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. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. Farming will be front and centre at this year’s COP.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The findings of the UN’s climate science body the IPCC show that the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement cannot be met without climate action on food. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. Outspoken meat lobby groups are also on the ground in Dubai.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2021

However, today's study estimates that emissions from the production - rather than the use - of blue hydrogen "are quite high", and that resulting greenhouse gas emissions, including both CO2 and methane, are "more than 20 per cent greater than burning natural gas or coal for heat, and some 60 per cent greater than burning diesel oil for heat".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2021

Hydrogen, which has long been used in industrial processes but is currently derived largely from fossil fuels, is expected to play a major role in decarbonising a number of hard-to-electrify sectors such as heavy industry, long-haul aviation and shipping by displacing fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Green hydrogen could replace methane to generate heat or power. As 2020 unfurled and then unraveled, climate change ambition ramped up. Using renewable-powered electrolyzers to create low-carbon hydrogen can squeeze emissions out of sectors where direct electrification isn’t going to cut it.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Its priority areas include slashing methane emissions; ending deforestation; phasing out coal; electrifying road transport; decarbonising hard-to-abate industry; and improving energy efficiency. Altogether, that would make for a 40 per cent cut in overall methane emissions by 2030. pathway by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

The government went one step further and in April, set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law: to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

This makes it a critical sector for the UK's net zero ambitions: if it reduces its own emissions enough, it can provide a way to offset emissions from other sectors that are difficult to decarbonise, like aviation or some types of heavy industry. Jo Furtado is senior climate change specialist at WWF.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

Things happening in Québec: Hydro-Québec posts record $4.56-billion The province this year added $1.4 billion for the plan, bringing the total to $9 billion over five years. million Energy sources Quebec: [link] 94% hydro, 5% wind, 0.7% biomass/geothermal 212.9 MW ], and the seventh-largest hydroelectric power plant in the world.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There is strong evidence that decarbonisation and tackling the climate emergency are major concerns for people in Britain. More than 80 per cent of the public say they are concerned about climate change and more than 30 per cent think it is one of the top three issues facing the UK. methane - CH4).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Rearing livestock is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, in part because it contributes to deforestation as land is cleared either to rear animals or to grow crops to provide animal feed and in part through methane emissions from cattle. And that's where the seaweed comes in. Vertical Farming.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

Instead, today's agenda is determined by the fact I have something significant to speak to you about in relation to Shell and its plans to respond to climate change. *. But it is undoubtedly the case that the biggest long-term question for an oil and gas business like Shell, is the question raised by climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

They also claim any boiler primed to run on low carbon hydrogen but installed initially to run off methane would require "no more than one hour's labour" to convert it to run on hydrogen, should higher volumes of H2 get blended into the gas grid or even replace methane altogether in future.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 22, 2024

That said, according to the company, this will only happen if the coal mine methane-based process is able to qualify for tax credits from the federal government as a part of the Biden administration’s climate change strategy. According to CNX, the facility will take methane vented from coal mines out of the atmosphere. 

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

” The revelations come after several recent rulings against fossil fuel companies’ green ad campaigns for misleading claims about their business’ efforts to tackle climate change. And 54 promos in total (1 percent of all posts) showcased companies engaging positively with legislators and other policymakers on climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A month after the food summit, P2DNZ made a splash at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, where Tom Vilsack, the US Secretary of Agriculture – himself the former CEO of a major dairy industry lobbying firm – expressed his department’s “strong support”. That’s a larger share of global emissions than aviation.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

But critics argue that CCS technologies are yet to be deployed at scale, costs remain uncertain, and blue hydrogen can still lead to greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from methane leakage associated with fossil gas exploration and production.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

To avoid potentially disastrous levels of climate change, the consensus is clear: global temperature must rise no less than 1.5C Ruminant protein - cows, sheep, goats and other livestock that produce methane when they digest - accounts for more than two-thirds of agricultural emissions and so a 1.5C Carbon removal and storage.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2021

Instead, it said the government should focus fully on green hydrogen production using renewables, and ensure the resulting hydrogen is prioritised for use by those sectors where it would be most required and effective, such as steel and cement making, shipping and aviation, and long-duration power storage. "A

