The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The substantial variability of climate change has contributed to detrimental effects in the economic, social, political and environmental sphere that will continue to persist long after we are gone. The London School Of Economics And Political Science, 2006, [link] Accessed 2 June 2019. 19, 22-23, Accessed 2 June 2019. 4, 2008, pp.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Beyond this, 59% say climate change is causing political instability in the UK, 46% believe it is increasing regional conflict and national security risks, including increased immigration, and 32% think it is affecting food and water supplies, for example through shortages and price rises.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

He went on to edit the IPCC's next two reports, in 1996 and 2001, and popularised the message contained in the influential reports in a 1994 book called Global Warming, The Complete Briefing.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change. Harris said that to address this systemic problem, Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. And we reached the political tipping point around the two-degree mark. But why are both numbers so important?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

By the time of the incident, political sentiment in Richmond started to swing away from the company. Chevron had acquired Texaco in 2001, which was responsible for the oil extraction.) A former mayor shares his thoughts about local politics in a newsletter. Chevron’s legal battle spread to other nations, including the U.S.

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Grist

OCTOBER 7, 2020

If you watched BBC blockbusters like Planet Earth (2006) or Blue Planet (2001), you would have been excused for thinking that nature was doing better than ever. Birds of paradise flaunted their plumage in New Guinea, wildebeest thumped across the Serengeti plains, and hermit crabs politely and delicately exchanged their outgrown shells.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

“It’s important that we recognize dairy is not just about emissions,” Donald Moore, GDP’s executive director and the public face of P2DNZ, said during a presentation at the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development last July.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But it is essential not to wallow in doom, like that facilitator back in 2001. I’m glad I refrained – the horrors inflicted on so many innocent people have left me stunned and it’s clear things in the Middle East are likely to get worse before they get better.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Erica Mackie, P.E. – CEO and Co-Founder, GRID Alternatives During the 2001 California energy crisis, Erica Mackie, a mechanical engineer, along with Tim Sears, had a vision for free, clean, solar-driven electricity that would be practical and accessible for the low-income communities that needed it the most.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Mason, who was raised in Queens, is one of the few senior Black executives in banking, at Citi since 2001 in a slate of leadership roles including CEO of Citi Private Bank. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. One in five is Black.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

billion), with violations ranging from wrongful termination of employees to a $30 million settlement over a kickback scheme related to Iraq’s oil-for-food program in 2001 and 2002. Chamber of Commerce’s influence and political machinery dates back decades. The origin of U.S. Official portrait of the 1976 U.S. Powell, Jr.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 25, 2020

It’s just hard to do it in capitalism, because all the money is sucked to the top of the hierarchy, and then leaches into the political hierarchy. We need fundamental changes in the way we think about things, and I think hierarchy is one of them – as well as the money system and the way that it gets into the political system.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 3, 2019

For example, allowance prices spiked thirty-fold in California’s Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM) in 2001, in part due to an absence of banked allowances. Restricting banking of allowances can lead to substantial price volatility. Is banking of allowances incompatible with the objective to reduce emissions?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Given the state of Congress today, and our more general state of political polarization, it may be hard to resist the eye-roll — but resisting it is more important than ever. In 2001’s Whitman v. We need to suppress the friendly fire even within the climate action community.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

In addition to continued efforts to reduce its carbon footprint (59 percent reduction since 2001, to date) UNH is one of a handful of campuses tackling its nitrogen footprint, in order to protect water and air quality as well as to mitigate climate change.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I’ve been saying it since Lowimpact.org was launched in 2001, when it was a more unusual position to take than it is now. When Lowimpact started off in 2001, it was much more difficult to engage people. Let’s explore whether they’re right, but first let me just say that I think he’s spot on when it comes to the likelihood of collapse.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Mason, who was raised in Queens, is one of the few senior Black executives in banking, at Citi since 2001 in a slate of leadership roles including CEO of Citi Private Bank. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. One in five is Black.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 17, 2021

The organisation that I work for ( Lowimpact.org ) has been promoting and assisting lifestyle change since 2001. As long as that’s the case, money will gravitate towards stored wealth, because money attracts money and gives access to the political system. Lifestyle change is essential, but not enough.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

