Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis calls went up for green stimulus plans, but while they gained some traction support was largely confined to environmental campaigners and clean tech industries and the opportunity to deliver sweeping climate-focused recovery packages was ultimately squandered.

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Resilience Packaging Aviation Fossil fuels 74

Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Anne-Sophie Corbeau, an energy policy researcher at the University of Columbia, believes the ongoing energy crisis could affect renewables and the broader energy transition in a couple of ways. natural gas prices to remain elevated between October and March -- the highest winter price since 2007-2008.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

The Aldersgate Group's Josie Murdoch assesses the policy action needed from government to accelerate progress on green finance in the UK. Following this, the Aldersgate Group recommends a range of policies to properly green the UK's finance system. 2021 is shaping up to be a big year for green finance.

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Policy Government Carbon Biodiversity 75

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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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 12, 2020

A new public letter asking Canadian governments to pursue a “resilient recovery” has attracted the signatures of companies and industry associations across Canada. After the 2008 financial crisis, President Obama’s recovery spending in clean energy supported 900,000 job-years between 2009 and 2015. Visit resilientrecovery.ca

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2021

A former research scientist in clean energy and transportation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Gopal has a grant-making philosophy that focuses on electrifying the global economy quickly, resiliently and reliably with clean power.

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Transportation Europe Electric vehicle Climate change 418

Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

The government wishes to deliver a financial system which supports and enables a net zero economy by mobilising private finance towards sustainable and resilience growth and is resilient to the physical and transition risks that climate change presents," Sunak wrote.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic "has focused investors on the vulnerability and resilience of the financial system," according to a new report from the CFA Institute , an association of investment professionals, which found 85 percent of its members consider ESG factors when making investment decisions.

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Biodiversity Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Investment 545

AGreenLiving

MARCH 11, 2021

Orlando’s journey to accelerate sustainability and resilience Chris Castro Thu, 03/11/2021 – 01:00 Cities are home to more than 50 percent of the global population and as a result are presented with ever-growing challenges, including finding a balance between social equity, economic vitality and environmental sustainability.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

"We need companies to make commitments that are specific to how they are addressing their supply chains," says Jessye Waxman, shareholder advocate with Green Century Capital Management, which has so far engaged dozens of businesses encouraging them to improve their "no deforestation" policies and practices. Progress takes root.

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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”.

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Transportation Climate change Policy Government 95

GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

That's why Danone has signed the green recovery appeal at the European level, because we believe the transformation and the renegotiation of the agriculture policy is instrumental to that.". Workers fills up milk storage tank at a Danone dairy plant in Normandy, France, April 2008. Sponsored Article. Source: Photoagriculture.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring 391

Business Green

JULY 14, 2020

The government must overhaul public procurement, fiscal and monetary policies to ensure a durable economic recovery that is aligned with the UK's climate goals, according to a comprehensive report published by the Aldersgate Group today.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

It found some £31bn-worth of properties have been built after 2008 in flood prone areas of England - including areas in Lincolnshire, Somerset, and Yorkshire - while around £5bn of these homes remain without any defences against floods. As such, many residents may view current policy as "a bit heartless", she added. "It

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Resilience Government Policy Climate change 68

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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

The EO establishes the following policies as part of a whole-of-government strategy. To promote this policy, the EO also requires that federal agencies develop carbon pollution-free electricity generation and energy storage capacity on their real property assets.

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Sustainability Pollution Policy Carbon 52

Clean Energy Canada

JULY 14, 2020

From the head of the International Energy Agency who said recently that “governments have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot their economies… while accelerating the shift to a more resilient and cleaner energy future.” After the 2008 recession, the Obama-era U.S. To House Democrats in the U.S. Cost effectiveness of stimulus.

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Fossil fuels Packaging Resilience Hydrogen 52

Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

For example, RBS (now NatWest Group) was bailed out in October 2008 and the UK government is still, more than 12 years later, the majority shareholder. Translating these and other very ambitious policies into active ownership in practice should become an important implementation priority for the UK government.

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Government Climate change Policy Investment 58

Business Green

MARCH 7, 2021

He added that the paper underscored the importance of public policy in bolstering private investor confidence, ensuring strong investment, and providing infrastructure required to boost productivity growth, as well as managing public debt. We now have huge opportunities from the drive to the zero carbon and climate-resilient economy.

