DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The European Union has clearly laid out its position: Climate neutrality, the Council of the EU stated last month, will require “a global phase-out of unabated fossil fuels and a peak in their consumption in this decade.” But more stands between COP28 and concrete steps forward for our climate.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

New IEA analysis reveals methane emissions from the energy sector are 70 per cent higher than official reports, but could high gas prices finally prompt operators to tackle the problem. It is one of the biggest and most worrying mysteries in the field of climate science: where are all the methane emissions coming from?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A wide-ranging package of legislative measures designed to curb emissions from the gas industry unveiled by the European Commission has come under fire from campaigners and energy analysts, who have warned they could 'lock in' fossil gas infrastructure across Europe for the years to come.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon might seem like a good alternative to meat, in a world that needs to shift away from carbon-intensive cattle — at least the fish farming industry would have you see it that way. Last year, we mapped Canada’s hydrogen lobby and revealed how fossil fuel interests are pushing for blue hydrogen in Canada. Aquaculture.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The consortium has a vast amount of knowledge and experience, which we are leveraging to produce carbon negative hydrogen – there is no better goal to be working on right now.”. Although the primary goal of the work is to produce hydrogen, the Levidian LOOP is also a unique carbon capture and utilisation technology.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2020

billion into solar, wind, biofuels and carbon capture projects last year, or a mere 0.8 Total M&A activity or other investments into low-carbon companies — such as minigrid developers , EV infrastructure firms or energy storage providers — was under $2 billion last year from leading oil companies, the IEA said.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The promise of a hydrogen economy to replace fossil fuels is commonly centered on the potential for ‘green hydrogen,’ generated via electrolysis of water with carbon-free electricity. But natural gas can also be converted to hydrogen without the carbon emissions, via another spectrum of the hydrogen palette.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

The company is aiming to build Europe's first plastic to hydrogen plant in Poland, before rolling out its technology globally as part of a plan to become a global leader in recycling mixed waste plastic into carbon-free fuels and new materials, while also providing distributed renewable heat. pence apiece in the IPO. "We

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 26, 2024

So-called natural gas is primarily methane, an even more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide that routinely escapes from gas infrastructure. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US has ramped up LNG exports to Europe as much of the Western world tried to wean itself off Russian gas reserves.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG companies shipped to Europe at soaring premiums. CHESTER, PA — When Zulene Mayfield testifies next week against plans to build a $6.8

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

The world's largest oil companies have today announced a new target to reduce carbon intensity across the industry, in a bid to bring its upstream greenhouse gas emissions into line with the Paris Agreement. Oil and Gas Climate Initiative hails 'further step in support of the Paris Agreement' as national oil majors back new emissions goals.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The report also highlights the importance of increasing levels of lower-emissions technologies for seasonal variations, including hydropower, nuclear, fossil fuels with carbon capture, utilisation and storage, bioenergy, hydrogen and ammonia.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy study warns the 'climate footprint of Europe's big meat and dairy companies rival the fossil fuel giants'. The climate footprint of Europe's big meat and dairy companies rival the fossil fuel giants yet they continue to operate with impunity," she said.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

The path to a fully decarbonized energy system in Europe could depend on technologies that are out of bounds in today’s market, a consultancy forecast suggests. Afry modeled two possible avenues to decarbonize Europe's power, heat and transport sectors. The trouble is that the prospects for new nuclear in Europe are not good.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. . Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. .

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. “The EU bank has been Europe’s climate bank for many years. The benchmark looks like it will be set higher.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Don't listen to the fossil fuel enthusiasts pushing fracking as a solution for the UK's currently volatile energy market, argues ECIU's Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin. The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Some described US natural gas production as more “carbon-efficient” than that of other countries, suggesting an opportunity for expanded American gas infrastructure and US gas exports. carbon budget , which is necessary to avoid the worst of planetary warming. But Europe’s real win lies in its boost to green energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

However, performance requirements have since been unified in Europe, and at the same time product development work has enhanced the capabilities of this product line, so the time has come for us to seek certification to the latest Standards. A wide variety of industrial processes produce emissions that contain organic carbon.

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Charged

MARCH 7, 2023

A favorite trope of the “better stick with oil” crowd is that EVs aren’t any cleaner than ICE vehicles, because fossil fuels are consumed to manufacture and to charge them. The study found that fuel cell trucks using hydrogen produced from fossil fuel produce 15% less GHG emissions compared to their diesel counterparts.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Burning trees to reduce our carbon footprint is oxymoronic.” Carbon Debt.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

As of last year, more than a third of the world’s largest publicly traded companies had set targets to reach net zero carbon emissions, up from a fifth in December 2020. Last year, an investigation found the Verra carbon offsets registry, the biggest in the world, was running a scheme that “could make global heating worse.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The findings, published ahead of the Brazilian company’s annual general meeting on Friday, prompted renewed calls from climate campaigners for asset managers to divest from JBS – despite its pledge to hit net zero carbon emissions by 2040. MtCO2e in 2021 – an increase of 51% over five years. MtCO2e in 2019. . Top emitter Be?chatów

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

At the same time, Brussels signaled that it will also encourage the development of "blue" hydrogen produced from fossil fuels paired with carbon capture, at least for the time being. The Global CCS Institute, a carbon capture think tank based in London, called the EU's strategy ambitious, but warned against picking winners.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

And while it's not a central concern today for those companies (Enel, EDP, BayWa and others) or industry groups (SolarPower Europe and WindEurope), all see green hydrogen playing a vital role in achieving deep decarbonization of the energy system. Neither of these processes is exactly carbon-friendly.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The report stresses the world is still "heading in the wrong direction" in its response to climate change, with greenhouse gas concentrations continuing to rise to record highs and fossil fuel emission rates having now risen back above pre-pandemic levels after the temporary drop that resulted from national lockdowns. of warming.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

VS: Traditionally, hydrogen has been industrially produced from the methane contained in natural gas, releasing carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in the process. GT: What are some of the factors behind the strong interest in offshore wind to H2 in Europe? Courtesy: Equinor). VS: There are several.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C It’s really about production at the end of the day.”

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Can carbon-free hydrogen augment, or even replace, the fossil natural gas running through pipelines to fuel furnaces, boilers, stoves and other building applications today? Similar efforts are underway across Europe to build on the European Union’s massive green hydrogen targets over the coming decade. ” U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Leaking methane from oil and gas infrastructure is widespread across the European continent, reveals an investigation of more than 150 sites in seven countries. More than 60 percent of the sites analyzed by researchers using state-of-the-art technology were releasing large volumes of methane – a powerful greenhouse gas – into the atmosphere.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

LNG fuel - which is essentially natural gas cooled down into liquid form - has been touted by some firms as a lower carbon alternative to conventional diesel and petrol, as it produces lower levels of CO2, nitrogen dioxide, and sulphur emissions. per cent less methane than the former. It found the latter emitted only 7.5

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

The groups will argue that the government has failed in its legal obligations under the Climate Change Act to produce climate policies that will ensure that legally binding UK carbon budgets are met. The Secretary of State is legally required to meet our upcoming carbon budgets.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2022

As Russian forces advanced towards Kyiv, Canada’s oil and gas industry and its supporters responded with a self-serving narrative: the Ukraine crisis means Canada must accelerate its production of fossil fuels. Methane stays in the atmosphere less time than carbon dioxide, but its warming power is 25 times higher.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The insect protein in the second recipe comes from black soldier fly larvae, already used in animal feed in Europe. Many pets require substantial dietary protein, resulting in a sizeable carbon footprint and significant impacts on the environment. Both are available for cats and dogs, the firm said.

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