Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If you’re fighting carbon pricing, you’re fighting climate action. And that’s how you’ll be seen in the next election: the anti-climate party whose delegates refused to acknowledge this time last year that “climate change is real.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2020

The UK needs a far more holistic approach to flood risk and resilience, argue Sara Mehryar, Viktor Roezer and Swenja Surminski from LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

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Mosaic

AUGUST 1, 2023

Billy has been working to fight climate change for two decades as an activist, political influencer, author and entrepreneur. In 2014, the company shifted from crowdfunding to providing finance options for residential solar projects, later expanding to finance a broad array of sustainable home improvements.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

It is set to feature over 100 leading speakers from the fields of business, politics, academia, and civil society. The rapidly organised live streamed event is being managed by the social network ' We Don't Have Time ' in collaboration with lead partners Exponential Roadmap and the Earth Day Network.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From the Canada Team Meet the ‘Extreme’ Atlas Network Groups Fighting Canada’s Oil and Gas Emissions Cap By Geoff Dembicki Within hours of Canada’s federal government announcing key details of its plans to cap greenhouse gas emissions within the oil and gas sector, an array of attacks against it started popping up.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Accelerating climate change will keep the federal research and development spigot open.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Green business leaders will be hoping Sunak reaffirms his commitment to the UK's net zero target and provide markets with much-needed policy clarity to support the net zero transition following weeks of political turmoil, policy U-turns and economic upheaval.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Dennis Murphey, retired chief environmental officer for Kansas City, MO, led the city’s effort to fight climate change for 13 years, putting Kansas City on the map for its 40-percent reduction in municipal greenhouse gas emissions. He died of COVID-19 on October 27. Murphey joined the city in 2006 and retired in June 2019.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 13, 2022

With the vast array of volunteering programs available, it can be hard to know where to start. Additionally, corporate volunteerism has a strong impact on community resilience, the capacity to meet current and future community needs amidst changes brought by climate change, population growth, and an evolving economic and political landscape.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

The UK solar industry has rubbished claims from Tory leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak that solar farms pose a threat to farmland, pointing out that climate change poses by far the bigger risk to food security and therefore further underscores the need to decarbonise energy sources.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

That is the hypothesis advanced in a new report published today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. According to the report, more than 318 cases in Europe have been identified as climate cases since 1993.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

Part of that strategy appears to be redefining its expanding petrochemical and plastics business as a solution to climate change. At Shell’s expanding Geismar Chemical Plant, just four miles away from the community of Geismar, the company has pending air permits for an array of additional emissions. “At

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. Soaring energy bills? Blame net zero. Boris Johnson's downfall? Net zero's fault. A decade of flat-lining productivity and anaemic wage growth?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

DeSmog’s analysis also shows that European agribusiness has borrowed from Big Oil’s lobbying playbook, with arguments that echo tried and tested tactics and messaging used by the oil and gas industry to block action on climate change. The industry often claims that green targets are “ political ”. The EU Targets Ignore Science’.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

struggled to present of itself on climate at the COP26 conference in Glasgow. Among the other rare and threatened wild creatures living in the coal mining-impacted streams are a dozen different kinds of fish, 39 mollusks, and a wide array of crustaceans and snails, the study reports. The new research highlights how, even as the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

He argues oil and gas company advertising is usually not directed at getting consumers to buy their products and services, but is more akin to political lobbying. This is political advertising that they're running to maintain their influence over public policy," he suggests.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 12, 2022

Key findings include: 55% think climate change is a serious problem and more action needs to be taken to fight it, but only 25% think Premier Doug Ford would agree with that assessment. Many voters want more action to fight climate change and many like the appeal of e-vehicles as a choice they can make to help protect the planet.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

That comes on top of its previously pledged £28bn a year investment on wider climate action. Another option for building on a proven success story would be to follow in the footsteps of workplace salary sacrifice schemes for bikes and electric company cars, but this time for a wider array green technologies, it argues.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

” He argued oil and gas company advertising is usually not directed at getting consumers to buy their products and services but is more akin to political lobbying. “This is political advertising that they’re running to maintain their influence over public policy,” he suggested.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. And it is damning.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For all the evidence the Paris Agreement has catalysed an era-defining array of clean tech innovations and a remarkable shift in public opinion, there have been baseless arguments that the entire COP process is an exercise in futility. What sacrifices are you willing to make for climate change?'. How about we sacrifice those?

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom Terry F.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

However, new controllable visa schemes for those displaced by climate change to come to the UK would enable the government to help those most in need while protecting the integrity of the immigration system." It is a diplomatic opportunity for Global Britain," said Onward's Jack Richardson. Many just don't even realise it.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

The frustration for Danker and many others is that the government has repeatedly stressed its commitment to green growth and has spent the last few years mulling a wide array of policies that would serve to mobilise much needed green investment. The PM set out less than a year ago what is needed to transform our economy," Danker said.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They saw how our two big existential challenges, climate change and inequality, along with multipliers like rising transparency and pressure from stakeholders, create emergencies. At one point, the effects of climate change were costing Unilever more than $300 million per year.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 27, 2021

Proponents of electric vehicles forthrightly acknowledge the many technological, management, political and consumer challenges that lie ahead. That this "system" is vulnerable and subject to a variety of threats — from climate change, malware or the inability to robustly predict future electricity consumption — is not in doubt.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Everyone was polite, but it's clear that divisions run deep. Some experts argue that the potential of regenerative agriculture to mitigate climate change may be lower than we think. I've been talking to people in this area for several months. Coffee ready? Let's dive in. The diversity of approaches also slows down learning.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Tory strategists themselves with the idea that the next election could be more like 1992 than 1997, but if the Party is to engineer one of the biggest polling recoveries in electoral history the government desperately needs some success stories and positive political momentum to carry it into a general election campaign next year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Met Office defended the report, telling both The Times and The Mail on Sunday that the Shared Socio-Economic Pathways project "is important in order to understand climate risk and resilience as climate change and socio-economic factors are highly linked". "It

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

-China trade war, California policy and business leaders have forged ahead with efforts to collaborate with China on the advancement of low-carbon energy technologies considered both financially lucrative and critical to mitigating the worst impacts of climate change. “Right now our biggest challenge is climate change.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 16, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. As RECs continue to grow in number and size, they will have greater political power. To say that the European energy system is at a crossroads is an understatement.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 27, 2021

Proponents of electric vehicles forthrightly acknowledge the many technological, management, political and consumer challenges that lie ahead. That this “system” is vulnerable and subject to a variety of threats — from climate change, malware or the inability to robustly predict future electricity consumption — is not in doubt.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

degree Fahrenheit) limit to global warming that an international panel of scientists says is required to avoid catastrophic climate change. And it can’t just be a politician touting the need to involve workers for the sake of political expediency. degree-aligned oil and gas output pathway,” Newton said, referring to the 1.5

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Citi similarly pledged $1tr by 2030 to "finance and facilitate a wide array of climate solutions." Bank of America, for example, committed to "mobilize $1tr by 2030" toward "low-carbon, sustainable business activities." Wells Fargo said it would pony up $500bn by 2030 toward activities "that help the transition to a low-carbon economy."

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Thankfully, that ugly ending did not deter climate champions from gearing up for a repeat attempt in 2020, and E2 has redoubled its efforts as well, capitalizing on its unique position as a business voice organization to highlight the economic case for Cap-and-Invest.

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