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Carbon Mapper Launches Satellite Program to Pinpoint Methane and CO2 Super Emitters

Planet Pulse

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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Climate Crisis, Global Warming, Carbon Neutral, Zero Waste: Meaningful Buzzwords or Passing Fads?

Green Business Bureau

The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change. Global warming to climate change; climate change covers a broader term and now special interest groups can use it for any situation, as we have recently seen with the fires in Western Canada and now Australia.

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Danone commits to cut dairy methane emissions in partnership with farmers and EDF

EDF + Business

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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The 1.5C global warming limit is not impossible - but without political action it soon will be

Business Green

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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Group distils wisdom on biochar for climate-smart agriculture

Envirotec Magazine

CSA enhances soil health and builds climate resilience, while aiming to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. We hope to quantify related water and nutrient footprints and the potential to promote climate resilience.” As a soil amendment, biochar has the potential to help build resilience. What is biochar?

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Updated climate commitments ahead of COP26 summit fall far short, but net zero pledges provide hope, says UNEP report

Envirotec Magazine

To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, As of 30 September 2021, 120 countries, representing just over half of global greenhouse gas emissions, had communicated new or updated NDCs. To have any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, The potential of methane and market mechanisms.

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Methane Emissions in Animal Agriculture

EDF + Business

Reducing methane now is one of the fastest ways to slow global warming in the near term, and a critical part of avoiding the worst consequences of climate change. Agricultural emissions from livestock and rice are approximately 40% of human-caused global methane emissions. Tackling Enteric Methane.

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