Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Businesses receiving tax benefits for taking climate action collectively slashed 6.6 Participating businesses that deploy approved measures and meet targets set under the scheme receive a reduction on the Climate Change Levy that is applied to businesses' electricity, gas, and solid fuel bills.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

They argue that this statement is unlawful, because it cuts across the objectives of the Climate Change Act 2008. The claimant, Rights Community Action, is challenging the written ministerial statement, published in December 2023, which limits councils setting higher energy efficiency standards for new housing schemes.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 6, 2021

Join the WCS Los Angeles Chapter’s discussion on Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel, “The Ministry for the Future” and why optimistic climate change narratives about the future are important in the fight against climate change. The discussion will be moderated by – Ursula K. on kindle, $24.99 hardcover, $6.95

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 6, 2021

Join the WCS Los Angeles Chapter’s discussion on Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel, “The Ministry for the Future” and why optimistic climate change narratives about the future are important in the fight against climate change. The discussion will be moderated by – Ursula K. on kindle, $24.99 hardcover, $6.95

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The latest tranche of work came as the agency officially tweaked its name to the Climate Change Committee (CCC) and unveiled an overhaul and redesign of its logo and website. Formerly known as the Committee on Climate Change, the body said it had simplified its name to align with how it is frequently referred to internationally.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Ed Miliband has been handed the newly created role of Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero in Labour's frontbench team, passing his previous business brief on to Jonathan Reynolds, as the party seeks to laser-in on the government's post-COP26 green agenda. — Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) November 29, 2021.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. This is a longstanding practice for Intel, something the company has done since 2008. One company can’t solve climate change’. Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2020

They cover a wide – but often interconnecting – range of challenges that encompasses: poverty, inequality, peace and justice as well as looking at climate change and environmental degradation. The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) lay down ambitions to make the world a better and fairer place for everyone to live in.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Climate Change Act 2008 requires the Government to deliver a plan detailing how it will meet carbon budgets set at five year intervals – or face the risk of being taken to court. The UK’s 2050 deadline to reach net zero and the carbon reduction targets that apply along the way are legally binding.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

Lord Deben set to stand down at the end of his term this summer after a decade in the high-profile role The hunt for a new chair of the UK's Climate Change Committee (CCC) is now on, with Lord Deben set to step down from the role in June after 10 years of service.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The evidence from the last 50 years, presented in the State of Nature report, shows that the intensive way in which we manage our land for farming and the continuing effects of climate change, are the two biggest drivers of nature loss. At sea, unsustainable fishing and climate change are the major contributing factors.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The claim is on the following grounds: An unlawful failure to consider the Paris Agreement commitments which “is the cornerstone of global efforts to tackle climate change” and has been signed and ratified by the UK. The omission of municipal waste incinerators is irrational. This is wrong in law.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 27, 2020

27 – Investors have been talking about systemic risks at least since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. More recently, climate change, income inequality and now, suddenly, pandemics have been recognized as systemic risks as well. ImpactAlpha, Aug.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 27, 2020

Investors have been talking about systemic risks at least since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. More recently, climate change, income inequality and, suddenly, pandemics have been recognized as systemic risks as well. Featured: Agents of Impact Call Replay Rooting out racism as a systemic risk (audio).

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Stock markets around the world had some of their worst performance in decades this past week, well surpassing that of the global financial crisis in 2008. Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has cancelled a critically important meeting and will instead hold it virtually.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, said the editors of The Telegraph had “lost their minds when it comes to climate change”. Both newspapers [The Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] are campaigning against climate policies,” Ward told DeSmog.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The key findings on climate change have claimed it to be the biggest peril to the present generation and the future generations with the last three decades being successively warmer at the Earth’s surface (IPCC “climate change 2014”). 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. 3. Application of Ethics.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2021

Foundations , celebrity philanthropists and tech giants alike have announced plans this year, with grand sums of money attached, to combat climate change. Here are some notable learnings from his interview with GreenBiz: The Hewlett Foundation (HF) has been a long-term, large funder in clean transportation since 2008.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

