22 percent since 2017, shrinking the methane intensity of members' upstream oil and gas to operations to 0.23 It surpasses its target to cut methane intensity to 0.25
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.
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 29, 2020
Among other things, that shall remain nameless, 2020 has been notable for the rush of activity in the green hydrogen space. Green hydrogen could replace methane to generate heat or power. As 2020 unfurled and then unraveled, climate change ambition ramped up. It could even be used as a fuel in heavy transport.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The new facility is the second bio-methane filling station to be opened by operator First West of England in the space of a year. Bristol will take a significant step towards tackling its transport emissions next weekend when bus operator First West of England opens a new bio-methane gas filling station at its Lawrence Hill depot.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
LOOP uses plasma technology to separate methane into its constituent atoms: carbon, locked into high-quality graphene, and hydrogen, which can either be used immediately or stored for future use. When run through the device, natural gas is replaced with a hydrogen-methane mix with no loss of energy potential.
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 6, 2021
Looking back, however, 2020 proved to be a decisive year for clean energy in India. But while the renewable energy industry endured a turbulent 2020, coal remains the dominant player in India’s electricity mix. During the 2019/2020 fiscal year, the average coal-fired power plant ran just 55.5 Businesses closed.
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 28, 2022
Following a 10-year analysis of the scale of methane leakage at almost 1,000 AD plants across the UK and Europe, Tim Elsome, General Manager of biogas specialists FM BioEnergy, outlines why now is the ideal time to tackle unidentified biogas leaks – and how to protect your plant, profits and the planet. The risks of doing nothing.
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 28, 2021
Hazer Group produces fuel-cell grade hydrogen from methane, with high-quality graphite as a by-product rather than CO2. The first was from Hazer Group, an Australian company which produces fuel-cell grade hydrogen and high-quality graphite from methane, with low CO2emissions. To register > megan.ford@Isleutilities.com.
EDF + Business
JUNE 20, 2023
Plugging the Leaks: An Investor Guide to Oil and Gas Methane Risk THE BURNING QUESTION: How to Fix Flaring Methane Action at National Oil Companies Joint Action: NOJV Methane Reduction Sign up for updates from ESG By EDF Sign Up
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 9, 2023
Gas leak measurement is germane to the realisation of goals such as the Global Methane Pledge. Originally proposed by the US and EU in September 2021, the Global Methane Pledge will see countries acting to cut methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030. Doug Baer of instrumentation expert ABB offers some thoughts on the problem.
EDF + Business
DECEMBER 17, 2020
I’ve been working in the corporate sustainability space for nearly 25 years, and during that fateful week of March 9 th , 2020 (when the world as we know it forever changed), I couldn’t help but worry about the possibility of decades of climate progress slipping away. In addition, we must do all we can to protect current carbon stocks.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Fri, 10/02/2020 - 02:00. Lower greenhouse gas emissions from cattle, after CRISPR is used to alter the genetic activity of the methane-producing microbes that live in the animals’ stomachs. Reductions to the hundreds of millions of tons of methane emitted annually from rice production, thanks to new gene-edited rice strains.
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 29, 2021
Read time: 7 mins In 2019 and 2020, the Environmental Defense Fund ( EDF ) conducted three helicopter surveys over the oil fields of West Texas. Flying over flare stacks at more than three hundred oil and gas drilling sites, EDF staff used infrared cameras to document unlit flares whose methane pollution is invisible to the naked eye.
Clean Energy Canada
MARCH 25, 2024
If the federal and provincial governments live up to their climate commitments (namely on methane reduction, industrial carbon pricing, an emissions cap and ensuring that new LNG projects reach net zero on scope 1 and 2 emissions), over eight Site C’s worth of additional electricity would be required to electrify the six LNG projects in B.C.
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 17, 2019
Methane biodigesters. Read the rest here: Top 10 transportation trends to watch for in 2020. City greenzones. Connected schoolbuses. There’s a lot in store for the next year in mobility.
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. Not least because, unlike other renewable energy technologies, biogas offers multiple additional benefits beyond simply green power.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 26, 2021
The potential of methane and market mechanisms. This year, it focuses on methane and market mechanisms. Reduction of methane emissions from the fossil fuel, waste and agriculture sectors can contribute to closing the emissions gap and reduce warming in the short term. per cent in 2020.
AGreenLiving
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, half of the 2020 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge submissions addressed “Sustainable Cities and Communities”, and over one-quarter addressed either “Good Health and Well-being”, “Climate Action”, “Life Below Water” and “Clean Water and Sanitation.” Original post:Â .
Elemental Excelerator
MAY 20, 2020
Joan Salwen, CEO of Blue Ocean Barns , explained that feeding seaweed to cattle can help slash methane emissions. The post Builders, Helpers, and Closers: Insights from Interactive 2020 appeared first on Elemental Excelerator. 5 companies that have closed deals since the COVID-19 crisis started. A final goodbye from Dawn and Lily (1.1
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The UK is a signatory of the Global Methane Pledge to reduce emissions by 30% against 2020 levels. Treating organic wastes through AD is the most effective way of achieving these – preventing methane from rising into the atmosphere whilst generating bioenergy, biofertilisers and bioCO2. C”, he adds. “The It’s a no brainer ”.
Grist
APRIL 5, 2021
Amy Townsend-Small has been chasing methane her entire professional life. When fracking took off around 2010, Townsend-Small shifted her focus to a new and growing problem: methane leaks from oil and gas activity. Natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, was pitched as a fuel that could transition the U.S.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Mon, 11/30/2020 - 03:00. parts per million in atmospheric CO2 concentration recorded in May 2020 — more than two-thirds are led by founders who are women, veterans or people of color, said Third Derivative co-founder and CEO Bryan Hassin. "We Frost Methane : An offsets market being created around methane flaring activities.
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