DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In April 2023, Total Energies sued Greenpeace France and climate consulting firm Factor-X, claiming that a recent joint report accusing the French oil giant of vastly under-representing its 2019 greenhouse gas emissions contained “false and misleading information.” A five-week trial in the case is scheduled to begin in July 2024.

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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. Rather, he said, their proposal “built on the waiver that already exists” within the IMO’s International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Rewilding in cities could deliver a raft of environmental benefits, including enhanced climate change resilience through increased protection from flooding and heatwaves, reduced air pollution, biodiversity gains, and reduced environmental management costs.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The CW BCM program offers a 20% discount towards green business certification, providing the financial support for sustainable development in business, and helping organizations get certified for their efforts. The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP21). Commercial and Industrial Energy Efficiency Program.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this article, we have organized the world’s top sustainability certifications by purpose, procedure, and cost so that you know how to select a sustainability certification with confidence. Below we have organized the world’s most popular sustainability certifications into these categories: Corporate sustainability reporting certifications.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Initiatives include addressing climate change by moving to renewable energy sources. Other popular certification organizations include LEED, ISO, and Green Business Bureau. ISO-International Organization for Standardization has developed over 18,500 International Standards on a variety of subjects.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. That impact carries over directly into the climate change context,” he concluded. Fighting for Justice.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Senegal, for instance, banned imports of frozen chicken in 2006, making local production essential to KFC’s entrance into the country. Industrial poultry operations are also a startling contributor to climate change. Of the six companies DeSmog examined, four made arrangements with Yum after the banks announced their assistance.

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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. Meat Industry Playbook.

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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. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. including: Pollen from changing growing seasons. [xx]

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

. “There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

At a heated April meeting of this program’s oversight commission , Commissioner David Levy demanded to know why the Freshwater City disposal well was plugged before actively polluting oil and gas wells. That’s not the same as saying that it’s not possible.” A Trip to Freshwater City. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Climate change, biodiversity, customer relations, supply chains, board management practices, data, and security…these all fall under the ESG heading. Examples of ESG-related risks include: Environmental : Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), deforestation, biodiversity, waster, waste, and pollution.

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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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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Using the principles of ESG, investment decisions are made based on an organization’s Environmental, Social and Governance performance, as explained: Environmental performance: Selected criteria are used to evaluate and manage a company’s environmental risks. Every company, as a legal entity, requires governance. ESG Benefits.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 17, 2020

While many companies have stepped up in some fashion to address the urgency of the moment, few have done so in ways that could help advance the kinds of long-term structural changes needed to ensure that the organization’s lofty statement has enduring impact. First, a refresher.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

According to Stanford Social Innovation Review, 90% of CEOs know sustainability is vital for their company’s success in today’s changing business landscape. The ISO 14000 standards address a need to standardize EMSs on a global scale, meaning comparisons between organizations can be made. What is ISO?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. New research published in Nature Climate Change in March, which was able to pinpoint the warming caused by livestock emissions for the first time, has added to the pressure. At the last count, livestock production contributes 14.5

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 4, 2021

WNS is caused by a bacteria first discovered in the United States in 2006. Habitat loss, climate change , roost destruction, disease, deforestation, bushmeat trade, guano mining, disturbance and persecution, and increasing numbers of wind farms are all causes of bats declining globally.” and Canada. There are other dangers too.

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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. Henning is member of LAWASIA since 2006 and the Chairman of the Asian-European Subcommittee since 2016.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ During his first 100 days in office, Bush reneged on a campaign that promised to regulate carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants and announced America would not implement the Kyoto Protocol – a global climate change treaty.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Aidan Dresang is a climate justice advocate and digital organizer from Madison, Wisconsin. This passion quickly turned into community organizing and eventually led to his involvement with YCAT where he served as one of their executive directors. "I She facilitated a youth leadership camp focused on combating climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “ During his first 100 days in office, Bush reneged on a campaign that promised to regulate carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants and announced America would not implement the Kyoto Protocol – a global climate change treaty.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2020

These days, an additional variable has entered the mix: climate change. On that note, a team of Columbia University scientists recently determined that the American West is suffering through a climate change-influenced drought that began in the year 2000. And so in 2006, she got involved in water cleanup activism.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

In 2006, major tobacco firms were convicted of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in litigation brought by the DOJ. He and other senators have previously written to the DOJ and President Joe Biden requesting an investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s climate deception.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

"As the saying goes, to change everything, we need everyone … We need feminine and feminist climate leadership, which is wide open to people of any gender.". 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.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 26, 2020

How Black environmentalists are organizing to save the planet from injustice. This story originally appeared in Grist; and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. "I Rachel Ramirez. Fri, 06/26/2020 - 00:30. I can’t breathe."

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

Ledger-Olson leads transportation-related policy initiatives at Generation 180, founded in 2016 as a nationwide organization to equip individuals and communities to play a role in the country’s transition to 100% clean energy. In Virginia, tailpipe pollution accounts for roughly 48% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 8, 2024

Beirut, Lebanon (2006) — Deric Gruen (left) spends time sheltered in a hostel as jets streak overhead and drop bombs. On July 10, 2006, I arrived in Beirut, Lebanon for the first time. The grassroots organization imagined a healthier Beirut and my work was to focus on sustainable transportation.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 26, 2020

How Black environmentalists are organizing to save the planet from injustice Rachel Ramirez Fri, 06/26/2020 – 00:30 This story originally appeared in Grist; and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. “I can’t breathe.”

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