“The IPCC report should be a sort of rallying call to lawyers,” said Rupert Stuart-Smith, a climate researcher at the University of Oxford, “to ensure that they are making use of the most up-to-date developments in climate science.”. Take, for example, the 2008 case of Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp., But the U.S.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 16, 2020

16 – Jeremy Grantham called the Japanese bubble of the 1980s, the tech bubble of the 2000s, and the housing bubble of 2008. The British-born value investor has been warning of the risks of climate change long before it was fashionable. ImpactAlpha, Jan.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

Countries around the globe are set to launch the biggest round of infrastructure investment since the post-2008 financial crisis stimulus measures. Before the shovels hit the dirt, it's worth understanding how the world of 2020 is different from the world of 2008. For example, since 2008, the percentage of U.S.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

A decade of pressure on companies to report on and reduce their contribution to climate change has created something of a blueprint for investors to demand the same in terms of the separate but interconnected biodiversity crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The institute previously bragged that one of its biggest intellectual contributions over 35 years in Canada was bringing “to public attention the uncertainties of climate science.” . During Pierce’s time on the board, the Fraser Institute published numerous studies and op-eds downplaying the seriousness of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And how can businesses tackle them in order to pursue their climate change goals? The climate change agenda feels like it’s mostly controlled by scientists and accountants – many of whom aren’t great communicators. We can’t pump an infinite amount of carbon into the atmosphere without catastrophic climate change.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Covid-19 crisis will result in a "worse shock" to the economy than seen 12 years ago, according to the group, and "what worked for the 2008 financial crisis may not be sufficient to overcome this one". The group warns the shock to the economy caused by the coronavirus pandemic will be tougher than the 2008 financial crisis. "We

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Speaking at an event in Manchester hosted by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the Tory MP said students should be taught that they will become “poorer”, “colder”, and eat “insects for protein” as a result of climate policies. That will have contributed to climate change. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

Lord David Frost – a Conservative peer and former Cabinet Office minister who was appointed in November – is also a GWPF director , along with Terence Mordaunt , who has donated £342,500 to the Conservative Party and its MPs since 2008 via First Corporate Consultants and First Corporate Shipping.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

A Conservative peer who was until last year a trustee of the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group is set to be appointed to a parliamentary committee tasked with overseeing the UK government’s climate policy.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

"The government wishes to deliver a financial system which supports and enables a net zero economy by mobilising private finance towards sustainable and resilience growth and is resilient to the physical and transition risks that climate change presents," Sunak wrote.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Accusing people of alarmism has long been a favorite tactic of climate deniers and those who oppose climate action. In Italy, daily newspaper Il Mattino published multiple interviews with climate deniers saying the record heat is “influenced by the sun’s cycles” and “isn’t news.” Changing Extremes.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The findings, the first comprehensive assessment of tipping points since 2008, are consistent with a recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change , which showed that some global warming impacts are now unavoidable, even if countries curtail emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

The UK's electricity, digital, water, transport, gas, road, and airport operators are struggling to account for the risk climate change poses to connected infrastructure systems, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has warned.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 12, 2023

Aileen Monsale, a resident of Iloilo City, Philippines, lost her home in 2008 after devastating floods hit the low-lying city following Typhoon Fengshen – which many called a “storm of the century.” Like thousands of people in Iloilo City, her.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 16, 2020

Jeremy Grantham called the Japanese bubble of the 1980s, the tech bubble of the 2000s, and the housing bubble of 2008. Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Q&A with Jeremy Grantham: Hold fossil fuel companies to account and make them ‘pariahs.’

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Key architect of the 2008 Climate Change Act returns to frontline politics, as Sir Keir Starmer unveils Labour's new front bench team. As such, Miliband was instrumental in passing the 2008 Climate Change Act, which set UK decarbonisation targets into law and established the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This internationally agreed goal is intended to prevent the worst impacts of catastrophic climate change, including increased frequency of flooding and droughts, that could be both economically and environmentally catastrophic.

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