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Immediate action on organic waste needed to meet Paris targets, says biogas group

Envirotec Magazine

Human activity generates 105bn tonnes of organic wastes (food waste, sewage and garden wastes, food and drink processing wastes, and farm and agricultural wastes) annually by human activity. Treating the world’s unavoidable organic wastes through AD would help meet over one quarter of this alarming shortfall (2).

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The future is climate-friendly software

GreenBiz

The new nonprofit organization, Green Software Foundation , aims to change the culture of software development to prioritize sustainability. Between 2010 and 2018, computing output jumped sixfold — but energy consumption rose only 6 percent. I admit, I hadn’t considered software design as a major contributor to greenhouse gas. "We

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Finally, an answer to why Earth’s oceans have been on a record-hot streak

Grist

Since 2010, according to the study, that disparity has doubled. The study in Environmental Research Letters found that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years, driven by Earth’s growing energy imbalance accounting for roughly 44 percent of the extra heat in recent El Nio years.

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Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking?

GreenBiz

Eleven years ago, in 2010, at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s COP15, developed countries committed to a goal of mobilizing $100 billion per year by 2020, to address the needs of developing countries. No wonder that the World Health Organization has declared mental health issues a pandemic alongside COVID-19.

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How two companies are building systems to scale reuse, which is vital for a circular economy

GreenBiz

And in 2010, the grocery chain banned the sale of plastic flat bottled water in an effort to eliminate even more single-use plastic from its stores. In the past few years, as consumers looked to cut down on plastic waste at the grocery store, more mainstream supermarkets turned to bulk shopping bins as a solution.

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Atmospheric methane increase during Covid due primarily to wetland flooding

Envirotec Magazine

Global methane emissions increased from about 499 teragrams (Tg) to 550 Tg during the period from 2010 to 2019, followed by a surge to 570 – 590 Tg between 2020 and 2022.” Microbes in wetlands produce methane as they metabolize and break down organic matter anaerobically, or without oxygen. One teragram equals about 1.1

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Carbontech is getting ready for its market moment

GreenBiz

According to a comprehensive market report published this week by the Circular Carbon Network (CCN) and discussed during the conference, the pace of activity picked up dramatically in the past decade — of the roughly 330 innovators working on carbon removal or turning carbon into value, more than 65 percent of them were started after 2010.