GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Ultimately, the challenge faced by California and Germany with high-level penetrations of renewables is one that many federal and local governments must grapple with as they pursue policies in an attempt to mitigate the most dangerous impacts of climate change. and even more so for the myriad targets that have been adopted globally.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

We can now harness the carbon scavenging power of Japanese knotweed and other invasive plants, explains Nic Seal, Founder and MD of Environet, a UK specialist in the topic. From one tonne of knotweed rhizome (wet weight) we can create around 150-200kg of charcoal which is 99% pure carbon. Bagged biochar.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

But discussions of natural gas’ negative aspects — namely excessive, typically underreported methane emissions that are considerably worse for the climate than carbon emissions — did not take place. Rather, industry leaders routinely spoke of liquified natural gas (LNG) as a solution to climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2024

Company spending on advertising outstripped that on low-carbon solutions, the report by campaign group Changing Markets Foundation found, as corporations ramped up attempts to win consumers over with their green credentials. None of the companies in the report had targets to cut emissions that aligned with guidance from UN experts.

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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. The science is also uncertain around soil’s ability to store carbon, which can be easily undone through erosion, or changes in land use or the weather.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s also terrible for the climate. But according to a growing body of research, those efforts leave something out: Most of the planet-warming effects of flying aren’t from carbon dioxide. In the presence of the sun’s rays, nitrogen molecules set of a chain of reactions that produce ozone and destroy free-floating atmospheric methane.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

To do so, they draw on friendly science, the promise of technological innovation and slick marketing campaigns – which promise “climate neutral” or “climate smart” meat and dairy – to create the idea we can continue eating vast quantities of the stuff while meeting our climate goals. They’re all getting bigger.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

So they’re just going to try and squeeze out every last bit of profit they can and give it fancy new names like carbon capture and sequestration. It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. It’s not new.” But there’s nothing natural about it,” she said. “It’s

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Together they outnumbered the delegation of the Caribbean island of Barbados, which in July was devastated by Hurricane Beryl, a disaster linked to climate change. and at climate summits. Farming also drives deforestation and relies on synthetic fertilisers that are both fossil-fuel-based and emit greenhouse gases.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Labour, which has been in power for less than three months, has already unveiled an ambitious raft of policies to tackle climate change, including plans to decarbonise electricity by 2030, facilitated by a state-owned company GB Energy. Drax disputes this claim.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections. million tonnes of greenhouse gases during the same period.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

One obvious way to deliver more energy with less carbon, Looney said, is "more renewables and gas, pushing coal out of power.". We need to compare gas to zero carbon — how will we decarbonize it?” ” On climate change, Looney has taken a softer tone than many of his peers in the oil business. billion ($1.67

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed. The halfway mark has now passed between 1990, the year that countries who signed the U.N.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The former environment secretary, who served in the role from June 2017 to July 2019, added that it is “electorally in the Conservatives’ interests to take these issues [climate change and the environment] seriously.” Under its previous editor Fraser Nelson, The Spectator regularly published attacks on climate action and science.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Some of Apple’s new watches will be carbon neutral, the company announced this month. In just the past week, we’ve seen Apple launch its first carbon-neutral products and Amazon start to share pollution reports for individual devices. During Climate Week, Google hosted a panel about how to tackle “lifestyle emissions.”

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2024

Natural gas is a fossil fuel made up mostly of methane , an extremely potent greenhouse gas that is much more efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Oil and gas companies have long promoted natural gas as a clean energy source, despite knowing that it was a major contributor to climate change.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Data is one of the most powerful tools we have in the fight against climate change. California has been a pioneer in using satellites to fight climate change and we’re looking forward to working with Governor Newsom and his team.”. Lack of data is often a barrier to taking stronger climate actions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

For while electric and ground-source heat pumps are set to play a key role in keeping homes warm in the coming decade and beyond, the energy networks companies that manage the UK's gas grid believe replacing fossil fuel gas in pipes with low carbon hydrogen also has an important part to play in deliver greener heating to the nation.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

For a start, when all the sectoral targets are tallied up, they represent – at best – a 43 per cent reduction, according to the government’s own Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC). The post Ireland’s Agri Lobby Has Dodged Its Climate Commitments Through Special Pleading and Dubious Science appeared first on DeSmog.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2020

gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) by mid-century. The sector is already responsible for one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions and nearly half of all methane emissions. The proposed changes to farming practices would not be enough on their own to meet the Paris Agreement's 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Legault and Ali said that the current proposal includes compliance flexibilities that would help oil and gas companies comply with the cap, such as cutting fugitive methane emissions and electrifying operations, all of which would cut emissions without affecting production. Legault and Ali jointly answered DeSmog’s questions by email.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Committing to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 or sooner is the new standard — that’s lifecycle emissions, which includes the carbon footprint of oil and gas combusted by customers during end uses. Comprehensive technology deployment commitments should become the new normal among companies serious about climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon might seem like a good alternative to meat, in a world that needs to shift away from carbon-intensive cattle — at least the fish farming industry would have you see it that way. Carbon Capture and Storage. Below, a handful of DeSmog writers dive into the issues they’ll be watching in 2023. Aquaculture. Next year you will.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

THE IMPORTANCE OF CARBON FOOTPRINTS. Businesses today need to know and understand their carbon footprint in order to make progress toward becoming a more sustainable and eco-friendly business. You can also use it to determine the amount of carbon offsets to purchase in order to get to carbon neutral. .

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 17, 2022

But Canada Proud is not a neutral observer when it comes to projects like Coastal GasLink. Actual climate experts disagree. Methane stays in the atmosphere less time than carbon dioxide, but its warming power is 25 times higher. s west coast. is up to 2.2 times higher than current federal estimates.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Electrolysis splits water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, creating a carbon-free energy carrier. The company takes this process a step further by combining the green hydrogen with captured carbon dioxide (CO2) to produce e-Methanol, e-Methane, and other clean fuels, collectively known as e-Fuels.

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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. The Climate Impact of Meat.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

2019 Sustainability Report confirms oil giant is making progress with a raft of low carbon initiatives, but concerns remain over incremental pace of decarbonisation. Shell must further step up efforts on all fronts, from climate change to ethical leadership to greater transparency. Shell shares this sense of urgency.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Transitioning from Plastic to Biodegradable Paper Reduces Your Carbon Footprint. However, plastics themselves are produced from fossil fuels – and they are known to release greenhouse gases such as methane and ethylene as they degrade. Plastic production is one of the most greenhouse-gas heavy industries in the world.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

Over the past decade, the world has woken up to the urgency of the climate crisis and consumers, governments, and investors are demanding that carbon intensive industries take action. This creates something of a perilous situation for companies that source and sell agricultural products, particularly beef, dairy, pork, and poultry.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2022

Forage-based diets that limit cows' methane-rich burps and better soil management to boost grass growth are all part of a new plan by Ben & Jerry's to cut greenhouse gas emissions to half the industry average by 2024. Brand hopes new project will help meet its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to half industry average by 2024.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

I asked Otto Waterlander, Chief Commercial Officer at TES , how green hydrogen and green gas can both support European energy security in the face of the sanctions on Russia, while also taking a lead to support the EU meet its climate change obligations. Clean hydrogen will be utilized as a bridging fuel in the early years.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’re hearing more oil and gas companies pledging to reinvent themselves for a new, low carbon energy era. They’re frustrated with dwindling returns and alarmed by the material risks of climate change. Move serious capital from traditional oil and gas into the zero-carbon energy technologies of the future.

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