Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

“By mapping out how AD and biogas could help countries to dramatically cut their greenhouse gas emissions, especially methane, over the next decade and beyond, this report aims to put humanity back on track to deliver on the ambitions of both the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals.” Read the Executive Summary.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

of global warming. Yet, many of the solutions being trialled by industry to cut methane emissions – from feeding cattle seaweed to genomic editing of cows – are either disingenuous, unproven or failing to deliver. The evidence against big agriculture’s role in driving the climate crisis is growing.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

As a result, scientists say, the aerosol mask is slipping, causing a boost to global warming in many regions. “We We are currently experiencing greenhouse-gas driven global warming enhanced by aerosol removal,” says Ben Booth, a climate modeler at the U.K. Met Office. The climatic repercussions of this are not unexpected.

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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. billion (9 billion euros) from 2021. billion (13.3

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The research considered five systems in which the consumption and production of greenhouse gas emissions need to be transformed to limit global warming to 1.5C: energy and power, food and land use, industry, transport, and buildings.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

MtCO2e in 2021 – an increase of 51% over five years. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8 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. MtCO2e in 2019. .

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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

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. With the term climate neutrality comes a contentious new way of calculating the emissions of methane, called the “global warming potential star”, or GWP*.

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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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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Driven by rapid improvements in the cost and technical feasibility of clean energy, 83% of new US power capacity in 2021 came from renewables. Meeting energy demand and net-zero goals by 2050 necessitates a further global buildout of renewables infrastructure, which can increase energy availability without increasing emissions.

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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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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement. Some carbon offset projects focus on the combustion and containment of methane.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In May 2021, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released a new report detailing the “Seven Pillars” that would be required to get the world to net?zero Around 95% is produced via the steam methane reforming (SMR) process, and another 4% comes from partial oxidation (POX). zero carbon emissions (NZE) by 2050. According to the U.S.

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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 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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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

According to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Food Waste Index Report 2021, roughly 17 % of the world’s food output is lost or wasted. Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. Considering Water Waste. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.

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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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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. This latest phase has unfolded over the last decade and continues today. BP and Phillips 66 declined to comment.

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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

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. Anthropogenic. Resulting from human beings.

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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. degrees Celsius (2.7

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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 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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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 Hydrogen doesn’t emit greenhouse gases when burned and can be made by using renewable electricity to bust up water molecules (although most hydrogen today is made with natural gas, through a process called steam methane reforming).

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

And as the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted , emissions pathways that limit global warming to 2°C or below generally assume that some form of carbon dioxide removal, such as CCS, is necessary, alongside reducing emissions. percent of global yearly CO2 emissions at most.

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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.) Canada also re-committed to phasing out international fossil fuel financing by 2023 and reducing oil and gas methane emissions by 75% by 2030.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

To limit global warming to a peak of 1.5C, which the impacts we are experiencing at 1.35°C °C warming (based on an average of the last 10 years) make clear is a higher than desirable goal. The risk is that this is now occurring every year and the rate could well be increasing as amplified polar warming increases.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:30. It says to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, as outlined in the Paris Accords, we need to severely restrict the total, cumulative amount of greenhouse gases we release into the atmosphere moving forward. Data from IPCC and the Global Carbon Project. Jonathan Foley.

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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. The Bottom Line As the summer of 2021 has already shown, there is no escape from climate change. and Canada alone.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix. There is just no excuse.

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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

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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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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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. The need for continued action, regardless of the feasibility of the 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Blue hydrogen’s supporters have argued that the world needs the gas-dependent fuel until it could scale up affordable clean hydrogen (known as “green hydrogen,” which uses renewable energy and does not produce any carbon dioxide or methane emissions). But the bill, which was overseen by the fossil fuel-friendly Sen. Department of Energy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

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. Of course global politics shape these summits, but the Prime Minister has hindered not helped.

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