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? Methane monitoring goes stratospheric #185

Climate Tech VC

Responsible for nearly a third of global warming and a quarter of global energy, methane matters.   In deals this week $145m for lithium extraction, $52m for methane emissions detection, and $40m for sustainable aviation fuel.   In January, Longpath secured a $189m conditional US Department of Energy loan guarantee.

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The key to scaling greenhouse gas removals? Robust monitoring, reporting and verification

Business Green

and no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels. Furthermore, political and financial support for GGR must not blind policymakers to the risks inherent to individual GGR techniques - for instance, the high reversibility risks associated with forest plantations, or promising but under-researched approaches such as ocean alkalinity enhancement.

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VW: German auto industry push to subsidize hydrogen is “nonsensical”

Charged

The latest battle in the War of the Energy Storage Media has broken out in Germany, where the Volkswagen Group and an auto industry lobbying group (the German Association of the Automotive Industry, or VDA) are at daggers drawn over the government’s proposed plan to implement the EU’s renewable energy directive.

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The Fight to Define ‘Green Hydrogen’ Could Determine America’s Emissions Future

DeSmogBlog

But the work of ensuring this unprecedented bundle of funding for clean energy actually leads to reduced emissions is just beginning. The current emissions of the power sector is 1.5 They would shut down investment in the industry, “effectively making it dead on arrival.” electricity still comes from fossil fuels.

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Sustainable Freight: Towards a Greener Air Cargo Culture

The Environmental Blog

According to a report by the European Parliament , continuing on the current trajectory with no intervention will lead the aviation industry to account for 22% of global CO2 emissions by 2050. But what’s standing in the way of the aviation industry? What challenges does the air cargo industry face?

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'Private jets must be consigned to history': Greenpeace reveals private jet emissions quadrupled during last year's Davos Summit

Business Green

The report was released on the eve of the WEF's annual Davis Summit, which kicks off next week and is again expected to see hundreds of business and political leaders jet into the Swiss resort. Greenpeace said many of the flights "could have easily been train or car trips", as it again reiterated its calls for a ban on private jet flights.

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Pricing and politics: Where next for the UK's emissions trading scheme?

Business Green

Carbon pricing has always been a thorny political issue, but as Ministers weigh how to drive the next phase of the net zero transition some experts believe it has a critical role to play. It all started with such ambition. The latest rumours suggest the consultation over the future of the ETS has now been delayed until spring 2022.