Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

At the heart of LOOP is a patented ‘nozzle’ where microwave energy is applied to crack methane into its component parts, creating clean hydrogen and capturing carbon in the form of high purity graphene. This unlocks decarbonisation projects that might not otherwise happen due to cost.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

According to the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, the top 10 largest methane emitting coal mines in Europe are in Poland. Collectively, these mines released around 282,300 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere in 2020.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

In the evolving global energy economy, methane emissions have become a critical variable in the oil and gas industrys long-term performance. Yet despite this momentum, oil and gas methane emissions remain unacceptably high. Its so powerful that we will not hit global climate goals without tackling methane.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 25, 2024

By Josh Torres and Andrew Howell, CFA Starbucks and Clover Sonoma said this week they would track and disclose methane emissions within their dairy supply chains, joining the Dairy Methane Action Alliance in the latest sign of accelerating action on food sector methane emissions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These facilities promise faster deployment times and a significantly lower carbon footprint compared to conventional setups connected to strained energy grids. The hydrogen is delivered in tanks and, currently, most of it originates from natural gas using processes like steam methane reforming.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

New funding builds on unique partnership to tackle potent methane emissions between Bloomberg Philanthropies, Carbon Mapper, Planet, the State of California, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University (ASU), High Tide Foundation, and RMI . The pledge needs to be matched with bold solutions.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

The World Biogas Summit 2021 will focus on how, in the build up to COP26, anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas can help reduce global methane and other greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. Ahead of his address, CCAC’s Drew Shindell said: “Methane mitigation is one of the most significant climate actions the world can take this decade.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

The signing of the Global Methane Pledge at last year’s COP26 marks a vital step in reducing the impact of industrial activities on the environment. Originally proposed by the US and EU in September 2021, the Global Methane Pledge will see countries acting to cut methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The plans would see 3 to 4 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity established in the North Sea by 2030 purely for the manufacture of green hydrogen. gigawatts by 2030. A Dutch carbon tax, that would cover emissions from producing hydrogen using methane, is expected to reach €125 ($137) per ton of CO2 equivalent emissions by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

A cohesive value chain is essential for realizing hydrogen’s potential, encompassing low-carbon hydrogen production, storage, and distribution infrastructure, which align with end-user demand. The energy transition necessitates new low-carbon hydrogen facilities. For instance, the UK targets 10GW of low-carbon hydrogen by 2030 (2.5

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

The global dairy company Danone is taking a big step forward by pledging to work with its farmer suppliers to reduce methane emissions from its fresh milk supply chain by 30% by 2030. . It aims to achieve significant methane cuts while feeding a growing population and protecting the livelihoods of farmers around the world.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2022

As part of its response to the Ukraine crisis, the EU has already announced it will double its ambition for biomethane production to 354TWh by 2030 to end its reliance on natural gas imports. Finally, biomethane is generated by recycling methane emitting organic wastes. Last year, the UK imported 24.6TWh of natural gas from Russia.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2025

Leading supermarkets are failing to address the methane pollution in their supply chains, a new report has found, putting their own climate pledges at risk. The meat and dairy sector is responsible for around a third of atmospheric methane and accounts for a third of all supermarket emissions. and agreed by world leaders in 2021.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

I’d argued that regenerative grazing could cut emissions from beef production , helping reduce the outsized contribution cattle make to food’s carbon footprint. We tend to blame cows’ methane-filled burps for these gases, but around a quarter of livestock emissions come from fertilizer used to grow animal feed. Sounds great, right?

