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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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

According to a poll of 6,000 customers in North America, Europe, and Asia, 72% of respondents are already actively purchasing more environmentally friendly goods. 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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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

European policymakers have determined that hydrogen will be an essential tool to decarbonize industry and transport as Europe aims for a net-zero economy by 2050. The next-largest proposal, by BP, would use Australian wind and solar to export ammonia to Asia. Read GTM's green hydrogen explainer here.).

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

Pelosi visited Taipei as part of a tour of Asia this week, arguing her visit to the contested territory was justified as a means of pushing back against Beijing's attempts to "isolate" the island. The bill is set to enshrine Labor's pledge to cut emissions 43 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030 before reaching net zero emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

But it nevertheless delivers a very straightforward conclusion: achieving net zero emissions right across the planet as soon as possible and ideally before 2050 is the only pathway forward for humanity if the worst climate impacts are to be avoided. Climate impacts are happening now, worsening and in some cases irreversible.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Deployed at scale, hydrogen from all sources could account for almost 20 per cent of energy consumed by 2050, projects the Hydrogen Council. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Rearing livestock is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, in part because it contributes to deforestation as land is cleared either to rear animals or to grow crops to provide animal feed and in part through methane emissions from cattle. And that's where the seaweed comes in. Vertical Farming.

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

Announcing Al Jaber's appointment last week, the UAE government stressed that he was a COP veteran who had also served as chief executive of the state's Masdar clean energy investment vehicle and was working to deliver on the country's net zero emissions by 2050 goal. Let's keep our focus on holding back emissions, not progress.".

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Deployed at scale, hydrogen from all sources could account for almost 20 percent of energy consumed by 2050, projects the Hydrogen Council. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

"With governments focussing on the energy crisis, this has been a year of little action on the climate: almost no updated national climate targets for 2030 and no significant increase in participation in Glasgow initiatives on coal phase out, clean cars, and methane," he said, "And without strong 2030 action, governments cannot reach net zero.".

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The assertions also lack detail, face technical problems, ignore leaking methane emissions, and depend on government subsidies for funding. To complicate matters further, new research suggests that fugitive methane emissions from fracking operations are far higher than official data indicates. And that is from just one project.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to “fracking” technology that made natural gas cheap and abundant, its consumption went wild, along with methane leaks from gas pipes that further plague the climate. hitting its clean-energy goals while also saving consumers more than $470 billion, mostly between 2030 and 2050. That’s begun in Cascadia.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Those projects include LNG Canada, a $40 billion export facility led by the oil and gas company Shell that could begin shipping LNG exports to Asia next year, as well as Cedar LNG, a proposed facility owned in part by the Haisla First Nation that received environmental approval from the B.C. government last year. border near Fort St.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including fresh WHO air pollution guidelines and global coal, methane and HFC commitments. More countries join global methane and coal power pledges. billion metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent gases from entering into the atmosphere by 2050, the White House said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

She’s also announced a “net zero review” to find the most cost-effective ways to reach the UK’s 2050 target, led by one of the greenest Tories there is – Chris Skidmore. In 2019, he praised the UK for bringing in its 2050 net zero target and cutting emissions – the “fastest decline of any developed country”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

APRIL Group - or Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd, to give it its full name - is a massive manufacturer of wood pulp and fiber, the basis of myriad everyday products from office printing paper and packaging to tea bags and viscose fabrics. It is in many ways a remarkable economic success story.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Analysts saw demand for LNG in Asia rising in both a steady and unrelenting fashion, expanding for years or even decades into the future. Other industry-backed front groups have funded studies to demonstrate the climate benefits of exporting LNG to Asia. The availability of low-cost U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Rise of City Zero Emission Zones (Panel Discussion): Following cities in Europe and Asia, some U.S. How do we transition this system — which needs to feed almost two billion more people by 2050 — to be more sustainable? But there is a limited supply of RNG, and industries are competing for what little exists.

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 5, 2021

With the world’s focus on cutting CO2 emissions to slow global warming, cutting methane emissions is often overlooked. But with more potential to warm the planet in the short-term, it’s time to tackle methane gas emissions. Why Focus on Methane? C off the average global temperature in 2050.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

on the path to a “net-zero economy by 2050” were made and celebrated. As if natural gas, which is primarily methane — the second most abundant greenhouse gas behind carbon dioxide and a major contributor to climate change — isn’t bad for the climate. There, he apparently led a global team to secure an $8 billion investment in U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

But governments now mainly aim to achieve net zero by 2050 or 2060 at the absolute latest. Coronavirus and a lack of vaccinations may make it impossible for many delegates to turn up, especially from Africa, Oceania, Asia, and Latin America. And there are the other risks facing the Summit.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

Ireland's coalition government has this week reached an agreement on a new climate bill that would put a target to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 on a legal footing and establish ambitious new near term emissions goals for 2030. Climate change is the big challenge of our time," JBS chief executive Gilberto Tomazoni said in a statement.

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