Front And Centered

APRIL 14, 2020

This bill would have required that all transportation packages be evaluated through community-centered criteria that embraces equity, environmental justice, accessibility, safety, health, economic vitality, and other key values. Here are important policies that we tracked and helped shape or opposed this legislative session.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

The rhetoric has been hugely welcome and has contrasted positively with the months and years following the financial crash of 2008, during which proposals for green stimulus packages struggled to secure meaningful traction and a wave of new fossil fuel investment locked in another decade of rising global emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, he ruled the government had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) and ordered Ministers to update the plan and present it to Parliament by April 2023. 14 of the CCA 2008.". The Net Zero Strategy remains government policy and has not been quashed," a spokesperson said.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

Backed by high and low carbon businesses alike, the Energy Transitions Commission has outlined seven key priorities for delivering credible, net zero-focused recovery packages. The support for green recovery packages has been vocal, wide-ranging, and not a little surprising.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Investing in green infrastructure projects should also help build a more resilient and nature-friendly European economy for the long-term following the havoc wrought by the pandemic, while delivering huge benefits for public health, air quality, enhanced energy independence, and food safety, the report contends.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2020

SUVs, which are less fuel efficient than other cars due to heavy builds and large engines, accounted for 38 per cent of new cars sold in Europe in 2019, up from almost a third the year prior and from just seven per cent in 2008. That way carmakers will bring the zero-emissions cars they have developed to the forecourt quicker.".

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2020

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. BT has long been a corporate leader on climate action.

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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.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

The upshot of the government's 2008 bailouts for the banking sector were that the banks stayed in good shape whilst the rest suffered years of austerity, impoverishing social care and our national health system," Evans said.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

. “We need companies to make commitments that are specific to how they are addressing their supply chains,” says Jessye Waxman, shareholder advocate with Green Century Capital Management, which has so far engaged dozens of businesses encouraging them to improve their “no deforestation” policies and practices.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

LCPI finds that one third of reductions, approximately 10 million tCO2e, should be expected from current trends and existing policies plus the price-elasticity effect of the fee if I-1631 is enacted. The measure would rely on a robust investment program to achieve the remaining 20 million tCO2e. the fee) and targeted investments.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Last year, for example, Sephora became the first major cosmetics retailer to broadcast its policy on chemicals. The for-profit firm Scivera , launched in 2008 in Charlottesville, Virginia, offers a subscription database SciveraLENS, with color-coded grades for chemicals based on their inherent hazards. for an answer.”

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2020, the world produced an estimated 353 million tonnes of plastic waste , vast amounts of which have gone on to pollute landscapes, oceans, and even the air, causing detrimental impacts to our climate, ecosystems, and health. Plastics are now in our food, our drink, the air we breathe, and almost every product we buy.

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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 28, 2020

The report argues that its a trend that poses significant risks to health and the natural world, in particular in countries with weak environmental regulation, because it will reinforce a dangerous status quo that already sees investment "tilted towards brown" infrastructure. "As

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Climate-friendly stimulus policies to reboot economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis offer a far better mechanism for boosting jobs and growth, compared to unconditional bailouts for high carbon industries, a major new analysis by a group of leading economists has found.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

Now the coronavirus crisis has ensured the decade will start with a sharp reduction in annual emissions, but the question as to whether emissions will now rebound or begin a sustained decline rests to a huge degree on the decisions governments make as they mobilise their imminent economic stimulus packages.

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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. It began with the upbeat assessment: "There may be some short-term delays in climate policy.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Letter to the Prime Minister by government climate advisers adds further weight to cross-sector calls for coronavirus stimulus packages to eschew carbon-intensive practices in favour of low-carbon, climate-resilient industries and projects. Recovery means investing in new jobs, cleaner air and improved health.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

But the best policy work is continuous, creative, and keeps reaching for greater ambition and impact. The move will be seen as something of a blow to hopes that governments would prioritise green stimulus measures in their coronavirus recovery packages. Citi tightens fossil fuel lending policies.

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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. What’s happening to climate change policy during the coronavirus pandemic?

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Fundamentals of Circular Packaging (Workshop): An increase in consumer awareness, corporate engagement and regulatory action has led more companies to set ambitious goals to reduce and reimagine their use of plastics and packaging. That economy is now taking shape.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The 'long 90s' of idealism, hedonism, and relative peace is on its death bed, where it will remain until the financial crash of 2008 administers the final rights. Applying a climate lens improves every policy and instils greater optimism and better returns in every project. Everyone is rightly worried about what comes next.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

But none of that has stopped President Trump and some of his allies doubling down on their short-termist, science-rejecting, overtly populist tactics, presumably in the hope they can scapegoat their way out of the escalating economic, health, and social crisis. Meanwhile, a fightback is gathering momentum.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

And despite recent indications that it will review its overseas coal financing policy, Japan remains a major funder of coal capacity abroad, currently financing 24.7GW of coal power outside its borders. And in China, the report paints a particularly worrying picture for global climate efforts.

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Grist

OCTOBER 19, 2020

“It’s really hard to disentangle whether changes can be attributed to a program or not,” said Cushing, an environmental health professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The pollution policies pre-empted by cap and trade never happened, so there’s no data on how they would have cleaned up the air.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

APRIL Group - or Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd, to give it its full name - is a massive manufacturer of wood pulp and fiber, the basis of myriad everyday products from office printing paper and packaging to tea bags and viscose fabrics. We need to develop a proper policy and strategy starting from now."

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this.” Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy. So was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008. He is certainly not the only pessimist (or realist?)

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

The video and anecdote raised a smile at a time when the world is facing its biggest collective health and economic crisis since at least the end of the Second World War. The benefit is simple," says Patrizia Heidegger, director for global policies and sustainability at the European Environmental Bureau.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

South Korea previously launched a low carbon stimulus in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and green groups will be hoping it could repeat the approach - albeit at a larger scale. In my view, this is not a reason to celebrate because emissions reduction should be the result of right energy policies.".

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 6, 2020

Trump shut down the entire Global Health Security and Bio-defense agency and he fired Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossart, whose job was to coordinate a response to global pandemics. Trump and Republican's support for the fossil fuel industry further undermine the health of Americans and biodiversity.

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