Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

The UK government has awarded up to £30 million to “cutting-edge farming projects” that will boost food production, move towards net zero, and create a more resilient and sustainable agricultural sector. million available to fund innovative projects helping to deliver a more productive, resilient and sustainable agricultural sector.

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Resilience Agriculture Innovation Sustainability 147

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. And so too is mitigation.

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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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Natural gas Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Resilience 130

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

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. Anaerobic digestion : Anaerobic digestion decomposes organic waste using microorganisms without oxygen.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 20, 2023

Her family harvests the vegetables grown with the help of the liquid fertiliser, and they cook most of their stove-top meals with the methane produced. She aims to build community resilience, while producing their own energy from food and animal residuals.

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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.

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Agriculture COP Methane Soil 57

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

RESILIENCY + ADAPTATION 21Senses offer a range of solutions to support the green-hydrogen supply chain and various applications of other forms of hydrogen. Capwell is a hard tech, climate-focused company dedicated to reducing methane emissions in the oil and gas industry by collecting and destroying all surface-level methane emissions.

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Startups Methane Hydrogen Innovation 110

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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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Let them know you support policies to cut GHG emissions and improve resilience. Support EPA’s methane policy All signs are pointing to EPA finalizing its oil and gas methane standards in the run-up to COP28. Underscore the critical role methane regulations play in combating climate change. Contact Sean Hackett via email.

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Policy Methane Climate change Resilience 52

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Given that we have a new administration in place ”, he continues, “ this will be a pivotal conference, setting out a roadmap for AD to support the development of a resilient and sustainable economy in the UK at a time of global instability and a clear acceleration of climate change impacts. . This could double within a few years.

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Climate change Methane Energy Energy 130

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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Global warming Methane Climate change Carbon 130

The City Fix

JULY 26, 2023

Climate change is impacting cities and their residents in many profound ways, from poor air quality to flooding to biodiversity loss and extreme heat. Now, with the help of a new tool, select cities can access localized, integrated data to.

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Resilience Biodiversity Climate change Sea level rise 52

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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Energy Energy Natural gas Resilience 102

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 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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Agriculture Methane Global warming Innovation 52

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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Carbon Sustainability Innovation Climate change 195

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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Methane Climate change Carbon Government 101

Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Many consumers adopted plant-based diets, minimizing their contribution to methane emissions. As the global temperature rises, individuals search for ways to shrink their carbon footprints. While our diet’s impacts on the environment are evident, individuals observe the reverse relationship less.

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Climate change Methane Health Carbon 137

Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

To further highlight what is at stake today is Adaptation, Loss and Damage Day at the Summit, so expect lots of announcements about bolstering climate resilience and accusations that a grave injustice is being done to developing economies. The second week of COP26 is getting underway this morning and things are getting serious.

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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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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 141

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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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Carbonova Corp utilizes CO2 and methane as a feedstock to produce carbon nanofibers (CNF) that may be used in various fields such as transportation and buildings. Resiliency + Adaptation. Molecule Works develops a solid sorbent Direct Air Capture (DAC) system using a novel reactor and contactor configuration.

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Startups HVAC Waste Waste 97

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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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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Carbon-neutral Methane Natural gas Carbon-negative 184

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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Hydrogen Methane Europe Resilience 59

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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Methane Policy Innovation Transportation 52

Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

Recipients of funding could include projects developing animal feeds and supplements that reduce emissions of methane from livestock or initiatives that would result in crops and livestock that are more sustainable and resilient, according to an update from the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra).

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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. Karina Gonçalves David, an organic farmer from Brazil, at the UN climate talks in Dubai.

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Agriculture COP Methane Pollution 116

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Because hydrogen can be stored for long periods of time, it can play a critical role in help to balance renewable supply with demand while maintaining reliability and resiliency.”. “Hydrogen has the potential to help decarbonize multiple sectors, including power generation, transportation, and heating.

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Hydrogen Natural gas Fossil fuels Methane 117

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.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 104

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 29, 2021

These activities can include planting trees, reducing deforestation, and capturing methane from landfills or decaying manure. Carbon offsets are the subsidizing of an activity taking place somewhere else that reduces or sequesters the same amount of greenhouse gas that you have emitted.

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Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 148

EDF + Business

AUGUST 3, 2021

Senior Manager, Resilient Food and Forest. The practices that have the potential to increase soil carbon sequestration can also improve water quality and build overall climate resilience. Navigating the complex world of carbon credits can be challenging for companies because not all are equal. . Yes, but only in certain situations.

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Soil Agriculture Carbon Resilience 96

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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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 29, 2021

These activities can include planting trees, reducing deforestation, and capturing methane from landfills or decaying manure. Carbon offsets are the subsidizing of an activity taking place somewhere else that reduces or sequesters the same amount of greenhouse gas that you have emitted.

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Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 158

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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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

By identifying the point sources of carbon dioxide and methane, these projects use the agile aerospace approach to standardize a broad and transparent global view on emissions enabling companies and governments to reduce leaks and comply with reduction targets. PlanetScope image collected on August 15, 2019. © 2019, Planet Labs Inc.

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