GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Landfills in the United States generate 15 percent of the country’s emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas with a potential warming impact 34 times that of carbon dioxide. The broken system that sends most food waste and organic matter to landfills. Fri, 09/04/2020 - 00:15. How about this for a series of maddening statistics?

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Renew Economy

MAY 9, 2024

Politicians seeking to lock gas into Australia's future to 2050 need to understand that leaked gas emissions are likely 100 times worse than carbon dioxide emissions. The post We need to talk about gas emissions, and the climate methane bomb appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Solar Power World

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Dominion Energy announced a significant expansion of the company’s greenhouse gas emissions-reduction goals, establishing a new commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. The goal covers carbon dioxide and methane emissions, the dominant greenhouse gases, from our electricity generation and gas infrastructure operations.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Deployed at scale, hydrogen from all sources could account for almost 20 percent 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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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Xcel Energy, provider of electricity and natural gas services to nearly 6 million customers in eight Western and Midwestern states, has committed to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from its natural gas business by 2050. RMI commended Xcel's desire to expand its net-zero target to its natural gas business.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Globally, the carbon removal potential of coastal blue carbon ecosystem restoration is around a few hundred million tons of CO 2 per year by 2050, which is relatively small compared to the need. One interesting application is adding certain seaweeds to feed for ruminant farm animals, which significantly could reduce their methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

The powerful climate pollutant methane is leaking out of dozens of oil and gas wells, pipelines, and storage tanks in Romania, adding to a growing body of evidence that methane leaks are widespread and pervasive in Europe. Turitto found methane leaks at nearly all of the sites he investigated, with some sites showing multiple leaks.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2022

Dairy giant estimates major on-farm pilot could cut methane emissions from cattle by almost a third. Cows are ruminants, which means that to digest their food they continuously burp, releasing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas which represents a major climate challenge for the meat and dairy industry.

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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. Southern Company has joined other major U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Petronas today announced an "aspiration to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050", asserting its intention to operate as "progressive energy and solutions partner enriching lives for a sustainable future". "As

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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. Our study shows that phasing out fossil fuels is essential but must be paired with targeted action now on methane, black carbon soot, HFCs, and smog. by 2035 and 2C by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2020

New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act ( CLCPA ) targets 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Tags: new york stranded assets Con Ed natural gas methane

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The researchers advocate these measures in partnership with other strategies on the farm to mitigate climate change, for example nutritional supplements to reduce methane emissions from ruminants. But soil carbon sinks are an important, natural way of balancing the emissions that remain in 2050 – to help us achieve Net Zero by mid-century.”.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 9, 2020

Methane: Europe’s missing link for effective energy decarbonization. and Algeria, countries with sizeable methane emissions. This provides the EU with significant leverage when it comes to tackling emissions from the upstream segment, which is where the biggest part of the methane problem lies.

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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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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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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. Justin Guay is director for global climate strategy at the Sunrise Project. * * *.

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Energy Central

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Source: Getty Images Meaningful methane emission reductions are not only possible—such efforts can potentially have a massive impact on warming. Readily available methods to reduce methane can deliver a whopping 0.25°C C of avoided temperature rise by 2050. Evening silhouette of oilfield pipeline. This year the.

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Solar Power World

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The four… The post Dominion Energy Virginia receives approval for 16 MW of storage at solar sites appeared first on Solar Power World.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

New research from a group of scientists and experts at EDF shows that “Net Zero by 2050” — considered a key indication of ambition — does not guarantee that we achieve the climate benefits we desire. Specifically, early action on methane stands out as the most effective strategy to slow warming in the near-term. .

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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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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The UN climate talks hosted in Dubai this month will shine a bright light on the pivotal role national oil companies, like UAE’s Abu Dhabi National Company (ADNOC), can and ultimately must play in the fight against climate change – particularly the urgent need to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas supply chain.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Note: this is the second installment of a dialogue Q&A series with private equity investors following a methane summit EDF recently hosted for portfolio companies of EIG Global Energy Partners (EIG) and Quantum Energy Partners. Andrew: Did you hear anything at the summit that influenced how you think about managing methane emissions?

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

French green gas start-up Energo has demonstrated the injection of synthetic methane into GRDF’s gas distribution network. The demonstration, a first in France, was undertaken as a regulatory sandbox initiative to confirm the feasibility of synthetic methane injection in the network.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

According to Thomson, hydrogen will play a critical role in allowing countries around the world to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Thomson’s research focuses on methane pyrolysis, a process that utilizes heat to break down natural gas into hydrogen gas and solid carbon particles and does not produce carbon dioxide.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits. The problem is vast.

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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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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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

BP has today become the latest oil major to set a net zero emissions goal , announcing that it aims to deliver net zero emissions across its operations and its oil and gas production basis by 2050 or sooner.

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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. “That bridge to 2050 is not a short bridge,” said Alverà “And it’s not a complete bridge.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

They have to push renewable methane. WSJ: BP Wants to Become Carbon Neutral by 2050, But Doesn’t Say How. And how do you reduce the carbon intensity of a hydrocarbon business? We’ll dig through the details. Then, natural gas is suddenly in the hot seat. For gas-only utilities, one pathway is clear.

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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

APRIL 14, 2020

One of them, called the "zero-carbon gas" pathway, involves using renewables along with other low-carbon technologies such biomethane, electrolysis, methane reforming, hybrid heat pumps and district heating to achieve deep cuts in energy system emissions. terawatts of extra wind and 600 gigawatts of additional solar up until 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

However, still some 2.3Mt of household-produced food waste goes to either landfill or sewer, where it emits harmful methane gas as it breaks down. We cannot afford any delays if the UK is to meet its Net Zero targets by 2050 and hope this funding will feature in this week’s Budget announcement.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

European Commission unveils flurry of major policy plans as it seeks to help deliver on 2050 net zero goal, but green groups warn bolder action is still required. The green recovery starts at home," he said. "We

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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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