DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

Studies show that investing in road capacity increases the number of cars – a phenomenon known as ‘induced demand’. It also makes people more dependent on their cars instead of shifting to cleaner forms of travel such as public transport, walking, and cycling. The strategy doesn’t mention RIS2.

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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.

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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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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. The binding nature of these targets is also noteworthy. Washington D.C.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

A new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has this week warned that one third of the world's countries still have no legally-mandated outdoor air quality standards in place, and even where such laws exist standards vary widely and often misalign with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Taxonomy utilises a “transition” category, acknowledging the unique challenges and needs of Asia’s shift towards a net zero economy amidst economic growth and increasing energy demands. This initiative is designed to mitigate the risk of greenwashing and ensure that financed activities are on a credible path to net zero emissions.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

After the 2008 financial crisis, the 2015 Paris climate agreement and now the Covid-19 pandemic, investors, customers and stakeholders increasingly expect businesses to publish robust non-financial information to help them assess a company's reputation, resilience and sustainability. compliant world.

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Charged

APRIL 1, 2020

I’m looking out the window at my 2008 Volkswagen Touareg, and I bet that’s got sixty or seventy electronic black boxes, three hundred pounds of wiring harness, and software from twenty different companies in it,” Wright told me. However, such hipsters are in high demand, and it’s proving difficult to entice them to work in the auto industry.

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Lacey Act , first enacted in 1900 to ban trafficking of illegal wildlife , then amended in 2008 to include plants and plant products, like timber. It’s our responsibility as consumers to demand legally and responsibly sourced forest products. Whether purposeful or not, mislabeling breaches the U.S.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2019

” Under a 2008 state law, Massachusetts is required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by midcentury. That was due to demand from the Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target ( SMART ) program, which went into effect in 2018.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. For context, I worked with Bank of America in 2008 on the first commitment of this kind — it was for $25 billion. I never would have imagined companies picking sides — they want influence in both parties.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The case was originally filed in 2008 and two of the plaintiffs died in the 13 years it took for the verdict to be issues. At the time, Stone’s law firm, Cullinan & Associates, represented local fishing and ski boat organizations as part of public consultations over whether license should be granted.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Back to normal is not an option To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. ” The price of oil plunged below zero on some days, and customer demand remains at an all-time low.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Back to normal is not an option To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. ” The price of oil plunged below zero on some days, and customer demand remains at an all-time low.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2018, the International Maritime Organization set the goal to halve emissions for commercial ships from 2008 levels by 2050. Fuel cells] meet the demands for efficiency. That's not to say there won't be emerging demand for alternative fuels, Blank said. But by 2030, zero-emissions vessels will need to start being introduced.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. For example, when social distancing regulations were at their most demanding, trips to train farmers on new practices and discuss investment and financing plans became logistically impossible.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

At a heated April meeting of this program’s oversight commission , Commissioner David Levy demanded to know why the Freshwater City disposal well was plugged before actively polluting oil and gas wells. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed this past November set aside $4.7 I’m astounded.” Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 The year was 2008. degree limit as the main demand. The Chair of AOSIS refused to accept the text if it did not include a commitment to his demands. However, the exact 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years. A decade ago, the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

iv] Medical students in Canada are joining the climate strikes, demanding stronger climate action to address public health issues. [v]. 2008 May 22;7:24. Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal (2020, Forthcoming). Similarly, the World Health Organization has pronounced it to be the defining health issue of the 21st century. [iv]

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years. A decade ago, the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Climate Action 100+, an investor-led initiative aimed at pressuring the largest greenhouse gas emitters to decarbonise, is now endorsed by 545 signatories responsible for more than $52tr of assets under management, and has been stepping up its demands for companies to deliver credible net zero pledges. But there is still a long way to go.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2018, the International Maritime Organization set the goal to halve emissions for commercial ships from 2008 levels by 2050. “[Fuel cells] meet the demands for efficiency. . “[Fuel cells] meet the demands for efficiency. There’s a clustering of hydrogen of demand that could be very interesting.”

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an “enterprise à mission,” a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. “You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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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. “I view that as job No.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Jolyon Maugham, executive director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “A Dubai investment fund owning a British broadcaster, funding a wing of the government and with a track record of backing reactionary causes, isn’t exactly what our politics needs at the moment. GB News has been approached for comment.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Space and water heating for buildings is the second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Massachusetts, and natural gas meets nearly two-thirds of that heating demand, according to state data cited in the attorney general’s petition. Progress on emissions from heating lags power sector.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 20, 2024

Surprisingly typical: Real (inflation-adjusted) gasoline prices in 2023 were middle of the pack since 2008, ranking 7th highest out of 16 total years. January and February 2024 prices were both the 9th highest out of 17 since 2008. January and February 2024 prices were both the 9th highest out of 17 since 2008.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The rules are so strict, that some cheeses that we have been eating for centuries would have been banned under these laws. Meals on demand, no waiting time involved. This was a antiobesity drug that was first approved in Europe in 2006 but was withdrawn worldwide in 2008 due to serious psychiatric side effects.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. Shell explained at the time that it wanted to prepare itself to deal as “effectively as possible” with seasonal fluctuations in demand for oil. He died in 2008. Ecological Disaster” In October 1973, the Arab-Israeli War sent shockwaves through global energy markets.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 18, 2024

This decades-long pattern is driven by the seasonal increase in demand and refinery switches to summer gasoline blends – and was not primarily driven by the CCA in 2023 as many opponents will assert. January and February 2024 prices were both the 9th highest out of 17 since 2008. This has averaged 74 cents per gallon since 2004. [2]

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 18, 2024

This decades-long pattern is driven by the seasonal increase in demand and refinery switches to summer gasoline blends – and was not primarily driven by the CCA in 2023 as many opponents will assert. January and February 2024 prices were both the 9th highest out of 17 since 2008. The annual Spring price ramp is upon us.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 17, 2024

This decades-long pattern has been driven by the seasonal increase in demand – and was not driven by the CCA in 2023 as many opponents will assert. 2023 Gasoline Prices: Surprisingly Typical Given three attempts, can you pick which of these bars, showing annual, real (inflation-adjusted) gasoline prices since 2008, is 2023?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 24, 2019

An effort to overturn Ohio’s controversial nuclear bailout law via voter referendum suffered a setback this week, after a federal judge denied the group's request for more time to collect signatures to put it before state voters next year. percent by 2027, passed in 2008, which has been under attack from state Republicans for years.

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