AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. ” He argued oil and gas company advertising is usually not directed at getting consumers to buy their products and services but is more akin to political lobbying. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4 For example, last year 20 U.K.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. That's the biggest risk.".

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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. Recent wildfires in the northern territories were reported to have acute and long-term negative impacts for mental and emotional well-being. 2008 May 22;7:24. May 1, 2019.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Joe Biden's victory in the race for the White House has already seen the push for climate action skyrocket up the international political agenda, yet the jubilation among campaigners this weekend is unlikely to last too long. For example, China may have announced a new net zero targte, but to date a miniscule 0.3

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

A year on from the UK's net zero target being adopted in law coinciding with the start of one of the most eventful 12 months in modern political history, the influential Committee on Climate Change today published its annual review of the UK's progress against its climate goals. Now we know that this token policy is not ambitious enough.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

I came to GTM in the fall of 2008, just in time to catch the start of the cleantech VC bubble bursting around our San Francisco Bay Area editorial offices. Two months later, Barack Obama was elected president and began work on the stimulus package, passed in February 2009, that reinjected life into the faltering clean energy sector.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this.” Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy. This scenario is referred to by some as the ‘carbon crunch’. So was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since 2008, the American Petroleum Institute (API), which is the U.S.’s In fact, they have done this so well that, to this day, there is very little literature on the role of PR firms in shaping climate policy and discourse. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch. We’re not giving the whole picture if we don’t include them.”.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

business and political history. Instead, they arose from well-funded industry campaigns creating what Oreskes and Conway have called a manufactured consensus “quasi-religious belief” in deregulated markets and an accompanying diehard opposition to governmental solutions to public policy problems. and global politics.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said. As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend.

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