Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Retro-Insulated Cross-Arms (RICA) research project aims to develop and deploy an innovative method for uprating overhead lines, allowing the voltage on 275kV lines to be increased to 400kV. This project demonstrates that the key to success lies in innovation and that National Grid is well placed to deliver on Net Zero.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 144

GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2021

In January 2020, Microsoft committed to invest $1 billion over the next four years as part of their Climate Innovation Fund. EP Carbon uses innovation and creativity to make carbon projects and their accompanying standards work for an eclectic range of landowners. EP Carbon on the other hand, takes a much more international approach.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral South America Innovation 480

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

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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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

At last year's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow a new accord between the US and China saw the two countries promise to work together to accelerate clean tech deployment and tackle methane emissions and deforestation. WRAP backs South Africa circular economy project. Global Methane Hub and Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance announce $1.5m

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

"The federal government is setting a good example and will be purchasing in a climate-friendly way in the future… the public sector can make a significant contribution to promoting innovative and climate-friendly products and technologies," said economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier. US and EU pursuing global methane deal.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tackling these multiple challenges and threats requires coordinated action from the public sector, private sector, NGOs, civil society, innovators and actors throughout the food value chain. This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. Au contraire, it is the reverse.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With daily events at two Technology and Innovation hubs and a whole village for Startups (especially Breakthrough Energy-backed ones), it was visible everywhere you go. Fifty oil and gas companies pledged to achieve near zero-methane emissions by 2030 and a fund for methane abatement projects in emerging markets.

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COP Fossil fuels Agriculture Methane 69

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 94

AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Chrysalix and Emerald Technology Partners from Europe; Factor[e] and Social Alpha from Africa/India; and Tsing Capital and CRCM from China. Frost Methane : An offsets market being created around methane flaring activities Kanin Energy : A venture focused on turning industrial waste heat into an emissions-free energy source.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. Near-term commitments include 6 GW of clean energy in India alongside considerations for wind and solar in Africa and rural electrification in Latin America.

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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 Global North groups dominate.

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Methane Agriculture Africa Climate change 121

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Critics of the push say carbon capture technology is still unproven, methane leakage could add untold greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere, and transport complications all make blue hydrogen a much dirtier fuel than the name implies. It’s hard to be optimistic. Global Oilfields.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

and United Arab Emirates governments, the AIM for Climate (Aim4C) coalition pledged to accelerate innovation in agriculture and food systems to support climate action. Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”. Second, it would only reduce methane emissions from the cattle.

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Agriculture Africa Methane Climate change 93

Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

West Africa battled the tragic spread of Ebola while the West remained largely ignorant to the horror of public health threats. Chief among them: how to deal with dangerous NOx emissions that are six times higher than from burning methane. Cast your mind back to 2014. It was Scotland, not the whole UK, pondering independence.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For example, the UK last week launched new loans that will see debt repayments suspended in the event of recipient countries facing climate impacts, while the sweeping new Just Transition finance packages being offered to South Africa and Indonesia are underpinned by concessional finance. Action on methane is building momentum.

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Fossil fuels COP Methane Government 36

Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For its natural gas business, it will adopt a new net zero by 2050 goal that includes upstream methane and carbon emissions related to purchased gas and downstream carbon emissions from customers' consumption. "As Policy changes and technological innovation are expected to play a key role in meeting these enhanced goals.".

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2021

In January 2020, Microsoft committed to invest $1 billion over the next four years as part of their Climate Innovation Fund. EP Carbon uses innovation and creativity to make carbon projects and their accompanying standards work for an eclectic range of landowners. EP Carbon on the other hand, takes a much more international approach.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral South America Innovation 28

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Or, will it lock in an “innovation”-focused, industry-led plan to produce more food, with a slightly lower footprint? Analysis by DeSmog last year found that of roughly 300 partners, just seven percent were based in Africa. Aim4C is expected to highlight over 50 “innovation sprints” this year – mostly led by major agribusinesses.

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COP Fossil fuels Agriculture Pollution 133

Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

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 GFANZ APAC Network and its Advisory Board will help harness leadership and innovation from around the region.".

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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. and coal is in the text. But there is a lot more to do. And Oil and gas production still has to be addressed.

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Fossil fuels COP Global warming Politics 83

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We can expect to hear a lot about how the Agricultural Innovation Mission for Climate , or Aim4C, will be harnessing new technology – from big data to precision fertilizer – to slow ballooning emissions from agribusiness, and fight worsening global hunger. “It Africa has workable, sustainable alternatives right here at home.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The role of livestock in low-income countries has recently been highlighted by the EAT-Lancet Commission themselves: “Because many regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, still face severe burdens of undernutrition and malnutrition, and growing children often do not obtain adequate quantities of nutrients from plant source foods alone”.

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Agriculture Climate change Sustainability Methane 86

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tackling these multiple challenges and threats requires coordinated action from the public sector, private sector, NGOs, civil society, innovators and actors throughout the food value chain. This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. Au contraire, it is the reverse.

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Health Organic Sustainability Agriculture 28

Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Lot’s of Methane. Some of you might already be aware of the ticking time bomb called methane. In 2008, scientists found that a giant amount of methane (about 50 gigatons) is trapped in the form of permafrost in Arctic regions. I know that of course, like everybody and everything else on this planet, Santa will innovate or die.

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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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Carbon-negative Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution 98

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. Every government should now be focused on the investments and innovation required to reach net zero emissions as quickly as possible.

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Sea level rise Climate change Fossil fuels Government 83

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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Agriculture COP Methane Climate change 142

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. Future innovations might include food that is incomprehensible to us now. Absolutely. The real deal.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

There is also a call to improve access to science, technology and innovation, with a particular focus on "environmentally sound technologies" that can help developing countries build capacity to implement the SDGs. Over the last 13 years, it has grown into Africa's largest payments service. The amount of international aid fell by 2.7

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 percent of its GDP. LinkedIn | Twitter. For HP Inc.,

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From President Biden to methane pledges, BusinessGreen explores the biggest developments on the fifth full day of the pivotal climate talks in Sharm EL Sheikh. Biden's address also set out his administration's plans to crackdown on methane leaks in the US' fossil fuel industry.

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Fossil fuels Methane Asia Agriculture 36

Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  SPAC valuation ).

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