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Hunting Methane Using Satellites

Legal Planet

A stream of data about methanea potent greenhouse gasis now constantly being beamed down from space. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in a 20-year timespan. Just as essential to expanding data collection are efforts to broaden data access.

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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

The main objectives included: Approving and adopting outlines for the three major working group reports and an additional methodology report on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). This debate is not just technicalit is deeply tied to ethics, governance, and the role of the IPCC in assessing emerging technologies.

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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

The main objectives included: Approving and adopting outlines for the three major working group reports and an additional methodology report on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). This debate is not just technicalit is deeply tied to ethics, governance, and the role of the IPCC in assessing emerging technologies.

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Waste-To-Energy Tech Could Slash U.S. Water Sector Carbon Emissions, But Its Potential Remains Underdeveloped

Circle of Blue

utilities have been slower to adopt the energy- and emissions-saving technologies than those in other parts of the world. Despite the economic advantages of these technologies and their potential environmental benefits, U.S. Despite the economic advantages of these technologies and their potential environmental benefits, U.S.

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These machines scrub greenhouse gases from the air – an inventor of direct air capture technology shows how it works

Environmental News Bits

by Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has put more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere than nature can remove. As that CO2 builds up, it traps excess heat near Earth’s surface, causing global warming.

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Is It Possible to Phase Out Petroleum and Transform our Transportation System?

Union of Concerned Scientists

An equitable and people-centered transition of this nature will require changes that go beyond the necessary technological shifts and must focus on overcoming significant social, institutional, and behavioral barriers. In other words, technological solutions are necessary but not sufficient. How do we make this transformation happen?

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A Dangerous Disruption

Legal Planet

Last week, MIT’s “Technology Review” reported that a small startup firm is proposing to spray reflective aerosols in the stratosphere commercially as a climate corrective. They say they have thus far launched two small weather balloons, which each released a few grams of sulfur dioxide gas (SO 2 ) in the stratosphere.

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