Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Limiting global warming to 1.5C warming involves two distinct questions. So scientifically speaking, humanity can still limit global warming to 1.5C An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 2018 synthesised hundreds of studies and found rapidly escalating risks in global warming between 1.5C

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Fossil fuel companies confirm plan to review collective methane targets for 2025 and onwards in light of new goal. They have also pointed out that methane's relatively short atmospheric lifetime means action taken now would have a far more rapid impact than action on carbon.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

New report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) highlights the need to control methane slips on ships that have switched to using LNG as fuel. The researchers comes amidst predictions demand for LNG fuel for ships trading within the European Union could triple between 2019 and 2030.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The global food system, like many of the world’s Achilles’ heels, is representative of the tragedy of the commons: a renowned economic theory by which individual agents of a system using shared resources act in accordance to their self-interest at the expense of society. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

As the global warming potential of methane is 84 times that of CO2 over a twenty-year period – and the UK has a goal of reducing methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels – this is an issue that needs to be addressed. Reducing cost impact and working more efficiently.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Maintaining and improving global energy security; empowering Indigenous communities; seizing the global LNG opportunity — these were some of the talking points speakers were keen to discuss throughout the Canada Gas Exhibition & Conference, which took place in Vancouver in May.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

At its full potential, AD could meet 25% of the UK domestic gas demand and insulate customers from rocketing energy prices, which in turn send the costs to farmers and the food industry spiralling. The guardians of the Paris Agreement have concluded AD is the cheapest and most cost-effective way to keep global warming below 2 ?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline , a new report from Global Energy Monitor, found that “China commissioned 76 percent of the world’s new coal plants in 2020, up from 64 percent in 2019, driving a 12.5 GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. China’s Coal Expansion. In the U.S.,

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Since these standards were developed, the demand for carbon offsets has increased over the years. It’s estimated that it will be ~51 years for oil, ~114 years for coal, and ~53 years for gas reserves to diminish, based on current demand estimates and reserves. To facilitate this rise, other certification programs have come into effect.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

It is free and available to the public, enabling utilities, regulators and stakeholders to compare emissions associated with numerous demand- and supply-side options to meet energy needs. An accompanying report further assists state regulators in developing a framework for assessing life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of investment options.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane stored within it, heating up the atmosphere even more in a feedback loop. The framing is intended to draw attention to the radical changes that global warming might bring. tipping point.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Often valid concepts in and of themselves, the problem lies in how they are touted as enviro-friendly actions while companies fail to cut their contribution to global heating. With the term climate neutrality comes a contentious new way of calculating the emissions of methane, called the “global warming potential star”, or GWP*.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 17, 2021

BloombergNEF estimates that clean hydrogen could meet up to a quarter of the world’s energy demand by 2050. To succeed in this global market, Canada must harness its competitive advantages and plan to produce, use, and export the world’s cleanest hydrogen and its related technologies.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

Here are a few "Possible Climate Futures" as suggested in the report's Summary for Policymakers : Global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century under all emissions scenarios considered. Global warming of 1.5 We put a man on the moon; now we need to keep humankind on earth.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

s proposed LNG projects would come online in a global LNG market anticipated to see export capacity increase by 43 per cent by 2030, but there is no consensus from governments or industry on future global demand. Many of B.C.’s Adding further uncertainty to B.C.’s currently proposed or under construction.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At the same time, food systems are also a major contributor to global warming, accounting for over a third of total emissions worldwide. Scientists and campaigners have raised major concerns about the lack of global action ahead of the COP28 summit, in a year of devastating impacts from climate-related weather events. “We

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The graph, co-created by Mann, shows that while global average temperatures have been rising for the past 500 to 2,000 years, the rate of heating has sharply accelerated since the start of the industrial revolution in the West, and particularly during the 20th century. On Monday, former Minnesota GOP Rep.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 23, 2020

The ever-increasing global population and the rise in environmental consciousness have created a demand for sustainable business practices. Methane digesters: In the agriculture and food industry, waste is generated daily from the production of food to its processing, distribution, and consumption.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) has today announced the launch of new global sustainability goals, designed to curb emissions across the sector and respond to growing calls for the industry to reduce its outsized environmental footprint.

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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

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

But fully realizing its promise demands balancing tech innovation with collaboration across industry, says Massimo Muzzì, head of strategy, business development and sustainability at ABB Electrification. What do we need to do in our industry to ensure that global temperatures don’t stray more than 1.5°C C by 2050 remains achievable.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

warming, we need to slash emissions dramatically – and at speed. Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. Animal production also emits 65 percent of global nitrous oxide emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix. There is just no excuse.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Dairy announced the Greener Cattle Initiative , which will provide $5 million over 5 years to research that helps curb enteric methane emissions. Methane matters…a lot. Reducing methane now is the fastest way to slow global warming and stay on the best possible path to net zero by mid century. In the U.S.,

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

With widespread commitments made to reducing CO 2 emissions, attention is turning to other greenhouse gases, specifically methane and nitrous oxide as the next largest contributors. This in turn demands the latest technologies and innovations across the system, even if the full benefits in the longer term are significantly reduced upfront.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 2, 2023

The appliances also offer the opportunity for enrolment in demand response programmes. The New Holland T7 Methane Power LNG has been unveiled by the agriculture and construction business CNH Industrial as a pre-production prototype of what could become a widely used tractor in the future. Circular farming with first LNG tractor.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5 Hydrogen doesn’t emit greenhouse gases when burned and can be made by using renewable electricity to bust up water molecules (although most hydrogen today is made with natural gas, through a process called steam methane reforming).

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

You’ll understand what products and processes emit g reenhouse gases (GHGs), including the carbon-containing gases carbon dioxide and methane. Carbon dioxide equivalent” is a standard unit for counting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regardless of whether they’re from carbon dioxide or another gas, such as methane.

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Econaur

APRIL 3, 2020

It will take another 8-10 days minimum in open natural environment to get to a form where the plantation can absorb anything out of it.Improperly disposed organic waste is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, at almost 1500 Tg CO2 / year. The composting has to be self driven acted by assisted by the bacterial culture.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

of warming. (If If longer-term net-zero pledges are achieved, which is less certain at this point, global warming could be contained to 1.8C.) Canada also re-committed to phasing out international fossil fuel financing by 2023 and reducing oil and gas methane emissions by 75% by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

As one example, New Jersey Natural Gas is requesting rate recovery of millions of dollars of new gas infrastructure investments without any demonstration of how increased investment in the gas system will comport with New Jersey’s Global Warming Response Act. Recent research shows that estimated U.S. Consider Pilots to Test Innovation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

However, T&E said the results of the vehicle testing it had commissioned suggested LNG in fact still had a greenhouse gas impact comparable to diesel trucks, as LNG vehicles emit unburned methane, a potent climate-warming gas estimated to trap over 80 times more heat per mass unit than CO2. per cent less methane than the former.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

carbon hydrogen produced globally in 2030 will come from coal and natural gas with carbon sequestration. Demand will come from industry, refineries, power plants, and the transportation sector. Around 95% is produced via the steam methane reforming (SMR) process, and another 4% comes from partial oxidation (POX).

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