Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

New IEA analysis reveals methane emissions from the energy sector are 70 per cent higher than official reports, but could high gas prices finally prompt operators to tackle the problem. It is one of the biggest and most worrying mysteries in the field of climate science: where are all the methane emissions coming from?

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Government and devolved administrations team up to explore how to accelerate adoption of methane-busting feed products for cattle and sheep. However, the new call for evidence is likely to receive a mixed welcome from green groups, given methane-reducing supplements have been shown to curb emissions rather than eradicate them altogether.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. The agriculture industry has a lot to be worried about. No-till and organic farming fall under the banner of regenerative agriculture, as well as the use of cover crops.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. One says it will “push” the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to host “positive livestock content” at COP28.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Many plant-based activists claim that leaders at COP26 aren’t paying enough attention to methane emissions from agriculture. Animal agriculture contributes about 20% to human-caused climate change. Continued here: We need to talk about farming, agriculture and emissions. “COP26 has been framed as a Race to Zero.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Lobbyists from industrial agriculture companies and trade groups have turned out in record numbers at COP28, which this year has a strong focus on tackling emissions from the food sector. We are committed to scale up efforts to make food production and agriculture more sustainable and resilient”.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

We tend to blame cows’ methane-filled burps for these gases, but around a quarter of livestock emissions come from fertilizer used to grow animal feed. In the United States, around two-thirds of the roughly 1 billion acres of land used for agriculture is devoted to animal grazing. Food & Agriculture. Regenerative Agriculture.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Wastewater from agriculture: The study says about 13.4% of the global fertilizer nutrient demand could be supplemented by full nutrient recovery from wastewater. of global agricultural demand for them. of global demand for nitrogen as a fertilizer nutrient; phosphorus 6.8% Among major nutrients, 16.6

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This exquisite instrument will act as the “eye” of the satellite, allowing us to detect, pinpoint, and quantify point source emissions of methane and carbon dioxide. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Detecting methane from space An engineer prepares the imaging spectrometer instrument for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at JPL.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

By far the most politically contentious aspect of the new emissions budgets involves Ireland’s livestock-dominated agriculture sector, which currently accounts for 37.5 Irish Agriculture. per cent of total national emissions, despite the sector contributing only around one percent to GDP.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

Findings of detailed case study into how Nordic country can slash its emissions carries lessons for advanced agricultural economies, according to WRI. Whether you have a stake in Denmark's farming sector or not, the findings of the technical report, entitled A Pathway to Carbon Neutral Agriculture in Denmark , are significant.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Dr. Chris Charles, Senior Research Scientist and WWT Specialist at Genesis Biosciences, explained: “With a growing demand on companies and authorities to better their environmental credentials, decrease their waste and lower their CO2 emissions, AD and practices such as sludge to land are now being touted as circular economy champions.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 2, 2023

The appliances also offer the opportunity for enrolment in demand response programmes. The New Holland T7 Methane Power LNG has been unveiled by the agriculture and construction business CNH Industrial as a pre-production prototype of what could become a widely used tractor in the future.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Since these standards were developed, the demand for carbon offsets has increased over the years. It’s estimated that it will be ~51 years for oil, ~114 years for coal, and ~53 years for gas reserves to diminish, based on current demand estimates and reserves. To facilitate this rise, other certification programs have come into effect.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits. One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 To me, this really shows a demand from consumers for these products.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

EDF+Business program staff participated in meetings and panel presentations, including: Victoria Mills, director of corporate climate policy leadership; Elizabeth Sturcken, director of net zero acceleration; Katie Anderson, manager of supply chain and agricultural methane. An urgent new warning from the U.N.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several ambitious pledges emerged to phase down fossil fuels, limit methane emissions, stop deforestation, and turbocharge the adoption of electric vehicles. Methane: 105 world leaders signed onto the Global Methane Pledge, a US and EU joint initiative to cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The new pledges come as the beef industry faces intense pressure from campaigners and some investors to curb its environmental impact, given its position as one of the agricultural industry's largest sources of methane emissions and a major contributor to deforestation.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

As consumer and corporate demand for renewables grew, the value of the RECs rose, thereby incenting new wind and solar projects. Costs add up quickly: equipment to collect biogas (the unprocessed methane-rich vapor given off by waste); upgrade the gas to pipeline quality; and connect to existing gas pipelines. . Covering the U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

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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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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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

The Northern Ireland Assembly has passed climate change legislation committing the region to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050, after draft legislation tabled by Agriculture and Environment Minister Edwin Poots was approved by the nation's lawmakers on Tuesday. This is a good step towards leaving our climate laggard status behind.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

RSG is a new term used in the natural gas industry to describe voluntary reporting initiatives, centered largely around emissions of the powerful climate pollutant methane, but which may also include other criteria such as air quality, water stewardship, land impacts, and “ community interests.” What Is RSG?

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AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This immense food waste not only leads to millions facing food insecurity, but the decomposition of this waste leads to the release of methane which is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Demand for insect protein is only going up. Demand for insect protein is only going up. Overly linear food chains. between 2022 to 2029.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

RNG can also be produced via methanation, in which either synthesis gas from biomass gasification or carbon dioxide emissions from a variety of sources are converted into methane in combination with green hydrogen. .

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Delivering net zero emissions across the agricultural sector requires urgent action and "tough investment decisions in the short term", if ambitious decarbonisation goals are to be met and the sector is to bolster its resilience to escalating climate risks.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

California's new decarbonisation plan, Austria's windfall tax, and global methane reduction efforts. With the current energy crisis and ambitious decarbonisation goals, wind energy has never been more in demand," said Lars Völkel, executive vice president for the Wood Products Division at Stora Enso.

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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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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). Other sources of GHGs are agriculture, forestry and land use (18%), waste (3%) and industry (5%). The impacts of GHGs are being felt here and now.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

The global stampede to develop clean energy sources has prompted a demand for ammonia analysers from the developers of engines that will be capable of using ammonia as a fuel. Historically, this process has been employed to manufacture agricultural fertilizers using natural gas (fossil fuel) as the source of hydrogen.

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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. Protecting the Industrial Agriculture Status Quo. But the U.S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy study warns the 'climate footprint of Europe's big meat and dairy companies rival the fossil fuel giants'. Moreover, the study indicates agriculture emissions are still rising in several key EU countries, with animal farming emissions ticking up six per cent between 2007 and 2018.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the immediate term, businesses will have to cope with these supply chain woes, while also meeting increased consumer demands. Mitigation efforts could include stopping deforestation , decarbonizing operations , and slashing methane emissions. Experts are warning that full recovery could take years.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Campaigners express frustration with 'strengthened' Trade and Agriculture Commission unveiled by government to help maintain green standards in trade deals. I want our farmers and food producers to be positive about the export opportunities that exist and take advantage of booming demand for British exports," she said.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Such is the problem with compiling and crunching up to date, accurate global agricultural data. Produced over the last decade or so in partnership with the World Bank , the UN Environment , UN Development Programme , and the French agricultural research agencies CIRAD and INRA , it is now a door-stopper of a volume at 564 pages.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Named “Brazen TM Beef”, it was the first ever product of its kind to receive the “Climate-Friendly” stamp from the US Department of Agriculture. percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. At the last count, livestock production contributes 14.5 They’re all getting bigger.

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