Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Climate Strategies. These include: Treating 2–2.5

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

carbon budget if left unchecked. UK airports have increasingly argued that they are already carbon neutral, or close to being so, but these claims exclude emissions from aircraft, which account for the majority of airports’ climate impact, and often rely on disputed offsetting schemes. intensive, through?investment

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Geologists at Ohio University are exploring the potential to turn abandoned coal mines into sources of carbon-free heating and cooling. The university has already committed to becoming carbon neutral, but not until 2075. Ohio geothermal well installations peaked at 214 in 2006, when coal and natural gas prices were high.

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CleanTech San Diego

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Regional Carbon Sustainability Plan. On January 27, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to develop a framework to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2035, ten years before the State of California’s carbon neutrality goal. For more information, read the February 11 staff report here.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 19, 2019

We left the hearing with policies and proposals, such as green banks and technology-neutral tax credits, and ideas that we can use to inspire others to believe that a clean and just economy is possible. Community Solar Projects : Solar power plant facilities with electricity is shared by multiple households. •

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As such, it has an ethical imperative to adopt practices that lead to carbon neutrality. Cutting their carbon emissions to zero – as many have pledged – might appear to be an impossible task. million tonnes/year of carbon dioxide equivalent. One day, they will expect these products to be completely carbon neutral.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

To do so, they draw on friendly science, the promise of technological innovation and slick marketing campaigns – which promise “climate neutral” or “climate smart” meat and dairy – to create the idea we can continue eating vast quantities of the stuff while meeting our climate goals.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. The industry claims that forests that are felled sustainably — for construction, say, or for burning to produce electricity in utility-scale power plants — can provide jobs and energy, stimulate the economy, and even reduce society’s net carbon emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

Sky said it expects the Hertfordshire studios to be fully powered by renewable energy, in keeping with its plan to be net zero carbon by the end of the decade. During construction, the partners have committed to reducing the embodied carbon of the project.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. Studies show these activities represent the majority of the sector’s emissions, yet many meat companies exclude them when calculating their carbon footprint. Some go as far as claiming these will enable the industry to go fully carbon neutral.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Sierra has been ranking the environmental performance of colleges since 2006. Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. The Golden Bears are also retrofitting an art museum into Berkeley’s first zero-carbon building.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Beginning in 2006, the Pork Checkoff paid NPPC each year for the license to this slogan — even though the slogan was retired in 2011. NCBA and the Beef Checkoff have j oined the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef , which has an initiative to certify certain products as “low carbon beef enrolled.”

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 14040:2006 – Environmental Management – Life Cycle Assessment – Principles and Framework : Describes the principles and framework for conducting a life cycle assessment (LCA), which includes defining the goal and scope of the LCA, LCA inventory analysis, reporting, and critical review.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 29, 2020

In 2006, some of these same NGOs formed the U.S. And more recently, a group of scientists and former high-ranking government officials (mostly Republican), launched the Climate Leadership Council , which is pushing for a package of policies that includes a carbon fee and “dividend” that returns most of the revenue to citizens.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2020

Following the sold-out success of “I Am Not a Plastic Bag” in 2007, designer brand Anya Hindmarch has launched a new product, called “I Am a Plastic Bag”, aimed at recycling single-use plastic and leaving behind a net-zero carbon footprint from production. alone used 10.6bn plastic bags, and this figure dropped to 6.1bn in 2010.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2020

Following the sold-out success of “I Am Not a Plastic Bag” in 2007, designer brand Anya Hindmarch has launched a new product, called “I Am a Plastic Bag”, aimed at recycling single-use plastic and leaving behind a net-zero carbon footprint from production. alone used 10.6bn plastic bags, and this figure dropped to 6.1bn in 2010.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . percent of its GDP.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Research from WWF, for example, has found 46 per cent of the UK's carbon footprint is generated overseas by goods produced to satisfy UK consumption. It warned that emissions of the short-lived greenhouse gas were roughly 15 per cent higher in 2021 than in the period between 1984 and 2006.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

” The industry’s main trade group, the American Wind Energy Association, has backed a “technology-neutral tax credit based on carbon emissions” rather than a wind-specific extension. “[But] the utility of the production tax credit, in our eyes, has passed.”

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