Posted October 27, 2018 07:30:17 A new report released Thursday says the world’s largest mining company and some of the worlds largest food and pharmaceutical companies are partnering to reduce methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and to reduce the emissions of harmful pollutants.
The study, from a group of global researchers, found the carbon dioxide reductions could be as large as 40% in areas where the countries of BHP, Chevron and BHP-Texaco are based.
The results were based on a global study of the carbon-dioxide emissions from the mining sector and the food and beverage sector, using a carbon-sequestration approach that uses a mixture of gases that can be burned to generate electricity.
The research was carried out by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Queensland in Australia, and was presented Thursday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
The carbon- sequestering approach is being widely adopted around the world, but the approach has been criticized as too expensive and difficult to use.
The researchers found the most effective strategy to reduce emissions was for the mining companies to reduce their emissions by 50% or more.
The researchers found that the carbon emissions of the BHP Group, which includes BHP Canada, BHP Australia and Rio Tinto, were equivalent to burning approximately one ton of coal a year.
The report also found that using a combined carbon- sequestration approach would also reduce methane from mining activities by 30%, and that the impact of reducing methane emissions from food production would be similar to that of reducing carbon dioxide.
A report on the new study is expected to be published in the scientific journal Nature next week.
The scientists found that reducing methane and CO2 emissions from mining operations in areas of the U
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