Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Prior to her election as a councillor in 2018, Billington had already spent a wide-ranging career in green politics and journalism, starting out at the BBC where she worked as a reporter on Radio 4's Today programme, as well as for Radio 1's Newsbeat , BBC News 24 and the Politics Show.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

EU officials have said they are eager to avoid repeating the same mistakes made during the 2008 financial crisis, when billions of euros of public money was used to bail out fossil fuel companies. For a fossil free recovery, we need fossil free politics,” she said. Disputed Definitions.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

With their unique platform and influence, investors remain highly credible messengers to make the economic case for addressing climate change; they can bridge the political divide and counteract polarization. Because ultimately, climate risk is financial risk. had $57 billion-dollar climate disasters in the past three years.

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Terra Infirma

AUGUST 30, 2022

This in turn led to the 2008 financial crash when the cost of living (determined by the cost of oil/gas) surge burst the sub-prime mortgage bubble and brought the banking sector to its knees. We often hear people from the right of politics ask “can we afford net zero?”

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

The voices calling for a swift recovery and build back better from COVID are vast and from across the political spectrum. Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis. Let us take a look back into the year 2008: The financial crisis has just unraveled, and governments invest billions to protect banks and kick-start economic activity.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

By far the most politically contentious aspect of the new emissions budgets involves Ireland’s livestock-dominated agriculture sector, which currently accounts for 37.5 After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

It could be akin to the 2008 financial crisis that delivered a shock to our systems that continues to shape politics and economics today. What is certain is that the spread of Covid-19 has created an unprecedented disruptive moment, as we face not only a public health crisis, but also an economic crisis and a political crisis.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The substantial variability of climate change has contributed to detrimental effects in the economic, social, political and environmental sphere that will continue to persist long after we are gone. The London School Of Economics And Political Science, 2006, [link] Accessed 2 June 2019. 4, 2008, pp. 4, 2008, pp.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. He argued oil and gas company advertising is usually not directed at getting consumers to buy their products and services but is more akin to political lobbying. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Legislation aimed at "closing the gaps" in the UK's Climate Change Act by including the nation's international aviation, shipping and supply chains in greenhouse gas reduction targets is set to be tabled in Parliament today, pulling in support from MPs across much of the political spectrum.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Net Zero Watch said it hoped the new steps would be a “significant first move towards a complete reassessment of the unilateral net zero targets embedded in the Climate Change Act”, referring to the legally binding 2008 act that was passed with an overwhelming majority across political parties.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

It’s time to kick dirty fossil fuel-aligned interests out of our politics once and for all.” Record is a major Conservative donor, having given nearly half a million pounds to the Conservative Party since 2008. He added that Jenkyns is a “seasoned campaigner and understands how to get our message across to the general public.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

Lord Peter Lilley , another signatory and NZSG member, is a former GWPF trustee and was one of only five MPs to oppose the UK’s Climate Change Act in 2008. ‘Politically-Motivated Climate Deniers’. The letter is the first time a list of members of the NZSG has been disclosed since the group was set up last summer.

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2021

The Israeli startup Better Place pioneered robotic battery swapping in 2008, but the deal-killer soon became apparent: automakers had zero interest in standardizing their battery packs. Even that will require a Marshall Plan-level of political will, private investment and government support. Source: IEEE Spectrum.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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. He is also the CEO of Sheriff Global Group, which trades private jets, according to Politics Home.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Any one of these three shocks alone "is enough to force fresh thinking" and as such the UK's economic plans must be "more like 1945 than 2008", Danker will say, highlighting the creation of the NHS and welfare state after the Second World War as key examples of the radical policy moves that helped drive post-war reconstruction.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 25, 2021

