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 Just seven percent are based in Africa.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

At this rate, we won’t be able to meet the Paris Agreement objective of keeping the global warming increase within 2° Celsius — or, preferably, 1.5° — of preindustrial levels by 2100. Related: UN report shows global warming could pass 1.5°C He cited the U.S., This doesn’t mean the whole world has to become vegan.

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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. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8

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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. We need to address global energy poverty – but the climate impacts of gas undermine this effort. New investments bring optimism.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Plus 40 nations prep methane plans for COP27, Germany touts cheap transport tickets, and Saudi Arabia launches electric vehicle brand. COP27: 40 countries planning to unveil methane reduction plans. off global warming by 2050, as methane's warming potential is 84 times greater than carbon dioxide over 20-year timescale.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. According to a poll of 6,000 customers in North America, Europe, and Asia, 72% of respondents are already actively purchasing more environmentally friendly goods. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

With widespread commitments made to reducing CO 2 emissions, attention is turning to other greenhouse gases, specifically methane and nitrous oxide as the next largest contributors. Another driver of new alternatives in Europe at least is the proposal to regulate SF 6 in the EU rules on fluorinated greenhouse gases, currently under review.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Urgent efforts are needed to curb the damaging impacts of nitrogen used in agriculture on the UK's environment, according to research by the Soil Association, which warns there has been a "historical underestimation of its true contribution to global warming". Others, however, have cast doubt on the assumptions behind such conclusions.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 In recent months, the world’s three top producers — Europe’s ArcelorMittal, China’s Baowu Steel, and Japan’s Nippon Steel — committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, echoing targets set in their home countries.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

New analysis warns national climate targets for 2030 point to dangerous warming of 2.4C, as rush for LNG capacity risks further undermining chances of meeting goals of Paris Agreement. Projected global warming in 2100 based on national climate targets announced to date remains at a worryingly high 2.4C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

New report warns world is 'heading in wrong direction' post-pandemic resulting in a 48 per cent chance the global 1.5C There is now a near 50-50 chance of global warming temporarily rising above the totemic 1.5C Heatwaves in Europe. temperature goal could be temporarily breached in next five years.

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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.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. While natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods tend to get most media coverage, it’s heat that’s the real killer. and Canada alone.

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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? But this doesn’t include the fossil carbon emitted in the form of methane through the mining and distribution of fossil fuels, which globally is more than the volume of methane emitted by livestock.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

Rio Tinto's $2.4bn Jadar mining project would have made the Anglo Australian firm one of the world's top producers of lithium, which has found itself in increasing global demand as a key raw material for EV batteries and other clean tech products. by the end of the century are to be kept alive.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The companies analyzed were selected to represent a range of scale and location across Europe. The simple fact is that they are not reducing their polluting activities by the significant amount required to limit the worst impacts of global warming.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

And more important still, even if the UK had gone all-in on fracking and offered even more generous tax breaks to North Sea developers it would still not be a big enough producer to have a meaningful impact on global oil and gas prices. Like every great human endeavour this is a high stakes experiment.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Researchers have even found that certain types of seaweed used as feed supplement for cattle can reduce methane emissions from cow farts. In Europe, coastal communities from the Iberian Peninsula to the northern British Isles used seaweed to enrich infertile agricultural soils at least as far back as Roman times, researchers have found.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) Just to give an example, for journeys between Europe and Asia, the Northern Sea Route can already be two to three weeks faster than the Suez Canal. Lot’s of Methane. And it will not only be regional.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. This year will be different. The COP28 host United Arab Emirates is using its presidency to firmly press the need for food transformation.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations' Glasgow Climate Summit celebrated a series of new commitments to lower global greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. Russia is waging a war on European soil, with global implications for energy and food supplies. There are issues to solve.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Across Europe, a single-use plastic ban will come into effect from 2021, targeting straws, cotton buds, and disposable cutlery, among other products. According to a recent study , two thirds of people across Europe and the Americas associate the word ‘plastic’ with ocean litter. Thankfully, governments are now beginning to act.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

The reports show that the facility has released numerous chemicals, including benzene, a known human carcinogen, and methane. It will also make it possible to help Europe break free from its dependence on Russian natural gas, they argued. “We Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility in Cameron.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

The European Union, for example, should achieve net-zero emissions by no later than 2050 if the world is to succeed in restricting warming to 1.5° And Shell has built a specific scenario looking at what Europe might need to do to decarbonise energy in the next 30 years. ° Celsius. That is, indeed, the EU's aim.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

” “Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” Shell executive Ged Davis wrote in a contribution to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published two years later. .

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Compare that to the hundreds operating across North America, and similar numbers across Europe. One study found methane emissions were actually two-times lower from managed plantations than they were from natural, tropical peatland rainforest. It's different with methane.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

The potential refugee problem in GLOBAL MERCANTILISM could be unprecedented. Africans would push into Europe, Chinese into the Soviet Union, Latins into the United States, Indonesians into Australia. Boundaries would count for little – overwhelmed by the numbers. Conflicts would abound.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of global warming include drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including fresh WHO air pollution guidelines and global coal, methane and HFC commitments. We know the magnitude of the problem and we know how to solve it," said WHO regional director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P Kluge.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine you woke up in 2030 to find that Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia had done little to slow the global warming that cooked the Cascadia region this year. We have not kept pace with the scope of the crisis,” Oregon Global Warming Commission Chair Catherine Macdonald wrote to legislators that month.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

But nations have thus far been reluctant to introduce any such bans because of the risk restricting Russian energy exports would pose to Europe's economy and the impact the move would have on households and businesses already struggling by soaring energy bills. Methane emissions soar to record high.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Responsible for nearly a third of global warming and a quarter of global energy, methane matters.   In deals this week $145m for lithium extraction, $52m for methane emissions detection, and $40m for sustainable aviation fuel.   This list is far from representative of the biggest methane MRV players.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C No one likes to say 1.5C

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  SPAC valuation ).

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