DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The Dangers of Liquified Natural Gas Lock-In. Polluting UK power plant Drax – a former coal power station which now burns wood to generate electricity – was found to be at the heart of these lobbying efforts to dilute EU biodiversity rules that could limit its supply of wood. Big Ag Delegates More Than Double at COP27.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

For example, in June, Germany announced plans to restart coal-fired powerplants , in an effort to save its reserves of natural gas. Toward a Global Deal for Nature. In the near-term, the conflict is exerting negative impacts on climate emissions. As with carbon, technology can help standardize and scale these efforts.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

A decision on whether both should be included has now been pushed back to another date, while the Commission has also promised to review its inclusion of biomass as a sustainable energy technology in the taxonomy when it finalises its wider biodiversity legislation. " A version of this article originally appeared at Investment Week.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. As of 2016, the use of mineral fertilizers, which includes nitrogen-based fertilizers produced from natural gas, accounted for 39 percent of the agriculture sector’s emissions in Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, DeSmog revealed with the Financial Times how UK power plant Drax was at the heart of lobbying efforts to dilute EU biodiversity rules that could limit its supply of wood. In 2023, we’ll continue to keep our eye on EU policy around bioenergy. A handful of LNG projects are moving forward on the U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

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. This could lead to socioeconomic tensions if not managed with a comprehensive understanding of local dynamics.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

The authors calculated the huge additional costs lumped onto society by the transport and electricity sectors' contribution to climate change, air pollution, land degradation, noise, and biodiversity damage, as well as health and social costs, with the estimated total bill coming to £264bn.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Biodiversity. A greenhouse gas which is impacting climate change. Composed of carbon and hydrogen, it enters the environment through livestock, leaks from natural gas systems, landfills and waste from homes and businesses. Efforts to reduce or prevent greenhouse gas emissions. Black carbon. Mitigation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Meanwhile, Russia's energy minister Alexander Novak has told The Guardian that the country has no plans to scale back fossil fuel production in the coming decades, instead aiming for a 50 per cent growth in gas production alongside plans for developing hydrogen and carbon capture technology. "I Akins, AEP chairman, president and CEO. "We

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

It notes the "extraordinary challenges" the UK currently faces from Russia's war in Ukraine, soaring energy and food prices, and rising threats to the economy and global security "including the increasingly devastating impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Speaking to members of a Citizen's Convention on Climate (CCC) on Monday, Macron said that a referendum would propose adding a specific clause addressing the need to tackle biodiversity, environment, and climate risks to Article 1 of the nation's constitution. Our first job is to let industry know we are serious.".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

On December 18, 2020, the day when the public consultation came to a close, “the gas bloc” — Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia — submitted an unofficial document expressing their concerns to the European Commission.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. A study in August 2022 found that the global climate impact of nitrogen fertiliser – which is made from natural gas – exceeds that of commercial aviation, contributing roughly two percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2023

When inactive wells are not properly plugged, they can leak natural gas, which is mostly comprised of methane, a powerful climate pollutant. Even if certain species benefit from the structures left behind…in the end, we are left with a lesser quality of biodiversity.” Poorly cleaned oil pipelines can seep residues into the sea.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For its electric business, the new net zero goal will include greenhouse gas emissions from the power it purchases for resale, from the procurement of fossil fuels used for generation, and from the electricity purchased for its own use.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

If we trickle along not delivering the capacity needed, we [could] get an increasing set of climate and pollution related problems and a massive biodiversity hit," he says. "We We [could be] sat there in the mid-2030s saying: 'Sorry, all the nice ways to decarbonise are gone. We are now in a survival battle, and this is going to be ugly.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 30, 2023

What will 2023 hold for the environment and development? The end of 2022 certainly left us in an interesting — and concerning — place. The world’s three-year-old pandemic proved it was far from over, sickening millions and affecting economies.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Direct Energy , a new partner to Greentown Labs, is one of North America’s largest retail providers of electricity, natural gas, and home and business energy-related services, with nearly four million customers. Direct Energy is driving the transition toward a more sustainable future through innovation, technology, and cultural change.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Lynd’s study aimed to address the common claim that biofuels do not actually offer greenhouse gas benefits. And the energy required to power these carbon-sucking machines would be monumental: It would be equivalent to more than all of the natural gas the world consumes today. A right time and place?

