Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

EVM’s gas allocation is equivalent to a daily amount of 6,240,000 cubic feet of methane gas. These are worthy goals, but EVM’s project, which apparently involves using fossil fuel to process battery materials shipped from another continent, would seem to be out of step with current trends. Source: EV Metals Group.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

Sanctions against Russian goods, oligarchs, and services have multiplied in the week since the Kremlin launched its unprovoked attack on Ukraine, but questions have remained as to when and if the economic response to the invasion will be extended to cover the fossil fuel exports that bankroll much of Russia's economy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy study warns the 'climate footprint of Europe's big meat and dairy companies rival the fossil fuel giants'. The climate footprint of Europe's big meat and dairy companies rival the fossil fuel giants yet they continue to operate with impunity," she said.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG companies shipped to Europe at soaring premiums. CHESTER, PA — When Zulene Mayfield testifies next week against plans to build a $6.8

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon is fed on other fish — small, oily, and nutritious pelagic species — which are harvested by the tonne off the West African coastline and pulverized into fishmeal and fish oil for export to Europe and Asia. In 2023, DeSmog will be looking more into the aquaculture industry, its impacts, and where it seeks to influence policy.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

VS: Traditionally, hydrogen has been industrially produced from the methane contained in natural gas, releasing carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in the process. GT: What are some of the factors behind the strong interest in offshore wind to H2 in Europe? Courtesy: Equinor). GT: How might green H2 fit into the energy system?

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Hydrogen Europe Fossil fuels Aviation 88

Charged

MARCH 7, 2023

A favorite trope of the “better stick with oil” crowd is that EVs aren’t any cleaner than ICE vehicles, because fossil fuels are consumed to manufacture and to charge them. The study found that fuel cell trucks using hydrogen produced from fossil fuel produce 15% less GHG emissions compared to their diesel counterparts.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

The groups will argue that the government has failed in its legal obligations under the Climate Change Act to produce climate policies that will ensure that legally binding UK carbon budgets are met. It doesn't say what emissions reductions its policies will achieve or when they will happen.

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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. Expanding access to energy is a vital goal but increasing fossil fuel use undermines poverty eradication through its continued, long-term global warming impacts.

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Natural gas Methane Energy Energy 52

GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

At the same time, Brussels signaled that it will also encourage the development of "blue" hydrogen produced from fossil fuels paired with carbon capture, at least for the time being. Europe's gas sector strikes upbeat tone. Read GTM's green hydrogen explainer here.).

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Hydrogen Carbon-neutral Natural gas Europe 130

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Civil society and courts in Europe are pushing back. JBS, the world’s largest meat company — whose methane emissions exceed the combined livestock methane emissions of France, Germany, Canada and New Zealand — has also claimed to be on a net zero pathway based on offsets. The airline has pulled certain ads from the market.

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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. Top emitter Be?chatów Net Zero Target.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . A few tech companies are working to grow clean hydrogen in Europe and Asia and, lately, California. It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C It’s really about production at the end of the day.”

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 142

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 15, 2023

Overall Function Under the direction of the Director for Just Policy Solutions, the Senior Manager, Just Global Energy Transition will be responsible for day-to-day oversight and collaboration to catalyze applying a justice lens and promoting equitable outcomes within EDF efforts related to a global clean energy transition.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability 98

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

utilities hope to carry 100 percent hydrogen in future years, as part of the country’s emphasis on finding green replacements to fuel supplies as well as electricity. Similar efforts are underway across Europe to build on the European Union’s massive green hydrogen targets over the coming decade.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Moreover, the production of synthetic nitrogen is highly energy intensive and is currently reliant on burning fossil fuels, research published by the food and farming charity this week points out. Unless we reduce nitrogen pollution, we will never be able to reach net zero targets.

