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. We need to address global energy poverty – but the climate impacts of gas undermine this effort.

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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

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

While transportation gets a lot of attention when we discuss carbon emissions, the food sector is also a major culprit. At this rate, we won’t be able to meet the Paris Agreement objective of keeping the global warming increase within 2° Celsius — or, preferably, 1.5° — of preindustrial levels by 2100. He cited the U.S.,

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Plus 40 nations prep methane plans for COP27, Germany touts cheap transport tickets, and Saudi Arabia launches electric vehicle brand. World-first carbon-to-methanol plant starts production in China. COP27: 40 countries planning to unveil methane reduction plans.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

With widespread commitments made to reducing CO 2 emissions, attention is turning to other greenhouse gases, specifically methane and nitrous oxide as the next largest contributors. Another driver of new alternatives in Europe at least is the proposal to regulate SF 6 in the EU rules on fluorinated greenhouse gases, currently under review.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made.

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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

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

New report warns world is 'heading in wrong direction' post-pandemic resulting in a 48 per cent chance the global 1.5C There is now a near 50-50 chance of global warming temporarily rising above the totemic 1.5C Heatwaves in Europe. of warming. temperature goal could be temporarily breached in next five years.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

New analysis warns national climate targets for 2030 point to dangerous warming of 2.4C, as rush for LNG capacity risks further undermining chances of meeting goals of Paris Agreement. Projected global warming in 2100 based on national climate targets announced to date remains at a worryingly high 2.4C by mid-century.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. If you can’t plant them yourself, pay others to plant trees for you through carbon offsets or donating to organizations planting trees. and Canada alone.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

Rio Tinto's $2.4bn Jadar mining project would have made the Anglo Australian firm one of the world's top producers of lithium, which has found itself in increasing global demand as a key raw material for EV batteries and other clean tech products. Shell takes flak over Canada carbon capture project.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The companies analyzed were selected to represent a range of scale and location across Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

As Carbon Brief's Simon Evans has repeatedly pointed out, 95 per cent of the projected increase in average domestic energy bills seen over the past year are a direct result of soaring wholesale gas prices. More broadly, the soaring price of gas means the net cost of the net zero transition has become smaller still.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Startups such as SOS Carbon , based in the Dominican Republic, and C-Combinator , a US company with operations in Puerto Rico and Mexico, are two of those. The Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center estimates that governments spent about $120m in 2019 trying to clean Caribbean beaches, with limited success.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans. Accessed 03.03.23

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

You will recall that Shell has three strategic ambitions: to be a world-class investment case; to thrive in the energy transition to a lower-carbon future; and to maintain a strong societal licence to operate. And Shell has built a specific scenario looking at what Europe might need to do to decarbonise energy in the next 30 years.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

The intenational response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the outcome of national elections, and the drive to build integrity into carbon markets will be key indicators of progress on climate over coming months, argues Rachel Kyte. Russia is waging a war on European soil, with global implications for energy and food supplies.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) Just to give an example, for journeys between Europe and Asia, the Northern Sea Route can already be two to three weeks faster than the Suez Canal. Lot’s of Methane. And it will not only be regional.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Across Europe, a single-use plastic ban will come into effect from 2021, targeting straws, cotton buds, and disposable cutlery, among other products. According to a recent study , two thirds of people across Europe and the Americas associate the word ‘plastic’ with ocean litter. Thankfully, governments are now beginning to act.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

The reports show that the facility has released numerous chemicals, including benzene, a known human carcinogen, and methane. million tons of carbon dioxide a year, two known carcinogens, and other emissions that are harmful to the environment, including particulates and oxides of nitrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

“It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A small metal platform at the top, 48 metres above the floor of a peatland rainforest reserve, provides a unique, 360-degree vantage point to witness one of the most biodiverse, carbon-rich habitats left on Earth. In fact, peatland contains up to 50 per cent carbon content, compared to the two per cent typically found in mineral soil.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

The potential refugee problem in GLOBAL MERCANTILISM could be unprecedented. Africans would push into Europe, Chinese into the Soviet Union, Latins into the United States, Indonesians into Australia. Boundaries would count for little – overwhelmed by the numbers. Conflicts would abound. Shell had other plans. corn belt.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Brandon Lewis – Justice Secretary.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including fresh WHO air pollution guidelines and global coal, methane and HFC commitments. We know the magnitude of the problem and we know how to solve it," said WHO regional director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P Kluge.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Research from WWF, for example, has found 46 per cent of the UK's carbon footprint is generated overseas by goods produced to satisfy UK consumption. Methane emissions soar to record high. The evidence is consistent, alarming and undeniable.". Germany plots major wind and solar drive to shore up energy security.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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.   This list is far from representative of the biggest methane MRV players.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C goal within grasp.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  SPAC valuation ).

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

BIDEN: It [climate change] is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming. And that's why I don't want to have us cut off all relationships with China, because you will never solve this problem without China and India, Western Europe, and America. That's where most of the greenhouse. But it is a transitional fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Campaigners say the trend towards private ownership in the North Sea is potentially “catastrophic” for the UK’s plans for an equitable transition towards low carbon industries. So who are these new North Sea players? Using data from the newly-launched interactive database Who Owns the North Sea?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2022

This is the breaking point, where Europe must completely abandon fossil fuel from Russia, stop all business and support of fossil projects.”. On the same day Biden announced the Russian fossil fuel ban, the European Commission proposed a strategy to slash Europe’s use of Russian gas by two-thirds within a year.

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