GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The only climate trend more powerful for global financial institutions than the drive to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is the momentum to exit oil and gas. It also means industries like utilities and auto manufacturers that make up the bulk of demand for oil and gas.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Even if they perform as hoped, the power plants would likely burn imported liquified natural gas (LNG) from the United States, Qatar, and other suppliers — a fuel source that emits high levels of climate-heating methane when it’s being extracted, transported and stored. million tonnes of CO2 it stored last year.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

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. The potential is staggering: Switching to a low-meat, low-dairy diet and restoring land could remove more than 300 gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2050.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits. One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 billion people by 2050. Demand drives supply.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

New IEA analysis reveals methane emissions from the energy sector are 70 per cent higher than official reports, but could high gas prices finally prompt operators to tackle the problem. It is one of the biggest and most worrying mysteries in the field of climate science: where are all the methane emissions coming from?

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 31, 2020

Dominion has also set its own goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 across its portfolio. Dominion’s natural gas utilities are also investing in emissions reductions work expected to reduce methane leakage from their operations by 65 percent by 2030 and 85 percent by 2040, Fanning said.

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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 explains.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2020

The study found that fossil fuel emissions grew at a slower rate in 2019 than in previous years but did not account for methane emissions from fossil fuel production and shipping. doesn’t see global gas demand plummeting anytime soon and pushed back on Amin’s assertion that the natural gas “bridge” is nearing its end.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The hydrogen economy is at the start of a period of growth, with the size of the global market predicted to be as much as US$12 trillion by 2050, according to recent research findings. Conventionally, hydrogen has been produced via steam methane reforming (SMR) using natural gas as the feedstock.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

US oil and gas major offers 'respect and support' for global ambition to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, but campaigners remain less than convinced. But the firm argued intensity targets were "the truest reflection of how manufacturing companies like ExxonMobil are reducing the GHGs associated with each unit they produce".

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

But the vast majority of today’s industrial hydrogen production is ‘grey,’ made from natural gas via steam methane reforming — a process that emits carbon dioxide, but at a low cost that electrolysis will struggle to beat over the coming decades. On Tuesday the Santa Barbara, Calif.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Since these standards were developed, the demand for carbon offsets has increased over the years. Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts that there will be a sharp increase in the amount of renewable energy generated between 2010 and 2050. To facilitate this rise, other certification programs have come into effect.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Green Hydrogen is the trendiest clean energy source around, touted for its ‘simple’ ability to turn water into a highly combustible energy source capable of replacing our demand for oil and gas. Foremost, the quantity of supply developed will be predicated on where demand may be secured. The push and pull of supply and demand.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hydrogen has the potential to decarbonize a wide range of heavy industries including energy, chemicals, steel and cement, which means demand is going to be huge. In its Net-Zero Emissions scenario the IEA expects demand to increase fivefold from 2020 to 2050. Making hydrogen competitive. Reducing renewable energy curtailment.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

But fully realizing its promise demands balancing tech innovation with collaboration across industry, says Massimo Muzzì, head of strategy, business development and sustainability at ABB Electrification. With this year’s Earth Day seeing a continued climb in carbon emissions, what will our climate be like on Earth Day 2050?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That’s a different challenge than that faced by summer-peaking systems that can expect solar power and energy storage to help meet air conditioning demand.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Deployed at scale, hydrogen from all sources could account for almost 20 per cent of energy consumed by 2050, projects the Hydrogen Council. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

The waste management sector bears an essential role in the EU’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the group explained in a statement in early February. Waste-to-Energy contributes by treating the fraction of municipal waste unfit for recycling, as a part of the Effort Sharing Regulation.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

It is free and available to the public, enabling utilities, regulators and stakeholders to compare emissions associated with numerous demand- and supply-side options to meet energy needs. New York enacted the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act in 2019 — requiring an 85% reduction in statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Growing demand for natural gas will start to be curbed in the coming years, but more needs to be done to meet net zero goals, IEA report warns. Natural gas demand is expected to rise by 3.6 The annual increase in global demand for natural gas is teh expected to hit an average of 1.7

