Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

Friends of the Earth claims government’s flagship Net Zero Strategy is ‘woefully inadequate’ and that Heat and Buildings Strategy breaches equalities laws. We believe the government has breached the Climate Change Act 2008, a vital piece of legislation that Friends of the Earth was pivotal in bringing into law.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This type of coordinated energy systems approach can use hydrogen to simultaneously decarbonize transport, industry and heat by identifying and involving regional industry and consumer demand and matching this to energy supply opportunities and industry investment. Production costs. Investors are typically risk-averse and need to feel secure.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

billion second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) would affect the country’s goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Studies show that investing in road capacity increases the number of cars – a phenomenon known as ‘induced demand’. The strategy doesn’t mention RIS2.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Miliband, who had an instrumental role stewarding the UK's Climate Change Act into law as Energy and Climate Change Secretary in 2008, said his priorities for the new brief would be leading Labour's Green New Deal policy platform, including its recent pledge to invest £28bn a year on climate action. "As

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2021

billion second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2). He added that “whether they are enough is not a matter for the court” and noted there was “no requirement in the [Climate Change Act] 2008, or in government policy, for carbon emissions for all road transport to become net zero”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Today’s high energy prices are caused by a spike in the wholesale cost of gas, and have been made worse by a failure to invest more heavily in renewable energy and home insulation. Sinclair campaigned against green taxes in senior roles at the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group from 2008 to 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Campaigners said the aviation-related donations looked like “sweeteners” from a sector that has largely escaped regulation over its climate impacts, and suggested the money would have been better invested in efforts to cut the companies’ emissions. Christopher Harborne and the Rigby Group were contacted for comment.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2020

To mark a year since the UK's 2050 net zero emissions target was written into UK law we gathered the views of a raft of industry experts to debate the technologies, investment and policy needed to reach net zero, and the role business will play. Can lessons from the past help shape our net zero future?

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Front And Centered

APRIL 14, 2020

Make Transportation Investments Equitable (HB 2688/SB 6399). ENACTED – Strengthening protections for farm workers (SB 6261) — A priority for Community to Community this bill removes the exemptions for non-profit farm contractors had from laws applying to for-profit contractors.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As such, new legislation is to be introduced would prohibit larger businesses in the UK from using forest risk commodities that have not been produced in line with producer country laws. Our new due diligence law is one piece of a much bigger package of measures that we are putting in place to tackle deforestation.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

” As one of the first analysts in the renewable energy sector, Demas has since taken on the responsibility of helping to push our industry forward, through the 2008 recession and now in the uncertain times of COVID-19 and broader social unrest.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. Irish Agriculture.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

The case also alleges the Secretary of State failed to give lawful reasons for straying from advice given by the Climate Change Committee that, given uncertainty around technological solutions to aviation emissions, a policy framework to curb demand for aviation is also needed.

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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This strategy aims for net zero emissions by around 2050 and includes shorter-term goals of cutting emissions by at least 20% and aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, relative to 2008 levels. Investments made as part of the early coal phase-out process do not extend the expected lifetime for coal combustion.

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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. trillion to invest in climate action (clean technologies) and sustainable development (e.g., For context, I worked with Bank of America in 2008 on the first commitment of this kind — it was for $25 billion.

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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. For one thing, VW chief Herbert Diess has invested personal prestige in the ID.3—it’s

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

In 2020, after setting in law a target to decarbonise its economy over the next 30 years, and ahead of hosting a meeting of global governments to discuss increasing climate ambition around the world, the UK, more urgently than ever before, needs to set out how it will deliver what is required in the face of a climate emergency.".

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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. This global commitment is not possible without a huge investment. Population, climate and food (PCF) are deeply entangled.

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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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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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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. What is the UK government doing?

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 29, 2019

A National Grid transmission study has ensnared nearly 1 gigawatt of distributed solar in Massachusetts, delaying progress on numerous projects as the federal Investment Tax Credit phaseout approaches and causing anxiety in one of the nation’s largest markets. Developers acknowledged that communication from National Grid has improved.

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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. Mislabeling of wood is of high concern because illegal logging harms fragile forests, placing them at risk of biodiversity loss. Whether purposeful or not, mislabeling breaches the U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Yet, Punjab was one of the 4 states handpicked for carrying out this revolutionary project, because the resources to invest were limited and there was an impending urgency to deliver. The pumping of groundwater should be regulated and the Laws that are in place for the pumping of groundwater should be stricter and follow specific regulations.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

That’s $8,500 a year that can go back into the local economy via other means — leisure activities, paying down debt, investing in the stock market, etc. However, building infrastructure and decarbonizing our energy system has been the largest job growth area since the 2008 financial crisis. This might sound overwhelming.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2021

Boruff was joined that day by company founder Delroy Miller, who also happened to be his father-in-law. Boruff had no oil industry experience before being appointed in 2008 as CEO by his father-in-law. In 2016, the company was reorganized into new entities controlled by Apollo Investment Corporation. Boruff was paid $7.6

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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

We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. We already have demonstrated the efficacy of investments directed to electrical distribution, water, transportation and renewable energy.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. We already have demonstrated the efficacy of investments directed to electrical distribution, water, transportation and renewable energy.

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Jigar Shah

JUNE 11, 2019

leisure activities, paying down debt, investing in the stock market, etc. However, building infrastructure and decarbonizing our energy system has been the largest job growth area since the 2008 financial crisis. Today, the clean energy industry invests more per year than the entire electric utility industry.

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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.

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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. It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks.

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Charged

AUGUST 18, 2023

The funding supports the Biden-Harris Administration’s aim of having EVs make up half of all car sales in America by 2030 and builds on President Biden’s roughly $3 billion budget for EV and battery innovations under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. As of April 2023, over 3.6

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

This means that the Net Zero Strategy is not lawful, and crucially, does not allow parliament and members of the public to hold government accountable for any failures. We are very concerned at the potential consequences of such a strategy for people in this country, and across the world, given the climate emergency.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

It comes as an Abu Dhabi-backed investment fund RedBird IMI this week claimed it would be taking control of The Telegraph and Spectator, after months of speculation over the position of its previous owners, the Barclay family. The Telegraph has “a long tradition of giving a voice to non-experts”, James Painter, of the Reuters Institute, said.

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