Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. As such, the report emphasises that methane mitigation is "one of the best ways of limiting warming in this and subsequent decades".

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Another 12 LNG export terminals have been proposed in the state, despite warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change researchers that no new fossil fuel projects should be developed if we are to meet international pledges aimed at preventing further global warming. The greenwashing term for it is liquefied natural gas.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

With this year’s Earth Day seeing a continued climb in carbon emissions, what will our climate be like on Earth Day 2050? This increase in global temperatures is mirrored by rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases including CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide that attained record levels last year.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The study found that hydrogen leaks, though impactful, are about three times less damaging to the climate than methane leaks (the primary component of natural gas) on a per-mass basis. When hydrogen leaks, it reduces atmospheric hydroxyl radicals (OH), which act as natural detergents by breaking down methane.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 17, 2021

BloombergNEF estimates that clean hydrogen could meet up to a quarter of the world’s energy demand by 2050. To succeed in this global market, Canada must harness its competitive advantages and plan to produce, use, and export the world’s cleanest hydrogen and its related technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At the same time, food systems are also a major contributor to global warming, accounting for over a third of total emissions worldwide. Scientists and campaigners have raised major concerns about the lack of global action ahead of the COP28 summit, in a year of devastating impacts from climate-related weather events. “We

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

In addition to carbon dioxide emitted from combustion of natural gas, its production, transmission and distribution results in significant emissions from methane — a greenhouse gas 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide during the first 20 years after its release.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

If the federal and provincial governments live up to their climate commitments (namely on methane reduction, industrial carbon pricing, an emissions cap and ensuring that new LNG projects reach net zero on scope 1 and 2 emissions), over eight Site C’s worth of additional electricity would be required to electrify the six LNG projects in B.C.

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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. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

With widespread commitments made to reducing CO 2 emissions, attention is turning to other greenhouse gases, specifically methane and nitrous oxide as the next largest contributors. Now more than ever, time is of the essence in delivering net zero solutions with the 2030 climate targets in sight and those for 2050 not far behind.

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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. The IEA report forecasts that “Global hydrogen use expands from less than 90 million metric tons (Mt) in 2020 to more than 200 Mt in 2030, as the proportion of low? One of those pillars is “Hydrogen and hydrogen?based

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

warming, we need to slash emissions dramatically – and at speed. Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. Animal production also emits 65 percent of global nitrous oxide emissions.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Dairy announced the Greener Cattle Initiative , which will provide $5 million over 5 years to research that helps curb enteric methane emissions. Methane matters…a lot. Reducing methane now is the fastest way to slow global warming and stay on the best possible path to net zero by mid century. In the U.S.,

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 2, 2023

The ASCEND (Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and Data sovereignty) project is preparing a feasibility study on the concept, with its potential to help meet Europe’s Green Deal goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. For farms that already produce their own biomethane a methane liquefaction unity can be simply ‘bolted’ on.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 In recent months, the world’s three top producers — Europe’s ArcelorMittal, China’s Baowu Steel, and Japan’s Nippon Steel — committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, echoing targets set in their home countries.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

He added that “hydrogen is really the only net zero game in town” for HGVs, since introducing electric models is “not going to happen at any scale or size” by 2040 or even 2050. Using methane – [to make] blue hydrogen – always results in some residual emissions. The companies include Shell, Cadent and Equinor.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

You’ll understand what products and processes emit g reenhouse gases (GHGs), including the carbon-containing gases carbon dioxide and methane. rise in global temperatures, the average global carbon footprint per year needs to drop to under 2 tons by 2050. Your carbon footprint can then be managed once understood.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

According to modeling done by the state, in order to achieve its climate goals of 80% emission reductions by 2050, residential and commercial sector emissions must be reduced by 89%. Here are four: Design Super Emitter Programs to Abate the Largest Methane Leaks. Recent research shows that estimated U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Urgent efforts are needed to curb the damaging impacts of nitrogen used in agriculture on the UK's environment, according to research by the Soil Association, which warns there has been a "historical underestimation of its true contribution to global warming".

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The IPCC report stresses that global emissions must peak by 2025 at the very latest to keep alive any hope of limiting temperature increases to the 1.5C Thereafter, as previous IPCC reports have indicated, global emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030, in addition to a reduction in methane emissions of around a third, from 2019 levels.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) Banks and major investors with 40% of the world’s financial assets committed to carbon neutrality by 2050 under the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A shift from 2050 to 2030 goals. There has been a shift at this year’s summit, from making pledges to reach net zero emissions by 2050 to a focus on actions to cut emissions by 2030. Research shows the world needs to cut global emissions 45% by 2030 to keep global warming under 1.5 official and I am in Glasgow now.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Landmark IPCC report provides wave of stark warnings, but stresses that rapidly putting the global economy on course to net zero emissions by 2050 could hugely reduce the escalating impacts that will result from a warmer world. The report concludes that the world's average surface land temperature currently stands at around 1.1C

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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.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Crucially, this isn’t biodegradable – and studies are projecting that, by 2050, there will be more plastic in the sea than fish. However, plastics themselves are produced from fossil fuels – and they are known to release greenhouse gases such as methane and ethylene as they degrade. However, it can help us to stop adding more.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Meeting energy demand and net-zero goals by 2050 necessitates a further global buildout of renewables infrastructure, which can increase energy availability without increasing emissions. We need to address global energy poverty – but the climate impacts of gas undermine this effort. New investments bring optimism.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The new International Aviation Climate Ambition Coalition will bring together countries that want the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to adopt an "ambitious long-term aspirational goal that is compatible with net zero global emissions by 2050", according to documents seen by Reuters.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

These indicators, including but not limited to carbon dioxide, methane, ocean acidification, tropical forest loss, population, GDP, water use, and transportation, have reached the point past natural variation, showing indisputably that the Earth is in a different state than before. .

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Similar emissions rises are clear in the context of methane, the report added, concluding that "if current trends in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions continue over the coming decade, the Earth's mean global temperature is likely to warm well above the climate targets of the Paris Agreement". billion by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

The science could not be more clear: We must eliminate carbon pollution as soon as possible — nearly 50% this decade, and fully by 2050. They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming. presidents.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 19, 2021

It is projected that the industry’s emissions will double pre-pandemic levels by 2050. Plenty of food waste ends up in landfills, where it generates methane gas, one of the most dangerous greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases from the aviation industry contribute 12% of transportation emissions and are bound to continue growing.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. With the world on the brink of irreversible harm, every fraction of a degree of warming matters to limit the dangers of climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

global warming pathway, new research today from ShareAction claims. ShareAction explained that comparisons are difficult due to banks setting different targets for different sectors, with only 14 of the banks having set methane targets, despite being a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Plus 40 nations prep methane plans for COP27, Germany touts cheap transport tickets, and Saudi Arabia launches electric vehicle brand. COP27: 40 countries planning to unveil methane reduction plans. off global warming by 2050, as methane's warming potential is 84 times greater than carbon dioxide over 20-year timescale.

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