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The caveat is that most hydrogen today is made through a process called steam methane reforming , which still leads to greenhouse gas emissions. And in 1900, coal met more than 95 percent of the UK’s energy demand. Unlike fossil fuels, hydrogen fuel doesn’t create planet heating carbon dioxide pollution when burned.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This Conference of Parties (COP) was highly anticipated as a critical inflection point where our economies and societies set forth on an ambitious and clearly defined path to decarbonize by 2050 and keep warming below 1.5 There are a variety of different sources of methane emissions and many solutions will be needed to curb those emissions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Turquoise hydrogen is made by thermally breaking down methane (CH) into two by-products: hydrogen gas and solid carbon. Methane, extracted from natural gas, acts as the feedstock. Existing catalysts demand extremely high temperatures, around 900C, to drive the reaction efficiently. What Makes Turquoise Hydrogen Special?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Green hydrogen could replace methane to generate heat or power. He has been tracking the contribution of gas, including hydrogen, for the operator's 2050 Future Energy Scenarios. When the country was working with an 80 percent emissions reduction by 2050, hydrogen had a smaller role in those forecasts. Driving demand.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Green hydrogen could supply up to 25 percent of global energy needs by 2050, it added. The coalition also cited Goldman Sachs research indicating that the addressable market for green hydrogen could be worth 10 trillion euros ($12 trillion at current exchange rates) by 2050. degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fossil Fuel Lock-in The meat and dairy industry’s high methane emissions are increasingly well known. Agriculture production accounts for 20 percent of energy use in food systems, with fossil fuel use to produce fertilisers expected to increase substantially through 2050. Plastic packaging is produced from natural gas and crude oil.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The IEA analyzed current government net-zero emissions pledges, finding demand for fossil fuels would peak by 2025 and global CO2 emissions would fall by 40% by 2050. The global average temperature rise in 2100 is held to 2.1°C C in the "Announced Pledges Scenario.".

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Green gas specialist CNG Fuels has opened two further refuelling stations for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in the UK this week, in anticipation of surging demand for renewable biomethane over the next year and beyond. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This will play a key role in moving the tech forward and in reaching net-zero goals for 2050. As a result, the H2 economy has the potential to substantially accelerate, reaching as much as 500 to 800 million tons in annual sales by 2050 and making up about 15 percent to 20 percent of the world’s energy demand.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 19, 2023

These two statements — that Alberta’s oil output can continue for another century and that demand is forecasted to accelerate — is challenged by a recent policy brief by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), that finds Canada’s oil sector is vulnerable to declining global oil demand and falling oil prices.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

With more than one-tenth of land area in the UK being covered by peatland – in areas such as the Peak District, the North York Moors National Park and Dartmoor – the government is keen to support projects, such as rewetting, to manage and restore them to help the UK achieve net zero by 2050 and tackle climate change.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

s proposed LNG projects would come online in a global LNG market anticipated to see export capacity increase by 43 per cent by 2030, but there is no consensus from governments or industry on future global demand. Many of B.C.’s Adding further uncertainty to B.C.’s currently proposed or under construction.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

LNG in the coming years and decades as forecasts for future LNG demand vary significantly. Abroad, LNG will not necessarily reduce global emissions when accounting for factors such as methane leakage and the risk that it could compete with renewables and nuclear. Specifically, it is unclear who will be buying B.C. That’s 69% of B.C.’s

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Richard Barker, Head of Environment, NPL said: “Climate change is one of the biggest societal challenges of our time and the UK led the world in declaring a net zero target by 2050.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Government and devolved administrations team up to explore how to accelerate adoption of methane-busting feed products for cattle and sheep. However, the new call for evidence is likely to receive a mixed welcome from green groups, given methane-reducing supplements have been shown to curb emissions rather than eradicate them altogether.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Fortunately, Morgan Stanley has broken the status quo this week, becoming the first major American bank to commit to net-zero financed emissions by 2050. This step raises the bar on climate risk management across the entire finance sector and addresses increasing shareholder demand for climate action from big banks. Why it matters.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

zero carbon emissions (NZE) by 2050. The report is Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector. Demand will come from industry, refineries, power plants, and the transportation sector. trillion by 2050 made possible by hydrogen infrastructure investments of $11 trillion. based fuels.”. According to the U.S.

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