DeSmogBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

The Kichwa have also raised concerns over health issues arising from contact with the oil-contaminated water, including skin rashes and stomach problems. But the trial was suspended a month later, in May, just before government authorities were due to give evidence, with Judge Jaime Oña citing health concerns among the court team.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

The survey evaluated 700 economic recovery policies from 2008-2020 (categorized into 25 archetypes) and their ability to be implemented reasonably quickly, reduce GHG emissions, and provide large economic multipliers (as authors define it the long-term return for every dollar of expenditure). From Hepburn et al. As such, Hanna et al.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May also cited polling by the More In Common thinktank, which found concern about climate change was common across political and social groups. But she also approved the expansion of Heathrow Airport in 2016, despite her long-term opposition to the project on both climate and health grounds.

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Climate change Global warming Policy Government 95

Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Political and business leaders have certainly talked a good game in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. When it comes to cutting emissions and rebuilding the economy after Covid, the prime minister really can have his cake and eat it," argued Chris Venables, head of politics at Green Alliance.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

"From global leadership in putting climate on the agenda, the passing of the Climate Change Act in 2008, to last year's legislation setting a 2050 deadline to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions, the UK has shown powerful, high-level commitment in addressing the climate challenge.".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. Between 2008 and 2016, around 4,700 indigenous Wayuú children died due to a lack of food and water.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. Between 2008 and 2016, around 4,700 indigenous Wayuú children died due to a lack of food and water.

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Europe Climate change Logging Soil 86

Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

The world currently finds itself battling a major public health and economic crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, yet - as the green economy knows only too well - it also faces a race against time to avoid a crisis of far greater and longer-lasting proportions in the form of accelerating climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change. Credit: Laura Mangan.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

A few years later, I interviewed someone who attended the event and he said, ‘We all knew it was real, but it was too political to talk about on TV.’”. Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008. “The backlash [from deniers] was intense. Credit: Robert Scoble ( CC BY 2.0 ). Credit: BLMIdaho ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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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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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv] xii] [xiii].

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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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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Beginning with the city’s Climate Protection Plan in 2008, Murphey led the effort to identify potential climate risks to the region and recommend actions, many of which have been implemented. Murphey advised on all projects and policies that could build a more sustainable and prepared Kansas City.

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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. Jacobson’s Early Story. Photo Courtesy Mark Jacobson). Collaboration with Students. In 2005, Jacobson worked with Stanford students to begin mapping regions of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixable,” according to a newly published report. Concerned Health Professionals of New York compiled all the literature into a “fracking compendium,” as they called it.

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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. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. Company profile. One in five is Black.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 6, 2021

Beginning in 2008, VEIC expanded its operations to become the implementer of new efficiency programs for the District of Columbia, the DC Sustainable Energy Utility. Its initial success resulted in VEIC winning multiple contract renewals and rebids, including its formal appointment in 2009 as the statewide energy efficiency utility. .

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Providing these households with clean cookstoves can both eliminate carbon emissions and catalyse progress towards a raft of other development goals , including improved health, nutrition, education, and gender equality. But today, nearly three billion people still use polluting and dangerous fuels to cook their food.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

The report identifies 10 tactics that polluters, industry lobbyists, and politicians often deploy to deflect accountability for the impacts of fossil fuel production and pollution on the environment and human health. These range from local political organizing to taking legal action and pushing for campaign finance reform.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

This unaddressed inequality needs transparency and political accountability. Rowan Smith, solicitor at Leigh Day, said: “Under the Climate Change Act 2008, the Secretary of State has a legal obligation to set out how the UK will actually meet carbon reduction targets. This is why we are taking this legal action today.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

Since 2008, an average of 20 million people have been internally displaced each year. While the idea of safe, planned migration isn’t new, it runs counter to the current trend in global politics, which is to try and keep migrants out. Not planning for that could lead to poor health, tragedy, and intergenerational poverty.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

. – Co-Founder and executive director of WE CARE Solar Dr. Laura Stachel’s story of how she went from unknown OB/GYN to one of CNN’s Top 10 Heros of 2013 , starts in Northern Nigeria in 2008. in Maternal and Child Health from University of California, Berkeley. from University of California, San Francisco and an M.P.H.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants. As the U.S.

Pollution 28

Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Policy 28

Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. That's the biggest risk.".

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Ratings agencies took a reputational hit for failing to anticipate the 2008 Financial Crisis," said Dr Patrycja Klusak, affiliated researcher at Cambridge's Bennett Institute for Public Policy and lecturer at UEA, who led the study. "It It's an idea whose time has come.".

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Even before the Ukraine conflict provided the industry with a rationalization to push for more drilling, it was leaning on powerful political influencers to fight restrictions on fossil fuel production. Since 2008, Bouma had been president of Capitol Connection, a firm that she joined in 2000.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A recent report by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) evaluates the worker-support costs of six different policy package combinations and the workers who receive them. The worker-support program requires $50 million after four years, replenished annually with “additional moneys from the fund if necessary” and no annual maximum.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. In 2008, scientists found that a giant amount of methane (about 50 gigatons) is trapped in the form of permafrost in Arctic regions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This is a point where we stop discussing wonky science and move into the politics. Senate, he helped to pass the Physician Payments Sunshine Act and ethics reforms at the National Institutes of Health. He leaves Exxon and joins the George Marshall Institute , one of the more notorious climate denial groups. The gloves are coming off.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Building Energy Monitoring Climate change 98

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. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate. One in five is Black.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 93

Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Jesse Merrick, shown here in better health, covers a football game in his job as a sportscaster. In a December 2018 bulletin , Ventura County Health Officer Robert Levin cast doubt on the connection between Cocci and wildfires. “As He developed pneumonia, which made everything hurt, even breathing. Walking was painful. “It

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Boris Johnson ’s resignation honours list includes MPs and political advisors with ties to climate science denial and the oil and gas industry, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Johnson’s former deputy chief of staff, David Canzini, will also receive an OBE.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

Having staggered on zombie like since the financial crisis of 2008, adding environmental (climate, pollution and biodiversity), social (inequality) and political (Trump, Brexit et al) crises to its charge sheet, globalisation circa 1980-2020 has finally fallen flat on its face. So the day of reckoning has arrived.

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