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5 key takeaways from GreenBiz’s VERGE22 Conference

EDF + Business

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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'Thundering wake up call': UN slams political leaders for vast 'emissions gap' ahead of COP26

Business Green

It means that, at present, collective global pledges fall wildly short of the 55 per cent reduction by 2030 needed to stave off some of the more crippling effects of climate change by capping global temperature rise at 1.5C, the lower, safer limit set out by the Paris Agreement.

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Hoboken Lodges First State-Level Racketeering Charge in Big Oil Climate Lawsuit

DeSmogBlog

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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Comment: Carbon net zero – we’re halfway there

Envirotec Magazine

Signs of the UK’s renewed focus came just recently as the Government became the world’s first major economy to present a net zero industrial decarbonisation strategy. The government went one step further and in April, set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law: to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels.

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7 People in Virginia Play an Outsized Role in Progress on Global Climate Goals

DeSmogBlog

These seven members of the public serve on the Virginia State Water Control Board, an independent regulatory body tasked with administering the state’s water laws. Indeed, at 42 inches in diameter and 303 miles long, the MVP is the largest methane gas pipeline currently under construction in the U.S.

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Greentown Houston’s 2023 Climatetech Summit Explores Funding, Collaboration Shaping the Energy Transition

Greentown Labs

Capwell , whose technology eliminates methane emissions by offering an inexpensive solution that sits on a well until it can be properly plugged. Dsider , which uses operational, financial, and carbon-abatement data and metrics for analysis from planning to operations of net zero emissions.

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Hydrogen Hype Bubbles Over At German Gas Lobby Conference

DeSmogBlog

Kerstin Andreae, BDEW’s managing director, acknowledged in her opening address that the natural gas era was coming to a close — but was quick to present hydrogen as an industry lifeline. It’s quite simple,” said Andreae, who served as a Green Party member of parliament from 2002-2019. But much depends on the way the hydrogen is made.