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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

New IEA analysis reveals methane emissions from the energy sector are 70 per cent higher than official reports, but could high gas prices finally prompt operators to tackle the problem. It is one of the biggest and most worrying mysteries in the field of climate science: where are all the methane emissions coming from?

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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). Countries around the world pledged in the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5°C, Different emissions can either warm or cool the planet. C, or, at most, 2°C. Nature Climate Change).

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The event, hosted by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association will take place in London on 8th December. The guardians of the Paris Agreement have concluded AD is the cheapest and most cost-effective way to keep global warming below 2 ? C”, he adds. “The

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. The rescheduled conference, which took place for nearly a week from January 16-19, felt like a more scaled-down event, with far fewer than the anticipated 3,000 attendees.

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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 The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Climate change refers to a broad array of environmental degradation that is predicted to result from increasing levels of atmospheric CO2, including global warming , alterations in precipitation, sea level changes, and more extreme weather events. It is also one of the most complex challenges humanity has ever faced.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Without it, we may face 7ºF of warming with catastrophic consequences for health, coastal communities, food, ecosystems and more. For food companies, this could mean rising temperatures and more extreme weather events that can impact crop yields and disrupt supply chains. Methane matters…a lot. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

This increase in global temperatures is mirrored by rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases including CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide that attained record levels last year. What do we need to do in our industry to ensure that global temperatures don’t stray more than 1.5°C C by 2050 remains achievable.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 21, 2020

While individual weather events help to raise awareness, it is the long-term trends that reveal that we are in a climate emergency and on the cusp of the collapse of civilization. These events have killed 1.23 million and affected more than half of the global population (4.2 These events have killed 1.23 billion people).

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

Here are a few "Possible Climate Futures" as suggested in the report's Summary for Policymakers : Global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century under all emissions scenarios considered. Global warming of 1.5

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Plant Based Treaty campaign has officially launched with a view to securing a global agreement based on three principles, "Relinquish, Redirect, and Restore", that aim to halt the degradation of ecosystems caused by animal agriculture, encourage a move towards plant based diets, and restore key ecosystems, respectively.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

If you remove aerosols from the air, you reduce the health impacts of pollution, saving thousands of people from lung and heart disease, but you might also make global warming worse. This creates a tricky paradox, which renowned climate scientist James Hansen has called a “Faustian bargain.” 05 degrees Celsius. “If

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Matt Finch, UK Policy Director at the Transport and Environment campaign group, speaking to DeSmog in Manchester after the panel event, said: “For the gas companies, the transition to net zero is existential. Using methane – [to make] blue hydrogen – always results in some residual emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Global warming to climate change; climate change covers a broader term and now special interest groups can use it for any situation, as we have recently seen with the fires in Western Canada and now Australia.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

As industry is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change and is entirely dependent on the earth’s resources for production, it is important for business leaders and employees to understand the Anthropocene, its implications, and what it means for the future of sustainability and industry. . The Holocene.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Research shows the world needs to cut global emissions 45% by 2030 to keep global warming under 1.5 C trajectory in half for carbon dioxide emissions and by almost 40% for methane. C trajectory in half for carbon dioxide emissions and by almost 40% for methane. degrees Celsius (2.7 That’s a start.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The study shows how the G20 is responsible for around 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, meaning that were G20 nations to align their official national climate action plans - or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the UN jargon - with a 1.5C pathway, then global warming this century could be limited to 1.7C.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

That is the stark consensus of the world's leading climate scientists in a landmark UN report today, which offers the clearest picture yet of both the scale of global warming already being experienced and the likely impacts of further temperature rises that are set to play out over the coming decades.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

global warming pathway are to be kept alive. In snap analysis published yesterday, the IEA said it had calculated the impacts of the net zero pledges and emissions targets announced in recent days, and concluded that if national climate pledges are delivered as promised, the planet could potentially limit warming to 1.8C

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Grist

AUGUST 2, 2019

Like its fossil fuel cousin, it has a devastating effect on the climate when it burns, releasing up to 80 tons per acre of climate-warming carbon. That includes up to ten times more methane than your typical flame-driven fire. We’re seeing these major fire events occurring more frequently,” she said. The new normal?

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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. Higher temperatures can also make extreme rain events more likely. The only way to slow down a warming planet is to stop adding pollution to the atmosphere.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

A specific example of an event occurring after material was submitted for AR6, and its probable catastrophic consequences, is discussed in this short video, Arctic Rain. To limit global warming to a peak of 1.5C, which the impacts we are experiencing at 1.35°C The challenge. gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year).

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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 Last year global fossil fuel related O2 emissions returned to pre-pandemic levels, after a 5.4 billion to 3.6

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix. There is just no excuse.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With these recent events only being a precursor for what is to come, I would say our future actually looks pretty bleak unless we start taking large-scale action. Initially focused on agriculture, insuring against extreme rain, snow, and temperature events. Representative companies include: Arbol (Series A | $9.2M Pachama (Seed | $9.2M

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But today's agreement is a big step forward and, critically, we have the first ever international agreement to phase down coal and a roadmap to limit global warming to 1.5 The task of COP26 was to make decisive progress towards halving global emissions by 2030 to keep alive the hope of limiting global warming to 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

warming, we need to slash emissions dramatically – and at speed. 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. Animal production also emits 65 percent of global nitrous oxide emissions.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Then, there are also methane, nitrous oxide, and other industrial gasses, about which we seldom hear. Methane and nitrous oxide do not persist in the atmosphere as long as CO 2. Methane is a component of natural gas. Some people still deny that greenhouse gases are culpable for climate change and global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Blue hydrogen’s supporters have argued that the world needs the gas-dependent fuel until it could scale up affordable clean hydrogen (known as “green hydrogen,” which uses renewable energy and does not produce any carbon dioxide or methane emissions). But the bill, which was overseen by the fossil fuel-friendly Sen.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

These agri-giants will be rubbing shoulders with over 80,000 participants – the highest attendance of any climate conference – which these days comes with increased media fanfare and activity, including protests, side events, drinks and dinners happening in and around the main event. This year will be different.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

Global temperatures have risen to 1.1C above pre-industrial levels after more than a century of burning fossil fuels and current policies are expected to lead to global warming of 2.8C Global emissions rose again last year and are not expected to peak until 2025 at the earliest. by 2100, the report warns.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At the same time, food systems are also a major contributor to global warming, accounting for over a third of total emissions worldwide. Scientists and campaigners have raised major concerns about the lack of global action ahead of the COP28 summit, in a year of devastating impacts from climate-related weather events.

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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. And because water nutrient pollution - unlike global warming - is largely a localised problem, a lot of work can be done at the local, regional or national level.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down. The ongoing commitment towards UNFCCC – via COP – symbolizes how the political recognition of climate change has increased globally. C) within reach.

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