DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recent comments about the use of batteries for renewable energy infrastructure surprised experts, one of whom described the premier’s comments as possibly ideologically motivated misinformation. Smith was the keynote speaker addressing the Pembina Institute’s Alberta Climate Summit in Calgary on October 26th.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 11, 2021

On a recent tutored session the question “What is it you need to know right now’? And it is a great question. And it is a great question. It is indeed a question many are now asking and many seeking to provide answers to. This post originally released on 19th January) Follow and subscribe to Regen Notes here.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As Louisiana attempts to spew less climate-warming pollution, which disproportionately comes from industry, fossil-fuel companies have convinced lawmakers to jump onto the bandwagon of carbon capture and storage (CCS), a controversial and unproven method of addressing the issue. The company is poised to be one of the largest U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Interviewer Thomas Kolster, the author of the book “Goodvertising: Creative advertising that cares”, opens with a softball: “Yannick, advertising and climate can seem like quite an oxymoron. So why do you care about the climate?” In a June 2023 video interview, Yannick Bolloré looks relaxed. billion euros (around $2.49

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

(I just posted yesterday and I generally only do a couple of posts per month, but there was some big sustainability news that I wanted everyone to know about). Every year in January, Fink writes a public letter to the CEOs of the world’s largest companies. ” It was powerful stuff. .” ” It was powerful stuff.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Climate activists and community associations, who were concerned about the risks associated with oil-by-rail shipments, counted the city’s rejection of the permit as a major victory, and were tantalizingly close to prevailing over the company. Zenith had appealed the decision, but had already suffered a string of defeats in the state.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This climate tech moment is different from Cleantech 1.0 ’s days, when VCs alone pumped expensive equity into energy commodities businesses, is the depth and breadth of specialized climate tech capital support. Heck, the climate capital stack is different now from when we first named this newsletter.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Starting with one of the fastest-growing clean energy sectors, solar technology, this is the fundamental question that a unique collaboratory is asking itself. CoRE recognizes the critical societal importance of scaling clean energy technologies such as solar to address the climate crisis. Krishna Rajan. Tue, 12/01/2020 - 01:00.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Corporate volunteerism is a rewarding way for companies to make a positive impact in their local community. It involves employees volunteering their time and skills to help out in various ways, such as fundraising, collecting donations, providing mentorship or engaging with local charities. Types of Volunteerism Programs.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Have a more sensible, aspirational, optimistic approach to tackling climate change and net zero,” Mayer told an IEA-run panel titled: “Energy Crisis: Can the UK Afford Net Zero?” To date, BP and the IEA have declined to say whether this funding relationship continues when asked by DeSmog. Get rid of it. Steve Baker and IEA Panel.

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Bidgely

MARCH 9, 2022

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Jason McGrade, Deputy Director of the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) and Lincoln Wood, Electrification Policy Manager at Southern Company, to talk about the unprecedented opportunity transportation electrification presents for energy providers for strategic consumer engagement.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 11, 2021

The question of Drax’s influence on national climate policy has come under renewed scrutiny after it emerged for a second time in two months that a senior PR executive advised on government climate strategy with an apparent conflict of interest. However, it produces 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Then I got a message from a recruiter about a private equity fund focusing on clean energy and thought, “How many other people out there are looking for a clean energy associate? I was there for just about two years, through a period of transition. But as it’s said, “With great power comes great responsibility.”

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Innovative climate solutions are entering the spotlight, but deploying those key technologies requires resources. We’ve covered the climate capital stack —from the flow of VC dollars to the challenges of accessing commercial debt. — three climate policy packages since 2021. Total funding: $1.2T

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 1, 2023

Another semester of sunshine, smiles and climate advocacy It is summer once again! This means lots of daylight and downtime; and at Defend Our Future, it means another semester’s end and a time of planning and reflection. The Community Organizing Fellows Program began with a two-day intensive training in D.C.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate advocates said that giving green accolades to companies who continue to produce adverts and public relations campaigns for major polluters undermines the credibility of Ad Net Zero, an advertising industry body formed in 2020 amid a broader push by the business world to show it was serious about tackling the climate crisis.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 13, 2021

This is the most important year for climate action since the Paris Climate Agreement was passed in 2015. Meaningful progress on climate change in this decade will require significant changes to almost every sector of the global economy, including energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, finance, and land use.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Nature charities unite to launch 'the People's Plan for Nature' in a bid to push back against proposals to dilute environmental policies. The mini-budget and accompanying Growth Plan sparked a furious reaction from leading environmental groups, with the RSPB accusing ministers of launching an "attack on nature".

