Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The post From carbon markets to curbing methane, the case for climate optimism at COP28 appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Nov. 28 – The dueling narratives of climate change will face off at COP28, the two-week global climate gathering that begins Thursday.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Achieving this not only will require reducing existing emissions, but also removing carbon dioxide already in the air. Katie Lebling. Wed, 11/11/2020 - 00:30.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

By Josh Torres and Andrew Howell, CFA Animal agriculture is the largest anthropogenic source of methane emissions – a major driver of global warming. Reducing methane across the highly varied global livestock industry is not easy, but there are new tools that are starting to show success. A recent milestone was the U.S.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The EPA’s new rules to reduce methane emissions from the nation’s oil and gas industry could be a climate game changer. That’s because methane – the main component of natural gas – has more than 80 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide in the short term and is responsible for more than 25% of the warming we’re experiencing today.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2021

An inside look at pricing in the forest carbon market. In January 2020, Microsoft committed to invest $1 billion over the next four years as part of their Climate Innovation Fund. And on July 21, Apple committed to become 100 percent carbon neutral across its entire business, supply chain and product life cycle by 2030. .

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

The global dairy company Danone is taking a big step forward by pledging to work with its farmer suppliers to reduce methane emissions from its fresh milk supply chain by 30% by 2030. . It aims to achieve significant methane cuts while feeding a growing population and protecting the livelihoods of farmers around the world.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

New funding builds on unique partnership to tackle potent methane emissions between Bloomberg Philanthropies, Carbon Mapper, Planet, the State of California, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University (ASU), High Tide Foundation, and RMI . The pledge needs to be matched with bold solutions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 3, 2024

Exploring the world of carbon capture technology opens up a pathway to understanding how advanced science is being utilized to combat the pressing issue of climate change. Post-combustion capture The core principle of carbon capture technology is simple yet incredibly sophisticated.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Methane update reveals that reduced demand for oil and gas during the pandemic's shutdown of industry and travel saw methane emissions drop 10 per cent in 2020. Companies have also touted sizeable new investment programmes to detect and fix methane leaks.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This story is the third part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe and published in partnership with the Guardian. Others engaging regularly with ministers on CCS policy include heavy manufacturing companies, CCS technology firms, lobby groups, and investment funds.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Reducing methane is in the hands of a small number of large multinational corporations, which have the resources to act, writes Changing Markets Foundation's Nusa Urbancic. Methane has typically been ignored in climate policy. It also ignores the huge potential of methane emission reductions in the agricultural sector.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

New Methane Action and Response System hailed as major boost for efforts to tackle methane emissions. The UN has today announced the launch of a new satellite-based methane detection system designed to help governments and businesses identify major sources of the second most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

However, the traditional methods of producing hydrogen can be carbon-intensive, often relying on natural gas and fossil fuels. Although SMR itself can be energy-intensive, using organic waste as the feedstock for SMR significantly reduces the carbon footprint associated with traditional hydrogen production.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. is California’s aggressive push toward a carbon-neutral future. Jim Robbins.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Green Alliance argues UK has made 'little headway' on pledge made at COP26 to slash methane emisisons by 30 per cent by 2030. For example, soaring fossil gas prices mean that plugging methane leaks from oil and gas sites could deliver a significant boost in profits for fossil fuel firms.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The UK Government’s announcement of a whopping £22bn investment in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) caused quite a kerfuffle in Sustainability circles. of dollars) trying, why wouldn’t you want to get more carbon bang for your buck? I think we’ve been flogging the dead horse of CCS for far too long.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Findings from BeZero Carbon reveal that nearly nine in 10 people would welcome greater business and government support for nascent carbon removal sector. The findings also reveal there is a general lack of awareness around carbon offsetting, with just 45 per cent of respondents knowing what the term means.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Pioneering Emissions-Free Hydrogen Production: A Rice University Breakthrough In a significant stride towards sustainable energy solutions, researchers at Rice University have unveiled a groundbreaking photocatalyst capable of rendering steam methane reforming (SMR) entirely emissions-free.

