DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

AnimalhealthEurope’s general-secretary, Roxane Feller, was listed as the ‘creator’ of an open letter published in March 2020 on the EU’s sustainable Farm to Fork Strategy. A spokesperson for European Livestock Voice told DeSmog that all partners “share the tasks of drafting letters, communications.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

The group publicly launched in January with a letter to the Sunday Telegraph calling on the government to scrap green levies on energy bills, expand North Sea oil and gas exploration and support “shale gas extraction”, known as fracking, which the UK effectively banned in 2019. Global Warming Policy Foundation Links.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

The New Year has got off to a roaring start for the UK's plant-based food sector, with the number of people pledging to ditch meat and dairy as part of the annual Veganuary campaign hurtling past previous records inside the first four days of the month. If we act now, the future can be better.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2020

Volvo acknowledges the impact of climate change on its business and has set energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets to 2020," BlackRock argued. However, there is limited disclosure beyond this in its public reporting, and no detail on oversight or its strategy to mitigate the impact of climate risk on its business.".

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Grist

MAY 30, 2022

The executive, who works for the independent agency Clout, ended her working relationship with Shell in an open letter to its executives and 1,400 employees. In late 2020, several Shell executives in its clean energy sector left amid reports they were frustrated at the pace of Shell’s shift towards greener fuels.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

This means ending fossil fuel subsidies, placing a price on carbon pollution and committing to no new coal after 2020.". Yet India also faces severe threats from climate change, with increasingly volatile weather patterns and changes to annual monsoon season already impacting the country.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 25, 2020

Thu, 06/25/2020 - 00:30. This year, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management company, made thundering news in his annual letter to investors , touting, "The evidence on climate risk is compelling investors to reassess core assumptions about modern finance." Paolo Natali.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

The results were published in June in the journal Environmental Research Letters. It just goes to show that the EPA monitors might be getting broad trends correctly, like annual or seasonal amounts,” said Raheja. For example, some noticed bad smells and more severe symptoms in mid December 2020.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

But, amid widespread fears that the working version of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework published over the summer will fail to drive the action needed to deliver a much-needed sea change when it comes to protecting nature, a number of hard-hitting reports have been published as the first part of the talks crank in to action this week.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A recent estimate of global reservoir evaporative losses found that annual water volume loss was equivalent to 70 percent of all global municipal water withdrawals in 2010. Image credit: Solar AquaGrid In arid river basins around the globe, substantial water supply is lost through evaporation. infiltration into ditch banks). Hayibo, K.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Following a fraught year for the global food system, more people pledged to ditch meat and dairy this January through the annual Veganuary campaign than ever before, its organisers have confirmed.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2020

"As a leader of one of the world's foremost global companies and a valued partner of the World Economic Forum, we encourage you to use the opportunity of your upcoming participation to make a commitment to act on climate change," the letter reads. "If The pledge set a new benchmark for climate goals among leading corporates.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The 2021 proxy season is officially here - much awaited after the tumultuous events of 2020. The annual proxy season is also an important harbinger of change in how companies are evolving their governance models and approach to environmental and social issues. That's almost double compared to 2020.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In California, like much of the West, many factors interact to increase annual burned area. million acres burned thus far in 2020 is relatively small compared to estimates of 4 million acres (or more) of natural burning that may have occurred each year in California during prehistoric times (Stephens et al. The nearly 3.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under federal law, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reported this week. In some cases, benzene levels were already too high in 2019 — and then rose in 2020, EIP said, citing one refinery southeast of Houston.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

” Our analysis focused on the three years spanning from October 2020 to October 2023, a period when calls for the media , public relations and advertising companies to cut their commercial ties with fossil fuel clients have increased amid growing awareness of the role industry messaging has played in slowing climate action.

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Enervee

APRIL 4, 2019

Utilities will also have to compensate for a big gap in claimable savings, when new Federal lighting efficiency standards go into effect on 1 January 2020. For all other categories, market transformation approaches that tackle underlying behavioral and market barriers are needed to scale savings cost effectively.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2021

In the letter to Shapps, the rail industry groups and low carbon transport campaigners urge the government to kick-start a "rolling electrification programme", arguing the move could support jobs, economic growth, and demonstrate the UK's climate leadership in the run up to the COP26 Climate Summit this autumn.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 27, 2021

New research, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , has revealed that massive glacial melting has resulted in a shift of the Earth’s axis. As such, the melting of billions of tons of ice into the oceans annually has resulted in an axis shift. See original here:Â .

