Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

CSA enhances soil health and builds climate resilience, while aiming to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. We hope to quantify related water and nutrient footprints and the potential to promote climate resilience.” As a soil amendment, biochar has the potential to help build resilience. What is biochar?

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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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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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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Investment in AD offers an immediate answer to the current crises, as the sector is capable of delivering energy and food security for the UK in the short term, while addressing the climate emergency ,” says Chris Huhne , former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and now chairman of ADBA This could double within a few years.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The climate impact of farming practices are significant too - in the UK, agriculture and land-use are responsible for around 12 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, including almost half of the country's methane emissions. Food waste and the increasing cultivation of crops for bioenergy are both serving to further increase these impacts.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Governments need to resolve this at COP26 by giving a clear and unmistakable signal that they are committed to rapidly scaling up the clean and resilient technologies of the future. The world is not investing enough, the authors wrote, to meet future energy needs, which could lead to prolonged volatility in energy markets.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The potential of methane and market mechanisms. This year, it focuses on methane and market mechanisms. Reduction of methane emissions from the fossil fuel, waste and agriculture sectors can contribute to closing the emissions gap and reduce warming in the short term.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 5, 2022

The plan, which is expected to take effect from January 1, 2024, is focussed on building resilience into the company’s electricity and gas networks and targets the meeting of California’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2045. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. to gas bills compared to 2023. to gas bills compared to 2023.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Senior Manager, Resilient Food and Forests, EDF+Business. Dairy announced the Greener Cattle Initiative , which will provide $5 million over 5 years to research that helps curb enteric methane emissions. Methane matters…a lot. Livestock production is a leading source of methane emissions globally. In the U.S.,

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Through the phased repurposing of existing high-pressure gas transmission network infrastructure, alongside the construction of selected new pipelines, Project Union is expected to create a hydrogen network of up to 2,000km, equivalent to 25% of Britain’s current methane transmission network. Have you read?

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Methane Pledge – Nearly 90 countries joined a U.S.- and EU-led effort to cut methane emissions 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. Methane emissions are one of the leading causes of climate change, but we’ve historically lacked the data needed to identify the fastest and most effective ways to reduce them.

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

One of the primary reasons Germany cannot use all of the renewable energy it produces is because the nation’s fleet of coal and nuclear plants is still needed to ensure power system resilience when the wind slows or clouds cover the sun. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 3, 2021

Senior Manager, Resilient Food and Forest. At the same time, especially in cases where there are emissions that will take more time to abate, companies should purchase high-quality carbon credits to accelerate near-term mitigation opportunities, such as investing in the LEAF program for REDD+ tropical forest carbon credits. .

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several ambitious pledges emerged to phase down fossil fuels, limit methane emissions, stop deforestation, and turbocharge the adoption of electric vehicles. 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

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

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

Environment Secretary set to announce new funding for innovative farming projects at Devon County Show, as McCain announces investment in agri-tech firm. Environment Secretary George Eustice is set to announce that £12.5m

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

This includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, a stock buyback tax, and a methane leakage tax. The law takes a flawed approach of subsidizing energy corporations as its main thrust instead of investing in energy justice for consumers. The Act also empowers the federal government to negotiate drug prices. Deeply Detrimental.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Another main driver of this warming is emissions of greenhouse gases like CO2, water vapor, and methane from human activity. We must take action now to reduce emissions and build resilience to the impacts that are already inevitable. It is also one of the most complex challenges humanity has ever faced.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

At the same time, the sector must reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions, particularly potent methane and nitrous oxide emissions. Fortunately, farms have the potential to reduce emissions, sequester carbon and build resilience — but farmers need support to make change at the scale and pace required to avoid major losses.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The recipients of the inaugural Challenge are ReCarbon, a company which transforms carbon dioxide and methane into valuable and decarbonized products through plasma reformation, and Aerleum, which develops a cost-competitive approach to capture and transform CO2 out of air into synthetic fuels.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The UAE played both sides, at once unveiling a $30B climate investment fund while allegedly negotiating petro side deals. Fifty oil and gas companies pledged to achieve near zero-methane emissions by 2030 and a fund for methane abatement projects in emerging markets. The tripling…will be hard.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

California's new decarbonisation plan, Austria's windfall tax, and global methane reduction efforts. The plan contains all of the essential ingredients of climate resilience: fossil free energy generation; reduction of short lived super pollutants; air pollution abatement; climate justice; restoration of nature's role as carbon sink.

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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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Defend Our Future

MARCH 17, 2023

fresh off the press Defend officially launched Seeding the Future , our campaign to bring IRA investments in heat resilience, u rban t ree p lanting and green spaces to the communities that need them most. They’ve spoken about local IRA investments, electrification and wildfire prevention with Fort Collins Mayor Jenny Arndt, State Rep.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A group of over 500 global investment managers with more than $39tr in assets under management have this week issued a new statement urging governments around the world to raise their climate ambitions in line with the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C ahead of the upcoming COP27 Climate Summit.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

New study from UCL and HSBC argues farmers need to develop proactive investment plans and accurate emissions measurement practices if they are to meet net zero goals. Farmers need to be prepared to make tough investment decisions in the short-term," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Firstly, every COP is by definition the most important COP ever, up to the point when global emissions are consistently falling at a rapid rate and the world is mobilising trillions of dollars to fully decarbonise the global economy and enhance the climate resilience of our societies.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

They talked about climate resilience in Houston, the hydrogen hub investment from the Department of Energy (DOE), and funding opportunities for startups in the climatetech sector, as well as ways Houston can help lead the energy transition. Intention , which is developing a digital platform for climate investing.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Coal and fossil fuels are now explicitly mentioned, countries will have to report more frequently on progress towards targets and there have been headline grabbing ambitions around forest protection, cutting methane emissions and private sector investments. Build resilience. Create a national resource strategy. Get political.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

While more ambition and much more action is still needed, there are significant accomplishments emerging from this COP: an agreement from over 100 countries to cut methane; an agreement on the rules necessary for a robust, transparent, and accountable carbon market; notable achievements on deforestation commitments and financing — and more.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Green Alliance argues UK has made 'little headway' on pledge made at COP26 to slash methane emisisons by 30 per cent by 2030. For example, soaring fossil gas prices mean that plugging methane leaks from oil and gas sites could deliver a significant boost in profits for fossil fuel firms.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

The shift towards more sustainable diets, farming, and food supply chains therefore offers a major investment opportunity for financial firms, according to the think tank. The food sector is also facing major transition risks as diets and technologies shift in support of net zero goals.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The UN report also highlights the failure of global political leaders to leverage the significant fiscal stimulus unleashed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic towards building a lower carbon economy, noting that just 20 per cent of recovery investments unleashed to May 2021 reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

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EDF + Business

JULY 19, 2019

For example: Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas responsible for 25% of the warming we’re experiencing today. The largest source of industrial emissions is the oil and gas industry, which loses $30 billion worth of methane each year from operations. Looking ahead.

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