Envirotec Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

Most organic household waste ends up in landfills where it generates methane. Between 2009 and 2015, 24 local government councils in New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, adopted curbside services to collect food and garden waste for recycling into compost. We also found no effects on the total amount of waste.”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

2 This led to investment in new biomethane production infrastructure, which the world critically needs to cut methane emissions from organic wastes and generate green gas, biofertilisers and bioCO2, but this will no longer be possible under the proposed new guidance. using fossil fuels); scope 2 are from the purchase of energy (e.g.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In its application, submitted in partnership with the Kenya Climate Change Working Group (KCCWG), WBA highlighted the importance of tackling short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), in particular methane and black carbon, to achieve the Paris Agreement targets “to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5°C,

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. . Deployed at scale, hydrogen from all sources could account for almost 20 percent of energy consumed by 2050, projects the Hydrogen Council.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Green Alliance argues UK has made 'little headway' on pledge made at COP26 to slash methane emisisons by 30 per cent by 2030. For example, soaring fossil gas prices mean that plugging methane leaks from oil and gas sites could deliver a significant boost in profits for fossil fuel firms.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

In 2015, the total U.S. One way to get around these is to convert the highly volatile and flammable gas into a slightly more malleable fuel such as ammonia or methane. hydrogen feedstock market amounted to 10 Mt, and McKinsey estimates this could rise to between 13 Mt and 14 Mt by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The study, which was published in the journal Nature Communications, shows that 135 gigatons — or 135 billion metric tons — of carbon would need to be returned to soils to balance out the amount of methane emitted annually by ruminants like cattle, sheep, bison, and goats. Estimates suggest there are 1.5 That’s a tall order, to put it mildly.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 1, 2024

We would be at very high risk of setting off warming feedback loops – the melted ice would reflect less sunlight, the melted permafrost might unlock methane from the bottom of the ocean, and dying forests wouldn’t be able to regrow to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. A world that was 6C warmer than it is today would be devastating.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

China’s electricity consumption was 33 percent higher in 2020 than in 2015. percent lower in 2020 than 2015. . coal power has been replaced with gas power (methane/natural gas). At the same time methane emissions — driven by the production of natural gas — are at record levels and increasing. . For comparison, U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Our advanced gasification process uses waste products to generate low-carbon syngas – a mix of hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide and monoxide. In 2015, he developed a 6MW biomass gasification system, effectively managing all phases from planning to commissioning.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

But before that happens, leaks from across the natural gas supply chain — from the drilling process to gas stoves — can unintentionally vent methane into the atmosphere. That’s especially bad news, since methane is roughly 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2. In some ways, the methane findings are a good thing.

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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. In 2015 the emissions generated along the entire dairy production chain – from cow to grocery store shelf – accounted for an estimated 3.4

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Flaring and venting of gas in the North Sea released nearly 20 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent between 2015 and 2019, data obtained by Greenpeace shows. Between 2015 and 2019 we achieved a 19 per cent reduction in these overall emissions, and we continue to invest in abatement projects.".

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2021

From devastating wildfires to rising methane emissions, Earth’s vital signs are continuing to deteriorate, scientists warn. Both methane and carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have reached new record highs, the study reveals. trillion between 2015 and 2019. Australia, the U.K., Credit: CIFOR. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

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Energy Central

JUNE 10, 2024

Although natural gas production rose by 40 percent from 2015 to 2022, methane emissions simultaneously fell by 37 percent, according to an analysis by environmental groups Ceres and the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) using Environmental Protection Agency data.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

The progress update builds on previous data compiled by the Lancet commission, which showed that pollution was responsible for 9 million deaths in 2015. Notably, both methane and many major forms of PM 2.5 Now, the researchers say that number has remained virtually unchanged.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

Deforestation to create pastures and feed for livestock releases CO2; methane is emitted from animals and their manure; and fossil fuels are used to transport animals and power the globalized meat supply chain. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8 million cattle, 46.7 million pigs and 4.9 billion chickens. . chatów in Poland released 33.2

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

Currently, more than 99 percent of hydrogen used in the EU is “grey hydrogen” made from natural gas in a process known as “steam methane reformation” that has high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. million tonnes of greenhouse gases during the same period.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

The firm also confirmed its 2020 emissions were 50 per cent lower than 2015, easily beating its 1.5C-aligned As such, the manifesto builds on a series of ambitious climate targets adopted by the firm, which last year moved its net zero emissions goal forward by 15 years to 2035 in a bid to bring it into line with a 1.5C warming trajectory.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Since the EU-wide lifting of milk quotas in 2015, Ireland’s dairy sector has expanded rapidly , adding around half a million cows. 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. Irish Agriculture.

