Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

SuperPower Institute says Australia has little idea of the extent of its fossil fuel emissions and wants to create a state-of-the-art data network. The post Australia in the dark on its own fossil fuel emissions, says Superpower Institute appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Morial Convention Center, a small but dedicated group of environmental activists affiliated with Sunrise Movement New Orleans protested the start of the 20th edition of the Americas Energy Summit & Exhibition. It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. It’s not new.”

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The only climate trend more powerful for global financial institutions than the drive to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is the momentum to exit oil and gas. Justin Guay is director for global climate strategy at the Sunrise Project. * * *. Oil and gas pipelines are a case study in the risk of getting these policies wrong.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JULY 13, 2024

In a recent open letter, 120 scientists and academics have called on the organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics to reconsider the use of Toyota’s Mirai hydrogen-powered vehicles as the official fleet. This method utilizes water, solar power, and agricultural waste to reduce the energy required for hydrogen production by 600 percent.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

Electrification holds the key to cleaner, more efficient energy distribution and use. This increase in global temperatures is mirrored by rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases including CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide that attained record levels last year. C above pre-industrial levels before the middle of this century?

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A new database cataloging the world’s oil and gas reserves reveals extensive data on the global fossil fuel industry for the first time. The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, launched by Carbon Tracker and Global Energy Monitor, is the first public and free-to-use database of fossil fuel production, reserves, and emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 11, 2022

Scope 2 emissions are indirect GHGs released from the energy purchased by an organization. These are fossil fuels burnt on site. Stationary combustion : These are the emissions released from the direct burning of fossil fuels to power heat sources (e.g. Fossil fuels (e.g.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In this context, the long-haul trucking industry has increasingly asked questions such as “Is hydrogen the fuel for long-haul trucking of the future?” ” and “How can we transition to this fuel option?” This has the potential to significantly reduce fossil fuel usage as well as emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

As the quest for sustainable energy intensifies, biomass emerges as a pivotal player in the arena of renewable resources. This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The energy landscape is buzzing with anticipation as geologists across the globe are laying the groundwork for what could become the next big energy boom. ’ The latter are produced through chemical restructuring of methane-based gas and become ‘blue’ when emissions are under control.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Labour has promised to invest £1bn in carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) to produce blue hydrogen and to capture carbon dioxide from new gas-fired power stations – with a decision on the first tranche of the funding expected imminently. Lock the UK into fossil fuel production for generations to come.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 3, 2024

By diving into the science behind capturing carbon dioxide directly from the environment or emission sources, we unpack the foundation of a method that not only helps reduce greenhouse gases but also plays a key role in producing a cleaner form of energy – hydrogen.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

The primary cause of greenhouse gas emissions is the burning of fossil fuels, which is occurring at a current rate at which the environment’s natural reuptake and stabilization cannot keep up. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As the world grapples with the unfolding climate crisis, the quest for sustainable and environmentally friendly energy solutions takes center stage. It sidesteps the conventional reliance on fossil fuels, instead utilizing biogas derived from biomass and waste , thus promising a significant reduction in carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Despite drops in energy usage during the pandemic, coal power use only declined by four percent in 2020, according to a new report. While coal used for power generation dropped 20 percent in both the U.S. F), according to the 2021 Global Electricity Review by think tank Ember. . electricity consumption was 2.5

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

A number of big polluters, including fossil fuel companies, support and are involved in the UK’s CCS plans. . oil major Chevron, in partnership with other fossil fuel giants. Adopting this technology therefore adds significant costs to fossil energy production when it’s applied to that industry.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The UK government must publish a hydrogen strategy detailing how the fuel will evolve from a niche alternative to a central driver of the net zero transition, trade body RenewableUK has urged in a report published yesterday. the RenewableUK study argues. The global hydrogen market is expected to be worth $2.5tr by 2050.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China burns about half the coal used globally while at the same time it is the leading market for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. This duality is evident in Shanxi, which is both China's coal mining region and the location of some of the country's largest solar and wind power projects.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. As such, the report emphasises that methane mitigation is "one of the best ways of limiting warming in this and subsequent decades".

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

By Faye Bowser, Head of Energy Solutions, Siemens plc. How do we find the energy and ideas now to put in place the changes needed to sustain our collective trajectory to 2050, and also identify the next set of ‘big wins’ for industry? A lot of the hard work has come from decarbonising the grid and the shift to renewable power.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossil fuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuels are not only poisoning our planet – they’re toxic for your brand,” he said.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation launched the Oregon Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our newest state-specific, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. By Shelley Wenzel.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuels get named and shamed. For the first time in 25 years of UN climate talks, coal and fossil fuel subsidies have been singled out in an official document. Here, we've picked out 10 key takeaways for business leaders from the Glasgow Climate Pact and COP26 Summit: 1. Polluters have been put on notice.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

By Ben Ratner At the behest of the American Petroleum Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to eliminate nationwide limits on methane pollution, sending America’s natural gas industry backwards to the days of uncontrolled emissions. Uncontrolled methane emissions in the U.S. Roughly one-third of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

Earlier this year, Pacific Gas & Electric faced pushback from environmental and solar and energy storage industry groups to a plan to deploy natural gas generators to back up communities facing multi-day fire-prevention blackouts.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows. It would just roar,” he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

UN backs green hydrogen as it publishes seven principles designed to guide policymakers and business leaders approach to scaling the low carbon fuel. energy sector pathway". Fossil-based hydrogen must turn to credible, independent lifecycle emissions monitoring and regulation to meet a "high burden of proof" for inclusion in 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

This week, Aurora Hydrogen, a pyrolysis startup in Edmonton, Alberta, disclosed $10m in Series A funding led by Energy Innovation Capital and including some well-known fossil fuels funds including Shell Ventures and Chevron Technology Ventures. Companies such as Electric Hydrogen have their work cut out.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hydrogen has enormous potential as a clean and abundant energy source. All of these factors combine to make hydrogen a potential game-changer in the production of clean energy, if it can be produced safely and sustainably. Transitioning from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable one undoubtedly presents challenges.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thanks to myriad technologies - hydrogen hydride batteries, EV batteries, home solar power, and other renewables - the UK energy grid could look very different in 2030, writes Plextek's Laurence Weir. Energy generation in the UK will have to look dramatically different if we are to meet our promised carbon targets by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Projects can range from local planting of trees to the funding of projects that empower families in developing countries to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. Alternative investments can also be made in initiatives that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as in cattle feed that reduces the methane output of cows.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

A study conducted by the University of Kentucky found that the dominant contributor to the carbon footprint and variable costs of field-grown trees is equipment use, or, more specifically, the combustion of fossil fuels which occurs at harvest time. Organic waste in landfills generates methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

You’ll also learn about key technology areas that are driving momentum to equitably tackle the climate crisis, and explore the plentiful opportunities for everyone to be a part of the energy transition that’s already unfolding. Northeast Clean Energy Council President Peter Rothstein. Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

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