Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

According to the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, the top 10 largest methane emitting coal mines in Europe are in Poland. Collectively, these mines released around 282,300 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

While Eni is among the world’s largest oil companies, the company’s role in climate change has so far undergone scant scrutiny. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos. Eni did not respond to a request for comment on its early knowledge of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

The signing of the Global Methane Pledge at last year’s COP26 marks a vital step in reducing the impact of industrial activities on the environment. Originally proposed by the US and EU in September 2021, the Global Methane Pledge will see countries acting to cut methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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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 mitigate climate change, it is crucial to stop using all fossil fuels, to ban new natural gas boilers, and to massively ramp up renewable electricity production.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 2, 2024

Another pressing issue is methane leakage. During the drilling and fracking processes, methane, a potent greenhouse gas, can escape into the atmosphere. This contributes to climate change and negates some of the benefits of using natural gas, which has lower carbon emissions than coal or oil. 2021;192(1):11. Gaucher EC.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Keynote speakers: Lord Deben, Chair of the UK Committee on Climate Change, and Dr Alan Whitehead MP, Shadow Minister for Green New Deal and Energy. The UK is a signatory of the Global Methane Pledge to reduce emissions by 30% against 2020 levels. This could double within a few years. C”, he adds. “The It’s a no brainer ”.

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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. C, providing hope that further action could still head off the most-catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Peatlands store around one-third of the world’s soil carbon, playing a vital role in reducing carbon emissions and combatting climate change. Dr Mann and his team will work across the UK to develop low-cost sensor systems that can monitor carbon dioxide and methane emissions from peatlands.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

“By mapping out how AD and biogas could help countries to dramatically cut their greenhouse gas emissions, especially methane, over the next decade and beyond, this report aims to put humanity back on track to deliver on the ambitions of both the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals.” Read the Executive Summary.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

Reported advantages include a higher volumetric yield of methane, with the possibilty of using smaller digesters, and producing less residue, while also being easier from a materials-handling point of view. Garden waste is England’s untapped energy source; by treating those 6.8 million tonnes of waste through dry AD, an additional 6.8

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Steyn made his claims in the National Review, a prominent conservative magazine, and has continued to stand by them. The science behind the hockey stick graph has been continuously upheld as accurate, and is among key findings that prove burning oil, coal, and methane gas is the primary driver of the climate crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

sent to landfill, incineration, or spread onto land – where they emit harmful greenhouse gases, especially methane, which is 84 times more toxic than CO2 over 20 years). Our research has shown that there are 170 million tonnes of organic wastes generated every year in the UK, most of which is mismanaged (eg.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Ed Craig, chief executive of Carbogenics, said: “Anaerobic digestion has enormous potential to tackle waste, reduce climate change emissions and create jobs in rural areas. The trials come in the wake of the global methane agreement announced during Cop26. 1] [link].

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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). While previous research has explored this question for carbon dioxide, the new work includes related emissions such as methane, nitrogen oxide and aerosols, like sulphur or soot. C, or, at most, 2°C.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The researchers advocate these measures in partnership with other strategies on the farm to mitigate climate change, for example nutritional supplements to reduce methane emissions from ruminants. Away from farms, the scientists argue strongly that peatlands should be restored to maximise on natural capital.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2023

In a world in crisis, anaerobic digestion and biogas are offering mature solutions to climate change and energy and food security, with recent investments by global players signalling the growing recognition of its commercial viability as well. The ‘Women in Biogas’ award introduced last year has once again been the most successful.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

For many years, methane gas has been used to heat homes and businesses, and used in power stations to generate electricity. But when methane burns it still releases carbon, which contributes to climate change. As a result currently 85% of homes and 40% of the UK’s electricity rely on gas.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The perspective one gains and the beauty one sees at that altitude are an endless source of inspiration and motivation, especially when confronting big challenges like climate change. That mountain energy boost came just in time to kick off a busy fall, starting with Climate Week. I hope to see many of you there!

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

Not only does biogas have a key role to play in combating climate change, but it is also essential to our energy security in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”. Charlotte Morton, WBA Chief Executive, added: “Our industry can deliver 50% of the Global Methane Pledge targets signed up by over 100 countries after COP26.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

” Off the back of COP26, there has been a lot of talk about how the world leaders are making changes to keep the global temperature increases within 1.5ºC and if they have committed enough. We want to help raise awareness of climate change and actively focus on small, incremental changes to make a positive impact.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

By demonstrating the viability of the process, a key technology in the fight against climate change is surely awaiting deployment, they suggest. For example, CO2 can be reacted with hydrogen in the Sabatier process to produce methane and water, at elevated temperature and pressure, in the presence of a nickel catalyst.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

In Biogas: Pathways to 2030, WBA details how deploying AD to capture and recycle the billion tonnes of organic wastes generated annually by human activity could play a major part in the fight against climate change. Today, only 2% of this organic matter is treated through AD and transformed into a green gas and a biofertiliser.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Oxygen levels in the world’s temperate freshwater lakes are declining rapidly – faster than in the oceans – a trend driven largely by climate change that threatens freshwater biodiversity and drinking water quality. at the surface and 18.6% in deep waters since 1980.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Richard Barker, Head of Environment, NPL said: “Climate change is one of the biggest societal challenges of our time and the UK led the world in declaring a net zero target by 2050. To assess our progress to Net Zero it is imperative that we have the best monitoring system possible.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The creation of biochar, a charcoal used as a soil amendment, from Japanese knotweed plant waste is a carbon negative process which harnesses the carbon-scavenging power of Japanese knotweed in a positive way and contributes to the fight against climate change by locking carbon away for thousands of years.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

Take, for example, the fact that magazine publishers prefer virgin paper to the recycled kind because the latter is perceived to be of an inferior type not suitable for publishing. In an undated article by the Department of Health (New York State), it was stated that “Methane and Carbon Dioxide make up 90 to 98% of landfill gas.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Untreated screenings are also a source of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. This additive helps improve the anaerobic digestion of food and farming waste, producing biogas and liquid fertiliser, which in turn helps reduce climate change emissions and remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

If you’re reading this, climate change is probably one of them, and with one-third of students choosing to live on campus, dorm life can have a big impact on the health of our planet. One such gas is methane, a greenhouse gas that is up tom 80 times as effective at trapping heat as carbon dioxide, according to NRDC.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Widely known as “laughing gas”, used for its anesthetic effects, nitrous oxide (N2O) is also regarded as the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane. The authors state that N2O in the atmosphere has risen steadily since the mid-20th century.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

If those same carbon-rich materials were incorporated into the soil instead of being made into biochar, they would quickly break down, releasing greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide as they decompose. Can we use these climate-smart practices for linking forest and agriculture?

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Examples can be found in the early detection of cancer through the detection of the smallest concentrations of marker molecules in the breath of patients, or in the precise detection of methane leaks in large-scale natural gas production systems in order to limit the contribution of such greenhouse gases to climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The Japanese knotweed removal industry generates thousands of tonnes of plant waste every year which is consigned to landfill sites where it either regrows or decays, giving off harmful gases such as methane. Bagged biochar.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Several light hydrocarbons, such as methane, ethane and propane, are VOCs. Especially methane is a potent greenhouse gas, contributing to climate change. Why VOC emissions should be reduced. VOCs are a large group of organic compounds. Due to high vapor pressure, VOCs can easily evaporate.

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