Planet Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2024

Tanager-1 is made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition , a philanthropically-funded effort to develop and deploy satellites designed to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters at a level of granularity needed to support direct mitigation action. I’m incredibly proud of our team and everyone who helped bring this satellite to life.”

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

Sixty years after fatal floods and subsidence halted gas extraction in the Po delta region, politicians are once again eyeing methane reserves. The biodiversity is among the richest in Italy, with 400 species of bird , lagoons, marshes and reed beds that have created a true natural labyrinth.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

That could pose a threat to biodiversity in waterways around the world and increase the amount of carbon in Earth’s atmosphere. But a lot of carbon dioxide and methane comes from aquatic ecosystems. Humans may be accelerating the rate at which organic matter decomposes in rivers and streams on a global scale, according to a new study.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The goal of our hyperspectral offering is to help customers reveal social, environmental, and climate risks in unprecedented detail and demonstrates our commitment to preserve biodiversity and to accelerate action on climate change as a part of the Carbon Mapper Coalition.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Experts say that failing to reform the sector’s polluting practices – such as by cutting the use of pesticides and polluting synthetic fertilisers – will harm global efforts to curb climate change and reverse biodiversity loss. The sheer scale of the operations of the companies also means they are major emitters in their own right.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Yet, many of the solutions being trialled by industry to cut methane emissions – from feeding cattle seaweed to genomic editing of cows – are either disingenuous, unproven or failing to deliver. As a result, they have enjoyed important victories: for example lobbying successfully to exclude agriculture from the 2021 Global Methane Pledge.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Levels of methane – another powerful greenhouse gas critical to reducing emissions – have soared since the start of the decade and are showing “no hint of decline”. Nitrous oxide – a planet-heating gas nearly 300 times as potent as CO2 when measured over 100 years – is accumulating in Earth’s atmosphere at unprecedented levels.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In the following months, our partners, including Carbon Mapper and customers are expected to use the data to monitor and mitigate point-source methane and CO2 emissions, two potent greenhouse gasses.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This year, we found researchers and governments are increasingly hungry for low-touch, highly-impactful data to track carbon, methane, deforestation and more to protect the planet and keep communities safe. (Planet Labs PBC) Access to timely data is critical to understanding and adapting to how our planet changes.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C Meat lobby groups will share a different message at pavilions at COP28.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

Increases in populations of large animals can increase methane release, an issue that can be offset by reducing domestic livestock populations, according to the study. Convention on Biodiversity, and they don’t talk to each other,” he said. One is trying to save biodiversity, and the other is trying to save the climate.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 6, 2024

“Our imaging spectrometer technology and expertise, leveraged and deployed on Tanager-1, will enable a broad range of stakeholders to pinpoint methane super-emitters and take action to mitigate them. The work of the Carbon Mapper Coalition will truly have a global impact, and we are proud to take part in ensuring mission success.”

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The group added that the targets could be met through the development of a "climate smart" supply chain, including the adoption of science-based land management practices to maintain healthier soils, enable additional carbon sequestration, promote efficient water use, and increase biodiversity.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

She called for coordinated action from world governments and international agencies to mitigate pollution while also addressing other threats such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Notably, both methane and many major forms of PM 2.5 Now, the researchers say that number has remained virtually unchanged.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

The economic growth in the dairy sector, Burke added, “is happening at the expense of the environment as witnessed by the trends in water quality, emissions and biodiversity all going in the wrong direction.”. Climate Budget Fight.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But of course, those old-growth forests are not just some valueless raw material or natural resource, but home to countless Indigenous peoples, vast biodiversity, and the living machinery that not only stores carbon we emit but also helps make breathing on this planet possible. A collection of world-class collaborators – including ??Planet,

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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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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With more than 80 times the warming of CO2 in the near term, one of the most potent greenhouse gases is methane–and it’s clear that we’re in the midst of a methane moment. Companies should also support farmers by investing in innovative solutions, particularly to tackle enteric methane.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When the voice of African farmers and communities is not brought to the negotiating table, we end up with flawed initiatives like Aim4C,” said Anne Maina, from the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya. “A Second, it would only reduce methane emissions from the cattle. Greener Cattle”. A Narrow Vision of Agriculture.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

If the Arctic permafrost melts away, releasing all its stored methane, and if the global thermostat turns out to be especially sensitive to greenhouse gases, the world could warm to RCP 8.5 Are we safe or are we doomed? But studies that try to imagine what the future will look like deal exclusively in what ifs, not absolutes.

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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 It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals. The chief impediment is that the gain is private, yet the cost is public.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is whats mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as natural gas. My opinion on ExxonMobil exit is simple, Erlan Sleur, founder of the grassroots environmental watchdog Protect Our Biodiversity Suriname (ProBioS), told DeSmog.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

The report also highlights seafood as the next frontier for alternative proteins, amid growing concern over severely over-fished oceans and dwindling marine biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

However, last week’s Food Systems Summit illustrated the rift between agribusiness giants and smaller food producers about how to transform the food system to achieve these cuts and address hunger, malnutrition and biodiversity loss.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Alternative investments can also be made in initiatives that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as in cattle feed that reduces the methane output of cows. Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption. Examples include afforestation, reforestation, and conservation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2020

Any general waste that is produced will be processed into heat and power, it added, while green waste will be sent to anaerobic digestion plants, where it will be turned into methane, liquid fertiliser, and compost to be used in a number of industries, including natural gas power and farming.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2020

The sector is already responsible for one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions and nearly half of all methane emissions. Swift action is required to revolutionise farming practices, McKinsey warns, given greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are currently expected to grow by as much as 20 per cent by mid-century to a huge 23.4

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

While old growth forests are vital for biodiversity, their oft-cited abilities in carbon dioxide storage have been consistently and grossly overestimated. Moreover, as the climate crisis worsens, so too does the possibility of ever greater and more destructive forest fires, such as those that ripped across Canada this year.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

According to the report, those involved in the beef sector in Devon's 'Ruby Country' are taking steps to promote biodiversity and soil health, but their efforts are being hampered by a lack of clarity about future incentives, such as which net zero and sustainable farming approaches will be provided with government subsidies and to what extent.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

Environmental Sustainability – In a truly sustainable environment, an ecosystem would maintain populations, biodiversity, and overall corporate and production functionality over an extended period of time. Methane – Methane gas actually absorbs 84 times more heat than its well-known counterpart.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The good news, however, is that the debate can now move on, and countries and companies have a baseline upon which to build a global carbon market that can boost biodiversity, tackles climate change, and reward businesses making real progress on decarbonisation. Methane faces a reckoning. Some progress on adaptation finance.

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The City Fix

JULY 26, 2023

Climate change is impacting cities and their residents in many profound ways, from poor air quality to flooding to biodiversity loss and extreme heat. Now, with the help of a new tool, select cities can access localized, integrated data to.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

"Planting trees without proper planning could have disastrous consequences, such as when tree-planting occurs on peatland which can result in releasing into the atmosphere vast quantities of carbon and methane that such areas naturally store," Bateman said. But that's where we are - we've delayed [climate action] for too long.".

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

During the film, an Invenergy spokesperson suggested that natural gas generates 30 percent less carbon dioxide than other fossil fuels, neglecting the fact that natural gas is composed largely of methane, which is over 80 times more potent than CO2 across a 20 year period. Meat and dairy companies are climate killers.

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