GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

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. There are some blue hydrogen projects aiming to come online sooner than the late 2020s. We have a blueprint for a factory.

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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. With increased demand for such solutions, we look forward to continuing to make meaningful impact by deploying the technology with our current and future partners.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The statement also calls for governments to step up efforts to tackle methane pollution, enhance climate adaptation and resilience, and scale up climate finance for developing countries. The COP27 Coalition is a space for Africans to take back control of our collective future. "The

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2021

These commitments and investments along with those of other corporations have created an important source of demand and funding for forest carbon. It has conducted projects in the United States as well as South America, Central America, Africa, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. .

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Discussions centered both around its demand for power and how it can accelerate solutions. Fifty oil and gas companies pledged to achieve near zero-methane emissions by 2030 and a fund for methane abatement projects in emerging markets. Artificially inflated intelligence.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The findings further fuelled the cautiously optimistic mood that has built up during the first week of talks at COP26, which has seen a raft of new net zero pledges from emerging economies and a series of global deals to increase flows of climate finance, better protect forests, accelerate clean tech deployment, and curb methane emissions.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits. To me, this really shows a demand from consumers for these products. Demand drives supply.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Out of more than 200 groups currently listed on its website, 51 are from the United States and Canada, compared to only 11 from Africa. But its problems go well beyond the farm.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the WMO report showed that climate impacts worldwide were now heading into an "uncharted territory of destruction", as he reiterated his demand for countries to accelerate the phase out of fossil fuels worldwide. Prolonged and severe droughts in China, the Horn of Africa and the United States.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In addition, after the first text was criticised by NGOs for its omission of methane , a mention of the potent greenhouse gas has made it into the latest draft. The new text "invites" countries to "consider further actions" to reduce non-CO2 greenhouse gases this decade, with a specific mention of methane.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

From tackling deforestation to curbing methane emissions, the various multilateral commitments are focused on areas where they can have real impact. There was definitely some spin and duplication of effort going on, but the vast majority of the announcements point to how decarbonisation efforts can be drastically accelerated.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It is a testament and recognition of the decades-long commitment of Greenpeace activists to demand climate protection and stay below the 1.5C The ideological gap is narrowest in the countries where citizens are most concerned about climate change: Brazil, South Africa and Mexico.".

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

He continued: “The millions spent on sophisticated marketing and advertising campaigns are about shaping public opinion and maintaining demand for fossil fuels. There are several ways to produce hydrogen , but almost all of it currently in production uses methane as the feedstock, with non-renewable energy powering that production.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The trail-blazing partnership with South Africa to help fund a transition away from coal power that could provide a template for others to follow. But the failure of the 'Global North' to meet climate finance goals and the flat refusal to set up a formal Loss and Damage facility has yet again left climate vulnerable nations short changed.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

The partnership, which was confirmed on the sidelines of the Davos Summit, is the first of a series being initiated by the Forum's Ocean Action Agenda to help meet the rapidly increasing demand for high-quality blue carbon credits and projects around the world.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The commitments and claims of the first week on finance, forests, end of public finance for fossil fuel, methane and cars must now be translated into real policy and incorporated in the new NDCs that has to be delivered by 2022. But we have seen too many promises for tomorrow, not the action that the climate emergency demands today.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

China tops EV market league table, as global demand continues to surge. GFANZ said it is to launch additional regional networks in Africa and Latin America in the coming months, with secretariat staff distributed across all major continents to reflect the global nature of the group. The bland was broadly welcomed by green groups. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The landmark $8bn-plus agreement with South Africa to support a just transition away from coal power also provides an exciting template for how emerging economies can be provided with support as they attempt to move onto cleaner development pathways. Methane faces a reckoning.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To In the end they were pulled back from the precipice by the concerted effort of developing countries standing firm and by climate activists' demands for the blockers to step up.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The climate impact of farming practices are significant too - in the UK, agriculture and land-use are responsible for around 12 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, including almost half of the country's methane emissions. Food waste and the increasing cultivation of crops for bioenergy are both serving to further increase these impacts.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2021

