GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

Cooley agrees with the Commission’s position that by 2030 green hydrogen will be cost-competitive with grey forms of hydrogen, produced via steam methane reformation, but he believes it could even happen sooner in markets with cheap solar power. Europe's gas sector strikes upbeat tone. The 4-gigawatt project , led by U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

Once completed, the Trans Mountain Expansion will allow more responsibly-produced Canadian oil to reach key markets in Asia and beyond,” claimed one ad from the Canadian Energy Centre, which according to Facebook analytics reached an estimated audience size of over one million people. 350 million (C $463 million) for energy research.”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. Within eight months of the policies taking effect, the EU had replaced 80 percent of the gas previously supplied by pipeline from Russia. LNG exports by 2030.

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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.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

Pelosi visited Taipei as part of a tour of Asia this week, arguing her visit to the contested territory was justified as a means of pushing back against Beijing's attempts to "isolate" the island. Global Methane Hub and Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance announce $1.5m The Global Methane Hub (GMH) this week announced it will fund $1.5m

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A recent study has found it is currently “not feasible” for the global livestock industry to sequester enough carbon to cancel out its planet-warming emissions — and that policy efforts geared toward that goal may be deeply misguided. Estimates suggest there are 1.5 That’s a tall order, to put it mildly.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon is fed on other fish — small, oily, and nutritious pelagic species — which are harvested by the tonne off the West African coastline and pulverized into fishmeal and fish oil for export to Europe and Asia. In 2023, DeSmog will be looking more into the aquaculture industry, its impacts, and where it seeks to influence policy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

That is the upbeat conclusion of new research published this week by the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR), an initiative that has been tracking significant climate policy developments on a quarterly basis since the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November 2021.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

or 'well below' 2C, even if many of the targets have not yet been translated into sufficiently ambitious decarbonisation policies. The problem is that hardly any governments have credible strategies and policies in place to deliver on their net zero goals. CAT's analysis stresses that while the world would likely face 2.4C

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

IEA executive director Faith Birol has been outspoken about the role Russia has had in driving up international gas prices, warning earlier this year that record high energy prices in Europe and parts of Asia were largely due to the country purposefully holding back supplies of the fossil fuel. million heat pumps instead of 1.7

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

“Solar is now by far the lowest-cost source of new energy in India,” said Tim Buckley, director of energy finance studies for Australasia and South Asia for IEEFA. ” “Oh, and by the way, it doesn't emit carbon dioxide or methane,” he added. But that is far from the only benefit.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A few tech companies are working to grow clean hydrogen in Europe and Asia and, lately, California. Combined with a push for decarbonization, these economics could drive demand, project energy experts.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In British Columbia, Premier John Horgan’s government detailed policies to nearly double climate-protection efforts. Thanks to “fracking” technology that made natural gas cheap and abundant, its consumption went wild, along with methane leaks from gas pipes that further plague the climate. That’s begun in Cascadia. Jobs, jobs, jobs.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Flanders moves to ban gas boilers, GFANZ launches new Asia-Pacific network, and New Zealand steps up efforts to tackle agricultural emissions. GFANZ launches new Asia-Pacific Network. Similarly, the global financial system cannot do its fair share without the leadership of the Asia-Pacific financial institutions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

In 2016, DeSmog reported from the annual Energy Information Administration (EIA) conference that countries in Southeast Asia expected a “doubling of electricity demand by 2030, dominated by coal.” . As Global Energy Monitor found, in Southeast Asia “coal plant projects struggled to obtain financing.” . In the U.S.,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Asia dominates the market with 97.4 The birth of what is essentially a new industry (outside of Asia anyway) doesn't happen overnight, and investors don't always have a lot of patience. Researchers have even found that certain types of seaweed used as feed supplement for cattle can reduce methane emissions from cow farts.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

More ambition to close this gap - along with real-world action to phase out coal, end deforestation, and make rapid cuts to methane - could yet ensure that the world can leave COP26 in Glasgow with the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5C compatible, its policies and international support don't match," the report notes. within reach.".

