The week in climate policy: 4 updates you need to know
GreenBiz
MAY 31, 2024
The EU exits an outdated energy treaty; California’s Chamber of Commerce again attempts to delay the state’s corporate emission disclosure laws.
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Renew Economy
APRIL 18, 2024
The post Queensland writes clean energy and climate targets into law, but LNP baulks at “risky” renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy. Pressure grows on federal Labor as Queensland passes ambitious 2035 emissions reduction target with bipartisan support. But LNP refuses to agree to renewables target.
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DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
At the eleventh hour, right-wing politicians have launched a bid to block the passing of the EU’s flagship nature protection law, which scientists have described as a “cornerstone of food security and human health”. Scientists have condemned the call, as well as six other amendments that could see the law delayed or weakened.
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 21, 2023
A national industry group representing gas producers is quietly paying for digital advertisements urging Canadians to “speak up” to their elected officials against laws addressing climate change and public health, DeSmog can reveal. Source: Facebook Ad Library Voice of Energy’s website does not disclose who created and paid for the campaign.
ThinkGeoEnergy
MAY 15, 2024
” The new law, which came into effect on the 13th of May, provides the regulatory framework for geothermal exploration and development permitting. and Claire Lai via LinkedIn The post Taiwan publishes new geothermal project development policy first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 15, 2023
An apocalyptic “meh” seemed to greet the government’s bumper package of energy- and climate-related policy announcements and documents released on 30 March, which appeared short on new ideas and sources of funding.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 18, 2024
and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. Truss writes that current environmental policies should be scrapped in favour of a “free market” approach. The book also spreads false claims about climate policies.
ThinkGeoEnergy
MARCH 12, 2024
This is naturally a welcome development for geothermal development, especially as policy support seeks for the establishment of research institutes, more streamlined permitting procedures, and funding bodies for geothermal projects. HR 6474 is currently under review by the Committee on Natural Resources. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), such as EGS. “We
The Guardian: Energy
MAY 13, 2024
One of the members of a Senate committee that reviewed the draft laws, independent senator Lidia Thorpe, said the legislation “should be setting off alarm bells” because “it could mean that Australia becomes the world’s nuclear waste dump”.
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 17, 2024
The High Court has given the green light for a judicial review of Michael Gove’s policy on green homes. Good Law Project is supporting Rights Community Action to take Michael Gove’s levelling up department to the High Court. Rights Community Action’s chief executive, Naomi Luhde-Thompson, said: “This is a policy disaster.
GreenBiz
APRIL 26, 2021
A circular approach to electrification and renewable energy. While electrification and renewable energy are key to decarbonizing the economy, the growing demand for solar PV may be creating a new problem. Taylor Curtis: One of the pillars of NREL’s strategic objective is focused on creating a circular economy for energy materials.
Energy Central
JANUARY 4, 2024
Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s release of the Watts & Blocks Podcast, powered by Giga Energy. This week on the show I had the pleasure of sitting down with Tom Mapes, the Founder & President of the Digital Energy Council.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 12, 2020
How cities can influence the energy system. cities and counties transition to clean energy for their own operations and communities, many are finding that stakeholders and policies beyond their jurisdictions affect their ability to purchase clean energy. Heather House. Wed, 08/12/2020 - 00:45.
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The case specifically challenges a 2011 climate protection law, claiming it is ineffective and outdated, and therefore infringes upon children’s constitutional rights. For years, Fridays for Future has been demanding the revision of the Climate Protection Law in order to (finally) establish compliance with the Paris Agreement.
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 18, 2021
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, a rebroadcast of episode 127 of the Building Local Power Podcast , host John Farrell speaks with guest Jean Su. Farrell and Su discuss how legal advocacy for energy democracy can overcome utility barriers to a renewable energy economy. Originally published at ILSR.org.
EDF + Business
JANUARY 25, 2024
.” Rising temperatures and extreme weather events are direct threats to companies’ facilities, employees, and use of renewable energy grids. The only way to mitigate those risks is to cut emissions at speed and scale and strengthen the grid – and that requires public policy.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Rights Community Action and Good Law Project launch legal action against government policy that restricts councils' ability to set higher energy efficiency standards for new homes
GreenBiz
JULY 2, 2020
A truly clean energy system runs on a clean conscience. For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply.
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 27, 2020
It doesn’t go unnoticed when a Southern state takes a stand on clean energy. But saying you’re supportive of renewable energy standards and carbon-free electricity is much different than actually making it happen, as Virginia is beginning to take steps to accomplish. In April 2020, Virginia Gov.
DeSmogBlog
MAY 8, 2024
Internal BP emails show that its UK executives were reassured by a controversial oil industry group that they could “shape [the] internal thinking” of a 2018 report on carbon taxes produced by the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange. The emails were among hundreds of documents released by a powerful committee of U.S.
Business Green
MARCH 4, 2020
Leading energy firms call on Brussels to deliver 2050 net zero target 'across all policy areas', as nearly 100 suppliers pledge to better engage customers with the energy transition. This predictability would be enhanced by setting an intermediate target in 2040 aligned with EU's climate action framework.".
Clean Energy Canada
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
TORONTO — Sarah Petrevan, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement after the federal government tabled legislation holding it accountable to meeting its climate targets: “Climate targets are important signals in the fight against climate change, but promises are nothing without accountability and a plan to meet them.