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Investment Packaging Government Policy 66

Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Climate-friendly stimulus policies to reboot economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis offer a far better mechanism for boosting jobs and growth, compared to unconditional bailouts for high carbon industries, a major new analysis by a group of leading economists has found.

Climate change 73

Climate change Packaging Policy Government 73

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Central banks are continuing to help channel trillions of dollars into fossil fuels through policy decisions and direct financing, with overall sums rising in recent years, a new report has found. They reinterpreted their roles to confront the 2008-2009 financial crisis, and again in response to the COVID-19 crisis.”.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 98

Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

One points towards a greener, more resilient economy characterised by stronger rules and incentives for high carbon industries to put their future on a net zero footing. Calls for a green recovery are nothing new of course - similar arguments were made in the wake of the last global financial crisis in 2008.

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Resilience Climate change Carbon Biodiversity 80

Business Green

JULY 19, 2020

In it, he promised to "build back greener" - reflecting the desire of many for a recovery that puts net zero right at its heart to ensure greater economic resilience. Roosevelt's famous 'New Deal' when announcing the government's plans for the UK's economic recovery.

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Policy Technology Demand Electric vehicle 74

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Act seeks to strike a balance in the so-called energy trilemma: transitioning the energy sector to net zero in an affordable way for households and businesses while securing resilient supply of energy. This brief analysis is an introduction to some of the changes brought by the Act, with more targeted insights to follow.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

The analysis found that some $840bn of bailouts, or 11 per cent of total investment, have been channelled into the agriculture, industry, energy, transport, and waste sectors, frequently without any attached conditions requiring recipients to enhance their sustainability performance and climate resilience.

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Packaging Carbon Government Aviation 72

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

To work in solar, you need to be resilient, adaptable and committed to acting on climate science. We've dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, supply issues, government policy u-turns, Minimum Import Pricing, and now we're proving our salt in the midst of a global pandemic. Emerging from the current crisis.

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Fossil fuels Construction Africa Policy 47

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

JULY 8, 2020

Fears by some that we might have reached ‘peak net zero', and that we were in for a rerun of post-2008 when climate mitigation fell off the radar in tough times, appear to have been dispelled. At least for now. The economic, environmental and social co-benefits of this have never been clearer. And for good reason.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, he ruled the government had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) and ordered Ministers to update the plan and present it to Parliament by April 2023. 14 of the CCA 2008.". The Net Zero Strategy remains government policy and has not been quashed," a spokesperson said.

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Climate change Government Policy Biodiversity 60

Business Green

MARCH 7, 2021

He added that the paper underscored the importance of public policy in bolstering private investor confidence, ensuring strong investment, and providing infrastructure required to boost productivity growth, as well as managing public debt. We now have huge opportunities from the drive to the zero carbon and climate-resilient economy.

Investment 45

Investment Packaging Government Policy 45

Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

If the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis is anything to go by, we are likely to soon see a sharp rebound in emissions as economics improve," he said. Investing in those areas can create jobs, make economies more competitive and steer the world towards a more resilient and cleaner energy future.". of warming.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2020

Beyond the stimulus measures announced last week, fundamental policy and institutional decisions are needed for a lasting and transformative economic recovery, argues Nick Molho of the Aldersgate Group?. Clear policy signals are essential if the private sector is to do the heavy lifting. Looking beyond initial stimulus measures.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 7, 2019

Dozens of leading businesses are finally making climate action the priority it should be, and urging Congress to enact national policies addressing the issue head-on. Why the surge in corporate policy advocacy? State and local policies play a leading and critical role in driving climate action across the U.S., global leadership.

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Climate change Policy Carbon Politics 45

Business Green

JULY 14, 2020

New Energy Policy Tracker reveals support for fossil fuel industries has outstripped support for clean energy across the G20, but is there time to change course? This has resulted in some so-called conditional fossil fuel policies that nevertheless lock in dangerous emissions for decades to come. All the talk is of a 'green recovery'.

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Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 58

Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Thousands of green projects are raring to go across Europe to help build resilient Covid-19 recovery, study suggests. There can therefore be no excuse for Member States not spending recovery and resilience funds on win-win green investment opportunities.".

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Europe Resilience Packaging Investment 90

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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Agriculture Global warming Climate change Policy 89

Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

IEA Executive Director Dr Fatih Birol said the coronavirus crisis had presented governments with "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot their economies and bring a wave of new employment opportunities while accelerating the shift to a more resilient and cleaner energy future". It seeks to show them what they can do.".

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Packaging Government Investment Fossil fuels 68