DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

It’s time to kick dirty fossil fuel-aligned interests out of our politics once and for all.” Ditch These Targets’ Jenkyns has publicly opposed the UK’s legally binding target to cut emissions to net zero, which is backed by the world’s top climate scientists. Rapidly cutting carbon emissions is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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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

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.

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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. He is also the CEO of Sheriff Global Group, which trades private jets, according to Politics Home. In 2019, Harborne donated £9.7 Additional research by Michaela Herrmann.

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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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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

MARCH 8, 2020

As the UK readies for the upcoming COP26 Summit in Glasgow in November, the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change urge government to deliver ambitious net zero strategy. CLG business leaders are issuing a call to Prime Minister Johnson and his government to deliver a clear UK strategy for accelerating climate action," he said.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Prominent among these shifts is an increase in ride-sharing and public transit over car ownership, and an elevated political awareness of climate change. Over time, we joined political initiatives, raised money, passed legislation — we got stuff done. This might sound overwhelming. The income we pay them is powerful.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

Prominent among these shifts is an increase in ride-sharing and public transit over car ownership, and an elevated political awareness of climate change. Over time, we joined political initiatives, raised money, passed legislation?—?we Expectations around success long-held by prior generations? we got stuff done.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

During an appearance before a Congressional Committee in autumn 2008 the former chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan made a notable, if partial, admission as to the cause of the financial crisis that was engulfing the world, incinerating livelihoods, and torching the foundations of the financial system.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

These issues should be analysed, in consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial crisis of 2008, and it should be considered whether our past development has addressed real needs. All nations are requested to show their commitment by promulgating law and policy that promote investments in preserving the climate.

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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. But as our climate changes, the effect of altering weather patterns on public health has also been the subject of considerable study, and increasingly, media attention.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined. Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science?

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AGreenLiving

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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

Not only does the net zero strategy lack sufficient policies and rely on unproven technologies, says ClientEarth, it overlooks near-term solutions that would have immediate impact, including those recommended by the government’s own advisors, the Climate Change Committee. This is why we are taking this legal action today.”.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Pollsters and political leaders may be fixated on the post-Brexit political realignment that has seen the 'red wall' turn blue while opposition parties start to nibble at the 'blue doughnut' in the south and suburbs, but are we also starting to see evidence of a green realignment that could yet inform the pace and shape of the net zero transition?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Climate change and the net zero transition pose huge risks to the financial system unless action is taken, but they also offer massive business opportunities. Meanwhile, there are also growing political pressures. The reasoning underpinning Fink's letter last month is simple. There could be so many factors.".

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

ARC’s 44-member advisory board includes a number of climate science deniers and leading critics of climate action. Once called the “intellectual heart of hard Brexit” by the Financial Times, the Legatum Institute breached the Charity Commission’s rules on political activity in 2017 over a report about Brexit.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. One in five is Black. Barbie is Rosa Parks, David Bowie and Susan B.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The climate crisis is here but we are still walking when we should run'. BusinessGreen rounds up the wide range of responses from the CCC's latest clarion call for a step change in the UK's net zero transition. Meanwhile, the global crisis of climate change is accelerating. We can and must do more.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It has confused the public about climate science, bought the eternal gratitude of one of America’s two main political parties, and repeatedly out-maneuvered regulatory efforts. Controlling Climate Science. Big Oil also saw climate change coming. A Spider’s Web of Pipelines.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

But the killings set off a political and scientific storm, with many biologists and advocates saying the operation called into question the core of the agency’s approach to managing wildlife, and may have even violated the state constitution. Compounding that, climate change is altering the tundra ecosystem the animals rely upon.

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Michael Grossman

MAY 6, 2024

The annual gathering of the most promising early-stage cleantech companies at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Industry Growth Forum is a feast of ideas for those who believe we can stave off the worst impacts of climate change. With the exception of the 2008 economic crash, those waves last about 18 months.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden this week signalled that he was preparing to strengthen his climate plans ahead of November's election. Scrappage schemes were widely used to help support the auto industry following the 2008 financial crash, providing grants to motorists who traded in older vehicles for new models.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Below details these changes and how Earth Day has encouraged positive shifts in human behavior, perspectives and cultural values across the globe. Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. struggled under these political constraints.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Below details these changes and how Earth Day has encouraged positive shifts in human behavior, perspectives and cultural values across the globe. Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. struggled under these political constraints.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2021

My entire life, it was clear to me without a doubt that climate change is the issue that trumps all other issues.”. The effects of climate change can be seen in northern British Columbia, where forests in recent decades have suffered drought, wildfires , and pest outbreaks, such as the mountain pine beetle infestation. “I

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Grist

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Imagine Joe Biden is wrapping up the first year of his presidency, and long-awaited legislation to address climate change is just shy of the finish line. It’s exactly how politics played out in California in 2016 as the state struggled to reauthorize its keystone climate-change law.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

This lack of return consideration means that, in common law, an agreement to make a donation is an “imperfect contract void for want of consideration. ’’ Between 2001 and 2011, the nonprofit sector increased 25 percent. Charity Navigator writes that, according to Giving USA, Americans gave $298.42 billion in 2011 (about 2% of GDP).The

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

Al Pacino's epic half time team talk in Any Given Sunday probably seems an odd one to kick off an article on climate politics, but for me it holds some truths. The UK, birthplace of the industrial revolution, has signed it into law. One-half second too slow, too fast, you don't quite catch it.". Marginal gains. Back to sport.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

UN Secretary General António Guterres has already declared that the world has "a responsibility to recover better" than it did after the financial crisis in 2008, arguing the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on climate change should provide the framework for the stimulus packages that are already taking shape. "We

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 20, 2020

A group of House lawmakers recently released a 547-page report on climate change. Reporters at E&E News called it “arguably the most comprehensive climate policy plan in American politics.” Select Committee : Climate Report. Bloomberg : Dakota Access Oil Line to Be Shut by Court in Blow for Trump.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

business and political history. Fighting Public Utilities, Child Labor Laws One of the first campaigns in that spirit occurred within the electricity utility industry via an organization which eventually became known as the Edison Electric Institute. and global politics.

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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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