Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

CRUK, which includes John Lewis as one of its members,[i] launched in 2008 with the aim of diverting carpet from landfill and recovering raw materials.[ii]. What is needed in the carpet sector is binding and ambitious policies that tackle the problem at its source by ensuring carpets are designed to be adequately handled at end of the life.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Covid-19 crisis will result in a "worse shock" to the economy than seen 12 years ago, according to the group, and "what worked for the 2008 financial crisis may not be sufficient to overcome this one". The group warns the shock to the economy caused by the coronavirus pandemic will be tougher than the 2008 financial crisis. "We

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2021

The judge concluded that the government is taking a range of steps to tackle emissions from the transport sector and submissions “clearly showed” how government policy “continues to evolve to address the urgency of the need to meet carbon targets”. billion second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

By putting in place the enabling primary legislation that bridges legal gaps, creates new laws, or brings clarity to existing laws. The Act also empowers the UK Government to fund hydrogen though a levy and to set strategic priorities in CCUS though a CCUS Strategy and Policy Statement.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

She is the latest high profile figure to ally with NZW’s parent organisation, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , which is the UK’s principal climate science denial group and part of the Tufton Street network of free market think tanks. Jenkyns, the MP for Morley and Outwood, will join NZW’s board, according to a press release.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s clear that a dedicated infrastructure is currently lacking, production costs outweigh less-clean competitors, and that government policy shows technology agnosticism is a myth. Policy-driven benefits. Strong, clear policy frameworks are key in meeting our ambitious renewable energy targets and are currently lacking.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The policy, which backs further aviation growth, was dismissed as “ pure greenwash ” by environmental groups, which cast doubt on the viability of the technologies and solutions proposed. In the same month, the High Court ruled that the government’s net zero strategy did not meet its obligations under the 2008 Climate Change Act.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2020

But as we start to think of life beyond the current crisis, the question is naturally starting to arise - what should bailouts look like this time round, and what can we learn from 2008/09? While the UK government was pioneering in passing the UK Climate Change Act in 2008, now 164 governments have climate change commitments enacted into law.

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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. But the case set out by ClientEarth this week is much broader in scope.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

So we can build these policies that will become a postcard from the future for the rest of the country,” said David Hochschild, chair of the California Energy Commission, speaking last week at a UCLA summit on state and local progress toward 100 percent clean energy. 100% targets come in different forms. Washington D.C.

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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. Anything less is a breach of its legal duties and amounts to greenwashing and climate delay.

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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. The success of renewables in particular stems from decisions that were taken back then.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Key architect of the 2008 Climate Change Act returns to frontline politics, as Sir Keir Starmer unveils Labour's new front bench team. As such, Miliband was instrumental in passing the 2008 Climate Change Act, which set UK decarbonisation targets into law and established the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

But the need to inject reliability into fiscal and policy-based environmental decision making is not confined to carbon pricing alone; we need long lasting environmental policy across the board if we are to deliver on our 2050 net zero commitment. But climate targets alone, even if they are enshrined in law, won't get us to net zero.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

TAN, however, argues that ministers had a legal duty under the Climate Change Act 2008’s statutory targets and the Paris Agreement to consider the strategy’s full impact on the environment and could not leave that assessment to the planning stage of individual road projects. The strategy doesn’t mention RIS2.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Lawyers at Leigh Day have consequently filed for a judicial review on behalf of the campaign groups, arguing the strategy breaches the Climate Change Act as the Secretary of State failed to ensure that it would enable the UK's carbon budgets to be met and as a result its policies risk a failure to deliver on net zero goals.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 14, 2020

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. Here are important policies that we tracked and helped shape or opposed this legislative session.

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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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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

AUGUST 29, 2019

“The transmission study is kind of an after-the-fact reaction to the absence of proactive policies to build out the grid to accommodate higher levels of renewable energy. It’s something we see around the country,” said an employee who works in policy at a large developer and asked to speak anonymously.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

This main conception behind the ‘ non-identity problem’ also has implications on preventive policies (mitigation or adaptation) as he states that if we come up with policies related to people we would change the course of time and action. 4, 2008, pp. Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report Summary For Policy Makers.

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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. All nations are requested to show their commitment by promulgating law and policy that promote investments in preserving the climate.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

During an appearance before a Congressional Committee in autumn 2008 the former chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan made a notable, if partial, admission as to the cause of the financial crisis that was engulfing the world, incinerating livelihoods, and torching the foundations of the financial system.

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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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Logging Retail Biodiversity Law 28

Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

But for the past two years, a committee of 16 people with various expertise in the physical sciences, economics, policy, law, and ethics have been sitting with that discomfort as they met regularly to develop an American research agenda for this nascent and highly controversial field of science. Between 2008 and 2018, U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

On 18 July 2022, the English High Court handed down its landmark decision in an action brought against the UK Government by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth and the Good Law Project. What to expect from an updated NZS? The NZS will affect every part of the UK economy. Mark Clarke is partner at White & Case LLP.

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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. Reports vary on the percentage of those companies that re-started donations to insurrectionists (some say only 23% have kept the policy ). This is an important story if only for how far it expands the role of business in society.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants. To many, cap and trade highlights a contradiction.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Earlier this week, the New York City Council passed a bill calling for the ban, and Mayor Bill de Blasio will soon sign it into law. Passed in 2006, it was repealed by 2008 via concerted efforts from foie gras producers, celebrity chefs and high-end restaurants that pushed back to sway public opinion.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Telegraph columnists routinely questioned climate science and criticised green reforms as a major backlash against net zero policies raged in the UK, DeSmog can reveal. Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate denial group, which is based on Westminster’s Tufton Street.

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