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 Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius world, we’ll need a paradigm shift in the way we raise animals, and regenerative agriculture practices can and should be a part of the solution.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 17, 2023

Reducing methane now is one of the fastest ways to slow global warming in the near term, and a critical part of avoiding the worst consequences of climate change. Agricultural emissions from livestock and rice are approximately 40% of human-caused global methane emissions. Tackling Enteric Methane.

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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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Green Business Bureau

JULY 23, 2020

In the agriculture and food industry, sustainable business practices are intended to protect the environment, reduce waste production, increase productivity, and reduce operating costs. Sustainable Business Practices for the Food and Agriculture Sector. What are Sustainable Business Practices?

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

Human activity generates 105bn tonnes of organic wastes (food waste, sewage and garden wastes, food and drink processing wastes, and farm and agricultural wastes) annually by human activity. 1) While a carbon gas, methane caused by human activity is identified as being responsible for ~20% of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2024

Companies and their trade groups had opposed nature-friendly laws in multiple countries, the report noted, including attempts to curb methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Regenerative agriculture”, which includes organic and no-till farming, has been widely touted by livestock companies as a solution to their rising emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Recent findings from some peer-reviewed academic papers in agricultural journals sound like fodder for optimism: The United States cattle industry has helped to cool the climate almost every year since 1986. European dairy goats and sheep have caused no additional warming since 1990. GWP* prioritizes the trend over the last 20 years.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

New Methane Action and Response System hailed as major boost for efforts to tackle methane emissions. The UN has today announced the launch of a new satellite-based methane detection system designed to help governments and businesses identify major sources of the second most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, As of 30 September 2021, 120 countries, representing just over half of global greenhouse gas emissions, had communicated new or updated NDCs. To have any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, The potential of methane and market mechanisms.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

Following a 10-year analysis of the scale of methane leakage at almost 1,000 AD plants across the UK and Europe, Tim Elsome, General Manager of biogas specialists FM BioEnergy, outlines why now is the ideal time to tackle unidentified biogas leaks – and how to protect your plant, profits and the planet. The risks of doing nothing.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. Often valid concepts in and of themselves, the problem lies in how they are touted as enviro-friendly actions while companies fail to cut their contribution to global heating.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

JUNE 11, 2024

AD’s sound environmental case Treating organics through AD avoids the fugitive emissions that would otherwise arise the decomposition: an AD plant effectively captures the methane and ammonia emissions that would otherwise arise before they can escape to the atmosphere. A new color of hydrogen?

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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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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

By Josh Torres and Andrew Howell, CFA Animal agriculture is the largest anthropogenic source of methane emissions – a major driver of global warming. Reducing methane across the highly varied global livestock industry is not easy, but there are new tools that are starting to show success.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Right now, agriculture and land use change account for around one-quarter of global climate pollution, the majority of which sit in the global supply chains of food and agriculture companies. ClimateShot also launched with over 160 allies supporting increased innovation in agriculture. Methane matters…a lot.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

Increases in decomposition rates may be problematic for the global carbon cycle and for animals, like insects and fish, that live in streams because the food resources they need to survive will disappear more quickly, lost to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.” But a lot of carbon dioxide and methane comes from aquatic ecosystems.

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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

JULY 27, 2023

The evidence against big agriculture’s role in driving the climate crisis is growing. of global warming. But in order to bring about the rapid, deep cuts to emissions that would slow global heating, the agriculture industry’s solutions need to be… well, serious and genuine. Hints, feedback or tips for the series?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This week, as business and government leaders, investors and campaigners gather for New York Climate Week, DeSmog is relaunching its big agriculture series, which will scrutinise the power of food and farming companies. Agriculture used to play second fiddle to energy when it came to global warming, considered as a nice-to-have.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The documents, which were produced by the industry-funded Global Meat Alliance (GMA), emphasise the meat lobby’s desire to promote “our scientific evidence” at the summit, which will run from November 30 through to December 12. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A month after the food summit, P2DNZ made a splash at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, where Tom Vilsack, the US Secretary of Agriculture – himself the former CEO of a major dairy industry lobbying firm – expressed his department’s “strong support”. Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

In early March, global food giant Tyson unveiled a new beef product line at the 2023 annual industry meat conference. Named “Brazen TM Beef”, it was the first ever product of its kind to receive the “Climate-Friendly” stamp from the US Department of Agriculture. warming, we need to slash emissions dramatically – and at speed.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Just 50 nations worldwide now outside initiative that aims to cut methane emissions 30 per cent by 2030. First launched with just over 100 national backers at the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow a year ago, the Global Methane Pledge commits signatories to collectively reducing emissions of the gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2020

Cow's methane-heavy burps and farts blamed for CO2 associated with butter in study commissioned by margarine maker Upfield. times more harmful to the environment on average than margarine and plant-based spreads, due in large part to cows' methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A third of the world’s food production is at risk from climate breakdown, and climate disasters are already increasing malnutrition in some parts of the world, according to UN scientists at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Fossil Fuel Lock-in The meat and dairy industry’s high methane emissions are increasingly well known.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Activists gathered outside city halls around the world yesterday to call on governments and local leaders to adopt a Plant Based Treaty that would aim to halt the impact of animal agriculture on the climate and catalyse a shift towards more sustainable, climate-friendly plant based diets.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) has today announced the launch of new global sustainability goals, designed to curb emissions across the sector and respond to growing calls for the industry to reduce its outsized environmental footprint.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

“It’s mind-blowing that JBS can continue to make climate claims to investors, even as the company massively increases its emissions,” said Shefali Sharma, Europe director for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a nonprofit advocacy organisation, which calculated the estimates. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

Here are a few "Possible Climate Futures" as suggested in the report's Summary for Policymakers : Global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century under all emissions scenarios considered. Global warming of 1.5

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change. Headline writers had a field day. And as a review published by the U.N.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossil fuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years, DeSmog can reveal. Even relatively small methane leaks during the process of extracting, shipping, and processing natural gas contribute significantly to global emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. The IETA (which features in DeSmog’s Routes to Influence map) also represents multiple agricultural firms.

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