GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

As I noted in a 2006 essay on the occasion of Friedman’s passing: We know better now. Moreover, under the laws of the state of Delaware, where 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies (and many smaller ones, including GreenBiz Group) are registered, corporate directors still have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of shareholders.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Campaigners said the revelation was a “slap in the face” for those suffering the effects of climate change in the South Pacific, where the archipelago is located. ‘Full Confidence’ of Cook Islands.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In the context of oil and gas companies, shareholder activism takes on “added significance” and has a “unique role” in driving real climate action by Big Oil, Benson said. This is “due to the sector’s role in driving global warming, and the seismic risks that climate change and the energy transition present to the industry,” he explained.

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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 Impacts. Climate Strategies.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2021

What happens next could have broad implications, since UPMIFA is a uniform law that every state in the U.S., Plus, it has the support of another important figure — Bevis Longstreth, a lawyer and former member of the Securities and Exchange Commission whose work helped inform the creation of UPMIFA in 2006.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

She also oversees Ceres work to engage financial regulators on climate change as a systemic risk, under the umbrella of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets. Before that, Veena practiced law in India. Veena received a Masters in Law degree from Washington University in St. from Brooklyn Law School.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Pricing and accounting can have a role to play, but only as one part of a toolkit alongside the laws, policing, innovation, institutions, and cultural factors that also have a critical role to play. You would be hard pressed to argue the Treasury suddenly adopted a climate hawk mentality in the wake of its publication.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Millions of hectares of "critical habitat" in the Cerrado, the Atlantic Forest, the Gran Chaco, and Chiquitania in South America and North America's Great Plains have been razed for soy fields, the conservation organisation said, describing soy farming as "one of the leading causes of biodiversity loss and climate change."

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, in 2019 the state passed a new law named the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , which raised the 2030 target from 50% of electricity generated by renewables to 70%. The exemptions apply to sales made and services rendered on or after June 1st 2006. (followed by Boston and Seattle).

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. But as our climate changes, the effect of altering weather patterns on public health has also been the subject of considerable study, and increasingly, media attention.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It has been compared to the hugely influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 15 years ago, which famously framed global warming as the greatest and most wide-ranging market failure ever seen.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

If you’re in the US, your 2020 likely included living through record-breaking temperatures , hurricanes , and/or wildfires , as the academic warnings of climate change quickly became a reality (my personal experience was Blade Runner in SF ). believing the government was doing too little to reduce the effects of climate change.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. But seven years on, researchers, regulators and activists are still arguing about how California’s most famous climate policy has affected its most vulnerable residents — and how to do better.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

After all that, the Conservative MP was primed to unveil his 340-page report with a big PR push at a launch event on Monday, harbouring hopes it could once again catapult climate change to the top of the Westminster agenda. That's why I've met with all political parties: because I want that consensus; I want this to last.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 17, 2020

” As I noted in a 2006 essay on the occasion of Friedman’s passing: We know better now. And that anything businesspeople might do otherwise would be part of “the socialist view that political mechanisms, not market mechanisms, are the appropriate way to determine the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses.”

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Politics Sustainability Ethics Fashion 36

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Despite heavy precipitation over the past year, California’s drought resilience remains in question, as critical infrastructure projects face staunch opposition and climate change increases the likelihood of extreme and prolonged droughts. The Delta Conveyance Project is a proposal for a new 44.6

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. The Climate Impact of Meat. percent.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

In the fight against climate change, the $300-billion U.S. logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” In 2020, the CEOs of dozens of forestry businesses announced “an agreement of principles” stipulating that logged forests are beneficial for the climate.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This logo marks the biggest difference between the fossil fuel industry’s PR machine and that of animal agriculture: The animal agriculture industry’s efforts to minimize their products’ climate impact are paid for from a pot of public funds to which all beef and pork farmers and ranchers are required to contribute.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

