GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Europe is planning to make hydrogen a big part of its trillion-dollar Green Deal package , with an EU-wide green hydrogen strategy expected to be published in July. “Some industrial processes and heavy transport will have to run on gas. for production using steam methane reformation. And renewable hydrogen is the best gas.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Britain's gas networks have today unveiled proposals to invest over £900m in developing net zero infrastructure over the coming five years as part of the UK's coronavirus recovery efforts, with a major focus on ramping up the use of biomethane and hydrogen for heating, cooking, industry, and transport.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Plus 40 nations prep methane plans for COP27, Germany touts cheap transport tickets, and Saudi Arabia launches electric vehicle brand. COP27: 40 countries planning to unveil methane reduction plans. off global warming by 2050, as methane's warming potential is 84 times greater than carbon dioxide over 20-year timescale.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

When we throw food away, we waste the precious resources it's taken to grow, package and transport it - and as it rots in landfill, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide," she said. The simple action of throwing food in the bin is therefore more damaging to our planet than people often realise.

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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. Burning fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, trapping heat and causing the Earth’s temperature to rise.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Meat isn’t the only industry under the spotlight.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

By reducing how much raw material you need to produce new products and packaging materials, you can also reduce how much air pollution your business produces. If a piece of paper or plastic is recycled instead of thrown away, less energy has to be used to extract raw materials from the earth and transport them to a processing plant.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

Despite being the most efficient form of transportation, ships are known for using extremely dirty fuel. There are a handful of potential alternatives, such as ammonia, methane, and methanol, but current technology is still incapable of making them viable for larger-scale use. Increased use of cleaner fuel.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2019

With contamination reduced at the collection point, the fuel is prepared in a form that is easily transportable, user-friendly and high in dry matter content. This is made even more important by the fact that food waste harms the environment as it gives off methane, a potent greenhouse gas, when left to rot.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But insiders remain optimistic ambitious agreement can still be reached, as updated Climate Action Tracker analysis projects slight global CO2 reduction from recent global methane, coal, transport and forest pledges. warming pathway by nine per cent. world may now be closer to a 2.3 gigatonnes global warming pathway.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EPS allows users to model numerous policies that affect energy use and emissions including a renewable portfolio standard, fuel economy standards for vehicles, industry methane standards, incentives for clean energy technologies like we see in the Inflation Reduction Act, and accelerated R&D advancement of various technologies.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. The entire amount of greenhouse gasses (such as carbon dioxide and methane) produced by human actions is known as a carbon footprint. And when we discard it, it continues to produce greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere as it rots.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The project aims to transport carbon dioxide over a 400 kilometer long network of pipelines from about 20 oil sands production facilities in Northern Alberta, to a new storage facility in the region of Cold Lake, Alberta. We received an initial consultation package very recently, just last week.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

California's new decarbonisation plan, Austria's windfall tax, and global methane reduction efforts. The update comes in response to Governor Gavin Newsom recent push to strengthen the state's climate goals through new targets for renewable energy, clean buildings, carbon removal, and clean fuels in the transportation sector.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. only accounts for a small proportion of national emissions while locally produced meat reduces transport emissions. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In industries like agriculture, fishing, transportation logistics, and construction, workers must work outside and generally have little protection against high temperatures. This summer has already witnessed heat impacts on transportation like roads buckling, rail lines expanding, and delaying aircraft from taking off. Decarbonize.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Experts dispute this climate-friendly branding, however, given the problem of methane leakages through the production and transportation process, and doubts about the efficacy of CCS. When taking into account methane its climate footprint is “more than 20 percent greater than burning natural gas or coal for heat”, they found.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 13, 2021

Their goal is to make it easy to make changes by offering a completely plastic-free selection of goods, so you don’t have to evaluate the packaging of every item you buy. While recycling is important for reusing materials already in circulation, the real, long-term answer is zero-waste packaging.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

The company said proceeds from the transition bond would be used to reduce methane leakage and fund replacement pipelines to facilitate the future use of hydrogen and other low-carbon gases.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

