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Planet Works to Accelerate Sustainable Development and Progress on the SDGs

Planet Pulse

By identifying the point sources of carbon dioxide and methane, these projects use the agile aerospace approach to standardize a broad and transparent global view on emissions enabling companies and governments to reduce leaks and comply with reduction targets.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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House Committee Poised for Potential Subpoena of PR Firm for Climate Disinformation

DeSmogBlog

The websites artificially created the appearance of grassroots political energy, and shared misleading “news” that downplayed environmental damage from fracking while simultaneously promoting the benefits of pro-drilling policies. FTI remains a major, major contractor to the fossil fuel industry. They are not marketing practices at all.

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The Rise of the ‘Climate Friendly’ Cow

DeSmogBlog

Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. It underplays climate impacts, stating that “research has shown that cows do not produce as much methane gas as was once believed”.

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Food Strategy: How the government served up a dish that disappointed almost everyone

Business Green

Similarly, the Strategy promises to develop post-Brexit policy frameworks and funding packages that can better support the fast-expanding alternative protein and gene-editing sectors, while a new Call for Evidence is promised on the use of feed additives to reduce methane emissions from livestock.

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The story in the soil: Meet the start-up trying to pioneer a UK market for biochar CO2 removals

Business Green

The UK start-up manufactures biochar from woody biomass waste and compost for use as an agricultural soil enhancer, and hopes to sell the CO2 sequestered from the process in the form of credible and "ethical" offsets.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. Political Connections. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9 Meet the Industry Trade Groups.