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

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Building more resilient supply chains is a business imperative, especially as the likelihood for more disruption increases. Businesses in response are making strategic, longer-term changes to become more resilient to increased climate impacts like drought, wildfire, extreme weather and sea level rise. Third, advocate climate policy.

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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. Regulatory and policy framework : Navigating the complex landscape of environmental regulations and securing permits can be a significant hurdle.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

Combining them with solar and batteries, or offsetting their emissions by capturing renewable natural gas (RNG), or methane from dairy farms, landfills and wastewater treatment plans, could further reduce their greenhouse gas impacts. Natural gas vs. diesel vs. solar-storage.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From President Biden to methane pledges, BusinessGreen explores the biggest developments on the fifth full day of the pivotal climate talks in Sharm EL Sheikh. That's why we're funding the Plan for Adaptation and Resilience - PREPARE - to help more than a half a billion people in developing countries respond to climate change.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

These projects can include renewable energy initiatives, reforestation efforts, methane capture, and more. This integrated approach not only strengthens the business case for carbon offsetting but also promotes a more sustainable and resilient business model in the long run.

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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.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Governments urged to make waste management policy and investment a top priority at COP27 Climate Summit. Effective waste management policies could play a major role in the effort to stabilise global temperatures at safer levels, with a new report calculating that 1.4

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With more than 80 times the warming of CO2 in the near term, one of the most potent greenhouse gases is methane–and it’s clear that we’re in the midst of a methane moment. Companies should also support farmers by investing in innovative solutions, particularly to tackle enteric methane. There’s no time to lose.

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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. Cultivating more resilient crops. We should have spent the money, and so should our water companies.".

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

” The energy world will look very different by 2030, even under today's policy settings ? The report also highlights the importance of increasing levels of lower-emissions technologies for seasonal variations, including hydropower, nuclear, fossil fuels with carbon capture, utilisation and storage, bioenergy, hydrogen and ammonia.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. These include feed additives to reduce methane in cow burps and “biogas digesters” to capture and burn methane from lagoons of liquid manure.

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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.

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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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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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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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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 It’s really about production at the end of the day.”

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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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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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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 IEA called on governments and agency leaders to immediately invest in grid resiliency, as extreme weather events become more frequent due to climate change.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 29, 2022

The other bright spot—which is not traditionally considered climate policy but does make up a key part of the Just Transition—is that the IRA contains baby steps to curbing the systemic advantage of large corporations. This includes a 15% corporate minimum tax, a stock buyback tax, and a methane leakage tax. Deeply Detrimental.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 18, 2022

For example, a big part of our energy policy over the past decade has been ramping up the nation’s biofuel programs. A Methane Emissions Reduction Program to reduce the leaks from the production and distribution of natural gas. 5 billion in grants to support fire resilient forests, forest conservation, and urban tree planting.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If the administration’s rejection of the Paris agreement was the equivalent of a flawed interpretation of the law, our burgeoning trans-ideological climate movement may be the equivalent of changing the law itself — more consequential and more resilient. Speaking in a judicial voice” can help deliver outcomes we all want.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Such policies nudge utilities to incorporate biomass into their energy mix.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

However, one kernel of hope highlighted in the report is the prospect of the wave of net zero pledges from countries over the past two years soon making their way into law, and then in turn being translated into effective on-the-ground policies to slash emissions. warming pathway.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Backers say the coalition aims to unlock new technologies that can help reduce the sector’s major contribution to climate change and make harvests more resilient. Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”. Aim4C’s participants skew heavily towards the Global North.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

Whether you are a business leader or a climate activist, as a security policy specialist or an investor, it is now crystal clear to each and every one of us that the future belongs solely to renewables for cost reasons, for environmental reasons, for security reasons, and because in the long run, renewables promise the best returns."

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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. The need for urgent action has never been more apparent.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 17, 2020

We understand that the Alberta government has committed to policy changes that will prevent these liabilities being shifted from oil and gas companies to landowners and the public. “We We are also pleased to see $750 million dedicated to methane-reducing initiatives, which are key to reducing carbon pollution from the oil and gas sector. “The

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2021

In related news, the this week White House unveiled an additional $3bn of funding to help states bolster their resilience to escalating climate impacts. The hope is that the policy could also provide a model for other countries to follow, as pressure mounts on governments to strengthen their decarbonisation plans ahead of COP26.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

But she has also championed development of Alaska’s substantial oil, coal, and methane gas deposits. Dan Sullivan (@SenDanSullivan) December 8, 2023 Conservative Policy Influencers Utah Republican Rep. As accredited COP28 badge-holders, the U.S. ” [link] — Sen.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

At any point in the day this meant events on the global south, climate policy, ESG reporting, youth activism, and more. Fifty oil and gas companies pledged to achieve near zero-methane emissions by 2030 and a fund for methane abatement projects in emerging markets. Everything everywhere all at once. All of climate all at once.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

C trajectory in half for carbon dioxide emissions and by almost 40% for methane. But there were notable coalitions announcing pledges on cutting methane , ending deforestation and diverting international public finance away from fossil fuels and into clean energy. That’s a start. Big deals, big claims. Opportunity for talent.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

above pre-industrial levels after more than a century of burning fossil fuels and current policies are expected to lead to global warming of 2.8C Global temperatures have risen to 1.1C by 2100, the report warns. As such, the world is on track to massively overshoot both the 1.5C pathway by 2030, the scientists said.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The statement also calls for governments to step up efforts to tackle methane pollution, enhance climate adaptation and resilience, and scale up climate finance for developing countries.

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