Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Three weeks away from the 26th Conference of the Parties ( COP26 ), the World Biogas Association (WBA) is preparing to travel to Glasgow to represent the global biogas industry at the UN Climate Summit and demonstrate the value of the biogas industry in tackling climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Released ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), the latest round of climate talks taking place in Glasgow, the report finds that net zero pledges could make a big difference. If fully implemented, these pledges could bring the predicted global temperature rise to 2.2°C, The clock is ticking loudly.”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

New report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) highlights the need to control methane slips on ships that have switched to using LNG as fuel. The report calculatres that switching to LNG could deliver carbon emissions savings, but these could be partially offset by increased methane emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Just 50 nations worldwide now outside initiative that aims to cut methane emissions 30 per cent by 2030. First launched with just over 100 national backers at the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow a year ago, the Global Methane Pledge commits signatories to collectively reducing emissions of the gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Tackling methane from oil and gas operations among 'best near-term opportunities’ for combatting climate change, IEA argues. Methane, which is largely released from abandoned coal mines, oil and gas operations, and farming, has a far greater global warming potential than CO2.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

The new research incorporates shorter-lived GHG emissions such as methane, which can arise from sources including landfills (pictured). Countries around the world pledged in the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5°C, The study was published June 6 in Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change).

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Green Alliance estimates proposed coking coal mine in Cumbria could emit as much methane each year as 120,000 cows. However, the UK, along with scores of countries around the world, is committed to collectively reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030 as part of the Global Methane Pledge.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. (If

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

Each year since 1995, with the exception of 2020, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) has hosted a Conference of Parties (COP), where members of the UNFCCC negotiate issues relating to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other matters relating to climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Urgent efforts are needed to curb the damaging impacts of nitrogen used in agriculture on the UK's environment, according to research by the Soil Association, which warns there has been a "historical underestimation of its true contribution to global warming".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Often valid concepts in and of themselves, the problem lies in how they are touted as enviro-friendly actions while companies fail to cut their contribution to 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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Business Green

MAY 22, 2022

Slashing methane emissions is the closest thing the world has to a silver bullet for rapid climate action, writes former Greenpeace CEO Paul Gilding. The IPCC could not be clearer: action on climate change is a 'now or never' task. Part of the issue is how we measure methane's impacts.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

These affect natural habitats, produces acid rain and destroys the ozone layer because of global warming. Since these are one of the main culprits of global warming. These gases weaken our ozone layer and cause a lot of pollution and climatic changes. billion tons per year. Promotes Sustainable Lifestyle.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When asked about this by DeSmog, Stafford – who worked for Shell prior to becoming an MP in 2019 – defended the oil and gas funding for the hydrogen APPG, which, like other APPGs, is set up to lobby on specific policy areas. “On Using methane – [to make] blue hydrogen – always results in some residual emissions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

Unfortunately, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report makes it completely clear that this will not be considered an unusual year when it comes to floods, fires, drought and all the other natural catastrophes. Global warming of 1.5 Implications for board members.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Did you realize that by throwing food out, you’re also wasting water and causing climate change? Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. It is crucial to develop national policies to reduce food waste. Approximately 1.3 Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emissions cause heat to be trapped in the atmosphere which is warming the globe and driving climate change. Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). degrees Celsius or 2.7

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Including a racketeering charge in these lawsuits helps “tell a more robust and full story of what was really happening,” said Delta Merner, a scientist working on climate litigation at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Joseph Davis, via DVIDSHUB , CC BY 2.0 More than two dozen communities across the U.S.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

“There’s not a whole lot being done about it,” said Rachael Kupka, executive director of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution and one of the report’s coauthors. Notably, both methane and many major forms of PM 2.5 Notably, both methane and many major forms of PM 2.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

“It’s mind-blowing that JBS can continue to make climate claims to investors, even as the company massively increases its emissions,” said Shefali Sharma, Europe director for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a nonprofit advocacy organisation, which calculated the estimates. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

I’ve been involved in the climate negotiations for several years as a former senior U.N. Research shows the world needs to cut global emissions 45% by 2030 to keep global warming under 1.5 F) compared to pre-industrial times, an aim of the Paris climate agreement. official and I am in Glasgow now. That’s a start.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emissions are warming the globe and driving climate change. We need to look no further than the steady stream of record breaking warming. degrees Fahrenheit as agreed to in the Paris Climate Accord). The impacts of these GHGs are not some future concern they are being felt here and now.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The briefing’s claims run counter to calls from scientists to reduce animal protein consumption to help tackle the climate crisis. The HfA website says the briefing “provides a fact base for FSS stakeholders, helping them to make game-changing, science-based policy recommendations.” A “Gross Omission”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

of global warming under national climate plans submitted ahead of next week's COP26 Climate Summit. The findings show that roughly half of global domestic greenhouse emissions are now covered by some form of net zero goal for around mid-century. warming pathway.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In contrast to claims of natural gas’ low carbon intensity, the oil and gas industry often fails to appropriately manage its emissions of methane, a potent driver of climate change. We need to address global energy poverty – but the climate impacts of gas undermine this effort. New investments bring optimism.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 21, 2020

A slew of recent studies corroborate the scientific consensus on climate change. The ironic upside of the coronavirus is that it has exposed the fault lines in our civilizations and increased interest in science and fact-based government policy. It is both a current day reality and a serious threat to life on Earth.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

You’ll understand what products and processes emit g reenhouse gases (GHGs), including the carbon-containing gases carbon dioxide and methane. Carbon Dioxide, CO 2, bears the most responsibility for anthropogenic climate change. This translation is based on the global warming potential (GWP) of a given GHG.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Landmark IPCC report provides wave of stark warnings, but stresses that rapidly putting the global economy on course to net zero emissions by 2050 could hugely reduce the escalating impacts that will result from a warmer world. The report concludes that the world's average surface land temperature currently stands at around 1.1C

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

We are entering socio-economic times of high risk and risk mitigation practices to mitigate the impact of human influenced climate change. The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Every proactive and positive thing we do, has an adverse reaction.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Governments approve landmark report that warns window for action is fast closing to avoid catastrophic climate change, but affordable technologies exist across every sector to slash emissions this decade. We have the tools and know-how required to limit warming.". goal set out in the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Social media giant launches fresh crackdown on climate misinformation, a new analysis highlights how G20 nations can keep 1.5C Facebook updates climate policy. pathway, then global warming this century could be limited to 1.7C. US and EU pursuing global methane deal.

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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. COP27: 40 countries planning to unveil methane reduction plans. off global warming by 2050, as methane's warming potential is 84 times greater than carbon dioxide over 20-year timescale.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

In a joint letter , the scientists say that they are “consistently faced with a major and needless challenge” of having to correct false information and rebut the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to downplay the severity of climate change. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Plus Danish diets, China climate policy signals, and all the top green business news from around the world this week. Overall, it found 38 per cent of Americans and 43 per cent of Chinese people would find giving up flying the easiest option to help tackle climate change.

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