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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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Greentown Labs

JUNE 23, 2021

Joined Greentown in 2013 + graduated in 2015. Kuva Systems offers a solution for the oil and gas industry to continuously monitor and quantify methane and VOC emissions with low-cost IoT cameras, providing actionable alerts with no false-positive readings. Learn about them below, and find more of our alumni here ! Kuva Systems.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

In 2015, the industry's emissions were estimated at more than 1,700 million tonnes of CO2 , or around 3.4 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions. As part of the initiative, research is currently underway to determine where positive action is possible in the dairy industry.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The first time I saw a natural gas flare in the oilfield was in 2015. Our team at Environmental Defense Fund was beginning to study methane emissions and collaborate with companies to solve the problem. ConocoPhillips has consistently lagged behind its peers in failing to responsibly support methane regulation.

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Grist

JUNE 4, 2021

For example, the particularly active fire years of 2009 and 2015 in Alaska, and 2014 in the Northwest Territories, generated multiple overwintering fires the following spring. But when peat smolders, it produces mostly methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas. Zombie fires are also terrible for the planet.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We support the aims of the 2015 Paris Agreement, and the UK government's commitment to a Net Zero economy by 2050, which we recognise will require a radical reinvention of our ways of working, living and doing business.".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Currently, the vast majority of hydrogen (96 percent) made globally is “grey” – created from methane, a highly potent planet-warming greenhouse gas, responsible for nearly a third of global heating. McCarthy was the shadow environment and farming secretary from 2015 to 2016, and the shadow minister for green transport from 2020-2021.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. In Texas, the Railroad Commission classified just 0.04

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 18, 2024

During Gates’ visit , he had the opportunity to have a look at the company’s methane pyrolysis reactor demo version.  Getting started Modern Hydrogen first launched at Intellectual Ventures in 2015.   That equipment draws natural gas from biogas (such as manure) or fossil fuel sources to produce H2. 

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. In Texas, the Railroad Commission classified just 0.04

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Grist

OCTOBER 7, 2019

When I visited the University of California Davis in 2015, I saw a pair of these black-and-white bull calves standing and chewing in an outdoor pen, like ordinary but adorable bovines. That genetic information went into an egg, which went into a cow’s uterus, and, in 2015, grew into a hornless calf. No one noticed until years later.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

The Paris Agreement was adopted by 195 countries in 2015. Between 2013 and 2015, an extensive United Nations review process determined that limiting warming to 2C this century cannot avoid dangerous climate change. the extent to which non-CO2 greenhouse emissions such as methane are reduced. wasn't plucked from thin air.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Between 2015-2019, the Australian government committed over $146 million to hydrogen projects along the supply chain. Mature Thermochemical technologies include steam methane reforming (SMR) which relies on natural gas as an input and coal gasification which relies on coal. International certification scheme for hydrogen. kg by 2025.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As such, CAT - an influential independent group of scientists and experts led by several non-profit organisations - warned that while welcome the various commitments on coal power, methane, finance, and net zero announced so far at the UN Summit in Glasgow risk bringing "false hope of the reality of the warming resulting from government inaction".

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Six years ago today, on September 25, 2015, the United Nations finalized the 2030 Agenda , ratifying the 17 Sustainable Develop Goals, or SDGs which outlined key objectives for a more equitable and sustainable future.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Jeremy Coller, Chair, FAIRR Initiative, said: "The COP26 announcements on methane and deforestation are to be congratulated. At COP26, more than 100 countries commit to reducing methane emissions. The biggest contributor to both is animal agriculture, and reform of that sector remains on the margins of discussion in Glasgow.

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