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Dec 1, 2024 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Aaron Clark
(Bloomberg) -- About 200 nations couldn’t agree on a treaty to curb plastic pollution after two years of divisive negotiations, but said they made some progress and would reconvene the talks next year. A weeklong United Nations-backed summit in Busan, South Korea, concluded early Monday without a legally binding deal to address plastic pollution across the material’s lifecycle, including supply — which doubled between 2000 and 2019 — use, and disposal.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
bnnbloomberg.ca | Ishika Mookerjee |Aaron Clark
(Bloomberg) -- Bhutan is studying plans to fund a potential $22.5 billion buildout of hydropower generation capacity with a mix of blended finance and green bonds, as the Himalayan nation seeks to revive its floundering economy.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
phys.org | Aaron Clark |Zachary Mider
Sitting in his cramped office in Paris, Manfredi Caltagirone admits that one of the world's highest-profile efforts to cut methane emissions so far isn't stopping the gas from escaping and warming the atmosphere.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
financialpost.com | Aaron Clark
Asian companies are increasingly setting climate targets but many of them don’t have a clear plan for how to achieve those goals, a senior official at Schneider Electric SE said. Author of the article:Bloomberg NewsAaron ClarkPublished Jul 31, 2024 • 1 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
es-us.finanzas.yahoo.com | Aaron Clark
(Bloomberg) -- Global average temperatures have now hit or exceeded a key climate threshold for 12 months, highlighting the challenge in limiting global warming to below 1.5C above the pre-industrial era.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
financialpost.com | Aaron Clark
The UN’s IMEO has made a new request to two energy producers to halt emissions from a site that’s been observed releasing the greenhouse gas since 2013Author of the article:Bloomberg NewsAaron ClarkPublished Jul 04, 2024 • 3 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.
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May 22, 2024 | 
bnnbloomberg.ca | Aaron Clark |Heesu Lee
(Bloomberg) -- South Korea’s plan to co-fire coal plants with ammonia could spew thousands of tons of toxic gas that’s known to cause breathing difficulties, lung disease and genetic dysfunctions into the atmosphere, according a new analysis. Burning ammonia doesn’t emit carbon dioxide but it does release fine particulate matter known as PM2.5, according to a report from Solutions for Our Climate and Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
bnnbloomberg.ca | Aaron Clark
(Bloomberg) -- Major polluters in Australia may be spewing more than double the methane estimated in its national inventory data, according to a report from the Melbourne-based nonprofit The Superpower Institute, which suggests the government should invest in new monitoring and verification technology. The study, which drew on atmospheric modeling and satellite observations, is the first analysis to use the institute’s new Open Methane tool.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
bnnbloomberg.ca | Aaron Clark
(Bloomberg) -- Roughly half a century ago geologists exploring for hydrocarbons accidentally shattered the roof of a huge underground gas deposit opening a crater 60-meters (197-feet) wide. Rather than let the potent methane fumes leak uncontrollably, engineers eventually lit the gas on fire, presumably on the theory that it would quickly burn off. It didn’t and the site is believed to have burned continuously ever since.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
bnnbloomberg.ca | Aaron Clark |Petra Sorge
(Bloomberg) -- German coal mines spew 184 times more methane than what the country reports to the United Nations, according to a new analysis by Ember. The energy think tank used methodology developed by scientists that takes into account the gas content of coal and mining depths to estimate the emissions, which cast fresh scrutiny on Germany’s strategy of pivoting towards fossil fuels in the wake of Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