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

BusinessGreen's quick guide to the IPCC's landmark Working Group III report on climate solutions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has this afternoon published a landmark guide to climate change solutions, the first report of its type in more than six years.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

“The last 15 percent of the economy is hard to clean up — aviation, shipping, manufacturing, long-distance trucking,” Fakhry said in an interview. Hydrogen derived from methane — usually from natural gas, but also coal and biomass — was pioneered in World War II by Germany, which has no petroleum deposits.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

Longer term economic projections are notoriously variable based on the assumptions about the future that underpin them, but it is worth noting that the Climate Change Committee's most recent analysis suggested the net economic impact of delivering the UK's net zero goals has been reversed from a 0.5 per cent loss of GDP to a 0.5

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Burning that oil emits much more CO2 than what is captured , which means the technology wouldn’t represent a feasible solution to address climate change. It was not developed to address climate change.” Carbon capture started as a means to enhance oil production,” said Stockman. “It

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

They also are more equipped with the vital skills to adapt and be resilient to climate change when disaster strikes, and to influence how their communities mitigate against it. Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels. 43 — Aviation.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We’re grateful to partner with this latest group of innovators and, with a portfolio that’s now 117 companies strong, work together to commercialize an abundance of solutions to reverse climate change — starting today. Making sure food makes it from farm to fork is one of the most potent ways we can reduce climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2021

And the other is using data and relationships and ambitions around climate change to enable the energy transition. Microsoft has, unsurprisingly, been smack bang in the middle of debates about whether tech companies' work with oil and gas is tackling or exacerbating the climate emergency.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

⚡ Turn2x , a Munich, Germany-based RNG from methanation producer, raised $5M in Seed funding from LEA Partners, Verve Ventures, and First Momentum Ventures. ✈️ Joby Aviation , a Santa Cruz, CA-based electric vertical take-off and landing aviation company, raised $100M from SK Telecom. 🚗 e.GO

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

Climate tech companies that attracted substantial funding for their innovations in 2021 and 2022 are now reaching important proof points on the journey to commercial scale. Twelve and Brimstone are proving out climate tech alternatives in sectors responsible for 2% (aviation) and 7.5% (cement) of global CO2 emissions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Meanwhile, the US and EU will be hoping to get more countries to sign up to their Global Methane Pledge, a deal which has already been endorsed by several nations around the world, including the UK. Its stated aim is to collectively slash methane emissions across all sectors by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Link Wither Methane? The Trump administration announced they were eliminating a regulation that required oil and gas companies to monitor and limit methane leaks. Because they don’t want natural gas to be portrayed as an uncontrolled climate change problem?—?they

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today. Building Back Aviation Sustainably (Workshop): The global pandemic has thrown a wrench into the aviation sector's decarbonization efforts. Attendees are invited to bring their own challenges, questions and ideas to these free-form conversations.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Obama's quiet flexing of diplomatic muscles coupled with China's desire to avert a trade-damaging new Cold War had delivered a nuclear deal in Iran, the world's first universal climate change pact, and a broadly effective containment of the world's increasingly isolated authoritarian strongmen.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 18, 2022

The bill has been championed as a “climate change bill”, but it also allocates hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade to several programs designed to reduce inflation. A Methane Emissions Reduction Program to reduce the leaks from the production and distribution of natural gas. Fossil Fuel Provisions.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

Some think that confronting climate change and creating jobs and economic inclusion are in conflict," Fraser noted in her remarks. Solving climate change must be a driver and economic prosperity.". is on board with shipping industry reductions (and aviation, too). Climate Change. Climate Tech.

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Grist

AUGUST 13, 2021

The White House has said the bill advances Biden’s climate agenda and proponents of hydrogen have touted it as a low-emissions alternative to fuel shipping, trucking, aviation, and even home heating. If methane, a short-lived but very powerful greenhouse gas, were cut by around half this decade, it would shave 0.3

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In an overview of country climate pledges for 2030 submitted as part of their NDCs, the UN last month warned that global emissions are currently on track to rise 16 per cent by 2030, from 2010 levels. For Mabey, Glasgow is the most crucial UN meeting on climate change since Paris. Global carbon emissions fell by a record 5.8

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