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

We need to get rid of coal, natural gas and petroleum. Coal, natural gas and petroleum are the culprits here: the burning of these fuels tend to lead to inefficiency. All the gas we need in the world can be made from, you guessed it, biogas. I am assuming the U.S. The same principles apply however.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

First year allowances for zero emission goods vehicles and natural gas and hydrogen refuelling equipment is also being extended from April 2021. The government said today the tax breaks would be extended for another year from April 2021, although applying only to zero emission vehicles, not ultra-low emission cars.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2020

Any general waste that is produced will be processed into heat and power, it added, while green waste will be sent to anaerobic digestion plants, where it will be turned into methane, liquid fertiliser, and compost to be used in a number of industries, including natural gas power and farming.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

and 70 percent of all public lands — and almost 700 million acres of natural resources that lay beneath it and its coasts. The department is responsible for 422 national parks, 129 national monuments and 567 wildlife refuges, stewarding biodiversity conservation projects and protecting more than 1,000 endangered species. "It

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A pledge by more than 100 countries - including Brazil - to end deforestation by 2030, a critical first step towards carbon sink and biodiversity preservation. Another pledge by more than 100 countries to cut methane by 30 per cent by 2030, essential for reducing this potent and prevalent greenhouse gas.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Its mission: to offer products that "promote the harmonious relationship of the individual with oneself, with others and with nature.".

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Businesses leaders urge EU committees to champion Nature Restoration Law An alliance of 12 major business networks is this week urging key European Parliament committees to support and strengthen a proposed Nature Restoration Law, which if passed would set out legally binding goals for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

The school just unveiled a 35-acre athletic center on native meadows whose plants were selected for their ability to attract pollinators and restore biodiversity. Thompson Rivers is working to replace all its natural gas boilers with electric ones, which should render the whole university carbon-neutral (sans offsets!)

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

However, governments are also facing another challenge this fall that could affect how they respond: Energy supply shortages have left Europe and China with price spikes for natural gas, coal and oil. China – the world’s largest emitter – has not yet submitted its NDC. What happens if COP26 doesn’t meet its goals?

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Business Green

JANUARY 8, 2021

Natural gas as a bridge to cleaner power or only renewable energy as a means to decarbonize? Americans will never give up their Big Mac even if Impossible Burger is doing a great job bringing plant-based meat to the mainstream market in the name of global biodiversity.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 17, 2021

and 70 percent of all public lands — and almost 700 million acres of natural resources that lay beneath it and its coasts. The department is responsible for 422 national parks, 129 national monuments and 567 wildlife refuges, stewarding biodiversity conservation projects and protecting more than 1,000 endangered species.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Its mission: to offer products that “promote the harmonious relationship of the individual with oneself, with others and with nature.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

With good reason: The climate and biodiversity crises, combined with the social and economic equity crises, are providing momentum and incentives for staying the course. The job boom crosses sectors, from finance and private equity to clean energy and biodiversity. Nature and biodiversity awareness sprouted.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

The new Fund aims to help countries achieve more holistic policymaking by creating further evidence of the links between biodiversity, climate and health, and will support decision makers and relevant actors to take measures to prevent future pandemics, UNEP said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

He also claimed an "American energy revolution is saving American families" by lowering electricity bills and pump prices, and that the US was on the "threshold of unlimited forms of energy", specifically naming natural gas, nuclear, LNG, and "clean coal".

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Low Impact

AUGUST 30, 2020

Nuclear has a better claim to being a bridge fuel (between the current system and a renewable system) than natural gas does. Natural gas was touted as the bridge, but when the gas companies were asked about the end of the bridge, they didn’t have an answer – they just wanted to sell gas.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. Leisure activities: Biking, Board Games, Traveling, Hiking, Brewing(coffee and beers), and Books (science and philosophy). Alexandra (Aly) Criscuolo.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The UN has marked tomorrow's World Soil Day with the publication of a new report warning signifcant gaps in knowledge about soil biodiversity could present a threat to food production, human health, and climate change. Fourteen countries sign up to sustainable fishing initiative.

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