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Energy Central

MAY 24, 2023

Are carbon credits helpful to the environment or just a way for companies with cash to “greenwash” their reputations? Carbon credits do provide investment capital to execute carbon reductions strategies such as planting trees, capturing methane from landfills, or encouraging companies to exceed their emissions limit goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

LOOP uses plasma technology to separate methane into its constituent atoms: carbon, locked into high-quality graphene, and hydrogen, which can either be used immediately or stored for future use. When run through the device, natural gas is replaced with a hydrogen-methane mix with no loss of energy potential.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 18, 2024

Bill Gates recently visited a climate tech startup in the Seattle area called Modern Hydrogen, which is focused on the production of hydrogen fuel and solid carbon.  H2 can be used as a carbon emission-free fuel, and solid carbon has a number of different industrial applications, including the aforementioned asphalt.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

New IEA analysis reveals methane emissions from the energy sector are 70 per cent higher than official reports, but could high gas prices finally prompt operators to tackle the problem. It is one of the biggest and most worrying mysteries in the field of climate science: where are all the methane emissions coming from?

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

A cohesive value chain is essential for realizing hydrogen’s potential, encompassing low-carbon hydrogen production, storage, and distribution infrastructure, which align with end-user demand. The energy transition necessitates new low-carbon hydrogen facilities. For instance, the UK targets 10GW of low-carbon hydrogen by 2030 (2.5

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2024

Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world’s largest polluters, according to new estimates. JBS, the world’s largest meat company, invested just 0.03

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

Estimated to cost up to £28bn, the project is coordinated by ENA's Gas Goes Green initiative, which is bringing together all Britain's gas network companies in a bid to deliver the world's first zero-carbon gas grid. The current iron pipes carry methane-based natural gas. We need to decarbonise the gas that we use.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 24, 2021

For companies that produce, process or sell beef, pork and/or dairy, there’s an often overlooked, invisible source of climate pollution lurking in the supply chain: methane. An extremely potent greenhouse gas, methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide in the short term.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JUNE 11, 2024

Hydrogen can play a crucial role in the decarbonisation of the UK economy, especially where that hydrogen is “green” with zero carbon emissions. As methane is 28 times more potent a greenhouse gas compared to carbon dioxide, each molecule of methane captured is a significant gain in steps to reduce global warming.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Moreover, there is no “silver bullet” that can deliver a zero carbon society overnight. As the effects of climate change become more visible and more damaging, new solutions are increasingly needed to accelerate the transition to clean and low carbon energy. Furthermore, storing carbon in the ground is inherently unsustainable.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Note: this is the second installment of a dialogue Q&A series with private equity investors following a methane summit EDF recently hosted for portfolio companies of EIG Global Energy Partners (EIG) and Quantum Energy Partners. Andrew: Did you hear anything at the summit that influenced how you think about managing methane emissions?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While the focus is usually on fossil fuel emissions as the main climate change culprit, a new analysis by the nonprofit Energy Vision concludes that reducing emissions from organic waste would more steeply reduce methane. announced their commitment to cutting methane emissions by 30% by 2030, as compared with 2020 levels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Green Alliance estimates proposed coking coal mine in Cumbria could emit as much methane each year as 120,000 cows. However, the UK, along with scores of countries around the world, is committed to collectively reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030 as part of the Global Methane Pledge.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Even in Indiana, whose electricity generation is dominated by coal, utility regulators rejected a proposed new gas plant , citing “the potential risk that customers could sometime in the future be saddled with an uneconomic investment” if the plant were built. In fact, recent research found that methane leaks in major U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But balancing a reduction in carbon emissions with the need for profit isn’t always easy. 1 With agriculture estimated to have been the source of 48% of the UK’s methane emissions in 2020 – an increase of 1.3% Marc McElhinney is Managing Director of GFD. on 2019 2 – the trend towards on-farm AD is set to continue.

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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. Image provided by Planet. This is an amazing all California effort!

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Tackling methane from oil and gas operations among 'best near-term opportunities’ for combatting climate change, IEA argues. Methane, which is largely released from abandoned coal mines, oil and gas operations, and farming, has a far greater global warming potential than CO2.

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