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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership appoints Clare Shine as new director

Business Green

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership appoints Claire Shine as new director

Business Green

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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Belarus Chastised for Persecuting Environmental Defenders

DeSmogBlog

The Aarhus Convention, established under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, gives citizens of signatory nations the right to access environmental information, participate in environmental decision-making, and access justice in environmental matters.

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Webinar: What net zero means for Canadian energy jobs

Clean Energy Canada

Catharines, ON since 2001. Before joining Clean Energy Canada, Stefan carried out interdisciplinary research on climate policies in California and Europe at the University of British Columbia. Rachel brings nearly 20 years of experience in policy, politics and law to advance clean energy solutions for Canada’s sustainable economy.

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Europe’s energy transition is a ‘prisoner of rules’ created for 2050 scenarios

Smart Energy International

By her own admission she has “been around the block a couple of times”: she was a member of the Dutch Energy Council for 10 years, was a guest researcher at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and also Chatham House among others, and has been director of CIEP since 2001. But the bad news is: it’s only 2024.”

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Why California is fighting fire with fire

Grist

But then California’s legislature passed a law to subsidize small biomass plants in 2012. Outfits like the Natural Resource Defense Council, for instance, have been campaigning against the practice of clearcutting forests in Southeastern states to make wood pellets for export to biomass plants in Europe. Photo by Nathanael Johnson.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. The companies, which already had worked together in Europe on a pilot project, soon will be sited only several hours apart. Company profile.