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The Energy Act 2023: What it is, what it means and when it will take effect

Envirotec Magazine

Eleni Diamantopoulou is Practice Development Lawyer (Energy) at Womble Bond Dickinson. Eleni Diamantopoulou writes The Energy Act 2023 (the Act) is finally here. By putting in place the enabling primary legislation that bridges legal gaps, creates new laws, or brings clarity to existing laws.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. Now, when Khamphanthong explains the sound to his young nieces, he sees the fear in their eyes. "I

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

AGreenLiving

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. Now, when Khamphanthong explains the sound to his young nieces, he sees the fear in their eyes.

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Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'

GreenBiz

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. That's why [as an industry] we are focused on volume, not quality, and how we have reached a point where we accept the fact that 30 percent of all food produced globally is wasted.".

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”.

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Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’

AGreenLiving

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an “enterprise à mission,” a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. “You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning

DeSmogBlog

Despite countless investigations , lawsuits , social shaming , and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable. It taught the industry how to sell a dangerous and unnecessary product as if it were something useful and even fun. What self-respecting scientist would take tobacco industry money after that?