Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Rules aimed at preventing companies from importing products into the UK that are linked to illegal deforestation are to be added to the Environment Bill, as part of a package of measures to boost the resilience, traceability, and sustainability of corporate supply chains confirmed by the government today.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. Since then, the term has gained currency in the climate community, and financial support.

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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. Front and Centered opposes this effort as this market mechanism does not reduce pollution in impacted communities.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Seven states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, have passed 100 percent clean energy transition laws. All 100 percent state laws, and some city and county policies, also include interim targets to keep clean energy deployment on track. The binding nature of these targets is also noteworthy. Washington D.C.

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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. Early Phase-Out of Coal-Fired Power Plants (CFPP) The Taxonomy also provides a hybrid framework to phase out CFPPs at both a facility and entity level.

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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.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. Green Swans, according to John Elkington , are positive market developments once deemed highly unlikely, if not impossible.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. Green Swans, according to John Elkington , are positive market developments once deemed highly unlikely, if not impossible.

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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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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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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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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

There is also a recognition that present-day delay in action would put the responsibility on the future generations, who will face greater vulnerability and exposure due to reduction in the climate-resilient pathways that we still have a chance to avail (IPCC “climate change report”, 33). 4, 2008, pp. 4, 2008, pp. Dees, John P.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. Since then, the term has gained currency in the climate community, and financial support.

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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. The government will also try to strike an appropriate balance between prioritising energy security (in light of the war in Ukraine) versus decarbonisation.

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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. On the bright side, however, the crisis has underlined the resilience of Danone's direct sourcing model, he says, which minimized supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2018, the International Maritime Organization set the goal to halve emissions for commercial ships from 2008 levels by 2050. In that sense, there is a really good partnership that is not in name only, but in values and goals. And the goalposts are high. But by 2030, zero-emissions vessels will need to start being introduced.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business. All but the most resilient oil companies went bankrupt and forfeited their assets. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business. All but the most resilient oil companies went bankrupt and forfeited their assets. The Railroad Commission would not confirm this.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 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. “You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 7, 2015

By Rachel Barron This article originally appeared on SolarEnergy.net , and is reprinted with permission Jeanine Cotter, CEO of solar installation company Luminalt, has witnessed profound resiliency. Before starting Luminalt, she practiced law at Fenwick and West and was an attorney for financial software maker Intuit.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

While the transition will inevitably be complex and difficult, it is essential to building a more resilient economy that benefits more people.". As a new report today from environmental law NGO ClientEarth made clear, for every listed company engaging with climate risks there are many more with their head in the sand.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2018, the International Maritime Organization set the goal to halve emissions for commercial ships from 2008 levels by 2050. In that sense, there is a really good partnership that is not in name only, but in values and goals. And the goalposts are high. But by 2030, zero-emissions vessels will need to start being introduced.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Caroline May, EMEA head of environment at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, echoed much of Moho's sentiment, arguing that high level emissions reduction targets announed by the government in recent months "now need to be backed with swift action and implementation, particularly as we rebuild the economy after the pandemic".

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

A year on from the UK's net zero target being adopted in law coinciding with the start of one of the most eventful 12 months in modern political history, the influential Committee on Climate Change today published its annual review of the UK's progress against its climate goals.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

A 65% reduction in scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions from federal operations by 2030 from 2008 levels: To meet these targets, the EO requires agencies to, among other things, pursue building electrification strategies, procure carbon pollution-free energy, and use performance contracting to reduce emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. Earth Day’s resilience enabled it to move to the world stage in the 1990s, paving the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil. For the U.S.,

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

During this period, president Jimmy Carter supported the drive for new and improved environmental law which continued throughout his term up until 1981. Earth Day’s resilience enabled it to move to the world stage in the 1990s, paving the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil. For the U.S.,

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Grist

MAY 22, 2021

plot, where she is working to develop a way of seeding resilient, carbon-absorbing forests by dropping pods from drones. Today, we have very, very poor laws or – one could say, no laws – to hold timber companies accountable,” he says about Canada. This is mitigation. And that is the best thing that we can do with our lives.”.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Barring any late Congressional dramas, President Joe Biden could sign the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law before the week is out, triggering a multi-billion dollar green investment bonanza that promises to drastically accelerate US emissions reduction efforts.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 24, 2020

Trump is trying to cast himself as the law and order president yet he is not cut out for the part. Trump has made a mockery of the law freeing and protecting his friends. This is who we still are: compassionate, resilient, decent people whose fortunes are bound up with one another. The Don is steeped in criminality.

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