These commitments and investments along with those of other corporations have created an important source of demand and funding for forest carbon. It has conducted projects in the United States as well as South America, Central America, Africa, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

He wrote a letter to governments in attendance that says, “phasing down demand for, and supply of, all fossil fuels is inevitable and essential” (emphasis mine). And during COP28, they’ll host a meeting to address methane pollution, an even more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Phasing down rather than out is decidedly weaker language.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits. To me, this really shows a demand from consumers for these products. Demand drives supply.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment, released in August, emphasizes that limiting climate change requires capping total carbon dioxide emissions, “reaching at least net zero CO2 emissions,” and making major cuts in methane and other greenhouse gas emissions. If emissions had peaked back in 2000 we would be skiing down a bunny slope toward 1.5C.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As was noted by the UK's COP26 Presidency, these agreements are far from perfect and will certainly not satisfy the demands of every nation, campaigner or business, but that was always the likely result of a process that aims to achieve consensus through complex, multilateral negotiations. Adaptation, resilience, loss and damage.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Under Farm to Fork targets, for example, demand for agrochemicals would decrease from the EU, taking a large market out of the game for U.S. Africa has workable, sustainable alternatives right here at home.”. agribusinesses that currently sell their chemical products in member states. They include precision farming (e.g.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Meanwhile, severe famines have hit Yemen and the Horn of Africa. In the short term, Europe's pivot means much more energy efficiency - the International Energy Agency estimates that the European Union can save 15 to 20 per cent of energy demand with efficiency measures. Extreme heat has been threatening lives across India and Pakistan.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Another pledge by more than 100 countries to cut methane by 30 per cent by 2030, essential for reducing this potent and prevalent greenhouse gas. A pledge by more than 100 countries - including Brazil - to end deforestation by 2030, a critical first step towards carbon sink and biodiversity preservation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Mohamed Adow, director of the Nairobi-based think tank Power Shift Africa, said: "Those of us living in Africa have been aware of the urgency of the climate crisis for many years. Key to keeping 1.5C ‘alive' will be a marked reduction in the release of highly-potent methane emissions, which could rapidly slow temperature rise.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

The three representatives all said there had been widespread recognition at the Dubai summit that agriculture was a “solution” to climate change, despite livestock accounting for over 30 percent of anthropogenic methane emissions. The long-awaited FAO Global roadmap followed. This is especially true in the U.S,

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Other demands include cutting methane emissions by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030, working to tackle other damaging pollutants, and taking more ambitious action to decarbonise transport such as aviation and shipping. The climate threatened nations have everything at stake here in Glasgow.".

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

In rainforests in Brazil and Indonesia, many places in Africa, all around the world, people eat many kinds of insects. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. Meals on demand, no waiting time involved. We have been eating them for a long time however.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

She joined college students, financial experts, faith leaders, and then-New York City Public Advocate Letitia James in front of the New York Stock Exchange to demand that the city’s five public pension funds factor the financial risks of climate change into their investment decisions. trillion in cash and investments.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2022

National policies to promote the conservation of energy and restraint of demand. In recent months, the group has advocated for governments to enact a string of measures that reduce energy demand in order to prevent the risk of energy rationing this winter. Some 45 years later, the organisation is in many senses back where it started.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

Washington and Brussels team up in support of wide-ranging plan to diversify Europe's sources of LNG, ramp up renewables development, plug methane leaks, and boost energy efficiency. In Africa, it is even worse: 60 per cent of people lack coverage. EU and US team up for energy security push. Early warnings and action save lives.".

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Shell explained at the time that it wanted to prepare itself to deal as “effectively as possible” with seasonal fluctuations in demand for oil. The company donated £10,000 (the equivalent of about £168,000 today) to help British climate scientist Hubert Lamb establish the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in 1972.

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