That concentrated wealth enters the political process and corrupts democracy (which means that it’s a problem that can’t be voted away). He founded Lowimpact.org in 2001, spent 3 years on the board of the Ecological Land Co-op and was a founder of NonCorporate.org. and the Open Credit Network. The post I’ve got a book deal.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2020

Airline ridership has slumped, and airports are as near-empty as they were in the 2001 aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. An oil price war ensued with drastic shifts in global oil politics, thus destabilizing the fossil fuel sector, reported Business Insider. As such, aviation emissions — which accounted for 2.4%

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Given the state of Congress today, and our more general state of political polarization, it may be hard to resist the eye-roll — but resisting it is more important than ever. In 2001’s Whitman v. We need to suppress the friendly fire even within the climate action community.

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Low Impact

APRIL 4, 2021

As long as that’s the case, money will gravitate towards stored wealth, because money attracts money and gives access to the political system. He founded Lowimpact.org in 2001, spent 3 years on the board of the Ecological Land Co-op and was a founder of NonCorporate.org. and the Open Credit Network.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Given the state of Congress today, and our more general state of political polarization, it may be hard to resist the eye-roll — but resisting it is more important than ever. In 2001’s Whitman v. We need to suppress the friendly fire even within the climate action community.

Law 28

Law Climate change Global warming Fossil fuels 28

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. However, by the turn of the century, Earth Day once again faced turbulent political opposition. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. However, by the turn of the century, Earth Day once again faced turbulent political opposition. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

This lack of return consideration means that, in common law, an agreement to make a donation is an “imperfect contract void for want of consideration. ’’ Between 2001 and 2011, the nonprofit sector increased 25 percent. Donations are given without return consideration. The CEO of Unilever Paul Polman et al.

Investment 40

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Eighteen of the 19 warmest years all have occurred since 2001, with the exception of 1998. Over the following two and a half decades, scientists continued to collect data on climate change at the same time that governments worldwide argued over the economic and political implications of taking action to counter its effects.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The NatCon conference is being organised by the US-based think tank the Edmund Burke Foundation (EBF) and intends to catalyse a “revival” of a political philosophy based on “national identity and culture” alongside “god and country”. It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all.”

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Low Impact

MAY 23, 2020

I recently read The Case for Community Wealth Building , by Joe Guinan of the Democracy Collaborative and the Next System Project , and Martin O’Neill, senior lecturer in political philosophy at the University of York. Here’s a review, plus some more thoughts about CWB. Let’s compare like with like. Third – at least the option would exist.

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Low Impact

MAY 31, 2020

How it’s done is complex, but that price, since 2001, has been manipulated. For a few years after 2001, the oil market was pretty tight, and so high prices were reasonably justified. They immediately introduced a formula called BWAVE (the Brent weighted average), and the Saudis started to price their oil against it.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

The rise of renewable energy isn’t the only notable change taking place in Texas, the state’s politics appear to be shifting too. What are the politics behind this rise? And what are the politics in Texas likely to be more broadly going forward? How did Texas become a clean energy leader?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This overwhelming scientific consensus was matched by a similarly broad agreement amongst political and business leaders that the climate crisis is severe and escalating, and requires immediate and drastic action to avert a full blown global catastrophe - a consensus that ultimately led to the Paris Agreement.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

A major factor holding lawmakers back is, of course, politics. Overcoming a "third-rail issue" in California politics. But the backing of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), one of the world’s most powerful air-quality regulators, could change the political conversation.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The oil industry has historically been politically conservative. Bush was inaugurated as the 43rd president on January 20, 2001. billion in 2001, fell to $11.0 ExxonMobil’s Net Income Since 2001. The oil industry’s relationship with politics has been complex. billion in 2002, and peaked at $45.2

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Set up by the owners of GB News and involving “senior leaders from politics, media, culture, business, and academia”, ARC claims that it will address the six “fundamental issues of our time”, including “energy and resources” and “environmental stewardship”. And ARC’s anti-green credentials are further exposed by the makeup of its key members.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Menendez asked Perry whether Trump had asked him to convey his “desire for assistance in investigating one of his political opponents or their family members, or unsubstantiated theories related to Ukraine’s involvement in the 2016 U.S. And I think if you look at the larger political situation, we are.”

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