EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. It aims to achieve significant methane cuts while feeding a growing population and protecting the livelihoods of farmers around the world.

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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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Planet Pulse

APRIL 15, 2021

In addition, the Carbon Mapper consortium announced its plan to deploy a ground-breaking hyperspectral satellite constellation with the ability to pinpoint, quantify and track point-source methane and CO 2 emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

On a more hopeful note, the report points out that “the degree to which climate change will continue to worsen is largely in human hands,” and “the benefits of deep emission cuts for current and future generations are expected to far outweigh the costs.” Let them know you support policies to cut GHG emissions and improve resilience.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Flying 10,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, in a plane outfitted with infrared imaging equipment, researchers could see methane gas bubbling under water, likely from an undetected pipeline leak. Still, researchers emphasize that the high rate of methane leakage underscores the major climate impact that reducing those leaks could have.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

23 – Carbon dioxide has gotten most of the attention in the fight against climate change. But it is another compound, The post The sky-high value of cutting methane emissions is attracting policymakers – and investors appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Sept.

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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.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 24, 2021

As the recent surge in corporate net zero commitments suggests, the risks associated with climate change are top of mind for today’s leading businesses and investors. An extremely potent greenhouse gas, methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide in the short term.

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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

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

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. That is what we at the WBA are aiming to achieve.”

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals. climate goals.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The research emphasizes the importance of early action and strategic leadership on both short- and long-lived GHG mitigation to deliver the most favorable climate outcomes over all timescales. Specifically, early action on methane stands out as the most effective strategy to slow warming in the near-term. .

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In my podcast series of “conversations on policy and practice,” whenever we have talked about global climate change, the focus has been on one very important greenhouse gas – carbon dioxide (CO2), linked primarily with the combustion of fossil fuels. And nearly all of my guests have been economists, political scientists,

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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

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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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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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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EDF + Business

JULY 21, 2020

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns we have just 30 years to reduce emissions to the point where we have no impact on the climate. Here’s why the new business-led initiative has the potential to be truly transformative — and to shift the needle on climate change. Big name brands are at the table.

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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). “We are running out of time to avert a climate catastrophe and it’s time that the Prime Minister and his Cabinet put words into real action.

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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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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

These projects can include renewable energy initiatives, reforestation efforts, methane capture, and more. Engaging in carbon offsets can help mitigate the environmental impact of activities that produce carbon emissions, contributing to global efforts to combat climate change.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

To prevent the most devastating effects of climate change, it’s essential to cut greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out fossil fuel use. One of the company’s founders, Kevin Meissner, wanted to build a shrine of sorts to human-induced climate change. They can pay to destroy methane leaking from a landfill.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Governments, however, need to quickly implement ‘regenerative agriculture’ policies to incentivise farmers to take up the challenge, the researchers argue. That event attracted farmers, scientists, the agrifood industry and policy makers to discuss the leading role that soil could play in the journey towards Net Zero.

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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.

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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. Regulatory and policy framework : Navigating the complex landscape of environmental regulations and securing permits can be a significant hurdle.

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2021

The declaration claims the UK's AD and biogas industry can play a crucial role in decarbonising the UK economy, while also creating up to 60,000 direct and indirect jobs by the end of the decade, but only if the government urgently provides a supportive policy and regulatory environment for the sector. million homes.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Nitrous oxide is an overlooked driver of climate change, while methane attracts all the attention," said report author Sam Packer, policy officer at the Soil Association. Unless we reduce nitrogen pollution, we will never be able to reach net zero targets.

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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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EDF + Business

AUGUST 17, 2021

Last week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) offered a grim reminder that business-as-usual won’t protect people or the planet from the catastrophic effects of climate change. Address methane. These distinct benchmarks give methane the attention it deserves. Gabe Malek.

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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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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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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. We now only have 10 years.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For the 128 asset managers and 61 banks that have committed to align trillions of dollars with the Paris Agreement, this moment presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to achieve their climate goals – not through investments but through public policy advocacy. Advocating for climate policy is in investors’ best interest.

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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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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The thesis: The most successful climate-tech startups will be those with early access to economic analysis, policy resources, financing and technical support. Frost Methane : An offsets market being created around methane flaring activities.

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