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A tech-backed mission to monitor methane pollution launches today

The Verge: Energy

Image: MethaneSAT via EDF A mission to map and track global methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas, is scheduled to launch today after years of collaboration between some of the biggest names in tech. Building and launching the satellite cost $88 million, according to EDF.

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Understanding the Dangers of Poor Air Quality and How to Monitor It

Green Living Guy

Various factors contribute to air quality degradation, including industrialization, population growth, and the increased consumption of fossil fuels for energy production. The post Understanding the Dangers of Poor Air Quality and How to Monitor It appeared first on Green Living Guy. Poor air […].

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Sensitive methane sensing on a budget?

Envirotec Magazine

Measuring methane emissions is important because the gas contributes to global warming and air pollution. Relevant sectors include agriculture and the waste industry. Detecting leaks is also critical to the oil and gas industry, since natural gas is mainly composed of methane.

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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. The extent to which GGR will play a part in global climate change mitigation efforts was made apparent in a 2022 IPCC report which called for 100 to1000 gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2 to be removed from the atmosphere by 2100.

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Comment: Technology will be crucial to the success of vertical farms

Envirotec Magazine

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 9.7 Technology – in order to create and maintain ideal growing conditions, it is necessary to implement highly effective monitoring and control systems. billion people by 2050.

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‘They’re Destroying Our Coastline’: Activists at the Americas Energy Summit Protest Fossil Fuel Expansion

DeSmogBlog

Morial Convention Center, a small but dedicated group of environmental activists affiliated with Sunrise Movement New Orleans protested the start of the 20th edition of the Americas Energy Summit & Exhibition. Sarcastically, he thanked the room of “polluters” for destroying Louisiana’s coastline. “On It’s not new.”

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.