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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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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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sean Hackett EDF+Business Senior Manager, Energy Transition By Sean Hackett With the dire need to slash greenhouse gas and methane emissions from the global oil and gas sector, more and more investors are advocating for stronger climate policies that accelerate the energy transition and mitigate risks.

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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. The UK’s climate targets are also popular with the electorate.

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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

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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Prior to her election as a councillor in 2018, Billington had already spent a wide-ranging career in green politics and journalism, starting out at the BBC where she worked as a reporter on Radio 4's Today programme, as well as for Radio 1's Newsbeat , BBC News 24 and the Politics Show. The conversation can be watched in full above.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The address and surrounding area is home to a number of pro-Brexit, opaquely funded, free market think tanks that are critical of regulation and climate action. DeSmog has previously reported that Civitas is opposed to green regulations, legislation designed to reduce climate change, and a greater reliance on renewable energy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May said the UK has “confounded the pessimists” by taking action on climate change while growing the economy. May went on to say government action on climate change is popular, including among voters in the “Red Wall” seats the Conservatives won from Labour in 2019. A Unifying Issue’. Chequered Record.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

Lord Peter Lilley , another signatory and NZSG member, is a former GWPF trustee and was one of only five MPs to oppose the UK’s Climate Change Act in 2008. ‘Politically-Motivated Climate Deniers’. Backing Fracking.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

The world is changing in front of our eyes, as the impact of this global pandemic becomes apparent. Right now, we don't really know the scale of the changes we face. It could be akin to the 2008 financial crisis that delivered a shock to our systems that continues to shape politics and economics today.

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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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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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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

“ Climate action does not require economic sacrifice,” wrote Rachel Kyte, then CEO of the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SEforAll) in September 2015. Many studies and cases show that climate action does indeed yield economic benefits (see the case of China ). Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis. Survive and Thrive!

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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

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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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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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Business Green

MAY 28, 2020

Boris Johnson has given his clearest indication yet that the UK government will push for a green and climate resilient recovery to the looming recession, arguing today that "we owe it to future generations to build back better" after the coronavirus crisis. COP26 pic.twitter.com/hnKV3Fz5Z0.

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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

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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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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Charged

JUNE 8, 2021

The Israeli startup Better Place pioneered robotic battery swapping in 2008, but the deal-killer soon became apparent: automakers had zero interest in standardizing their battery packs. Even that will require a Marshall Plan-level of political will, private investment and government support. Source: IEEE Spectrum.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Coal is the greatest historical cause of climate change, and yet it is being extracted from water-starved regions where conditions are worsening as the climate changes. Between 2008 and 2016, around 4,700 indigenous Wayuú children died due to a lack of food and water.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Coal is the greatest historical cause of climate change, and yet it is being extracted from water-starved regions where conditions are worsening as the climate changes. Between 2008 and 2016, around 4,700 indigenous Wayuú children died due to a lack of food and water.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. In a May 2020 paper in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, a team of economists led by Cameron Hepburn led a survey to assess the most climate-friendly recovery policies.

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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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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 8, 2020

How do these sectors contribute to climate change? ? It’s too early to know how much carbon will be reduced globally due to COVID-19, but if we look at the global recession of 2008-09, the last year in which carbon emissions went down, it caused a small reduction of 1.4% Air travel makes up 2.5% of global carbon emissions. ?

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The FSO will have three strategic objectives that correspond to the three aspects of the energy trilemma: a net zero duty aligned with the Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) targets and carbon budgets, ensuring security of energy supply, and promoting a coordinated and cost-efficient energy system operation.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2021

The developer has just declared it will not be appealing the decision, while its latest financial statement indicates the company, Banks Group, does not expect to get permission for any new mines, because of a lack of “political will”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The government could yet relocate the COP26 Climate Summit to London, according to reports this morning, amid claims of spiralling costs and political rows over the current Glasgow venue. The Financial Times reports the government is in talks with ExCel London about potentially moving the COP26 Summit to the capital.

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