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Could surging gas prices help solve the methane leak crisis?

Business Green

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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Technology Trending: data centres in space, smart home appliances, LNG tractor

Smart Energy International

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. Circular farming with first LNG tractor.

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What the natural gas industry is missing about the energy transition 

EDF + Business

Several speakers highlighted how a large cause for declining US emissions since the early 2000s has been switching from dirty coal to “clean” natural gas, and that such coal-to-gas switching could enable further emission reductions in Asia. We need to address global energy poverty – but the climate impacts of gas undermine this effort.

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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 Scoones explains that this can lead to unhelpful discussions.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

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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Global Coal Use is Falling But Not Fast Enough to Tackle Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. China’s Coal Expansion. In the U.S.,

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Carbon-negative snack company AKUA offers kelp jerky and pasta

AGreenLiving

In recent years, seaweed has been quite a catch for health-conscious consumers, in turn, making kelp, a brown macroalgae, one of the more in-demand types of seaweed offerings. Related: Eating seaweed could reduce cows’ methane production Why is kelp a good idea for food sustainability? based ocean farmers,” Myers said.