2008 Law Policy Politics 
GreenBiz
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.
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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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.
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. It’s time to kick dirty fossil fuel-aligned interests out of our politics once and for all.”
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.
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.
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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