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Soil Climate change Agriculture South America 79

Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

French President ramps up green offering, as EU accelerates efforts to tackle fossil fuel imports. The far-right is a climate-sceptic project, a project that wants to leave Europe's climate ambitions, that wants to destroy windmills.". In addition, he pledged to build 50 offshore wind farms by 2030 and six new nuclear reactors.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2022

Kerry applauded the pledge made by countries that make up 65% of the global GDP to align policies with the Paris Climate Change Agreement and the 109 countries that committed to reducing methane emissions by 30% which, according to the International Energy Agency, would be equivalent to operating every truck, vehicle, plane, and ship at net-zero.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

or 'well below' 2C, even if many of the targets have not yet been translated into sufficiently ambitious decarbonisation policies. The problem is that hardly any governments have credible strategies and policies in place to deliver on their net zero goals. CAT's analysis stresses that while the world would likely face 2.4C

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Fossil fuels Global warming Government Policy 40

Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do? 5 Governments like to say that their policies are informed by “the science”; but in this case, as in many others, scientists are at loggerheads with each other. Carbon Foregone.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. It’s fossil fuel madness.”. Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. Credit: DeSmog. Hopes Resurrected.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The chief of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), the joint sustainability initiative backed by the world's biggest miners, is confident Europe's drive to shore up mineral security and deliver on climate goals could result in a cleaner and greener future for the global mining industry. "I

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Reducing methane is in the hands of a small number of large multinational corporations, which have the resources to act, writes Changing Markets Foundation's Nusa Urbancic. Methane has typically been ignored in climate policy. It also ignores the huge potential of methane emission reductions in the agricultural sector.

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Methane Agriculture Fossil fuels Policy 92

Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

Upfront investments in low carbon infrastructure deliver much faster paybacks than they did a year ago, because the fossil fuels they displace are orders of magnitude more expensive. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. per cent loss of GDP to a 0.5

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Grist

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Initiatives that transform carbon into marketable materials like cement or synthetic fuels are particularly appealing, given their potential to turn a profit. XPrize recently surveyed carbontech companies, primarily in North America and Europe. Carbon dioxide remerges once engines burn the fuel. Last year, the U.N.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

methane - CH4). Hydrogen gas can be extracted via several methods, the most common of which is steam methane reformation. Local government has an important role in initiating a local hydrogen economy by taking the lead in hydrogen adoption and providing supportive policy to attract investment into infrastructure.

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Hydrogen Demand Carbon Investment 44

Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Over the last decade, Bloomberg Philanthropies has helped shut down two-thirds of coal-fired power plants in the US and half in Europe - and that work continues. Just as we have been succeeding in the US and Europe, with the help of strong partners on the ground, we are determined to succeed globally.".

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Climate change Europe Fossil fuels Methane 44

Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The influential analyst firm looked at 30 major corporates that have announced net zero goals across the utility, fossil fuel, technology, and materials sectors, but found huge variation in the level and scope of ambition, concluding that "no two net zero targets are the same".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2e and sequester 8.1

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 89

Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In part because air travel is such a technical marvel, engineering our way around direct emissions from burning fossil fuels strapped to those big jet engines on the wings is definitionally “hard to abate.”  In 2022, aviation accounted for 2% of global CO2 emissions. Carbon footprint : Not all SAFs are created equal.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While being presented as a clean hydrogen plan for decarbonizing the energy system, the main focus of the hydrogen section of the bill is to continue and expand the use of natural gas (that is, methane) in the U.S. Blue hydrogen is the name for a fuel product that currently cannot be produced on a commercial scale.

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Hydrogen Methane Natural gas Fossil fuels 89

Renewable Energy World

JULY 30, 2021

The direct way is by reducing fossil fuel production, the main source at 73% of global GHG. Europe is following this approach, perhaps because its companies don’t have the enormous success of a shale revolution to maintain. However, CCS is a non-direct approach because it doesn’t stop the emission of GHG from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. A few tech companies are working to grow clean hydrogen in Europe and Asia and, lately, California. It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas.

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Hydrogen Demand Technology Energy 69

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“A pink badge is like a country badge, which allows you into the negotiations, so you can track what’s going on,” explains Corporate Europe Observatory researcher Pascoe Sabido, who has extensively tracked the influence of the fossil fuel industry at the annual COP climate summits.

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