Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

The document highlights the extremely high global warming potential of largely unrecorded methane leakages along the whole natural gas supply chain. To replace Russian pipeline gas, European Member States have turned to liquid natural gas (LNG) from outside Europe. “We We can’t argue our way out of drastic changes.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 8, 2024

Moreover, by breaking out prominent agricultural GHGs—methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide—for six primary commodities as examples, our guide helps sustainability teams deliver a new approach to drive emissions reductions efficiently and in highest service to their climate strategy. Our Recommendations Cattle: Methane.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2021

Brussels is gearing up to use its satellites to spot and track global methane emission hotspots, writes Andrew Warren. Importers, consumers will want to know: 'Is my gas free of methane leaks?'". Beyond methane. Methane is only the beginning. Big Brother is watching you.' Greater transparency.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

in backing for its plan to fund farmers' use of methane-reducing cattle feed through CO2 offsets. Companies and individuals may soon be able to pay cows to burp less in return for carbon offset credits, under plans being developed by Swiss-British agritech firm Mootral to fund the use of methane-cutting cattle feed on farms.

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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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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

A new advance opening the way for Mg-ion batteries, protections for birds around networks, Enel Green Power’s Sicily hydrogen lab and a plan to power Bitcoin mining with methane from landfills are in the technology radar. Landfill methane for Bitcoin mining. Out with lithium, in with magnesium. Now with funding of $4.3

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 16, 2021

The town will spearhead the concept of a sustainable circular waste-to-energy economy, while reducing its carbon footprint,” said Marc Graham, project development manager at Privilege Finance. What really sets this project apart is the fact that green gas will be piped directly into homes and businesses that are generating the food waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Danish researchers say they have demonstrated that it is possible to remove most of the carbon dioxide (CO2) from the emissions of a waste incinerator. The project is utilising advanced gas analyzers from Vaisala to measure carbon capture efficiency and therefore CCUS viability.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

ADBA said dry AD is a well-established technology and is being used in Europe and other parts of the world, and that interest in the UK is growing. In contrast with traditional wet AD, where feedstock is liquidized and pumped through a digester, in dry AD the feedstocks are loaded or stacked in a digester, covered and sealed.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

Following a 10-year analysis of the scale of methane leakage at almost 1,000 AD plants across the UK and Europe, Tim Elsome, General Manager of biogas specialists FM BioEnergy, outlines why now is the ideal time to tackle unidentified biogas leaks – and how to protect your plant, profits and the planet. The risks of doing nothing.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Lower greenhouse gas emissions from cattle, after CRISPR is used to alter the genetic activity of the methane-producing microbes that live in the animals’ stomachs. Reductions to the hundreds of millions of tons of methane emitted annually from rice production, thanks to new gene-edited rice strains.

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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

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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

A Dutch carbon tax, that would cover emissions from producing hydrogen using methane, is expected to reach €125 ($137) per ton of CO2 equivalent emissions by 2030. Dutch research organization TNO estimates that one ton of hydrogen produced from methane leads to 10 tons of CO2 equivalent. The market for green hydrogen.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Microsoft, EY, and the Corporate Leaders Group Europe are among 20 leading organisations which have today launched a joint drive to develop a universal carbon accounting system in a bid to improve the transparency and reliability of greenhouse gas emissions data.

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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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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. Carbon Capture and Storage. Below, a handful of DeSmog writers dive into the issues they’ll be watching in 2023. Aquaculture. Next year you will.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

The hope is that by preventing the screenings from going to landfills and adding biochar to boost biological wastewater cleaning, treatment plants will require less energy to operate, which in turn will help reduce their carbon footprints. Carbogenics is a spin-out from the University of Edinburgh.

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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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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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Smart Energy International

JULY 12, 2022

Italian gas distribution operator Italgas has introduced Picarro for methane emission detection and reduction in its networks. With carbon dioxide emissions effectively under management, the focus is shifting to other greenhouse gases, notably methane, which also contains carbon and is even more potent.

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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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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

JANUARY 2, 2020

Europe's biggest natural-gas infrastructure firm recently launched a new hydrogen business. Perhaps the most obvious use for green hydrogen is to simply replace the large amounts of the gas that are already produced using carbon-intensive methods to satisfy the needs of industry. A hydrogen economy in the U.S.

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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.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Through the phased repurposing of existing high-pressure gas transmission network infrastructure, alongside the construction of selected new pipelines, Project Union is expected to create a hydrogen network of up to 2,000km, equivalent to 25% of Britain’s current methane transmission network. Join Enlit Europe in Paris. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 2, 2023

The ASCEND (Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and Data sovereignty) project is preparing a feasibility study on the concept, with its potential to help meet Europe’s Green Deal goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. For farms that already produce their own biomethane a methane liquefaction unity can be simply ‘bolted’ on.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. . There are other ways to make hydrogen.

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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. . In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And consider – after the US and China, wasted food is the third-largest carbon dioxide generator in the world. Between 8% and 10% of the world’s carbon emissions result from all these unconsumed products. billion tonnes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) equivalent to carbon dioxide are emitted annually due to food waste.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As the urgency to decarbonise grows, the World Biogas Association (WBA) is bringing the industry together to look at how fast its members could build the infrastructure to collect and treat all the organic wastes generated by society, which if left untreated would emit large amounts of harmful methane emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As the urgency to decarbonise grows, the World Biogas Association (WBA) is bringing the industry together to look at how fast its members could build the infrastructure to collect and treat all the organic wastes generated by society, which if left untreated would emit large amounts of harmful methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

As global efforts to ramp up the hydrogen industry gain support with big government subsidies, new research casts increasing doubt on the climate credentials of the main recipient of that support, so-called “blue” hydrogen, which is extracted from natural gas and paired with carbon capture technology. billion in funding. billion in funding.

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