Rising temperatures due to climate change endanger creatures around the world. This polar bear … [+] sculpture represents one of the many iconic species under threat. AFP via Getty Images This i...
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Algorand Announces First Smart Contract to Offset Carbon Emissions – crypto.news
The world’s first carbon-negative blockchain, Algorand, announced on April 22, 2022, that it would install the first smart contract to automate the offsetting of carbon emissions. A major development...
Bitso to Offset Carbon Emissions From the Trading Platform’s BTC, ETH, ERC20 Transactions – Bitcoin News
On Friday, the Latin American cryptocurrency platform Bitso announced that the company plans to offset carbon emissions from its bitcoin and ERC20 token transactions carried out on the platform. Bitso...
Bitso Will Offset Carbon Emissions Of All Bitcoin And ERC-20 Token
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Algorand Launches First Smart Contract to Offset Carbon Emissions: Details
Tomiwabold Olajide The network’s new self-sustaining smart contract will automatically assign a percentage of every transaction fee to offset carbon emissions Algorand has announced it will impl...
Algorand will automatically offset carbon emissions with smart contracts
Algorand has officially implemented the first smart contract that will automate the offsetting of carbon emissions. In a press release shared with CryptoSlate, Algorand said that it was doubling down ...
China’s Emissions Trading System Will Be The World’s Biggest Climate Policy. Here’s What Comes Next.
China’s new emissions trading system (ETS) is already the world’s largest carbon market, three times bigger than the European Union’s. And China’s ETS is about to grow 70 percent under plans to add he...
Jump In Methane Emissions That Fingers Big Oil — But Wait, Not So Fast.
Extracting oil from wells in the Permian Basin near Midland, Texas. Getty Images The methane bugaboo began around 2003 when a mysterious cloud of methane gas was found, by satellite, hovering above Fa...
ESG Certifications For Natural Gas Create Strange Bedfellows
Group production wellheads and conduit with valves. Oil and gas industry. getty The process of certifying U.S. natural gas production for ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) purposes gained hei...
7 Major Developments In The Climate Tool Marketplace
Climate risks are rising all across the world. Financial institutions and corporations are turning … [+] to analytical tools to help understand them. AFP via Getty Images As the financial sector...
Methane emissions surged by a record amount in 2021, NOAA says
A broken oil well pipeline gauge near Depew, Oklahoma J Pat Carter/Getty Images Global emissions of methane, the second biggest contributor to human-caused climate change after carbon dioxide, surged ...
Bitcoin Mining Firms Send Carbon Emissions Packing Wholly
There have always been concerns regarding the Proof-of-Work consensus model’s environmental effects and energy consumption. Marathon Digital is one such company that is reconsidering the fact and is ...
40% Of Emissions Come From Real Estate; Here’s How The Sector Can Decarbonize
A green building in Milan provides the benefits of cleaner air and lower energy bills to its … [+] residents. Getty Images From rising sea levels that sweep away coastal properties to heatwaves ...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calls cryptocurrency CO2 emissions a ‘growing concern’
The United Nations arm aimed at assessing the science related to climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, has named crypto among technologies that may require greater en...
U.N. Warns Greenhouse Gas Emissions Must Peak In Next 3 Years To Avoid Most Devastating Climate Change Impacts
Topline The United Nations called on governments Monday to drastically reduce fossil fuel emissions and ramp up investment in renewable energy in what it framed as a last-ditch plan to stave off the m...
IPCC cites cryptocurrency as carbon emissions factor in landmark report
A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released Monday contained dire warnings about future climate risks. The report from the IPCC, an intergovernmental panel within t...
The Concept Of Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, And How To Measure Them For Carbon Management By Fossil Energy And Other Companies. Part 2.
Diesel trucks and cars emitting greenhouse gases near Banning, California. Getty Images There is a growing need for companies to adopt carbon management, meaning to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) e...
Oil giant Exxon Mobil uses Bitcoin to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Exxon Mobil uses excess natural gas to mine Bitcoin from oil wells in North Dakota. The waste gas would usually have to be burnt off in a process known as flaring. However, it is being repurposed to m...
The Concept Of Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, And How To Measure Them For Carbon Management By Fossil Energy And Other Companies. Part 1.
Emissions from petrochemical plant on Teesside, UK. Getty Images There is a growing need for companies to adopt carbon management, meaning to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Bankers and p...
Major New Roads In England May Have Funding Pulled If They Increase Carbon Emissions Or Don’t Boost Active Travel
Earthworks and preparation of formation during construction of Great Leighs bypass, Essex, United … [+] Kingdom,. (Photo by Liz Artindale/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images) Getty Imag...
Credit Suisse Aims to Almost Halve Emissions Financing to Fossil Fuels
Credit Suisse, which is the second-largest bank in Switzerland, has said on Thursday that it strives to have nearly halve emissions financing to fossil fuels by 2030. According to Reuters, Credit Suis...
Good For The Environment, Consumers, And Auto Companies, Bad For Oil Companies
Michael Regan, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), speaks during an event at … [+] the EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. Regan announc...
Deep Dive On Climate As Sea Levels – And Wars
Finding Beauty in A Broken World Shelby Chen It was a strange but premonitory connecting of dots. As Russia invaded Ukraine, I was sitting in a 3-day ‘deep dive’ at Harvard, learning from some of the ...
New Study Claims China Ban Has Worsened Bitcoin’s Carbon Emissions
One of the most over-flogged issues within the crypto space is the issue of carbon emission associated with Bitcoin mining. Before now, Bitcoin miners were mostly concentrated in China. Mining activi...
US Lawmakers Press Bitcoin Mining Firms on Energy Usage, Carbon Emissions, Climate Crisis – Coinotizia
Eight U.S. lawmakers, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, have sent letters to top U.S.-based bitcoin mining firms questioning them about their crypto mining operations. “The extraordinarily high ener...
Army’s climate plan will slash emissions, build electric vehicle fleet
Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth testifies before the House Armed Services Committee about the FY2022 defense budget request in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, June 29, 2021 ...
Report: Bitcoin mining carbon emissions contribute nearly 0.08% globally
The new CoinShares report underlines the network’s recent carbon emissions, which amount to nearly 0.08% globally, are insignificant numbers compared to emissions released by other industries and doma...
Plug Power’s Walmart Deal Is a Step in the Right Direction, Analyst Says
Text size Plug Power stock has gained about 4% the last 12 months. Courtesy Plug Power Plug Power’s recent deal with Walmart is solid validation for investors that the company’s green hydrogen investm...