Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) latest World Energy Outlook (WEO) report finds that, as the world moves towards a more electrified and renewables-based energy system, which will be needed to prevent costs associated with potentially volatile fuel prices, investment in robust, digitalised grid systems will need follow suit.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation launched the Oregon Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our newest state-specific, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. By Shelley Wenzel. Business As Usual Scenario.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 24, 2021

For companies that produce, process or sell beef, pork and/or dairy, there’s an often overlooked, invisible source of climate pollution lurking in the supply chain: methane. An extremely potent greenhouse gas, methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide in the short term. Managing methane is good for business.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sean Hackett EDF+Business Senior Manager, Energy Transition By Sean Hackett With the dire need to slash greenhouse gas and methane emissions from the global oil and gas sector, more and more investors are advocating for stronger climate policies that accelerate the energy transition and mitigate risks.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 27, 2020

US $30 billion worth of methane released into the atmosphere each year. This survey aims to identify the role digital technologies can play in managing methane emissions. The oil and gas industry recognizes the methane challenge but has yet to capitalize upon the economic values associated with it. Key finding 2. Key finding 3.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals. climate goals.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Tackling methane from oil and gas operations among 'best near-term opportunities’ for combatting climate change, IEA argues. Methane, which is largely released from abandoned coal mines, oil and gas operations, and farming, has a far greater global warming potential than CO2.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

EDF recently hosted a virtual summit for private equity firms Quantum Energy Partners and EIG Global Energy Partners to engage their portfolio companies, which include more than 50 producer and midstream companies on the business importance of methane mitigation. Andrew: Divestment of oil and gas is gaining momentum. Sean: It’s very simple.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Green Alliance estimates proposed coking coal mine in Cumbria could emit as much methane each year as 120,000 cows. However, the UK, along with scores of countries around the world, is committed to collectively reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030 as part of the Global Methane Pledge.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), more than 50 globally significant financial institutions have put in place an oil and gas exit policy. In fact, in 2020, during the middle of a global pandemic and its associated recession, these policies were announced once every month.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This method generates biogas, comprising methane and carbon dioxide, suitable for heating, electricity production, or refinement into biomethane for use as a renewable natural gas alternative. These financial mechanisms can provide the necessary capital investment while spreading the risk and ensuring a return on investment over time.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

Report argues promised 30 per cent cut in methane emissions will be extremely difficult to achieve without tackling livestock numbers. A new report has today warned the EU "cannot deliver" on the commitments it has made under the Global Methane Pledge without cutting livestock numbers. per cent by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the industry reckons with its role in a decarbonized future, advocates, utilities and regulators alike are calling for a carefully-managed transition that avoids costly long-term investments. This first-of-its-kind tool has the power to transform natural gas utility investment decisions. There is more work to be done.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

These projects can include renewable energy initiatives, reforestation efforts, methane capture, and more. By investing in carbon offset projects, companies prove their commitment to environmental sustainability and contribute to global efforts to combat climate change.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Carbon neutral refers to a policy of not increasing carbon emissions and of achieving carbon reduction through offsets. Alternative investments can also be made in initiatives that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as in cattle feed that reduces the methane output of cows.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

1 With agriculture estimated to have been the source of 48% of the UK’s methane emissions in 2020 – an increase of 1.3% This means no capital investment from the farmer is required (although an opportunity to invest alongside us also exists for farmers that are interested).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The fledgling green hydrogen industry has seen an investment surge of over $70bn in the wake of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, as producers have looked to develop production facilities that do not rely on costly fossil gas as a feedstock.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Former Business and Energy Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg spoke of his desire for people to “stop demonising oil and gas” in a private meeting with the head of the United Arab Emirates’s state investment company, DeSmog can reveal. Rees-Mogg agreed with Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak that “hydrocarbons need to be part of the [energy] solution”.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Canadian pension funds, often maligned for their dirty investments, have quietly cut fossil fuel holdings by 90% over the past decade, while ploughing $150 billion into clean energy. Firstly, improving disclosures so that investors have a better understanding of the climate risks or opportunities of their investments.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Food & ag companies have a unique opportunity to signal to investors, policymakers and consumers that they are investing in and adopting solutions to drive down global emissions and incorporate nature as a critical part of their climate strategies. The time to take bold climate action is now. There’s no time to lose.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

