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Biomass Energy: Pros and Cons Explained

Hydrogen Fuel News

Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. This process yields biogas, predominantly composed of methane and carbon dioxide, which can be used as a fuel for heating, electricity generation, or as a natural gas alternative.

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New California Energy Policy Simulator Modeling Shows Major Benefits Of Early Action

Energy Innovation

This year’s Draft Scoping Plan proposes a pathway to achieve the state’s target of 40 percent emissions below 1990 levels and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045. . This scenario relies on already mature technologies to achieve near-term emissions reductions, as opposed to nascent technologies such as carbon removal.

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Sowing Doubt: How Big Ag is Delaying Sustainable Farming in Europe

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Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. The battle over agrochemical regulation is not new.

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

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In February last year, the head of a leading global meat industry body gave a “pep talk” to his colleagues at an Australian agriculture conference. Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. The first is for 100 percent of products to be designed with the circular economy in mind.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

AGreenLiving

. “I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun,” he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. It’s seeking to capture no less than a gigaton of CO2 per year by 2035.