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 Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Farmer Martin Lines, chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, puts forward the case for a robust payment framework to incentivise carbon sequestration in UK agriculture. Pricing greenhouse gas emissions at a level that is consistent with net zero opens new routes for a lucrative market in 'negative' carbon emissions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Government confirms £30m of new investment in a range of projects designed to enhance natural carbon sinks. Alongside the NetZeroPlus project the government and the UK Research and Innovation agency today announced new funding for projects exploring how to use peat, rock chips, and charcoal to expand natural carbon sinks.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

That was the stark message of the Climate Change Committee in its sixth carbon budget. The 10 Point Plan, the national infrastructure strategy, the climate change committee's sixth carbon budget and the Treasury's interim report on its Net Zero Review. Landfill suffers from methane emissions as waste degrades.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. Nitrogen and phosphorous are both essential for plant growth, thus they are made into fertilizers that pollute waterways and coastal zones, and accumulate in the world’s soil and land.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 28, 2021

Nearly a quarter of that is beef, with environmental impacts ranging from methane emissions (aka cow burps) to land-use changes to water stresses. In addition to demonstrating how the Vence platform can facilitate carbon sequestration, the project will help establish mechanisms for carbon markets and monetization for ranchers.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

Could Denmark deliver a carbon neutral farming sector by 2050? Whether you have a stake in Denmark's farming sector or not, the findings of the technical report, entitled A Pathway to Carbon Neutral Agriculture in Denmark , are significant. The World Resources Institute (WRI) thinks so.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. Posing an investment risk.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Meanwhile, for reducing the amount of cow burps, the report praises the Dutch company DSM for “its product called 3-NOP that reduces these methane emissions by 30% in tests, and does not appear to have health or environmental side effects.” . Livestock genomics and regen ag left in the dirt.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

There would also be notable improvements for air quality and human health by taking the pathway to net zero over the next 30 years, followed by negative emissions efforts thereafter, which could then see temperatures stabilise below 1.5C Natural carbon sinks become less effective as emissions rise. by the 2100.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Limiting other greenhouse gases and air pollutants, especially methane, could have benefits both for health and the climate.". "Stabilising the climate will require strong, rapid, and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and reaching net zero CO2 emissions," said Zhai.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. Posing an investment risk.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Soil degradation. According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. From a historical perspective however, warning about the negative effects of our food consumption are commonplace. Deforestation. Loss of biodiversity. Water scarcity.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

🔑 Climate tech startups hit key milestones - including but not limited to - Fervo’s FOAK enhanced geothermal project operational in Nevada, Brimstone’s third-party approval of its carbon-negative cement, and Heirloom’s first commercial DAC plant. 

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. Flooding of homes, businesses, and infrastructure like airports, ports, and subways, during heavy rainstorms would have a negative effect on companies’ abilities to operate. According to the U.S. How will businesses operate without electricity?

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds.     🌱 Vizcab , a Lyon, France-based carbon impact analysis software developer, raised $6M in Series A funding from Kompas Ventures and Cemex Ventures.  

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. Shell had other plans. corn belt.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Because the price of keeping the status quo grows steeper every year, from the human and economic toll of climate-related disasters, fires, heatwaves, and other environmental stresses to the jobs left on the table by not accelerating towards a carbon-free, regenerative economy. Carbon negative materials. Why do we love them?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Meat and dairy producers in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to increasing pollution from cattle and sheep, which emit around a third of the global output of methane. Farming also drives deforestation and relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases. and at climate summits.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Yet, there are countless stories of policy changes, local cleanup efforts, impactful corporate action and innovations all aimed at decreasing carbon, conserving trees, protecting wildlife and so much more. There’s the issue with methane release, a greenhouse gas that’s more damaging than carbon dioxide. It stores more than 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

But the gleaming image of Ireland’s agri-produce hides a number of inconvenient truths, among them the damage the sector is wreaking on Ireland’s climate targets, as well as its waterways and soils. The agriculture sector was responsible for over a third (37.8

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. cents per kWh of electricity produced at facilities placed into service after 2024 that produce zero or negative emissions.

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