Grist

JANUARY 28, 2025

And what’s turning the tap more open, making the warming pick up speed, is an increase in greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane which are both still rising, largely from the fossil fuel industry, he said. The oceans really set the pace for global warming for the Earth as a whole, Merchant said.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

Image: MethaneSAT via EDF A mission to map and track global methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas, is scheduled to launch today after years of collaboration between some of the biggest names in tech. After all, so-called natural gas is mostly just methane. MethaneSAT is scheduled to launch on March 4th.

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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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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Limiting global warming to 1.5C warming involves two distinct questions. The second question is whether governments will take sufficient action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This answer depends on the ambition of governments, and the effectiveness of campaigning by non-government organisations and others.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The climate impact of methane emissions from hundreds of new coal mines currently planned worldwide could strike a major blow to efforts to avoid catastrophic levels of global warming, according to the startling results of a first-of-its-kind study released today. million tonnes of methane each year.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 26, 2025

Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World National oil companies & global finance Unlocking opportunities to reduce methane emissions Reaching global methane goals requires national oil companies to slash methane emissions. Oil and gas producer partnerships can lead to improved methane management.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

“By mapping out how AD and biogas could help countries to dramatically cut their greenhouse gas emissions, especially methane, over the next decade and beyond, this report aims to put humanity back on track to deliver on the ambitions of both the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals.” Read the Executive Summary.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In its application, submitted in partnership with the Kenya Climate Change Working Group (KCCWG), WBA highlighted the importance of tackling short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), in particular methane and black carbon, to achieve the Paris Agreement targets “to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5°C,

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Methane is a blow torch that’s cooking the planet,' scientists warn, as new study argues near term action could play a critical role in curbing global warming. Our study shows that phasing out fossil fuels is essential but must be paired with targeted action now on methane, black carbon soot, HFCs, and smog.

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 People, corporations and governments are seemingly taking action. And finally, ask more from our politicians and governments. We need everyone on board.

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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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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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Global Renewable News

JULY 2, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with 28 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide over a 100-year period. Reducing methane emissions from all sources, including landfills, is.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2024

Companies and their trade groups had opposed nature-friendly laws in multiple countries, the report noted, including attempts to curb methane, a potent greenhouse gas. However, of the companies analysed, only dairy giant Danone had set a methane target – another key recommendation by the UN.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JUNE 11, 2024

AD’s sound environmental case Treating organics through AD avoids the fugitive emissions that would otherwise arise the decomposition: an AD plant effectively captures the methane and ammonia emissions that would otherwise arise before they can escape to the atmosphere. and 1 tonne of CO2 emissions are avoided.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Faced with the energy crisis currently affecting not just the UK but much of the world, the British government is overlooking the gift that is anaerobic digestion (AD), despite the business case for AD development growing stronger by the day. The UK is a signatory of the Global Methane Pledge to reduce emissions by 30% against 2020 levels.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

The researchers found the governance of its local MSW management system to be robust and noted significant support from the state government for the implementation of sorting and composting units across the state. However, the rate of MSW reuse is still very low in Brazil (2.2%). “That would correspond to between 4.9

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Just 50 nations worldwide now outside initiative that aims to cut methane emissions 30 per cent by 2030. First launched with just over 100 national backers at the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow a year ago, the Global Methane Pledge commits signatories to collectively reducing emissions of the gas by 30 per cent between 2020 and 2030.

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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. I’m incredibly proud of our team and everyone who helped bring this satellite to life.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

In the nearly three years since the UK government made a legal commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, there has been considerable debate in terms of how this will be achieved, not least the role the gas grid will play in the low carbon transition. Adam Kingdon, chief executive of Utonomy explains.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Decarbonizing Oil and Gas Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, responsible for more than one quarter of the warming we are experiencing today, and global oil and gas production is a major source of methane emissions. 19 of the top 20 publicly traded companies have set methane targets. can open the door.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans.

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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.”. In the U.S.,

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The documents, which were produced by the industry-funded Global Meat Alliance (GMA), emphasise the meat lobby’s desire to promote “our scientific evidence” at the summit, which will run from November 30 through to December 12. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

of global warming. Yet, many of the solutions being trialled by industry to cut methane emissions – from feeding cattle seaweed to genomic editing of cows – are either disingenuous, unproven or failing to deliver. The evidence against big agriculture’s role in driving the climate crisis is growing.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the wake of blazing heat, rising food insecurity and devastating floods, COP28 leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda for the conference, which will call for governments to work with industry to find new solutions. The agriculture industry has a lot to be worried about.

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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. As for whether B.C.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 20, 2023

IPCC report provides "unequivocal statement" that the economic benefits of limiting global warming to below 2°C outweigh the costs. The post What price clean air? This benefit alone will cover cost of climate action appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 17, 2021

In advance of the Government of Canada’s launch of a national hydrogen strategy , we released a report titled A New Hope , exploring Canada’s hydrogen opportunity and the potential it holds as a climate solution and for our economy. In fall of 2020, hydrogen was big news—and it still is. The report showcased a number of key findings.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The people inside this conference, the execs from oil and gas, the political figures from the governments that work with these companies, they know exactly how bad what they’re doing is,” said Benjamin Hoffman, another member of the Sunrise Movement. It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

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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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