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Biomass Energy: Pros and Cons Explained

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Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Syngas can be subsequently burned to generate electricity or processed into transportation fuels.

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Global Briefing: Macron positions French election as 'referendum on the environment'

Business Green

French President ramps up green offering, as EU accelerates efforts to tackle fossil fuel imports. He also promised action to slash air pollution, plant 140 million trees, close 50 large open-air landfills, and reform regulations to ensure corporate bonuses are linked to environmental performance.

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How the net zero sceptics' medieval arguments are being overwhelmed by a very modern reality

Business Green

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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Demystifying the role of hydrogen in delivering net zero for local authorities

Business Green

Local authority decision-makers are faced with a bewildering array of potential options to achieve decarbonisation, so it's important to understand which are the most effective and which could help to spark a wider adoption of low-carbon technologies across the region. methane - CH4).

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

DeSmogBlog

A study published in Science last year found that even if emissions from fossil fuels ceased right away, projected eating habits would make it impossible to keep global average temperature rises to 1.5C. Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Mapped: Big Ag’s Routes to Influence at COP28

DeSmogBlog

In our interactive Routes to Influence Map below, DeSmog has plotted the extent of the opportunities open to the world’s most powerful and polluting food and farming companies and lobby groups to influence debates at COP28. Major pesticide and fertiliser producers such as Bayer and Nutrien, who attended last year, will be back. “A

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

DeSmogBlog

Still, the cheniers and the surrounding wetlands provide critical habitat for fish, shrimp, ducks, and an array of migratory birds travelling across the Gulf of Mexico. John Allaire, a former environmental engineer in the oil industry, photographed with fossil fuel infrastructure behind. Stricter Climate Scrutiny The U.S.