Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. The halfway mark has now passed between 1990, the year that countries who signed the U.N. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed. Think big but start small.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

The groups argued that California utilities shouldn’t be adding new carbon and pollution-emitting resources when the state is trying to meet ambitious zero-carbon goals. Counting costs and carbon impacts. Now PG&E is planning to rely on mobile diesel generators instead, at least for this year.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Government and devolved administrations team up to explore how to accelerate adoption of methane-busting feed products for cattle and sheep. However, the new call for evidence is likely to receive a mixed welcome from green groups, given methane-reducing supplements have been shown to curb emissions rather than eradicate them altogether.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This method generates biogas, comprising methane and carbon dioxide, suitable for heating, electricity production, or refinement into biomethane for use as a renewable natural gas alternative. This process provides a renewable energy source and reduces reliance on fossil fuels, leading to a decrease in carbon emissions.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Sixteen startups joined our climatetech community during some of the hottest days of the summer in Q3 2023, working on breakthroughs such as reliable energy storage , detection of green-hydrogen gas leaks , and carbon-footprint reductions in the trucking industry.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. The science is also uncertain around soil’s ability to store carbon, which can be easily undone through erosion, or changes in land use or the weather.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To put this number into perspective, carbon dioxide emissions alone are expected to reach 33 gigatonnes in 2021. The potential of methane and market mechanisms. This year, it focuses on methane and market mechanisms. Methane emissions are the second largest contributor to global warming.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As the global temperature rises, individuals search for ways to shrink their carbon footprints. Many consumers adopted plant-based diets, minimizing their contribution to methane emissions. While our diet’s impacts on the environment are evident, individuals observe the reverse relationship less.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Methane Pledge – Nearly 90 countries joined a U.S.- and EU-led effort to cut methane emissions 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. Methane emissions are one of the leading causes of climate change, but we’ve historically lacked the data needed to identify the fastest and most effective ways to reduce them.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 3, 2021

Navigating the complex world of carbon credits can be challenging for companies because not all are equal. . Senior Manager, Resilient Food and Forest. The findings put into focus the need to standardize protocols for quantifying how much soil carbon is sequestered. In other words, is a “ton of carbon” actually a ton of carbon?

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With more than 80 times the warming of CO2 in the near term, one of the most potent greenhouse gases is methane–and it’s clear that we’re in the midst of a methane moment. Companies should also support farmers by investing in innovative solutions, particularly to tackle enteric methane.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Through our partnership with Green Office Academy, we’ve created a list of five quick and useful tips to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint. Air travel is remarkably carbon intensive but there are some things you can do to reduce that. Offsetting Carbon Footprint . Business Air Travel.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Soils are critical for cultivating crops, maintaining flood protection, sequestering carbon, and supporting biodiversity, but the UK government estimates two million hectares are at risk of erosion, a further four million are threatened by compaction, and 300,000 hectares are contaminated. Cultivating more resilient crops.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

One of the primary reasons Germany cannot use all of the renewable energy it produces is because the nation’s fleet of coal and nuclear plants is still needed to ensure power system resilience when the wind slows or clouds cover the sun. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Through our partnership with Green Office Academy, we’ve created a list of five quick and useful tips on how to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint. Air travel is remarkably carbon intensive but there are some things you can do to reduce that. Tip #5 – Offset Your Carbon Footprint .

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

ecoLocked converts waste biomass into biochar to create admixes that can replace a share of the cement used in concrete manufacturing, and thus sequester carbon within buildings. Carbonova Corp utilizes CO2 and methane as a feedstock to produce carbon nanofibers (CNF) that may be used in various fields such as transportation and buildings.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

New York-based National Grid US envisions a “hydrogen hub” on Long Island that it says will help the state and city meet net-zero carbon goals in the coming decades. Hydrogen has no carbon atom. To be truly green or zero-ca rbon hydrogen, the electrolysis would need to be powered by carbon-free resources such as renewables or nuclear.

