Green Roof Technology

MARCH 17, 2020

As long as humans have cultivated plants they have learned that natural parameters in biology, physics and chemistry are given and everything has to collaborate within these nature’s laws. Although we are able to Gen-manipulate plants for better yield, more pest resistant, and for more stress resistance, but the nature’s laws won’t change.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The infrastructure bill signed into law by President Biden in November includes $9.5 While being presented as a clean hydrogen plan for decarbonizing the energy system, the main focus of the hydrogen section of the bill is to continue and expand the use of natural gas (that is, methane) in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This arresting visual captures the sentiments of opponents of a plan to develop the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project under the lake. billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. It’s your own Checkoff working against [you],” Meyer told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. Studies show these activities represent the majority of the sector’s emissions, yet many meat companies exclude them when calculating their carbon footprint. Some go as far as claiming these will enable the industry to go fully carbon neutral.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. per cent of total national emissions, despite the sector contributing only around one percent to GDP. Steep Cuts for Other Sectors.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Subsequently, Senate Bill 32 strengthened the state’s GHG emissions reductions target to at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and former Governor Jerry Brown’s Executive Order B-55-18 established a second statewide goal to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible, and no later than 2045.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. The key will be making low-carbon fuels without creating new problems. Worried about the climate crisis?

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman has unveiled ambitious plans for a linear car-free city designed to produce zero carbon emissions, with construction earmarked to begin during the first quarter of this year. China sets out carbon capture push in climate policy guidelines. hours are available.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2023

LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. LNG as cheap, reliable, and the best bet of any energy source to meet Germany’s 2045 target for carbon neutrality. At a June event with German gas lobby group Zukunft Gas in Berlin, Rice promoted U.S.

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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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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The announcement comes as Duke intends to deploy $63 billion of capital over the next five years, 80% of which is expected to support investments in grid modernization and zero or lower-carbon emitting generation. The Carbon Plan" would then be reviewed every two years and may be adjusted. Courtesy: Duke). "As

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Unplugged wells frequently continue to emit methane , a greenhouse gas with a warming impact many times that of CO2. California’s laws are failing to hold polluters accountable,” the nonprofit writes in a blog post disputing industry criticism of its report. An idle well in Santa Barbara County, California.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise. And What They Deliver.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . percent of its GDP.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Research from WWF, for example, has found 46 per cent of the UK's carbon footprint is generated overseas by goods produced to satisfy UK consumption. Methane emissions soar to record high. They have also set out draft reforms for Germany's clean energy law and legislation that could speed up grid development.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 25, 2024

New Mexico’s main oil trade group came out against a reform bill that it had helped shape, shifting its position to neutral only after the bill was amended. The New Mexico Oil and Gas Association eventually changed its position to neutral, but largely stripped of substance, the bill died on the floor of the House of Representatives.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Alibaba Group Announces Carbon Neutrality Goal by 2030… here. Maersk Seeks $150-a-Ton Carbon Tax on Shipping Fuel… here. MLB moving 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta over Georgia voting law… here. JPMorgan Shares Patents to Spur Low-Carbon Technology Development… here. million U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 13, 2025

°C for the first time, China’s new clean(ish) energy law, and horrific wildfires are ripping through Southern California. Prospects for blue hydrogen also look better compared to green hydrogen powered by carbon-free electricity. China's new comprehensive energy law sent mixed signals to climate tech investors.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Trumps agenda has been distinctly anti-environment, including loosening restrictions on methane emissions , waiving environmental laws during the pandemic , rolling back fuel efficiency requirements , repealing water protections and weakening the Endangered Species Act.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

The proposed law would commit Ireland to cutting emissions 51 per cent between 2018 and 2030, putting it on track to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. Broadly similar to the UK's Climate Change Act, the bill requires the adoption of a series of five year carbon budgets and a regime of annual progress reports.

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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. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. temperature goal is to be kept alive.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 15, 2020

I have beat oil companies in terms of clean air laws. And one thing that hasn't been raised, by the way, is the rules on methane, which is actually one of the most environmentally dangerous hazards that they have recently embarked on. It's a transition fuel to where we get to carbon neutral.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

which allow countries to trade carbon credits to meet their national targets and finally set standards for the eligibility of these credits. The VCM, open for business Despite the controversy surrounding COP29 this year, we have to give (carbon) credit where it’s due. and 6.4: 🔁 Article 6.2: 🛒 Article 6.4:

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