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The assertions also lack detail, face technical problems, ignore leaking methane emissions, and depend on government subsidies for funding. To complicate matters further, new research suggests that fugitive methane emissions from fracking operations are far higher than official data indicates. And that is from just one project.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

A few tech companies are working to grow clean hydrogen in Europe and Asia and, lately, California. Combined with a push for decarbonization, these economics could drive demand, project energy experts.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Human Rights and Accountability Cases Advance As devastating climate impacts intensify and accelerate, courts are increasingly seeing cases alleging that insufficient government climate policies amount to human rights violations. United States In the U.S., In late March, the Strasbourg-based court heard two climate cases. KlimaSeniorinnen v.

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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

JUNE 13, 2022

National policies to promote the conservation of energy and restraint of demand. I believe there is an urgent need to look at how we can reduce the demand at home and there very proven energy efficiency policies which could bring demand down," Birol said. "I Some 45 years later, the organisation is in many senses back where it started.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

Entire sections of wetlands are being filled in and paved over to build LNG export terminals, which will ship fracked gas to Europe and Asia. have become increasingly intertwined and inextricably linked to markets in Europe and Asia. However, the LNG buildout is now in limbo. gas prices closer to those other, costlier regions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Those projects include LNG Canada, a $40 billion export facility led by the oil and gas company Shell that could begin shipping LNG exports to Asia next year, as well as Cedar LNG, a proposed facility owned in part by the Haisla First Nation that received environmental approval from the B.C. government last year. border near Fort St.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Rise of City Zero Emission Zones (Panel Discussion): Following cities in Europe and Asia, some U.S. In this session, entrepreneurs, policy experts and investors will forecast the future of the market and explain how your company can capture a part of it. That economy is now taking shape.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including fresh WHO air pollution guidelines and global coal, methane and HFC commitments. These updated guidelines give policy-makers solid evidence and the necessary tool to tackle this long-term health burden.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

APRIL Group - or Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd, to give it its full name - is a massive manufacturer of wood pulp and fiber, the basis of myriad everyday products from office printing paper and packaging to tea bags and viscose fabrics. We need to develop a proper policy and strategy starting from now."

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our portfolio companies are working on everything from expanding access to solar power in frontline communities and slashing methane emissions by feeding cows seaweed to deploying portable water quality sensors and mapping equity into street infrastructure.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

While CO 2 may be the greatest contributor to climate change, other gases such as methane and nitrous oxide are also responsible for creating the greenhouse effect, therefore, solutions must also focus on the reduction of these gases. The severity of those impacts is tied directly to the amount of carbon dioxide we release.”

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 5, 2021

With the world’s focus on cutting CO2 emissions to slow global warming, cutting methane emissions is often overlooked. But with more potential to warm the planet in the short-term, it’s time to tackle methane gas emissions. Why Focus on Methane? Sources of Methane Where do methane gas emissions come from?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

foreign policy and national security. This effort is being led by Biden appointees with major influence over the administration’s energy policies: U.S. foreign policy. Biden’s administration was expected to be a marked departure from that of his predecessor when it came to climate change, energy, and environmental policy.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

"We still have a huge gap," between the promises made by the almost 200 countries who signed up to the Paris Agreement and national targets and policies, explains Niklas Höhne, founding partner of the New Climate Institute in Germany. above pre-industrial times by 2100 based on existing policies. Pull together'.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2022

Launching a new PR offensive, oil and gas executives and lobbyists are denouncing climate policy and also demanding more lenient policies to allow the buildout of more fossil fuel infrastructure. gas is heading more and more to Asia, where petroleum conglomerates can sell for a higher price.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

The new target and funding is part of a wave of green policy moves from the Biden administration that has delighted green businesses and environmental campaigners. In the same week as the company announced record profits on the back of booming demand from Asia, it unveiled new plans to achieve net zero emissions by 2040.

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