European Commission unveils flurry of major policy plans as it seeks to help deliver on 2050 net zero goal, but green groups warn bolder action is still required. However, green groups were today quick to warn that the Strategy did not go far enough, pointing to the omission of any plan to phase out fossil fuels for heating and cooling. "A

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Governments must implement stronger policies to tackle still rising demand foe fossil gas if they are to deliver on their net zero emission goals by 2050, according to a new report this week from the International Energy Agency (IEA). "The These include measures to ensure gas is used more efficiently.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C, we have eight years to almost halve greenhouse gas emissions: eight years to make the plans, put in place the policies, implement them and ultimately deliver the cuts. Nations need to put in place the policies to meet their new commitments, and start implementing them within months. The potential of methane and market mechanisms.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This exquisite instrument will act as the “eye” of the satellite, allowing us to detect, pinpoint, and quantify point source emissions of methane and carbon dioxide. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Detecting methane from space An engineer prepares the imaging spectrometer instrument for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at JPL.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The plan, which has been approved by the New York Public Service Commission, encompasses a range of actions including $6 billion in investments to enhance reliability, resiliency and customer service and to support the meeting of the state’s climate targets. Have you read?

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The thesis: The most successful climate-tech startups will be those with early access to economic analysis, policy resources, financing and technical support. It is incredibly hard for investors to source, vet and execute investments across the many varied climate solution sectors. Pull Quote.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 17, 2021

Top-15 global asset manager Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) has raised the bar for climate planning by devising guides for carbon-in t ensive sectors that undergird the firm’s proxy voting and asset allocation. Address methane. These distinct benchmarks give methane the attention it deserves.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

EDF+Business program staff participated in meetings and panel presentations, including: Victoria Mills, director of corporate climate policy leadership; Elizabeth Sturcken, director of net zero acceleration; Katie Anderson, manager of supply chain and agricultural methane. An urgent new warning from the U.N. manufacturing. $28

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For the 128 asset managers and 61 banks that have committed to align trillions of dollars with the Paris Agreement, this moment presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to achieve their climate goals – not through investments but through public policy advocacy. Advocating for climate policy is in investors’ best interest.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Our team at Environmental Defense Fund was beginning to study methane emissions and collaborate with companies to solve the problem. A company representative explained that natural gas, or methane, was being burned on the spot rather than sent on for productive use in the economy. Outside the van windows, flares dotted the landscape.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Xcel will now accelerate plans to reduce methane emissions by, in part, purchasing natural gas only from suppliers with "certified low emissions" and continuing to improve its gas delivery system. A study by the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University advocated for investments in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The “unabated” qualifier has no internationally accepted definition, Romain Ioualalen, global policy campaign manager at Oil Change International, explained. It’s used as grounds for companies to escape fulfilling the climate policies coming out of COP28, and has real-life, tangible consequences.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

In early June, the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) launched a Policy Briefing report that it says demonstrates the crucial role biomethane could play in decarbonising transport in the UK in the short-term. DOWNLOAD THE ADBA POLICY BRIEFING. ” says Philip Fjeld, CEO of CNG-Fuels.

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EDF + Business

JULY 29, 2021

That is why EDF and Legal & General Investment Management America – the American subsidiary of the global top 20 asset manager Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) – have announced a partnership to raise the bar for climate leadership in the asset management sector and accelerate corporate progress toward net zero.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

Steam-methane reforming and electrolysis are the two most common methods used. Manufacturers should invest in research and development to find more ways to drive efficiency in the production process for a head start.  Overall, the system can facilitate synergies and enhance overall efficiency.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Elemental’s Policy Lab team unpacked the major national, subnational, and private sector commitments that emerged from COP 26 for climate technology innovation in the United States and beyond. Methane: 105 world leaders signed onto the Global Methane Pledge, a US and EU joint initiative to cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As the oil and gas industry achieves success in pushing the world towards widespread adoption of methane-based blue hydrogen, some unexpected voices are calling out the industry on its deception of selling blue hydrogen as an affordable and clean source of energy. . In April, CGEP released a paper advocating for large investments in the U.S.

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