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Sustainability Guide for Consulting Firms: Running An Eco Friendly Business

Green Business Bureau

Operating as a sustainable business comes with many advantages. Minimizing waste through reducing, reusing, and recycling and being more energy efficient will also lower your costs. You will also help the environment by reducing global warming, mitigating the waste of finite materials, and reducing pollution.

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Sensitive methane sensing on a budget?

Envirotec Magazine

Measuring methane emissions is important because the gas contributes to global warming and air pollution. ICLEDs are a new type of higher-power LED that emits light at mid-IR wavelengths, which can be used to measure many chemicals. The new sensor uses an interband cascade light emitting device (ICLED).

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New Spectator Boss Paul Marshall in Business With ‘Carbon Bomb’ Fossil Fuel Investor

DeSmogBlog

million metric tons from coal power. KKR’s assets include oil and gas plants and pipelines across North America; coal power stations in France, Bulgaria, and Columbia; and biomass plants in France, Portugal, Australia, and Brazil. Both GB News and The Spectator frequently attack green policies, climate protestors, and climate science.

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Comment: Technology will be crucial to the success of vertical farms

Envirotec Magazine

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 9.7 Case Study – large commercial vertical farm in the UK: JFC2 JFC was established in 2016 to exploit the advantages of vertical farming to provide fresh local produce all year round.

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US landfills emit far more methane than previously known

Grist

At more than half of the hundreds of garbage dumps surveyed — in the largest assessment yet of such emissions — most of the pollution flowed from leaks, creating concentrated plumes. Tackling these hotspots could be a huge stride toward lowering emission rates, but blindspots in current monitoring protocols mean they often evade detection.

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CO2 Storage Plans Risk Leaving Future Generations with ‘Carbon Bombs’, Energy Expert Warns

DeSmogBlog

And as the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted , emissions pathways that limit global warming to 2°C or below generally assume that some form of carbon dioxide removal, such as CCS, is necessary, alongside reducing emissions. Gorgon is led by U.S.

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Carbon Mapper Launches Satellite Program to Pinpoint Methane and CO2 Super Emitters

Planet Pulse

Our mission is to help fill gaps in the emerging global ecosystem of methane and CO 2 monitoring systems by delivering data that’s timely, actionable and accessible for science-based decision making.” Planet’s ability to commercialize data products is key to the buildout and continuity of the multi-satellite constellation.

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