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The City Fix

JULY 26, 2023

Climate change is impacting cities and their residents in many profound ways, from poor air quality to flooding to biodiversity loss and extreme heat. Now, with the help of a new tool, select cities can access localized, integrated data to.

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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. Have you read?

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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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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Senior Manager, Resilient Food and Forests, EDF+Business. Dairy announced the Greener Cattle Initiative , which will provide $5 million over 5 years to research that helps curb enteric methane emissions. Methane matters…a lot. Livestock production is a leading source of methane emissions globally. In the U.S.,

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several ambitious pledges emerged to phase down fossil fuels, limit methane emissions, stop deforestation, and turbocharge the adoption of electric vehicles. Methane: 105 world leaders signed onto the Global Methane Pledge, a US and EU joint initiative to cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Farmer Martin Lines, chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, puts forward the case for a robust payment framework to incentivise carbon sequestration in UK agriculture. Pricing greenhouse gas emissions at a level that is consistent with net zero opens new routes for a lucrative market in 'negative' carbon emissions.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

EDF+Business program staff participated in meetings and panel presentations, including: Victoria Mills, director of corporate climate policy leadership; Elizabeth Sturcken, director of net zero acceleration; Katie Anderson, manager of supply chain and agricultural methane. An urgent new warning from the U.N. VERGE 2022 Conference.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

2019 Sustainability Report confirms oil giant is making progress with a raft of low carbon initiatives, but concerns remain over incremental pace of decarbonisation. The new report also reveals that in 2019 the Net Carbon Footprint fell slightly from 79gCO2e/MJ in 2016 to 78gCO2e/MJ last year. Shell shares this sense of urgency.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 5, 2022

The plan, which is expected to take effect from January 1, 2024, is focussed on building resilience into the company’s electricity and gas networks and targets the meeting of California’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2045.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Another main driver of this warming is emissions of greenhouse gases like CO2, water vapor, and methane from human activity. We must take action now to reduce emissions and build resilience to the impacts that are already inevitable. Deforestation also plays a role in climate change, as trees help to remove carbon dioxide from the air.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Through our partnership with Green Office Academy, we’ve created a list of five quick and useful tips on how to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint. Air travel is remarkably carbon intensive but there are some things you can do to reduce that. Tip #5 – Offset Your Carbon Footprint .

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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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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The recipients of the inaugural Challenge are ReCarbon, a company which transforms carbon dioxide and methane into valuable and decarbonized products through plasma reformation, and Aerleum, which develops a cost-competitive approach to capture and transform CO2 out of air into synthetic fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Progress did seem to be forthcoming on cutting methane emissions, with more than 100 countries (although not China) – committing to a 30% reduction by 2030 compared to the 2030 baseline. Carbon trading. Each credit is equated to a tonne of carbon removed from the atmosphere, or not added in the first place. Carbon capture.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sean Hackett EDF+Business Senior Manager, Energy Transition By Sean Hackett With the dire need to slash greenhouse gas and methane emissions from the global oil and gas sector, more and more investors are advocating for stronger climate policies that accelerate the energy transition and mitigate risks. Why speak up?

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

This includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, a stock buyback tax, and a methane leakage tax. There’s no where near sufficient resources in the law that will build broader community resilience against the onslaught of heat waves, wildfires, and floods, or even meet the needs of its core focus of energy security outside the programs listed above.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Burning wood also emits short-lived climate pollutants including soot, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds such as methane. Soot, of which black carbon is a major component, is the second largest contributor to global climate change, and methane is the third, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Today at COP26, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development announced the Banking for Impact on Climate in Agriculture (B4ICA) initiative in partnership with EDF, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. Following years of delays, at COP21 last year countries agreed on rules for the implementation of international carbon market mechanisms. Black carbon. Carbon market (including carbon offsets).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I covered developments related to the rapidly expanding petrochemical and LNG export industries, like new facilities that came online this year and rely on fracking new wells to supply the growing demand for natural gas, which is mostly methane. For instance, Air Products claims that its proposed $4.5

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