Overall, climate and environmental justice advocates count somewhere between $17 billion and $44 billion generally heading in the right direction for frontline communities out of a $369 billion energy and environment spending package. This includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, a stock buyback tax, and a methane leakage tax.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For example, the UK last week launched new loans that will see debt repayments suspended in the event of recipient countries facing climate impacts, while the sweeping new Just Transition finance packages being offered to South Africa and Indonesia are underpinned by concessional finance. Action on methane is building momentum.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2021

A versatile fuel or gas, hydrogen is touted as a key resource for delivering net zero emissions, as it produces only water vapour when burned, making it a potential zero carbon alternative to fossil fuels in a raft of currently carbon intensive applications, including transport, manufacturing, energy storage, and heating.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Oil drilling, also known as fracking, wastes water, releases methane into the atmosphere, produces oil spills and generally wreaks havoc on the environment. According to the Aluminum Association , four six-packs can hold up a two-ton vehicle thanks to the packaging’s aversion to rust, corrosion and ability to withhold carbonation pressure.

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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 From a sustainability standpoint, animal agriculture emits more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector (all the planes, ships, cars in the world combined). 1 killer in the country.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Eco friendly retail packaging guide. In this Green Business Bureau eco friendly retail packaging guide, we explore sustainable packaging solutions for 6 of the most common types of packaging materials used. Retail packaging defined: The impact of packaging waste and the rise of the ethical consumer.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Green Commuting Transportation is a major contributor to carbon emissions. Whenever possible, choose public transportation, biking, walking, or carpooling over driving solo. It also promotes local economies and can lead to less packaging waste. You’ll contribute to reduced pollution and traffic congestion.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The analysis shows that the production, transport, and storage of food are driving greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of the EU and Russia combined. Fossil Fuel Lock-in The meat and dairy industry’s high methane emissions are increasingly well known. Plastic packaging is produced from natural gas and crude oil.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

By zero waste, we mean the conservation of all resources utilizing responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials. Tip #5 – Recycle and reuse paper : Workspaces should have paper recycle bins to make it easy to collect all types of paper including packaging and cardboard.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

One would be placed directly on the side of a farm and be tuned to maximize the production of bio-oil, which can be transported in regular oil tanker trucks — a cheaper proposition than hauling around farm waste. They can pay to destroy methane leaking from a landfill. Most offsets that companies buy are designed to reduce emissions.

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The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It enriches the soil, reduces landfill waste, and cuts down on methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Walk, bike, or use public transport. Photo by Pressfoto on Freepik Leaving the car at home and choosing greener modes of transportation significantly lowers your carbon footprint. Compost kitchen waste. Buy locally produced goods.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Catering can cause significant damage to the environment because of the industry’s reliance on transportation, energy-intensive equipment, single-use items, and the difficulty of sourcing sustainably produced food as well as the difficulty in avoiding food waste. Tackle Your Single-Use Items and Sustainable Catering Packaging.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Deloitte’s final stage, dubbed “refuel,” takes on the looming challenge of replacing fossil fuels not just for generating electricity, but to power transportation , building heating and other key human needs. If Joe Biden is elected president in November and the U.S.

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Charged

MAY 31, 2022

Charged spoke with Salim Youssefzadeh, WattEV’s CEO, about the company’s vision of a profitable zero-emission transport fleet. You must have some sort of a software package that’s coordinating all that. Our entire system is packaged with California-based energy management specialist Stem. Is it all designed and planned out?

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2021

Thankfully, there are many opportunities to improve the sustainability of your catering services, whether it be how the food is sourced, prepared, transported or served. Food waste is a huge emitter of methane, a planet-warming greenhouse gas, and takes up a large portion of municipal landfills. Getting Started. Reduce Water Waste.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Australia vows to cut methane emissions, the US ratifies the Kigali Agreement, and all the other green business news from around the world this week. Australia signs up to global pledge to cut methane emissions by 30 per cent. EU brokers deal to bring an end to internal combustion engine cars.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

above pre-industrial levels, greenhouse gas emissions must then reduce by 43 per cent by 2030, according to the scientists, with emissions of methane cut by a third. Transport: Electric vehicles powered by low carbon electricity are identified by the analysis as having the largest decarbonisation potential for land-based transport.

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