Planet Pulse

APRIL 15, 2021

In addition, the Carbon Mapper consortium announced its plan to deploy a ground-breaking hyperspectral satellite constellation with the ability to pinpoint, quantify and track point-source methane and CO 2 emissions. In short, if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. . These home-grown satellites are a game-changer.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2. Birgit Liodden, founder of The Ocean Opportunity Lab, said: “Toraphene has the potential to create a critical turning point in tackling the global plastic pollution crisis.

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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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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Efforts like these took aim at pollutants like the group of chemicals known as aerosols, which include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and other compounds that are harmful to human health. Some studies estimate that, without aerosol pollution, the world might have already warmed by another half a degree Celsius. Clean Air Act.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

The new research incorporates shorter-lived GHG emissions such as methane, which can arise from sources including landfills (pictured). Countries around the world pledged in the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5°C, Different emissions can either warm or cool the planet. C, or, at most, 2°C. Nature Climate Change).

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The study found that an alternative method of quantifying the impact of methane emissions has led to a raft of industry-friendly findings that the livestock sector seems to be using to claim climate neutrality as they continue to pollute. GWP* prioritizes the trend over the last 20 years. Credit: Matt Brown/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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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 report calculatres that switching to LNG could deliver carbon emissions savings, but these could be partially offset by increased methane emissions.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World Coal Mine Methane An overview for investors Coal production is a major source of methane emissions – and investors in coal and downstream sectors like steel have a role to play in cleaning it up. Download Slide Deck Report summary Coal mining emits methane, a major climate pollutant.

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Econaur

APRIL 3, 2020

Reference: Pollutant Formation in Combustion Processes, Grzegorz Wielgosi?ski, 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.

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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.

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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

JUNE 10, 2024

Increases in decomposition rates may be problematic for the global carbon cycle and for animals, like insects and fish, that live in streams because the food resources they need to survive will disappear more quickly, lost to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.” But a lot of carbon dioxide and methane comes from aquatic ecosystems.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

Venture Global’s terminal in Cameron Parish exceeded its air pollution limits most days during its first year of operation, according to a report by the Louisiana Bucket Brigade. Grüneberg clarified that the EU-wide methane regulation finalized in May will result in a methane transparency database where U.S.

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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. However, of the companies analysed, only dairy giant Danone had set a methane target – another key recommendation by the UN.

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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 square feet of land and the assuaging of animal species distinction, water pollution and habitat destruction. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 My biggest concern is running out of time.

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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. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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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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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As the global temperature rises, individuals search for ways to shrink their carbon footprints. Many consumers adopted plant-based diets, minimizing their contribution to methane emissions. While our diet’s impacts on the environment are evident, individuals observe the reverse relationship less.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Last week’s BBC headline is the kind that’s guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of food corporations, which are increasingly under pressure to cut pollution, just like the fossil fuel industry. of global warming. That means: reasonable, strong and very short term targets for cutting pollution.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the United States moves toward decarbonization, cities and states must use all means available to reduce climate pollution, and natural gas utilities should be at the forefront of this rapid energy transition. By Erin Murphy and Christie Hicks , EDF.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Sarcastically, he thanked the room of “polluters” for destroying Louisiana’s coastline. “On It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. “It’s It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

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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

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. ‘Friend Methane! ‘Friend Methane!

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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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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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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

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change. Headline writers had a field day. million dairy cows.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

If the federal and provincial governments live up to their climate commitments (namely on methane reduction, industrial carbon pricing, an emissions cap and ensuring that new LNG projects reach net zero on scope 1 and 2 emissions), over eight Site C’s worth of additional electricity would be required to electrify the six LNG projects in B.C.

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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 Just seven percent are based in Africa.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Right now, agriculture and land use change account for around one-quarter of global climate pollution, the majority of which sit in the global supply chains of food and agriculture companies. Immediately cut emissions of short and long-lived climate pollutants. Methane matters…a lot. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Ultra processed foods like snacks, drinks and ready meals, along with chemical fertilisers made from natural gas, are singled out as major sources of pollution. Published today (Thursday), the research comes weeks before global leaders gather in Dubai to discuss ways to limit catastrophic global heating.

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