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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Often valid concepts in and of themselves, the problem lies in how they are touted as enviro-friendly actions while companies fail to cut their contribution to 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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos. billion (13.3

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) capacity is a key feature of the UK’s strategy to reduce emissions and hit its climate targets. But the recent failure of the Gorgon project in Western Australia to meet its five-year CCS target shows that storing carbon is no small feat. . percent of global yearly CO2 emissions at most.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The findings, published ahead of the Brazilian company’s annual general meeting on Friday, prompted renewed calls from climate campaigners for asset managers to divest from JBS – despite its pledge to hit net zero carbon emissions by 2040. MtCO2e in 2021 – an increase of 51% over five years. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The IKEA Foundation has today announced plans to deploy an additional €600m of funding in climate-related projects, as it unveiled a new study detailing how philanthropic institutions can maximise carbon savings through their activities.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And consider – after the US and China, wasted food is the third-largest carbon dioxide generator in the world. Between 8% and 10% of the world’s carbon emissions result from all these unconsumed products. billion tonnes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) equivalent to carbon dioxide are emitted annually due to food waste.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Hydrogen produced from water via electrolysis represents only a tiny fraction of the industry , and technology aiming to capture carbon emitted in the methane-to-hydrogen production process remains largely unproven. This is misleading for several reasons,” said Mark Z.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

Perhaps 2021 will go down in history as one of the better years. Here are a few "Possible Climate Futures" as suggested in the report's Summary for Policymakers : Global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century under all emissions scenarios considered. Global warming of 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

After all, a substantial fraction of global carbon emissions arise from the production, transportation, and consumption of fossil fuels. Hydrogen is increasingly being viewed as an important tool for reducing carbon emissions, because the use of hydrogen for energy generates no direct carbon dioxide emissions.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Some described US natural gas production as more “carbon-efficient” than that of other countries, suggesting an opportunity for expanded American gas infrastructure and US gas exports. Driven by rapid improvements in the cost and technical feasibility of clean energy, 83% of new US power capacity in 2021 came from renewables.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

According to a 2021 estimate from researchers from the University of Chicago , a failure to meet international guidelines for PM 2.5 Other problematic sources of air pollution include methane, which produces hazardous ground-level ozone that is linked to health conditions such as lung damage, chest pain , and exacerbated respiratory diseases.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

of global warming under national climate plans submitted ahead of next week's COP26 Climate Summit. Elsewhere in the report, the UN urges world leaders to act on methane emissions and carbon markets at the COP26 Climate Summit.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

Each of the past four decades, according to the report, has been successively warmer than any preceding decade dating back to 1850, atmospheric CO2 has soared to levels not seen in two million years, and “global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century under all emissions scenarios considered.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The hope is that limiting global warming to 1. The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Black carbon. Anthropogenic.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to a 2021 study by researchers from the New York University (NYU) Department of Environmental Studies, meat companies “emphasize mitigating energy use, with limited focus on emissions (e.g., methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

New analysis warns national climate targets for 2030 point to dangerous warming of 2.4C, as rush for LNG capacity risks further undermining chances of meeting goals of Paris Agreement. Projected global warming in 2100 based on national climate targets announced to date remains at a worryingly high 2.4C

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Bledsoe and Brian McCall.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:30. A useful way to think about the effort and timescales required is to consider the " Carbon Law ," which was coined by my friend Johan Rockström. So, what does the Carbon Law say? The Carbon Law outlines a possible path forward. The Carbon Law says we need to cut them in half again in the 2030s.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

5, 2021, angry and impatient as the first week of the U.N. Research shows the world needs to cut global emissions 45% by 2030 to keep global warming under 1.5 C trajectory in half for carbon dioxide emissions and by almost 40% for methane. Rachel Kyte , Tufts University. climate summit ended. That’s a start.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) On top of this, 46 countries signed up to the Global Coal to Clean Power Transition Statement to phase out coal in the 2030s (for rich countries) and 2040s (for developing ones).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

global warming pathway are to be kept alive. In snap analysis published yesterday, the IEA said it had calculated the impacts of the net zero pledges and emissions targets announced in recent days, and concluded that if national climate pledges are delivered as promised, the planet could potentially limit warming to 1.8C

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

As early as 1959, for example, physicist Edward Teller spoke about global warming that could melt the ice caps and submerge coastal cities at an oil industry symposium organized by API. The Global Climate Coalition , formed in 1989, played a central role as a front group for carbon-intensive industries.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. If you can’t plant them yourself, pay others to plant trees for you through carbon offsets or donating to organizations planting trees. and Canada alone.

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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. That’s why some experts have proposed an alternative approach called GWP* for talking about methane.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

After a few days on the ground at the COP27 Climate Summit in Sharm El Sheikh it's clear that this is a very different experience to Glasgow in 2021. Before the conference, projections for global warming published pre-Paris suggested a world heading towards of over 3C of warming. Methane emissions continue to rise.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Looming Crisis and Awakening Opportunity 2020 was a brutal year and 2021 has been off to a rough start. While there’s reason to have hope for the future with multiple vaccines promising the end of the pandemic, we unfortunately have an arguably larger global crisis looming. What is ‘Climate Intelligence’?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

warming, we need to slash emissions dramatically – and at speed. 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. Animal production also emits 65 percent of global nitrous oxide emissions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Recent findings from the System Change Lab collaboration , similarly found that emissions reduction progress across six "climate critical" sectors were falling significantly short of a pathway which would stave off dangerous levels of global warming. Similarly, the fact government policies are currently on track to drive a 2.5C

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Blue hydrogen is the industry name for hydrogen, an energy carrier, that is created from natural gas but would theoretically employ carbon capture technology to prevent the resulting carbon dioxide emissions from entering the atmosphere. But the bill, which was overseen by the fossil fuel-friendly Sen.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Put a price on carbon. But today's agreement is a big step forward and, critically, we have the first ever international agreement to phase down coal and a roadmap to limit global warming to 1.5 — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 13, 2021. I reaffirm my conviction that we must end fossil fuels subsidies.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman has unveiled ambitious plans for a linear car-free city designed to produce zero carbon emissions, with construction earmarked to begin during the first quarter of this year. China sets out carbon capture push in climate policy guidelines.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

When Pathways to Dairy Net Zero (P2DNZ) made its debut ahead of the United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021, it looked like the kind of group that could meet an important but largely neglected area of global climate response. Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases.

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