Envirotec Magazine

JULY 28, 2021

Viridor is working with UAV expert High Compliance, to understand the flight characteristics required for effective methane emissions surveys. The company has established a project team to plan a series of methane measurement surveys across several UK sites. Methane is a product of the waste we receive and outside of our control.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

The airplane-mounted sensor used by the researchers to detect methane leaks from oil and natural gas production in the New Mexico half of the Permian Basin. The amount of methane leaking from a huge US oil- and gas-producing region is several times greater than federal government estimates, according to a new study led by Stanford University.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Investing in the ground beneath our feet could have wide-ranging benefits for the environment, animal and human health – as well as moving closer to Net Zero, according to new research. Soil acts as a carbon ‘sink’, locking in GHGs that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.

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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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TechCrunch: Climate

DECEMBER 15, 2023

They are both trying to stop cows from burping methane. And a Sacca investment just raised $20 million to do just that. With the conclusion of COP28, the global talks on the climate crisis, Methane is going up […] © 2023 TechCrunch. What do iconic Valley investors Zachary Bogue and Chris Sacca have in common? No, really.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Methane update reveals that reduced demand for oil and gas during the pandemic's shutdown of industry and travel saw methane emissions drop 10 per cent in 2020. Companies have also touted sizeable new investment programmes to detect and fix methane leaks.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

By leveraging Modern Hydrogen’s methane pyrolysis technology, the two entities seek to reduce carbon emissions for industries such as steel production, cement manufacturing, and pulp-and-paper facilities. How Methane Pyrolysis Works and Why It Matters Modern Hydrogens methane pyrolysis technology is at the heart of this partnership.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

LOOP uses plasma technology to separate methane into its constituent atoms: carbon, locked into high-quality graphene, and hydrogen, which can either be used immediately or stored for future use. When run through the device, natural gas is replaced with a hydrogen-methane mix with no loss of energy potential.

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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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CleanTech Group

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Robotic waste management, sustainable chocolate derived from precision fermentation, and a cloud-computing platform to curtail methane flares: Recent Deals worth looking at Agriculture. The post Recent Deals – 17 December 2024 appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Read time: 10 mins In October, New Mexico announced new rules that propose slashing the massive volumes of methane which the oil and gas industry is releasing into the atmosphere. Tags: New Mexico methane regulations Hilcorp Jeffrey Hildebrand

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It is incredibly hard for investors to source, vet and execute investments across the many varied climate solution sectors. Frost Methane : An offsets market being created around methane flaring activities. Of the 50-ish startup companies announced this week — dubbed " Cohort 417 " (for the peak of 417.1 Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

At the heart of LOOP is a patented ‘nozzle’ where microwave energy is applied to crack methane into its component parts, creating clean hydrogen and capturing carbon in the form of high purity graphene. This unlocks decarbonisation projects that might not otherwise happen due to cost. Table: Graphene use case examples (credit: Levidian).

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

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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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) Methane, often from natural gas, is heated with steam to release hydrogen. With proper investment, Georgia could see operational fueling facilities within the next few years. coal or oil reserves), hydrogen can be produced almost anywhereusing water, methane, or biomass.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Landfills in the United States generate 15 percent of the country’s emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas with a potential warming impact 34 times that of carbon dioxide. Long-term collaboration between waste producers, local government and disposal companies enables the waste industry to invest in composting solutions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This investment will enable the company to grow its team, scale up production, and bring its patented innovations to a global market. Significance of the Investment The $25 million investment from bp Ventures and EIP is a strategic move to scale Oxford Flows operations to meet growing global demand.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The hydrogen is delivered in tanks and, currently, most of it originates from natural gas using processes like steam methane reforming. That said, advancements in renewable energy and further investment in hydrogen infrastructure are likely to accelerate this timeline.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Approaches such as investing in offshore energy production, conserving coastal ecosystems and increasing consumption of sustainable ocean-based protein offer opportunities to reduce emissions. One interesting application is adding certain seaweeds to feed for ruminant farm animals, which significantly could reduce their methane emissions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Meanwhile, natural gas facilities can access the incentives if they implement carbon capture and storage solutions and address methane leakage, using the yet-to-be-released GREET climate model. Pending Decisions on Hydrogen Incentives While considerable progress has been made, further developments are awaited.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 21, 2024

Actionable Insights for a Decarbonizing World Financing Methane Abatement An introduction to sustainable finance instruments Creating the right financial instruments can enable cash-constrained national oil companies to pursue rapid oil and gas methane abatement. Sustainable debt is growing rapidly.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the industry reckons with its role in a decarbonized future, advocates, utilities and regulators alike are calling for a carefully-managed transition that avoids costly long-term investments. This first-of-its-kind tool has the power to transform natural gas utility investment decisions. There is more work to be done.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A bank with an ESFR ratio close to 1 invests equally in low-carbon and fossil energy; a bank with a lower ESFR invests mainly in fossil energy sources, while a higher ESFR indicates more active financing of clean energy solutions. Bank Bs sustainable financing target includes investments back to 2017.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

2 This led to investment in new biomethane production infrastructure, which the world critically needs to cut methane emissions from organic wastes and generate green gas, biofertilisers and bioCO2, but this will no longer be possible under the proposed new guidance. using fossil fuels); scope 2 are from the purchase of energy (e.g.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hydrogen economy: Status vs ambition Currently, over 98% of global hydrogen originates from fossil fuel-based grey and black hydrogen, produced using steam methane reforming and coal gasification. The most prevalent is steam methane reforming (SMR). CLICK TO ENLARGE. These methods significantly contribute to CO2 emissions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 11, 2025

This process occurs in the absence of oxygen and results in the production of biogas, primarily composed of methane and carbon dioxide. This involves a chemical process where the methane reacts with steam under high temperatures to produce hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The company’s global CEO Gilberto Tomazoni complained in September that “currently, only four percent of climate change investment is directed toward agriculture and food systems” , going on to laud agriculture’s “tremendous potential to capture carbon” and estimating the bill for transformation at $300 to $350 billion.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2020

For all the talk of the energy transition, leading global oil and gas companies invested just $2.1 Total M&A activity or other investments into low-carbon companies — such as minigrid developers , EV infrastructure firms or energy storage providers — was under $2 billion last year from leading oil companies, the IEA said.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The problem is that despite this momentum, even sophisticated investors lack the breadth and depth of commitment to avoid the vast majority of speculative oil and gas investments. GEM estimates current global pipeline plans represent nearly $1 trillion in new investment. The writing, as they say, is on the wall for oil and gas.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) Cameras utilize infrared sensors to detect and visualize methane, sulphur hexafluoride, and hundreds of other industrial gases, which appear as plumes of smoke in a thermal image or video. This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with FLIR.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Organic waste recycling firm Keenan Recycling has secured £540,000 from Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy Investment Fund. The £18 million fund provides investment for SMEs based in Scotland in support of projects that will deliver growth in the circular economy, thanks to the European Regional Development Fund.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2024

Retailer to switch cows to feed designed to reduce burps and avoid 11,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

1 With agriculture estimated to have been the source of 48% of the UK’s methane emissions in 2020 – an increase of 1.3% This means no capital investment from the farmer is required (although an opportunity to invest alongside us also exists for farmers that are interested).

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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. A recent milestone was the U.S.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The post From carbon markets to curbing methane, the case for climate optimism at COP28 appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Nov. 28 – The dueling narratives of climate change will face off at COP28, the two-week global climate gathering that begins Thursday.

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