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Human activity generates 105bn tonnes of organic wastes (food waste, sewage and garden wastes, food and drink processing wastes, and farm and agricultural wastes) annually by human activity. However, only 2% of those wastes are currently being effectively managed. ” says David Newman, President of WBA.
This is especially fitting as the conference is taking place seven years after the signing of the ParisAgreement – a legally binding international treaty that commits countries to limiting global warming to below 2 (and preferably below 1.5) degrees Celsius.
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As the urgency to decarbonise grows, the World Biogas Association (WBA) is bringing the industry together to look at how fast its members could build the infrastructure to collect and treat all the organic wastes generated by society, which if left untreated would emit large amounts of harmful methane emissions.
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“The UK AD sector has however suffered from a lack of coordination between government departments to provide a coherent platform on which to fully deploy this industry which not only generates green energy, but also acts as a waste management solution. .
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C limit set by the 2015 ParisAgreement. Importantly, it eliminates false positives associated with biogenic sources of methane like sewage and animal waste by also detecting ethane, found only in thermogenic pipeline gas, along with methane.
New and updated climate commitments fall far short of what is needed to meet the goals of the ParisAgreement, leaving the world on track for a global temperature rise of at least 2.7°C C this century, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On.
C limit set by the 2015 ParisAgreement. Importantly, it eliminates false positives associated with biogenic sources of methane like sewage and animal waste by also detecting ethane, found only in thermogenic pipeline gas, along with methane.
This had been central to the climate accords since 2009, and is widely viewed as an indispensable ingredient for securing the mutual trust and cooperation of the 191 countries that signed the Parisagreement. How do you fix the gap?”
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