DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. In Europe, Spain and Portugal are battling wildfires, while Italy is suffering from the worst drought in the past 70 years, with many municipalities rationing water. Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

As well as entering new territories - Masdar announced its first projects in Greece and Armenia last year - Al Muharrami gave a strong indication of growth plans across the UK, Europe, USA, and Asia. But I think moving forward we can see there is a lot of demand and discussion about green hydrogen.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Whether driven by animal welfare, health, or environmental concerns - or a combination of all three - more and more people are either becoming vegan and vegetarian or reducing their meat consumption and eating greater proportions of plant-based food. There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK. It has been getting easier.

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Better Ventures

JUNE 29, 2020

As was the case after the 2008 recession, many traditional workers who lost their jobs are likely to turn to alternative work either out of necessity or desire for flexibility and companies in many sectors will be reluctant to rehire amidst uncertainty. From financial management and planning, to insurance, to mental health and caregiving.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

The effective lockdown on economies throughout Europe, including the UK's, presents major challenges for energy companies in the immediate term, of course.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure. Company profile.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

As Gideon Henderson, chief scientific officer at Defra, explains the 2008 Climate Change Act represented a "big step change" in the government's approach to climate change, introducing long term emissions goals, the system of five yearly Carbon Budgets that require governments to develop credible decarbonisation plans, and the CCC.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

federal energy infrastructure and modernization recovery funds in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. They’re not going to want to use a lot of gas plants and coal plants as traditionally done, which means these ancillary services will be coming from battery storage or demand response mechanisms.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The market demands them, but it shows little allegiance to their mode of production. We anticipate that many consumers will shift to animal-free food products if those products begin to meet or exceed their animal-based alternatives on key areas like cost, taste, functionality, convenience, and health. And switch fast.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Maybe however the best argument is not climate-change, animal suffering, health or low costs. The commotion surrounding genetically enhanced organisms has led to a virtual ban of the use for food consumption by humans in Europe. Meals on demand, no waiting time involved. This is big business. What is the potential of GMO?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure. billion years of evolution.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Speaking shortly after that call to BusinessGreen from his makeshift home office - aka his bedroom - Stark is, like many working in the green economy, continuing to wrestle with what coronavirus could mean for the climate fight, alongside the wider fears about public health and economic uncertainty that everyone shares.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Green businesses and investors with long memories will be painfully aware of how the fallout from the 2008 financial crash disrupted low carbon infrastructure projects and clean tech programmes for years to come. We still believe that over the next decade carbon prices will increase, first in Europe, and then across other regions.".

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. Africans would push into Europe, Chinese into the Soviet Union, Latins into the United States, Indonesians into Australia.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

The Guardian reported that the city - which has been afflicted by one of the worst coronavirus impacts in Europe - is seeking to minimise a spike in air pollution as the country eases its way out of lockdown. We worked for years to reduce car use," Marco Granelli, a deputy mayor of Milan, told the Guardian.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Recovery means investing in new jobs, cleaner air and improved health. The only question now remaining is whether the government will listen to the experts and support a recovery package that protects our jobs, our health and our climate.". The actions needed to tackle climate change are central to rebuilding our economy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. Clearwater was a failure,” reads the complaint. Geological Survey report noted.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2020

Related: Discarded face masks now threatening wildlife habitats Should climate change run unabated, future zoonotic disease outbreaks may become the norm, asserts Conservation International and Harvard University’s School of Public Health. Europe is forecast to see a reduction of around 390m tonnes. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Moreover, the people that depend on it are getting access to health, education, food security, and sustainable livelihoods. In 2021, for the first time, the project will be profitable, thanks to the growth in corporate demand for carbon credits. Health is like the sun that illuminates the entire village." - African proverb.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Rise of City Zero Emission Zones (Panel Discussion): Following cities in Europe and Asia, some U.S. How to Scale Regenerative Agriculture and Draw Down Carbon (Part 1) (Panel Discussion): Regenerative agriculture has the potential to draw down billions of tons of carbon dioxide while simultaneously restoring soil health.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A big part of the world’s electricity decarbonization challenge lies in expanding transmission capacity for wind and solar power — and according to energy experts, Europe and the U.S. This asset health use case is now being tested by National Grid, Terron Hill, the utility’s director of asset development, told GTM.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Throughout the rolling health and economic crises the green economy and its fellow travellers have been engaged in an admirable hunt for silver linings. When demand for electric vehicles rose alongside demand for SUVs. Imagine if, by late 2021, much of Europe and the US has been vaccinated against the disease," he wrote.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

Global power generation from coal fell by a record amount in 2019, as renewable energy grew and power demand slowed down," she explained. Indeed, the market for coal in Europe looks increasingly challenging, with coal generation falling 24 per cent last year, and only one new coal plant currently under construction across the entire bloc.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this.” It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Sydney. So was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

Europe's car industry body is pushing the European Commission to delay introduction of stricter carbon dioxide standards for new vehicles, claiming the Covid-19 pandemic limits its ability to comply with the rules. Any incentives to boost demand once normal life resumes should be targeted at zero-emissions cars.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

The Net Zero Teesside project is one of Europe's leading CCS-ventures and our long-standing expertise on carbon capture is well suited for this project," said Managing Director at TCM, Ernst Axelsen. We have a long standing demand that public investments should benefit the future development of society, not counteract it.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 24, 2020

After four years of Trump, Michelle pointed out that the country is worse off in terms of the economy, unemployment, and health care. Another 10 million people are going to lose their health insurance this year. "If Biden has promised to protect social security, medicare and health care as well as improve the educational system.

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