Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

2 This led to investment in new biomethane production infrastructure, which the world critically needs to cut methane emissions from organic wastes and generate green gas, biofertilisers and bioCO2, but this will no longer be possible under the proposed new guidance. using fossil fuels); scope 2 are from the purchase of energy (e.g.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The plans would see 3 to 4 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity established in the North Sea by 2030 purely for the manufacture of green hydrogen. gigawatts by 2030. A Dutch carbon tax, that would cover emissions from producing hydrogen using methane, is expected to reach €125 ($137) per ton of CO2 equivalent emissions by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

You need to remove policy hurdles such as in the Renewable Energy Directive, so that you can faster scale the hydrogen economy in Europe, and use that to build out the infrastructure”, Simon Herbert, ExxonMobil’s vice-president of low carbon solutions, told the World Hydrogen 2024 conference in Rotterdam last week.

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Charged

MAY 30, 2023

The targets will increase to 33-65% in 2026, so diesel’s days in Europe are clearly numbered. Several individual countries have set their own targets: ICE bus sales are to be phased out in the Netherlands and Denmark by 2025, in Ireland by 2030, and in Austria by 2032. Data sourced from Chatrou CME Solutions.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

EVM’s gas allocation is equivalent to a daily amount of 6,240,000 cubic feet of methane gas. Saudi Arabia has a strategy, called Vision 2030 , to reduce ‘s dependence on oil and diversify its economy. Source: EV Metals Group.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

UN University foresees 24% wastewater increase by 2030; 51% by 2050. Furthermore, the paper says, wastewater volumes are increasing quickly, with a projected rise of roughly 24% by 2030, 51% by 2050. By the mid-2030s, it will roughly equal the annual volume flowing through the St. .”

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Europe's biggest natural-gas infrastructure firm recently launched a new hydrogen business. could generate an estimated $140 billion per year in revenue and support 700,000 jobs by 2030, according to a recent McKinsey study published by the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association. A hydrogen economy in the U.S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy study warns the 'climate footprint of Europe's big meat and dairy companies rival the fossil fuel giants'. The climate footprint of Europe's big meat and dairy companies rival the fossil fuel giants yet they continue to operate with impunity," she said.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

The European Union this week set ambitious 2024 and 2030 targets for green hydrogen, a big step for the emerging sector. By 2030 the EU wants 40 gigawatts of electrolyzers installed within its borders and another 40 gigawatts in place in nearby countries that can export to the EU — with North Africa one possibility.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Through the phased repurposing of existing high-pressure gas transmission network infrastructure, alongside the construction of selected new pipelines, Project Union is expected to create a hydrogen network of up to 2,000km, equivalent to 25% of Britain’s current methane transmission network. Join Enlit Europe in Paris. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The report, which looks to a 2030 energy system in which clean tech plays a significantly greater role than today, states how sheltering consumers from volatile fuel prices in 2022 cost governments $900 billion in emergency support. Some 60% of two- and three-wheelers sold in 2030 would also be electric , ten times higher than today.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As the European Union sets its sights on a green hydrogen boom as part of its plans to meet decarbonization pledges and rebuild economies ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, North Africa has emerged as a possible source for a significant chunk of Europe’s future hydrogen supply. Underestimating Europe’s renewables potential.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The task force was established by the state’s House of Representatives last November to explore prospects for shipping regionally produced shale gas to Europe in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. LNG companies shipped to Europe at soaring premiums. Texas and Louisiana produced record amounts of shale gas last year, which U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

VS: Traditionally, hydrogen has been industrially produced from the methane contained in natural gas, releasing carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in the process. GT: What are some of the factors behind the strong interest in offshore wind to H2 in Europe? Courtesy: Equinor). GT: How might green H2 fit into the energy system?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Plus 40 nations prep methane plans for COP27, Germany touts cheap transport tickets, and Saudi Arabia launches electric vehicle brand. COP27: 40 countries planning to unveil methane reduction plans. off global warming by 2050, as methane's warming potential is 84 times greater than carbon dioxide over 20-year timescale.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A wide-ranging package of legislative measures designed to curb emissions from the gas industry unveiled by the European Commission has come under fire from campaigners and energy analysts, who have warned they could 'lock in' fossil gas infrastructure across Europe for the years to come.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 1, 2024