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EDF + Business

MARCH 18, 2024

Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World Shared Duty: National, International Oil Companies Bound Together by Methane Obligations To deliver on broader climate pledges, industry must engage national oil companies in its efforts. in their upstream operations by 2030. in their upstream operations by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This story is the third part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe and published in partnership with the Guardian. No individual organisation from these sectors has attended more than three meetings with ministers on carbon capture since the start of 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The company’s global CEO Gilberto Tomazoni complained in September that “currently, only four percent of climate change investment is directed toward agriculture and food systems” , going on to laud agriculture’s “tremendous potential to capture carbon” and estimating the bill for transformation at $300 to $350 billion.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

So as the aviation industry has gradually climbed aboard global pledges to get rid of carbon emissions, it has mostly promised to make up for its damage elsewhere — through offsets that might involve planting trees, restoring wetlands, or paying people to preserve ecosystems that otherwise would have been razed. Others warm it.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

could generate an estimated $140 billion per year in revenue and support 700,000 jobs by 2030, according to a recent McKinsey study published by the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association. hydrogen feedstock market amounted to 10 Mt, and McKinsey estimates this could rise to between 13 Mt and 14 Mt by 2030. In 2015, the total U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2021

Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. That’s equivalent to about 5% of the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. The halfway mark has now passed between 1990, the year that countries who signed the U.N. Sometimes when running a marathon it can help to have a pace runner.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The report, now in its 12th year, finds that countries’ updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – and other commitments made for 2030 but not yet submitted in an updated NDC – only take an additional 7.5 per cent off predicted annual greenhouse gas emissions in 2030, compared to the previous round of commitments.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The GRSB said its members would work to reduce the net global warming impact of each unit of beef they produce by 30 per cent by 2030 through the adoption of a suite of best practices across the beef value chain. But many campaigners counter that beef consumption is likely to have to shrink if national net zero emissions goals are to be met.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Methane is a blow torch that’s cooking the planet,' scientists warn, as new study argues near term action could play a critical role in curbing global warming. Slashing emissions of carbon dioxide emissions alone will not be enough to prevent global temperatures reaching an "irreversible tipping point", new research has this week warned.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

“By mapping out how AD and biogas could help countries to dramatically cut their greenhouse gas emissions, especially methane, over the next decade and beyond, this report aims to put humanity back on track to deliver on the ambitions of both the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals.” Read the Executive Summary.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

Supermarket giant Morrisons has today announced a hugely ambitious new goal to become the "first supermarket to be completely supplied by 'net zero' carbon British farms by 2030". The company said it would also work with universities, farming and countryside organisations, and carbon experts to develop and share best practices.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

UK water companies have drawn up a joint roadmap to rapidly decarbonise the industry within a decade, today unveiling a multi-billion pound plan to harness green gas, renewable power, electric vehicles, and nature-based climate solutions to deliver net zero emissions across the entire sector by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The leader of Cold Lake First Nations has revealed the initiator of a major carbon capture project in Northern Alberta has not consulted with local Indigenous communities. They’re ramming it down our throats,” said Chief Jacko during a media scrum outside a Carbon Capture Canada conference held on Tuesday.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

Water UK promises to deliver 2030 net zero strategy focused on energy efficiency, emissions reduction from water treatment processes, and ramping up clean energy sources. The water industry has made an ambitious pledge to achieve net zero carbon by 2030," said Water UK chief executive Christine McGourty.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 31, 2020

Dominion has been forced to confront a rapid shift away from carbon-emitting energy assets in its home state of Virginia under its Clean Economy Act , which calls for Dominion to achieve carbon-free energy by 2045. Dominion has also set its own goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 across its portfolio.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2024

Company spending on advertising outstripped that on low-carbon solutions, the report by campaign group Changing Markets Foundation found, as corporations ramped up attempts to win consumers over with their green credentials. None of the companies in the report had targets to cut emissions that aligned with guidance from UN experts.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World Collaborative levers for methane abatement in national oil companies National oil companies dominate industry methane emissions; enlisting them to clean up requires understanding the governments that manage them.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

In the nearly three years since the UK government made a legal commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, there has been considerable debate in terms of how this will be achieved, not least the role the gas grid will play in the low carbon transition. Adam Kingdon, chief executive of Utonomy. However, this is easier said than done.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The announcement Monday comes nearly three years after the utility pledged to deliver 100% carbon-free electricity to customers by 2050 , with an interim target of reducing emissions by 80% by 2030. The company will also expand customer programs for the adoption of electric appliances and low-carbon gas alternatives.

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