G criteria includes whether a company makes effective decisions, complies with the law, meets the needs of external stakeholders, uses accurate and transparent accounting methods, and stakeholders are allowed to vote on important issues. Governance: Here the internal systems and practices that a company adopts to govern itself are examined.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

The well sat unused in 2006 and 2007 — “shut in due to Hurricane Rita,” records show — then was used to inject less than 5,000 barrels of wastewater shortly before the sale to Black Elk in 2009. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7 No other volumes were reported after Black Elk took over.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Methane Home Energy Monitoring 95

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Del Chiaro has taken these two attributes and poured them into her career of working in public policy to help pass green laws and regulations. Signed into law in 2006, the legislation created a mandate to put 3,000 megawatts of solar on California roofs by the end of 2016. There has been some interesting history in California.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Introduction Climate Change. Bottom line; lab-grown meat might be the biggest impact on reducing or eliminating climate-change and relieving animal suffering. The rules are so strict, that some cheeses that we have been eating for centuries would have been banned under these laws. Deforestation. Water scarcity.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. B Analytics is important as it allows investors, fund managers, non-profits, and large corporations accelerate market change.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A growing group of environmentalists, politicians, communities, and even the industry’s own workers have become increasingly critical of the fossil fuel industry, and see room for action under the Biden administration, though most attention has been placed on hot-button topics like climate change and methane emissions.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, it is also one that is inevitable with effects of climate change becoming more dangerous and unpredictable, prompting a more drastic response to reduce CO2 emissions as the world nears the imminent tipping point. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. billion metric tons of CO2 each year from fossil fuels.

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Europe Fossil fuels Climate change Politics 105

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. For instance, in 2015, Earth Day was part of a steady drumbeat towards the Paris climate talks, a pivotal year for the environmental movement. George Bush came into the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Department of Justice to investigate carbon majors for potential violations of federal law. In 2006, major tobacco firms were convicted of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in litigation brought by the DOJ. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), link] — Rep.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. For instance, in 2015, Earth Day was part of a steady drumbeat towards the Paris climate talks, a pivotal year for the environmental movement. George Bush came into the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

She said her interest in climate issues began when she was in high school in Japan. She facilitated a youth leadership camp focused on combating climate change. He is concerned about the welfare of black people in an economy devastated by the climate crisis. Fionn Ferreira is from Ballydehob, West Cork, Ireland.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Amazon deforestation, coal legal challenges, and Nigeria's new climate law all feature in this week's BusinessGreen Global Briefing. Nigeria passes new Climate Change Act. Official figures confirm Amazon deforestation soared 22 per cent last year. Edelman launches review of clients, following accusations of 'greenwash'.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Fellow conference speakers also include Lee Anderson, Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party, who has claimed that people are “sick to death” of net zero, and former Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg , who has said that taking action on climate change is “unrealistic” because “it would have no effect for hundreds or possibly a thousand years.”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. 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.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

And that hefty price tag became more daunting when House Bill 2118 , signed into law by Democratic Gov. The bill that became law was stripped of its original funding source, a tax on dyed diesel fuel, which is used in farm machinery and other non-highway vehicles. Ralph Northam, was left unfunded.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Climate change could cost US treasury $2tr a year by 2100, White House warns. Climate change could burn a $2tr hole in the US federal budget each year by the end of the century, according to a study published this week by the White House. This would mean that measures to tackle climate change would be sapping 7.1

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Fighting Public Utilities, Child Labor Laws One of the first campaigns in that spirit occurred within the electricity utility industry via an organization which eventually became known as the Edison Electric Institute. Like EEI, fast-forwarding to the present-day, NAM has served as a key node of climate denialism.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

As part of the pandemic recovery, policymakers and the public are realizing that climate-change mitigation, local energy independence, self-reliance and resilience, and massive job creation make a whole lot of sense. This is Swanson’s law in a nutshell. utility-scale solar PPA prices, 2006-2019. percent of U.S.

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