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

This year’s London Climate Action Week marks a key moment in the run-up to November’s COP26 in Glasgow. Net zero” is equally stamped all over international, EU and national climate policies. Many are interpreting this to mean we are finally ready to follow the climate science and leave oil, coal and gas in the ground.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2022

Frontrunners Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, and Penny Mordaunt all confirm backing for maintaining 2050 target, but fears remain UK climate policy could be diluted by next Prime Minister. And Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch said she wanted a new approach to tackling climate change that was not based on targets and was more focused on delivery.

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Michael Grossman

JANUARY 10, 2020

There are several different market research taxonomies, not all suited for every company. Prior to undertaking either qualitative or quantitative research, I go through a one-on-one research process with stakeholders of a brand to learn what I should be asking about. What's Market Research?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For more than two years, the Advertising Association's Ad Net Zero campaign has been the UK advertising sector's headline climate initiative, bringing together a number of leading advertising and public relations firms, as well as media owners and production companies.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

With the gap between many of the leading candidates on fantasy uncosted tax cuts, inhumane asylum policies, and their complicity in the last six months of rolling scandals as slender as Boris Johnson's sense of propriety, climate policy, net zero, and how to respond to soaring energy bills will become critical issues in the leadership election.

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Grist

JUNE 14, 2023

Hello, and welcome to Part 2 of our series on personal action in the face of climate change. ” Claire Vlases, one of 16 young people suing the state of Montana The spotlight On Monday, a trial began for the climate lawsuit Held v. .” Now it’s time to think bigger, speak louder.” A federal case, Juliana v.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Particular initiatives would still face normal business scrutiny, but we could stop making the overall business case every time. An article in that same issue of Fortune focused on Salesforce, asking whether there was a conflict between the company’s layoffs and CEO Marc Benioff’s commitment to empathetic leadership and sustainability.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

Every year in June, the EU celebrates its annual ‘Green Week’ , in which Europe’s environmental elite gather to congratulate each other on how green they are. It’s certainly true that the EU claims to be taking the climate crisis seriously, most notably through the European Commission’s flagship European Green Deal.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 30, 2020

After seeing it at the age of five, I went out every clear night to stare at the Moon. I distinctly remember seeing the Pillars of Creation make their debut on the cover of Sky and Telescope magazine and being unable to tear my attention away from every swirl and color contained in their majesty. . Image credit: Daniela Rossetto.

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Charged

AUGUST 26, 2020

You buy a new car every five years or so; they sell up to 25 cars a month. Asked about EVs, many salespeople freeze, blank, deflect, even lie to move shoppers to vehicles they understand better—and that take less time to sell. They make money on the difference in knowledge. Vehicles they may never have driven?

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali said this week that he plans to outline his plan to approve PG&E’s $59 billion Chapter 11 restructuring plan on Wednesday. While some steps remain in court, “I’m going to come to the conclusion that the plan should be confirmed,” Montali said.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

During Prime Minister's Questions in Parliament yesterday, Johnson said that with greenhouse gas emissions having dramatically dropped as a result of business and industry shutdowns to stem the spread of Covid-19, there was now a need to "entrench those gains" once the lockdown lifts. we need to entrench those gains," Johnson said. "I

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Grist

JUNE 28, 2023

Last week in our series on personal climate action, we explored the power of advocating for climate progress as part of a community. The vision “Every movement organization, every social justice organization across this world should have resiliency, climate justice, and education tied into their plans.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change. Earlier this year, the U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The long-awaited publication of the government's much-anticipated Net Zero Strategy offers a chance for reflection, a micro-second long chance to take a breath before the continuation of this overwhelming and chaotic autumn of climate-related developments, an opportunity to honestly answer the question, 'how's it going?'. Half empty?

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2022

It is a question that anyone who has ever advocated for more renewables will have heard approximately eleventy thousand times, with the challenge invariably presented in a mocking tone that suggests the world's best engineers, investors, and policymakers have missed something so blindingly obvious a climate sceptic child could spot it.

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Grist

MAY 14, 2022

This story was originally published by Hakai Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. of Tangoio Marae have a serious decision to make about this place that is so central to their community, and one of their decision-making tools is unorthodox: a board game. This marae is where a local M?ori

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

.'s contracts for difference program for offshore wind would seem by most measures to be working very well. Over the past decade, contracts for difference have supported 10 gigawatts of offshore wind deployment, including 5.5 gigawatts in last year's round, while driving prices to subsidy-free levels. delivery" annually. Within the U.K.,

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

COP26 President-designate Alok Sharma has insisted the UK is intent on holding a physical UN Climate Summit in Glasgow later this year despite the challenge presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, as he today sought to dismiss concerns surrounding the government's preparations for the crucial event.

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