From Waste360.com
By Patrick Serfass, American Biogas Council Executive Director
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RNG is one of the most potent tools to decarbonize because emissions are reduced in making it and using it, often making it carbon negative. RNG is the methane component of biogas which is made from recycling decomposable wastes—manure, wastewater solids, food waste, crop residues, and the like—using biogas systems.
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Will we look back on the 2020’s as the Decade of Corporate Decarbonization Pledges? According to McKinsey & Company, over 6,000 companies have pledged to achieve an average reduction of 49 percent in Scope 1 and 2 emissions and 28 percent in Scope 3 emissions by 2030. That’s just six years away.
These are excellent goals. But making good on those commitments is a major challenge. And while large multinational companies increasingly include renewable natural gas (RNG) in their decarbonization plans, the benefits of using RNG to replace conventional gas remains largely untapped.