AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. “Hopefully the tipping point is where you see the full array of competitive forces aligned to reducing the carbon footprint of industry and society, and people competing on this basis,” he explains. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Committee on Climate Change CEO discusses infrastructure, airline bailouts, COP26 and making the best of a bad situation. Climate change and our collective response has once again - albeit understandably this time - found itself playing second fiddle to a more immediate crisis, the full ramifications of which remain far from clear.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Case in point: ChatGPT , the scary-smart artificial intelligence engine capable of answering a breathtakingly broad array of questions, which seems to be the tech world's bright, shiny object of 2023. For example, during the global economic recession of 2008, the renewable energy sector experienced a slowdown in investment and growth.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

The UK has set a goal to eliminate avoidable plastic waste by the end of 2042, for example, and earlier this month hundreds of countries agreed to get the ball rolling on drawing up a landmark, legally-binding global plastics treaty, akin to the Paris Agreement on climate change.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That was a good business model," Wiater said, noting Standard Solar's transformation from residential to commercial development in 2008 when he joined the company. We have to figure out how to do everything quicker if we're going to meet any of these climate change goals that have been put in front of us.". Within reach?

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 16, 2020

in February) and a looming recession could decrease fossil fuel consumption and resultant emissions just like we saw in the recession of 2008-2008. The key question is will we go back to business as usual or will we take this opportunity to get serious about climate action.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Climate change is the most significant global threat we face today. Investing in a Clean & Equitable Future (Panel Discussion): Every two minutes, a new solar array is installed in the United States. Attendees are invited to bring their own challenges, questions and ideas to these free-form conversations.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

Still, the cheniers and the surrounding wetlands provide critical habitat for fish, shrimp, ducks, and an array of migratory birds travelling across the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Nick Cunningham/Gas Outlook But the coastline is under threat from more than just climate change. Then another storm washed through in 2008.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The reserve is home to a vast array of rare and critically endangered animal species, including pangolins, sun bears, and - perhaps most famously - the Sumatran Tiger, of which there are less than 400 left in the wild. The firm's suppliers cleared at least 140,000 hectares of natural forests between 2008 and 2011 alone, the report claimed.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals. A 2008 crash in gas prices coupled with the new fracking technology turned many drillers to oil production — though at nowhere near the rate or size of the Permian Basin in the opposite corner of the state.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this.” So was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Plus, the construction of these vast arrays of turbines in the Gulf of Mexico can be combined with bringing it back to life, as it is currently a dead zone pretty much devoid of life.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. In other words, climate change. ” called out a man in a black polo shirt.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The citing of concerns over its potentially inflationary effects was widely seen as a convenient cover story that allowed Manchin to torpedo a vast array of measures that would have curbed fossil fuel production. As President Biden observed, the IRA "makes the largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change".

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

And, as of next month, the governor of Massachusetts will be Maura Healey, who made her name, in part, as the state’s attorney general, by suing the fossil-fuel industry for having misled the public about climate change. In 2020, Massachusetts voted for Biden by better than two to one; Boston did by nearly five to one.

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