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

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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The report was also shared by leading climate science denial groups, including Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. However, the Civitas report has been criticised as inaccurate by several prominent climate academics and journalists. Civitas declined to offer a further comment.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

CT Group was founded by political consultant and lobbyist Lynton Crosby in 2002. Hiring CT Group appears to be the latest attempt by the Legatum Group to expand its political influence. This raises a number of interesting political questions.” global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

None of the coverage notes that NZSG leader and former Brexit minister Steve Baker is a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), whose founder and board member Lord Nigel Lawson recently said “global warming is not a problem”. ‘Politically-Motivated Climate Deniers’.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has become a director of Net Zero Watch (NZW), a pressure group which denies climate science and campaigns for more fossil fuel extraction. It’s time to kick dirty fossil fuel-aligned interests out of our politics once and for all.” He has also funded the GWPF.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Telegraph columnists routinely questioned climate science and criticised green reforms as a major backlash against net zero policies raged in the UK, DeSmog can reveal. Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate denial group, which is based on Westminster’s Tufton Street.

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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 8, 2021

May, who was UK Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019, was speaking last night at an event hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), which represents more than 100 Tory MPs who back policies to cut emissions and protect nature. In her speech, May called on Conservatives to unite ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Liz Truss ’s team – who will advise her through the energy crisis – includes staff who have worked for anti-net zero politicians and opaquely-funded climate sceptic think tanks. Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The policy, which backs further aviation growth, was dismissed as “ pure greenwash ” by environmental groups, which cast doubt on the viability of the technologies and solutions proposed. 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.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

But as a solid legal commitment as that to be found in the 2008 Climate Change Act, or in the 2019 regulations that require a net zero emission economy by 2050. It should be noted that no such strategy, nor any route map, is yet in the public domain, let alone official policy. But maybe changes are afoot.

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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. Policy-driven benefits. The industry needs long-term policy and subsidies to stimulate hydrogen demand.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

Ahead of London Climate Action Week, E3G's Tom Burke warns that governments alone can not tackle the escalating risks from climate change - businesses and wider society have to step up. Climate change is a whole of society problem. This makes staying below 2C the mark of climate policy success.

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GreenBiz

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. Climate Strategy. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4 BusinessGreen. Sponsored Article.

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Terra Infirma

AUGUST 30, 2022

From an economic point of view, this was fine and dandy when oil was cheap and its price relatively stable, but that all changed when the price surged in the early 2000s (see graph above). We often hear people from the right of politics ask “can we afford net zero?”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Any one of these three shocks alone "is enough to force fresh thinking" and as such the UK's economic plans must be "more like 1945 than 2008", Danker will say, highlighting the creation of the NHS and welfare state after the Second World War as key examples of the radical policy moves that helped drive post-war reconstruction.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Act also empowers the UK Government to fund hydrogen though a levy and to set strategic priorities in CCUS though a CCUS Strategy and Policy Statement. Decarbonisation of heat : The regulation of heat networks is one of the key changes which the Act brings, following a recommendation of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

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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.

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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. There is an urgent need for strong and robust leadership that can draw all parts of society and politics together to address the climate crisis.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Echoing the UN's rallying cry for a "decade of action" on tackling climate change, the IEA said the next 10 years would be pivotal both in navigating the world's pathway to recovery from the current crisis, and in terms of avoiding another even greater crisis in the shape of a climate catastrophe.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

What does the coronavirus crisis mean for delivering net zero policy and a successful COP26? A decade that was already meant to be dominated by a rapidly accelerating green industrial revolution, while experiencing intensifying climate impacts has commenced with the worst pandemic in over a century.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2020

The announcement came after political leaders and European Commission officials voiced intentions to adopt clean stimulus measures in line with the EU’s Green Deal climate plan. For information about past clean stimulus measures, see our previous media brief on stimulus measures in the post-2008 U.S. Other countries.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

Any period of major disruption brings with it the opportunity for significant social change. The policy response to the Covid-19 crisis is causing disruption on an unprecedentedly rapid and epic scale, provoking havoc in economies and in people's personal lives worldwide.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Dennis Murphey, retired chief environmental officer for Kansas City, MO, led the city’s effort to fight climate change for 13 years, putting Kansas City on the map for its 40-percent reduction in municipal greenhouse gas emissions. His climate action plan has been a model for Kansas City and communities around our country.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

In a joint letter , the scientists say that they are “consistently faced with a major and needless challenge” of having to correct false information and rebut the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to downplay the severity of climate change. billion on advertising and PR between 2008 and 2017. Chamber of Commerce ranked second.

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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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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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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 1997. Photo Courtesy Mark Jacobson).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Willis, who played a leading role in last year's Climate Assembly UK - the pioneering exercise led by Parliament which saw over 100 members of the public deliberate over policy options for delivering net zero - said the debate over how to combat climate change needed to be made fully accessible.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

But it has been instrumental in an array of oil industry campaigns meant to sow doubt about climate change , attack climate scientists, and play up the benefits of fossil fuels. . Last year, a House committee held hearings in which members of Congress questioned oil executives on their role in peddling climate disinformation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

If the Chancellor thought he had a fiscal black hole to fix last week, he's got a bigger problem coming down the line," said Zoe Avison, policy analyst at Green Alliance. Households and businesses also urgently need to know how the tax system will change so they can prepare and invest in the technologies of the future.".

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2020

BT has long been a corporate leader on climate action. In 2008 the digital telecoms giant became one of the first companies in the world to adopt a science-based emissions reduction target in line with keeping temperature increases below 2C, which it achieved four years early in 2016.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

For most of its life the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) has been plagued by a massive surplus of allowances - something we've been highlighting (under Ember's previous guise as Sandbag) since 2008. Phil MacDonald is CEO at clean energy policy think tank Ember. It's going to be troublesome to fine tune.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

With the EU Commission pushing to become the world's first net zero emissions continent by 2050 via its European Green Deal programme, these shovel ready projects have the potential to further the bloc's climate change objectives while also creating more than two million jobs, according to EY's analysis.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Is the revival of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in the zeitgeist-grabbing guise of the new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNeZ) a good thing, a bad thing, or a deckchair shuffling non-thing that will make no difference either way? How long before they get the IT working?" he asked. "Or

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