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The fifth Annual Report of the new(ish) Committee appeared towards the end of last year. We would publish an Annual Report, pointing out the inadequacies of existing policies to achieve the government's declared policy objectives of eradicating fuel poverty. 2020 came and went, leaving so many still living in E, F, even G rated homes.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, sent letters to five PR firms — Story Partners, DDC Advocacy, Blue Advertising, Singer Associates, and FTI Consulting — requesting all documents related to their work running influence or marketing campaigns for oil, gas, and coal companies and their trade groups. “For

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

— Boris Johnson #StayAlert (@BorisJohnson) June 5, 2020. Backed by investors such as BNP Paribas, Allianz, Legal & General and UBS, the letter calls on EU leaders to ensure recovery packages accelerate the transition to a net zero economy in line with the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and proposed European Green Deal.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 17, 2020

The first thing we want to share with you to start 2020 is our Impact Report. Applications are still open for Summer 2020 internships. To 2020 and beyond! And it’s a story of climate solutions gaining momentum in neighborhoods, boardrooms, and classrooms around the world. These changemakers are getting their hands dirty to m?lama

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 21, 2021

The project’s primary resistance now comes from two intervenors in Bratenahl, Ohio, a suburb east of Cleveland with median annual earnings above $80,000, according to U.S. The lawyers’ 2017 engagement letter with Maloney indicates that the legal fees were being paid by Murray Energy Corporation. census data. High stakes.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Related: Annual Amazon deforestation rate hits highest levels in a decade According to The Guardian, the rainforest shrank by 10,476 square kilometers between August 2020 and July 2021. Newswire consulted its trusted sources and concluded Bolsonaro’s statement was half true. This is 13 times the size of New York City.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

At the start of this week he arranged a letter to the Prime Minister week making this case that was reportedly signed by 34 MPs and five members of the House of Lords. Baker and Lilley attended the registered charity’s annual lecture in November, where US professor Steve Koonin questioned the scientific consensus on the climate crisis.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In my annual review of big themes in sustainability and business — in other words, how companies manage environmental and social issues and opportunities — I’ve always included a changing climate as a big story. But it’s now not an annual story; it’s permanent. Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon wrote an open letter to his 2.2

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Recently, I was tabulating the annual performance of stocks recommended by Utility Forecaster. In a September 9, 2021 letter , President Lawrence Bacow said that as of June the university was no longer making direct investments in companies that explore or develop fossil fuels. Since May 2020, the energy sector is up about 190%.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If we could do that over 200 years, I’d be a lot more relaxed," (Kramer, 2020). C may already be "out of reach" (Hood, 2020). It’s not crazy expensive and it adds up to gigatons” (Kramer, 2020). Fifty years ago, climate models accurately predicted that greenhouse gases cause global warming (Hausfather et al, 2020).

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AGreenLiving

MAY 8, 2021

Aman Singh Sat, 05/08/2021 – 15:11 The 2021 proxy season is officially here — much awaited after the tumultuous events of 2020. The annual proxy season is also an important harbinger of change in how companies are evolving their governance models and approach to environmental and social issues. Subscribe here.]

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Starting on January 7, many companies pulled their donations from all politicians, or just the ones who voted to overturn the election of 2020. For the 5th straight January, the year kicked off with Larry Fink’s letter to corporate CEOs and investors in his company, Blackrock, the largest asset owner in the world.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has this week published its fourth annual report on its progress against the objectives set out in the 25 Year Environment Plan, analysing its performance against 50 natural capital indicators spanning air, water, waste, biodiversity, and soil. per cent between 2012 and 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Bolloré, the chair and CEO of the Havas Group , is on the French Riviera to attend the annual Cannes Lions festival, “a week of world-class networking, learning, and history-making creativity” that draws thousands of PR and marketing professionals from around the world. Shell remains a notorious greenwasher.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

"This is a serious departure from the past, but without the end to the use of unabated fossil fuels, we will not be able to reach the climate targets," said Dr Werner Hoyer, as he presented the bank's annual results for 2020. billion tonnes of coal in 2020. million barrels per day in 2020.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

New UK Energy Research Centre report argues 2030 ban on new internal combustion engine cars needs to be supported by bolder policy measures throughout the 2020s. They are the three little letters that present the biggest challenge to efforts to decarbonise road transport: SUV.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

The calls for government support come alongside today's open letter to the Prime Minister, which was backed by over 200 top businesses and is urging Ministers to deliver an explicitly green stimulus package that supports the UK's net zero transition. million EVs on the roads worldwide by 2030.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

If you've been wondering what was happening on the international climate change agenda given the postponement of COP26 , the annual UN summit due to have taken place in Glasgow in November, the last 10 days have given a few clues, as nations and their leaders lifted their eyes up from the coronavirus crisis and began to talk. So - job done?

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