In 2020 there was a record-breaking rise in global methane emissions, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has revealed. NOAA’s preliminary analysis showed the annual increase in atmospheric methane was 14.7 parts per billion (ppb), the largest annual…
The South African Biogas Association (SABIA) and the World Biogas Association (WBA) have sent a joint letter to the South African Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, Barbara Creecy, urging her to help integrate biogas and its environmental benefits into…
Brazil’s government and industry — with support from the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation — are teaming-up on GEF Biogás Brasil, a project to advance the biogas sector. They hosted a webinar in March to launch the project’s “Tropicalization Programe.”…
The World Biogas Association (WBA) today launched a report highlighting the opportunity to rapidly cut the methane emissions from the huge volume of organic wastes generated annually by human activity, using the knowledge and technology that is available today. Human…
The Southern African Biogas Industry Association (SABIA) launched their market position paper last month. The paper demonstrates the potential of the South African biogas sector to create 30,000 jobs, reduce the national greenhouse emissions by 2% and attract 50 billion Rand of investments. David Newman, President…
Signatories to the WBA’s Biogas Industry and Climate Change Declaration of November 2019 gathered on 11 February for a virtual roundtable to discuss how best to represent biogas at the forthcoming COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November. At the…
The UK and Italy have their work cut out for them if as co-hosts they are to rescue COP 26 from disaster – and with it, life on earth. This is not hyperbole or hysteria. Pledges to cut emissions are…
In a recent webinar with dozens of other professionals working in the sector of environmental protection, I asked the question : if so many of us are working to save the environment, how come the environment is getting worse every…
Author and journalist Carlo Pizzati interviewed me last month for La Repubblica, one of Italy’s most-read daily national newspapers. I discussed India’s energy policy which unfortunately supports the $55 billion investment in new coal-fired power. India does not need to mine…
As we wrote here, WBA has been busy writing to Environment Ministers of top emitters and countries with the greatest biogas’ potential to ensure they include biogas in their climate plans. At least six months before the UN Climate Summit,…