Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

Friends of the Earth claims government’s flagship Net Zero Strategy is ‘woefully inadequate’ and that Heat and Buildings Strategy breaches equalities laws. We believe the government has breached the Climate Change Act 2008, a vital piece of legislation that Friends of the Earth was pivotal in bringing into law.

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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

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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. But seven years on, researchers, regulators and activists are still arguing about how California’s most famous climate policy has affected its most vulnerable residents — and how to do better.

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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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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

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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

C and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, including drought, famine, and ill health, according to the world’s leading climate science body, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Rapidly cutting carbon emissions is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C He has also funded the GWPF.

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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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Business Green

MAY 25, 2020

But as we start to think of life beyond the current crisis, the question is naturally starting to arise - what should bailouts look like this time round, and what can we learn from 2008/09? One of the biggest changes over the last ten years has been the view of governments, businesses and the public on the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Campaigners have vowed to lodge an appeal after losing their bid to halt the UK’s “largest ever” roadbuilding plan on climate grounds. ‘Opposition is Rising’ TAN campaigner Rebecca Lush said the group was “shocked” at the decision and accused the DfT of not treating climate change “with the urgency it deserves”.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

The rest will follow : We were in the law library at Dell, watching the horror of the World Trade Center exploding with a plane. Tone down the celebration : Though the scale differs, in 2008 people were losing their jobs and afraid for their futures. The room was full, but stunningly silent. Pull Quote.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Cumbria County Council is reconsidering its controversial decision to approve plans for the UK's first new coal mine in 30 years "in light of new information", it announced today, citing greenhouse gas emissions projections published by the Climate Change Committee late last year.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

Two weeks after rubber-stamping RIS2 last year, the Department for Transport (DfT) published a decarbonisation strategy in which Transport Secretary Grant Shapps described climate change as “the most pressing environmental challenge of our time”. The strategy doesn’t mention RIS2.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Lawyers at Leigh Day have consequently filed for a judicial review on behalf of the campaign groups, arguing the strategy breaches the Climate Change Act as the Secretary of State failed to ensure that it would enable the UK's carbon budgets to be met and as a result its policies risk a failure to deliver on net zero goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

By putting in place the enabling primary legislation that bridges legal gaps, creates new laws, or brings clarity to existing laws. Indeed, in WBD’s recently published 2024 Energy Transition Outlook Survey Report, businesses still identify effective legislation as a key accelerator of the energy transition.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2012 she tweeted that “climate change policies are pushing up domestic gas & elec prices” and wrote a Telegraph article that year headlined “Green policies are costing Britons the earth” making the same point and citing IEA research. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Green , James Bee , and Kevin Mak On 3 December 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unveiled the Singapore-Asia Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance (Taxonomy) at the United Nations COP28 climate conference in Dubai. signing of all the financing agreements) has been made prior to December 2021.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Back in 2008 the law changed so that whenever occupancy of any building alters an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) must be provided to the new occupant, whether a purchaser or tenant. Anecdotally, it is thought that such law-breaking accommodation is likely to be fairly sub-standard. Heat pumps are scarce.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. Drought in Kenya. Sinking fortunes.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form. Drought in Kenya. Sinking fortunes.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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Sustainability Policy Law Europe 63

Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

The science of human-caused climate change is unequivocal, but the science of projecting how bad things will get, how quickly, is soaked in uncertainty. Deliberately changing the atmosphere to try to cool down the planet is deeply uncomfortable to think about, and many would prefer that no one did. Between 2008 and 2018, U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Back in 2008 the law changed so that whenever occupancy of any building alters an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) must be provided to the new occupant, whether a purchaser or tenant. Anecdotally, it is thought that such law-breaking accommodation is likely to be fairly sub-standard. Heat pumps are scarce.

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Energy Energy Law Climate change 75

Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2022

Seperate law suits filed by ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth allege the government's flagship Net Zero Strategy focuses too heavily on unproven future technologies and could breach carbon budgets. 1/x) [link]. — Tim Lord (@timbolord) January 12, 2022.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Former Labour MP and now chair of Lexington's Responsible Business Practice Mary Creagh explains why all businesses should confront the risks posed by climate change. The Financial Stability Board's Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) categorises climate risks into two types: physical and transition risks.

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Climate change Government Health Sustainability 54

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the same month, the High Court ruled that the government’s net zero strategy did not meet its obligations under the 2008 Climate Change Act. Harborne, who uses a different identity while working from Thailand , where he is based, has a record of supporting right-wing politicians hostile to action on climate change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Law suits lodged by ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth yesterday over the UK government's Net Zero Strategy open up a fresh frontier in climate litigation that may have implications for businesses and governments around the world. The law is a tool that can help stem this tide of over-spun claims.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

The High Court's landmark decision that the UK's Net Zero Strategy is unlawful has set a precedent that should pave the way for a new wave of 'nuanced' climate change-related litigation, write White & Case LLP lawyers. A new dawn for UK climate litigation. The High Court decision.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Not only did we introduce the world's first climate protection bill - the 2008 Climate Change Act - which has been replicated by countries such as the Netherlands , Sweden and Ireland; we were also the first major economy to legislate for achieving ‘net zero' emissions by 2050.

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Politics Carbon Climate change Policy 64

Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Ruling on a case brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project, Mr Justice Holgate agreed the strategy lacked sufficient explanation or quantification as to how the decarbonisation plans set out in the Net Zero Strategy published last autumn would achieve emissions targets for the 2030s and beyond.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Seven states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, have passed 100 percent clean energy transition laws. All 100 percent state laws, and some city and county policies, also include interim targets to keep clean energy deployment on track. Another major motivator is climate change. Washington D.C.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

For a start, when all the sectoral targets are tallied up, they represent – at best – a 43 per cent reduction, according to the government’s own Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC). After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. Irish Agriculture.

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Agriculture Methane Politics Transportation 86

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

” As one of the first analysts in the renewable energy sector, Demas has since taken on the responsibility of helping to push our industry forward, through the 2008 recession and now in the uncertain times of COVID-19 and broader social unrest. But as it’s said, “With great power comes great responsibility.”

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2020

To mark a year since the UK's 2050 net zero emissions target was written into UK law we gathered the views of a raft of industry experts to debate the technologies, investment and policy needed to reach net zero, and the role business will play. In the 2011 report, we were also pessimistic about the heavy role coal would still play.

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