These include the need for significant and urgent investments, in Europe for example an estimated €584 billion ($641 billion) by 2030. In the US, installations are ongoing at a rate of about 8 million units per year, while in Europe there has been an acceleration as countries seek to catch up.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

By 2030 there will likely be a 50:50 split between clean and green hydrogen. In the initial phase, 25 terawatt-hours (TWh) per year of green methane, from which more than half a million metric tons of hydrogen can be produced, will be imported into Wilhelmshaven. Why is the green hydrogen not produced in Germany or Europe?

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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. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

Thanks to clean-air legislation intended to protect public health, aerosol emissions have been reduced in Europe and North America since the 1980s. Europe and North America have had clean air laws in place for almost half a century. degrees C by 2030, and to more than 0.5 degrees C by 2060.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

And while it's not a central concern today for those companies (Enel, EDP, BayWa and others) or industry groups (SolarPower Europe and WindEurope), all see green hydrogen playing a vital role in achieving deep decarbonization of the energy system. for production using steam methane reformation. billion) up to 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Green hydrogen could replace methane to generate heat or power. It’s a trend now repeating around Europe with other markets not far behind. In Europe, specialists like Nel and ITM Power are scaling up, while major industrials like Siemens and thyssenkrupp are throwing their weight behind the sector too. Driving demand.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Experts dispute this climate-friendly branding, however, given the problem of methane leakages through the production and transportation process, and doubts about the efficacy of CCS. When taking into account methane its climate footprint is “more than 20 percent greater than burning natural gas or coal for heat”, they found.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Blue hydrogen is made from natural gas, which is mostly methane, using electricity generated by burning more gas, and hydrogen is considered “blue” (rather than “gray”) when its carbon emissions are sequestered. It’s fracked methane.”. What’s the pollution?’” But where does it come from? It’s dirty energy at [the] source.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“The EU bank has been Europe’s climate bank for many years. It's targeting €1 trillion of climate action and sustainability investments between 2021 and 2030. ” Browne said there is no data on the volumes of methane and carbon dioxide emitted in the process of creating and delivering LNG to end users.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin. It's simply not tenable for the UK to promote shale gas, particularly given the rising international concern over methane leakage. On track to net zero.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The gas can be produced either through the electrolysis of water using renewable power to create green hydrogen or through its extraction from methane, a process that produces carbon dioxide as a by product that can then be captured and stored resulting in so-called blue hydrogen.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This immense food waste not only leads to millions facing food insecurity, but the decomposition of this waste leads to the release of methane which is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. billion valuation by 2030, at a CAGR of 28.4% between 2022 and 2030. Overly linear food chains. between 2022 to 2029.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

The far-right is a climate-sceptic project, a project that wants to leave Europe's climate ambitions, that wants to destroy windmills.". In addition, he pledged to build 50 offshore wind farms by 2030 and six new nuclear reactors. EU mulls stronger renewables target for 2030. The choice today is clear," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

But if we want to permanently reduce the UK's exposure to volatile gas markets, a lynchpin of any future vision must be to accelerate our transition to electrified heating, deploying the ultra-efficient heat pump technology that our neighbours in chilly Scandinavia, and other parts of Europe, have been using for years. Why heat pumps?

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

With widespread commitments made to reducing CO 2 emissions, attention is turning to other greenhouse gases, specifically methane and nitrous oxide as the next largest contributors. Now more than ever, time is of the essence in delivering net zero solutions with the 2030 climate targets in sight and those for 2050 not far behind.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators. COPA-COGECA, has however, criticized the EU’s July study.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The chief of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), the joint sustainability initiative backed by the world's biggest miners, is confident Europe's drive to shore up mineral security and deliver on climate goals could result in a cleaner and greener future for the global mining industry. "I

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

C limit before 2030 The diets of people in richer countries are going to have to change if we want to bring down this level of emissions. Europe, Australia, China, Brazil and Argentina as areas with inflated meat consumption. Related: UN report shows global warming could pass 1.5°C He cited the U.S.,

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