Energy Innovation
JUNE 16, 2022
This week, Energy Innovation released new rese arch evaluating California’s climate progress and identifying a policy pathway that would reaffirm California as a climate leader. includes important new metrics to track the economic, environmental, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate policies.
The Guardian: Energy
MAY 27, 2024
The Coalition has no climate policy. There is no shortage of discussion about nuclear energy due to the Coalition’s much-hyped but yet-to-appear plan to overturn a national ban and bring it to Australia. Continue reading.
Energy Innovation
FEBRUARY 5, 2023
By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals.
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Biomass power stations, such as Drax in northern England, burn wood pellets to generate electricity – which is treated in the EU and UK as a renewable energy source if the process meets certain sustainability criteria. Campaigners are now calling for MEPs to end subsidies for the burning of forest wood for energy.
Business Green
MARCH 4, 2020
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claims law will see net zero taken into account 'in all future policy and legislation'. A Europe-wide 'Climate Law' that would legally require all EU members to build net zero economies by 2050 has been unveiled today by the European Commission as the key pillar of its Green Deal vision.
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 10, 2020
Read time: 5 mins As California works to shift away from fossil fuels to meet its climate goals , one of the state's largest suppliers of fossil energy is fighting tooth-and-nail against this energy transition, even to the point of taking California to court over its energy policy.
Financial Times: Energy
JANUARY 17, 2024
Independent adviser says parts of existing green plans must be passed into law as soon as possible
Business Green
MARCH 27, 2023
The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) said the government had not been consistently completing legally-required Post-Implementation Reviews (PIRs) of environmental and other related laws, which it warned risked undermining environmental protection efforts and accountability in the UK.
Business Green
MAY 5, 2021
German government proposes new goal to slash emissions 65 per cent against 1990 levels by the end of the decade, as revamped French climate law moves forward. Reuters reported reforms to German's climate law to enshrine the new targets could go to Cabinet as early as next week.
ThinkGeoEnergy
MAY 29, 2024
A joint position paper on the wider use of geothermal energy is on the agenda of the next France-Germany parliamentary assembly set to take place on the 24th of June 2024. The assembly also seeks to mend the differences between policy between the two countries, paving the way for a joint approach in both hydrogen and geothermal.
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 15, 2023
His Majesty the King alleges Canada’s policies and actions that perpetuate fossil fuels and worsen the climate crisis amount to violations of youths’ fundamental rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The post Youth Climate Lawsuit Against Canadian Climate Policy Can Go to Trial, Court Rules appeared first on DeSmog.
Front And Centered
JANUARY 23, 2020
She joins our staff as Policy Manager. Tarika is a regional expert on fracked gas, petrochemicals, and the impacts of dirty energy. Her work has focused on fossil fuel infrastructure and land use for the past five years, as an environmental policy researcher at Sightline Institute. from Vanderbilt University Law School.
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 6, 2024
Since 2015, Stringer has been a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a group founded to contradict established climate science and advocate against policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Stringer has vocally questioned climate science and policies to achieve net zero emissions.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 7, 2023
Proposed laws to curb antibiotic use on UK farms drafted after closed-door meetings with industry contain loopholes that could undermine the fight against deadly drug resistant bacteria, campaigners have warned. EU rules impose limits on this practice to prevent it from being used as a pretext for excessive preventative use.
Business Green
MAY 19, 2020
Ambitious draft climate law would immediately ban new oil, gas and coal projects and end subsidies for fossil fuels. The draft law, which parliament must still approve, follows the Spanish government's declaration of a climate emergency earlier this year. per cent over the next decade.
Energy Transition
JANUARY 16, 2024
The campaign was dominated by other issues: the surveillance of opposition politicians by special services, the role of state-run media, migration policy and the unprecedented enrichment of politicians from the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party.
Solar Power World
APRIL 13, 2020
Governor Ralph Northam is accelerating Virginia’s transition to clean energy by signing the Virginia Clean Economy Act and by amending the Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act that requires Virginia to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. </span> appeared first on Solar Power World.
Renewable Energy World
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Barring significant changes in policies or trends, U.S. Energy Information Administration modeling forecasts increasing global energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions through 2050. The EIA released the International Energy Outlook 2021 on Wednesday , which makes assumptions based on U.S. Follow @EngelsAngle.
Green Market Oracle
AUGUST 16, 2019
Vermont Law School (VLS) offers three environmental masters degrees. A master's degree from VLS is different from other law degrees. Instead of studying theories about how policies work, VLS master's candidates learn the law and how to use it to effect change. MASTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY (MELP) Climate change.
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 1, 2021
Opportunities in favor of transmission include policy planning projects to interconnect renewable projects, the need for reliability in the MISO South region, and additional proactive planning approaches to address the capacity needs of local resource zones at MISO. MISO North has renewable opportunity but Right of First Refusal (ROFR) laws.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Calls grow for a rethink of the controversial Retained EU Law Bill, amid concerns over threat to worker, consumer, and environmental protections. The Bill has become a cause celebre for arch-Brexiteers within the Conservative Party, who are keen to see the government bring an end to any EU influence over UK laws as quickly as possible.
Business Green
OCTOBER 7, 2022
As incentives and mandates collide with real-world conditions, there are sure to be pinch points the clean energy sector must navigate. The United States is in a golden era for climate policy. How the policy will unfold is impossible for me to imagine. These policy signals are historic and come not a moment too soon.
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