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EDF’s new calculator shows the dire impact of methane pollution

Energy Central

Excessive heat and severe flooding has claimed thousands of lives across Europe, Asia, and Africa. It’s a strain on our power grid, agriculture and – most of all – people. It’s not just Texas of course.

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Brazilian study suggests better ways of managing MSW

Envirotec Magazine

The Caieiras landfill has a biogas-fueled thermal power plant, where methane (CH 4 ) from decomposing organic matter drives electricity generators. It’s a model that can be used throughout Brazil and inspire similar solutions in the other BRICS and developing countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.” million and 57.2

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UK Energy Institute awards recognise energy sector’s ‘indispensable contribution’

Envirotec Magazine

Ujunwa Ojemeni, Founder of the Africa Women in Energy Development Initiative won the Energy Leader Award. The winners of the EI Awards 2020 are: Access to Energy: InfraCo Asia. For their Methane Accounting Program. Founder of the Africa Women in Energy Development Initiative. www.infracoasia.com. www.midaspattern.co.uk/green-initiative.

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Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28

DeSmogBlog

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C Just seven percent are based in Africa.

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Vast amounts of valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in world’s fast-rising wastewater streams, says study

Envirotec Magazine

Today, some 380 billion cubic meters (m3 = 1000 litres) of wastewater are produced annually worldwide – five times the amount of water passing over Niagara Falls annually – enough to fill Africa’s Lake Victoria in roughly seven years, Lake Ontario in four, and Lake Geneva in less than three months.

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How Food Waste is Degrading the Environment

The Environmental Blog

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. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.

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Study: Gas crisis triggers $73bn investment in green hydrogen projects

Business Green

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.