DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

The IFA has worked closely with controversial California-based air quality scientist, Frank Mitloehner, to argue against the need to sharply curtail methane emissions from livestock. According to the California Air Resources Board , livestock emissions in 2019 “are 18 per cent higher than 2000 levels”. Steep Cuts for Other Sectors.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Widely known as “laughing gas”, used for its anesthetic effects, nitrous oxide (N2O) is also regarded as the third most important long-lived greenhouse gas, after carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane. TgN y-1 (approximately 10% of the global total) between 2000–2005 and 2010–2015.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Overall the country's carbon output tripled between 2000 and 2018, and its CO2 emissions now represents almost one third of the global total. This has improved air quality but these scrubbers do not reduce climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions like carbon and methane.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane stored within it, heating up the atmosphere even more in a feedback loop. Tipping points are not, as a way of looking at the world, some inherent property of the world, Kopp said. It’s a choice to use that framing.

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Eco-Business

JULY 15, 2020

China, and South Asia and Oceania were some of the regions that saw the largest increase in methane emissions, jumping to as much as 15 million tonnes between the 2000-06 average and 2017, a new report has found.

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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.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. kg CO2e per day.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Mitloehner has stated in videos for the CLEAR Center that the livestock sector can “actually generate short-term cooling” of the climate “if we managed to reduce methane from cattle, such as with feed additives or digesters.” According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the sector accounts for 14.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Costs add up quickly: equipment to collect biogas (the unprocessed methane-rich vapor given off by waste); upgrade the gas to pipeline quality; and connect to existing gas pipelines. Today, RNG is held back in part by a Catch-22 financial trap. Capital needs for smaller landfill projects run from $5m to $25m. "A The urgency is growing.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment, released in August, emphasizes that limiting climate change requires capping total carbon dioxide emissions, “reaching at least net zero CO2 emissions,” and making major cuts in methane and other greenhouse gas emissions. If emissions had peaked back in 2000 we would be skiing down a bunny slope toward 1.5C.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In oil and gas, for example, firms could require companies to commit to zero routine flaring by 2025 or base their methane emission reporting and reduction strategies on measured data to be eligible for investment. Since 2000, private markets have grown three times as quickly as public markets, with continued growth on the horizon.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

The word Anthropocene was coined by biologist Eugene Stormer and chemist Paul Crutzen in 2000 and has since gained popularity and acclaim. . Permafrost and methane hydrates – Permafrost is ground soil or rock that contains ice or frozen organic material that has remained at or below 0C for at least two years.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Blooom’s solid oxide fuel cell technology uses common, low cost materials to generate highly-efficient power from almost any hydrocarbon fuel, such as ethanol, biodiesel, methane or natural gas. eBay manages transactions at the rate of over $2000 per second, making reliable power critical.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2020

Groundwater depletion doubled from 1960 to 2000. Some countries — such as Peru, Mexico , Thailand and Jordan — have already harnessed the methane in untreated wastewater as biogas, which provides enough energy to run the treatment process. Some experts predict that 40% of the world will face a water deficit by 2030. “If

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

Many companies pledge to reduce carbon emissions while actively lobbying governments against regulating pollution like improving car emissions standards or reducing methane leaks. Companies outspent environmental interest groups 10:1 on lobbying between 2000-2016.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

A graph projecting that the concentration of CO2 would reach 380 parts per million (ppm) by 2000 proved to be broadly accurate — the actual value that would be recorded at the turn of the century was close to 370 ppm. President Jimmy Carter to triple coal production by the G7 countries until the year 2000.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Shortly after starting his job at NW Natural in 2000, Dye discovered that the company was losing less gas than it assumed, partly because of inaccuracies in how the utility accounted for variations in temperature and pressure across its service territory. Dye oversaw the accuracy of NW Natural’s more than 700,000 meters from 2000 until 2012.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

It is estimated that over 2000 species of insects are eaten by over 2 billion people worldwide. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. What if we could genetically enhance cows to not emit methane anymore? Is lab-grown meat better for the environment?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

But TC Energy, the Canadian owner of a major regional gas pipeline, has asked federal regulators to approve a plan that would dramatically expand the line’s capacity, flooding the region for decades with new supplies of methane gas – even as demand dwindles. However, a shift away from methane gas is picking up momentum nationwide.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

⚡ Turn2x , a Munich, Germany-based RNG from methanation producer, raised $5M in Seed funding from LEA Partners, Verve Ventures, and First Momentum Ventures. degrees Celsius last Tuesday—nearly a full degree Celsius above the average between 1979 and 2000 and a sign that the Earth is heating up more rapidly than anticipated.

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Grist

MARCH 4, 2022

Since 2000, the world has lost about 10 percent of its tree cover , becoming a major driver of global heating. Satellite monitoring is playing an increasingly important role in tracking greenhouse gasses on Earth, such as those monitoring methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

The sector has also sought to downplay the likely impacts of climate change, and to dismiss the role of ruminant methane emissions. From 2000 to 2010, Irish agricultural emissions had reduced steadily. However, this reversed with the decision to rapidly expand the dairy sector as milk quotas were lifted.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

The sector has also sought to downplay the likely impacts of climate change, and to dismiss the role of ruminant methane emissions. From 2000 to 2010, Irish agricultural emissions had reduced steadily. However, this reversed with the decision to rapidly expand the dairy sector as milk quotas were lifted.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

However, when counting the combined CO2 produced by its dedicated gas turbine; the upstream CO2 and methane leaks from fossil gas production; as well as the downstream carbon emissions incurred by shipping CO2 for EOR production, Stanford University professor Mark Z. Department of Energy states it captured only approximately 3.9

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Close inspection of the historic arguments used by the fossil fuel industry and its partners to justify their ongoing pollution of the earth’s atmosphere — whether it be by sulfur oxides, CO2, or methane — reveals the same delay-based messaging each time they have faced the prospect of regulation.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For BP, an important part of this strategy appears to be leveraging its academic partnerships, including Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative, which the company has directly funded and sponsored since its inception in 2000. A methane flare at an oil and gas site in the Permian Basin of West Texas.

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Michael Grossman

AUGUST 9, 2019

Welcome to the world of the communicating climate change action as seen by Americans of every stripe since Al Gore raised the profile of the issue in his 2000 campaign for the Presidency. Great strides on critical climate change issues like reduced consumption from energy efficiency and higher gas mileage standards are welcome news.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 2016), [link]. [6] 11] Ibid. [12]

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

The Trump administration stepped up its pre-election effort to roll back environmental regulations this week, confirming plans to axe methane emissions standards for the oil and gas industry and signalling further such moves are on the cards ahead of polling day in November. Greenpeace document North Sea methane leaks.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

O&G is going to continue to consolidate their own industry and those that are related (methane, CCUS, software stacks) will get eaten up. If Biden gets elected, over 2000 by year end. Amy : All things methane!  Oxy buying Carbon Engineering was an exception that had been in the works for a while. Andrew : Yes.

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