Envirotec Magazine

JULY 28, 2021

Viridor is working with UAV expert High Compliance, to understand the flight characteristics required for effective methane emissions surveys. The company has established a project team to plan a series of methane measurement surveys across several UK sites. Methane is a product of the waste we receive and outside of our control.

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Financial Times: Energy

APRIL 26, 2024

Canadian satellite operator GHGSat is proving the power of its technology

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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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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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Grist

MARCH 9, 2023

Wastewater treatment plants are typically overlooked when it comes to reducing greenhouse gasses, but new research from Princeton University reveals the plants emit twice as much methane as previously thought. filled with rich organic matter that may be causing methane emissions, but we have very little understanding of their scope,” said Z.

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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. In short, if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. . These home-grown satellites are a game-changer.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 17, 2023

Reducing methane now is one of the fastest ways to slow global warming in the near term, and a critical part of avoiding the worst consequences of climate change. Agricultural emissions from livestock and rice are approximately 40% of human-caused global methane emissions. Tackling Enteric Methane. Download PDF.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Fossil fuel companies confirm plan to review collective methane targets for 2025 and onwards in light of new goal. They have also pointed out that methane's relatively short atmospheric lifetime means action taken now would have a far more rapid impact than action on carbon.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In an apparent UK first, Veolia is now managing projects which incorporate electrolyser technology to derive hydrogen from water, and powering these using the low carbon electricity from its Energy Recovery Facilities (ERF). But when methane burns it still releases carbon, which contributes to climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 20, 2021

Food left rotting in landfills generates planet-warming greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide, accounting for the third-largest source of human-related methane emissions in the U.S. The post Replate: Using Tech to Combat Food Waste, Food Insecurity and Climate Change appeared first on Green Business Bureau.

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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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EDF + Business

JUNE 15, 2023

Natural gas pipelines are ubiquitous throughout the United States and pipeline leaks are a safety risk, a waste of a valuable energy resource, and a source of methane pollution that accelerates climate change. Methane emissions pose urgent and material risks to oil and gas companies, the financial sector, and capital markets.

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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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Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It helps the mitigation of climate change.”. In a 2016 paper he published in Environmental Science & Technology, he documented a 2.25-fold This story was originally published by Grist with the headline All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too on Oct 17, 2022.

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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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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

degrees C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change — or continue with the status quo. Elemental’s Policy Lab team unpacked the major national, subnational, and private sector commitments that emerged from COP 26 for climate technology innovation in the United States and beyond.

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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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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Innovative waste-to-energy (WTE) technologies offer a promising solution to this challenge, transforming how urban centers handle waste and generate energy. A pivotal component in these technologies’ efficiency is implementing robust emissions and odor control systems, such as h2s removal systems.

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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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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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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service. To prevent the most devastating effects of climate change, it’s essential to cut greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out fossil fuel use. So we’re not tied to any technology or any process.”.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Along Colorado’s Front Range, researchers are working to develop new ways of detecting methane leaks, using everything from lasers to light aircraft to drones. Their technologies could curb a potent contributor to climate change, while saving industry billions of dollars in lost gas.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Ten major oil companies will now be required to disclose more methane emissions data from the Permian Basin. The House Science Committee decided that the companies must do more to track and decrease the amount of methane contaminating this part of Texas and New Mexico. Methane leak data and campaign to cut emissions.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 3, 2024

Exploring the world of carbon capture technology opens up a pathway to understanding how advanced science is being utilized to combat the pressing issue of climate change. Post-combustion capture The core principle of carbon capture technology is simple yet incredibly sophisticated.

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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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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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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. Our solution is low-cost and simple to administer. 1] [link].

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Polling has suggested there is strong public support for public and business investments in carbon removal measures, ranging from afforestation to technological solutions such as direct air capture (DAC). The UK government has pledged £100m to support direct air capture and other greenhouse gas removal technologies. and F-gases.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

The technology to capture climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions from smokestacks, and even from the air around us, already exists; so too does the technology to use this carbon dioxide to make products like plastics, concrete , carbonated drinks and even fuel for aircraft and automobiles.

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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. A pilot plant has been operational in Copenhagen for several months and a novel gas monitoring technology has been used to optimize the efficiency of the plant.

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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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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. sulfur oxides, and nitrogen oxides.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Chrysalix and Emerald Technology Partners from Europe; Factor[e] and Social Alpha from Africa/India; and Tsing Capital and CRCM from China. "It Blue Frontier : A startup supported by NREL, NYSERDA and others that is using saltwater energy-storage technology to create "hyper-efficient" air conditioners.

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