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?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2024

Intense lobbying from the meat and dairy industry since 2020 has helped weaken and stall crucial climate policies in the European Union, according to a new report from InfluenceMap.

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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. This is about sustainable development and making our industries much more sustainable by being able to understand exactly what feedstocks and wastes we have and how we can use them more effectively.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By Marc McElhinney For today’s modern farmer, sustainability is at the heart of agricultural best practice. 1 With agriculture estimated to have been the source of 48% of the UK’s methane emissions in 2020 – an increase of 1.3% Sustainability is now at the heart of agricultural best practice.

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

With methane emissions from landfill being a significant contributor to climate change, new legislation requires Californian businesses and individuals to separate organic material from their trash and those who don’t comply can face fines. Late in 2021, the LA Times focused on “composting as the next climate crusade.”

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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. Pressure on companies is at an all-time high.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Six years ago today, on September 25, 2015, the United Nations finalized the 2030 Agenda , ratifying the 17 Sustainable Develop Goals, or SDGs which outlined key objectives for a more equitable and sustainable future. Planet is also helping organizations measure, take action, and report on their sustainable development efforts.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Fri, 10/02/2020 - 02:00. The power of gene editing can be wielded to modify plants and, among other things, achieve significant sustainability wins. 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.

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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

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The Biomimicry Institute has revealed this year’s 10 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge finalist teams, which have created innovative solutions for sustainably tackling global issues. The proposals, which all take inspiration from nature, address one or more of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Original post:Â .

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In May 2020 The Land received an unsolicited article entitled The Dangerous Bioenergy Delusion. When Kris de Decker published an article in 2020 on using surplus heat from domestic woodburning stoves to produce modest amounts of electricity, he received a torrent of objections on these lines: “How is cutting down trees sustainable?”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Given that we have a new administration in place ”, he continues, “ this will be a pivotal conference, setting out a roadmap for AD to support the development of a resilient and sustainable economy in the UK at a time of global instability and a clear acceleration of climate change impacts. . This could double within a few years.

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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.

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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. Several Aim4C “innovation sprints” are based on regenerative agriculture, including one on “sustainable beef”.

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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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Fri, 09/25/2020 - 01:30. This week, in fact, some of the biggest names in food announced a major regenerative initiative: Walmart, McDonald’s, Cargill and the World Wildlife Fund said they will invest $6 million in scaling up sustainable grazing practices on 1 million acres of grassland across the Northern Great Plains.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Methane Pledge – Nearly 90 countries joined a U.S.- and EU-led effort to cut methane emissions 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. Methane emissions are one of the leading causes of climate change, but we’ve historically lacked the data needed to identify the fastest and most effective ways to reduce them.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Mon, 10/26/2020 - 01:30. Over the past two months, I reached outside my usual network to discuss this topic via email with six fellow honorees from the 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30 , to which I was named in June. What concerns you about the current global food system when it comes to environmental sustainability and human health?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. kg per year – in 2020, the average person in the U.S.

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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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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2020

If we are serious about limiting global temperature increases to below 2°C and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, we must act immediately,” said Gilbert F. UN World Water Development Report 2020 Image via Alex Hu. UN World Water Development Report 2020 Image via Alex Hu. Houngbo, chair of UN Water.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

How do we find the energy and ideas now to put in place the changes needed to sustain our collective trajectory to 2050, and also identify the next set of ‘big wins’ for industry? We have already exceeded our interim global business goal of cutting CO2 emissions by half by 2020. So where does this put us?

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2022

Global giant hails 'significant progress' towards goal of delivering 100 per cent sustainable-material tire by 2030. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has today unveiled a demonstration tyre made using with 70 per cent sustainable-material content, including soy bean oil, rice husks, and plastic recycled from old bottles.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 19, 2021

In the atmosphere, there have been significant increases in the amount of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases that reduce the concentration of ozone (O3) and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O). Animal digestion releases methane gas into the atmosphere, while manure production emits CO2.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2020, the European Commission ran an extensive cross-sector sweep of websites to identify instances of greenwash.They found that in 42% of cases, green claims were exaggerated, false, or deceptive. This flaunting of environmentalism began in the 1960s, an era when the sustainability movement started to gain momentum.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

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. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8 million cattle, 46.7 million pigs and 4.9 billion chickens. . chatów in Poland released 33.2

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The study looks at hydrogen produced for transport use through electrolysis, biomass gasification with carbon capture and storage (CCS) and methane reformation with CCS (all potentially very low carbon and GHG solutions) as well as from fossil fuels without CCS mitigation.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

As of last year, more than a third of the world’s largest publicly traded companies had set targets to reach net zero carbon emissions, up from a fifth in December 2020. Enforcement FTC investigations are no joke: In 2020, FTC enforcement resulted in Volkswagen and Porsche repaying more than $9.5

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Need for Sustainability. In 2020, global e-retail sales increased by 27.6% The need for sustainable e-commerce is growing as customers become more environmentally sensitive. The entire amount of greenhouse gasses (such as carbon dioxide and methane) produced by human actions is known as a carbon footprint.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Since then, leading industry associations and agrochemical companies have used their lobbying might to push back against core European measures aiming to lead the transition to a more sustainable way of farming. million on lobbying in 2019 and 2020, according to the latest available data on their lobbying spending from official EU data.

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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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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Thu, 08/13/2020 - 02:15. Fast forward to 2020, and a team of collaborators is hoping to adapt learnings pioneered with RECs to nurture a nascent market for zero-carbon fuels, such as RNG, that buyers including L’Oréal USA and the University of California System are already using to generate renewable thermal energy. Adam Aston.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In 2020, it announced it would become a net-zero-emissions bank by 2050 — a goal that also involves “aligning its financing with the goals and timelines of the Paris Agreement,” and reducing its lending to the oil and gas sector. The rest was general corporate financing — and under the new commitments, that remains largely untouched.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

In cities such as Beijing, Los Angeles, London and New Delhi, air quality is now cleaner than at any time in living memory, and International Energy Agency research indicates global emissions could drop by 8 percent in 2020. Against this backdrop, it is clear that we are at a crossroads.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Our system also delivers cost-reduction, employee well-being, and sustainability benefits. The companies have also collaborated on the development of an HVAC-integrated unit that captures CO2 from the inlet air at Wärtsilä’s Sustainable Technology Hub in Vaasa and supplies CO2-lean air to the building.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

Cemvita Factory applies synthetic biology to decarbonize and reduce the environmental footprint of heavy industries in three ways: capturing CO 2 or methane for use as a feedstock, reducing emissions from energy-intensive chemical reactions, and replacing processes that use harmful chemicals. percent of global emissions.

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