For example, in 2018, the International Maritime Organization (“IMO”) adopted a goal of reducing greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions 50% below 2008 levels by 2050. This pressure comes from a variety of sources.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Fair Trade has great potential to grow as consumer awareness for Fair Trade certified products is at 63%, nearly double what it was in 2008. Nate is currently pursuing a degree in Finance and Political Science at the University of Connecticut. Source: Fair Trade Advocacy Office. Fair Trade Certification.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Last summer, Minister Eric Wiebes of Dutch Economic Affairs and Climate Policy wrote that since 2008 the government has paid out approximately € 4.5 So this could become a political target." Last summer, it became political. The idea is to prevent CO? from entering the air by storing it in an empty gas field.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2020

The announcement came after political leaders and European Commission officials voiced intentions to adopt clean stimulus measures in line with the EU’s Green Deal climate plan. For information about past clean stimulus measures, see our previous media brief on stimulus measures in the post-2008 U.S. Other countries.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

Since 2008 there has been a clear agreement by governments that going beyond a 2C rise would cross the boundary between manageable and dangerous climate change. The short answer is because the politics of the energy transition are very difficult. This political friction slows the pace of government action.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Registered as an educational charity, Civitas claims to “stand apart from party politics and transitory intellectual fashions” through “independent research, reasoned argument, lucid explanation and open discussion”.

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Grist

MAY 4, 2021

In 2008, she was working in a fire center at the University of California, Berkeley, not long after getting her doctorate there. So it follows that the underlying reasons people dismiss climate science have more to do with political identity than logic. Faith Kearns thought she knew how to talk about science.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

The survey evaluated 700 economic recovery policies from 2008-2020 (categorized into 25 archetypes) and their ability to be implemented reasonably quickly, reduce GHG emissions, and provide large economic multipliers (as authors define it the long-term return for every dollar of expenditure). From Hepburn et al. As such, Hanna et al.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Yet that number could grow by 300 percent if existing regulatory barriers are eliminated and political support, via a specific peak demand reduction target, is secured. Europe’s first VPP dates back to 2008 with an aggregation of nine hydroelectric plants totaling 8.6 Such aims are within reach. European VPPs Expand to Full Potential.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The FSO will have three strategic objectives that correspond to the three aspects of the energy trilemma: a net zero duty aligned with the Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) targets and carbon budgets, ensuring security of energy supply, and promoting a coordinated and cost-efficient energy system operation.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2020

Government must put the diplomatic and political heft into making this event a success with substantially increased focus at the top.". I've been determined not to sink to political mud slinging and focus on building a grand alliance for climate repair.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 8, 2020

It’s too early to know how much carbon will be reduced globally due to COVID-19, but if we look at the global recession of 2008-09, the last year in which carbon emissions went down, it caused a small reduction of 1.4% Manufacturing and construction make up 20% of CO2 emissions. in carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

In 2008 Ecuador was the first country to give nature legally enforceable rights to “exist, flourish and evolve”. Cases are stalled or move forward according to national political agendas,” Tapia said in a statement. But when it comes to serving justice to the most vulnerable, judges turn a blind eye and delay effective responses.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

Applications opened yesterday for the position - effectively the political figurehead of the CCC - which requires three days' work per month for a five year term, with remuneration set at £1,000 a day.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

While there is broad consensus that zero emission deep sea trade vessels must be commercialised by the end of this decade if the sector is to stand any chance of reaching its 2050 climate goal of halving emissions compared to 2008, the low carbon fuels and technology solutions required for shipping decarbonisation remain in their infancy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2021

The developer has just declared it will not be appealing the decision, while its latest financial statement indicates the company, Banks Group, does not expect to get permission for any new mines, because of a lack of “political will”.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

"From global leadership in putting climate on the agenda, the passing of the Climate Change Act in 2008, to last year's legislation setting a 2050 deadline to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions, the UK has shown powerful, high-level commitment in addressing the climate challenge.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May also cited polling by the More In Common thinktank, which found concern about climate change was common across political and social groups. In 2018, May nominated two of the only five Conservative MPs who voted against the UK’s 2008 Climate Change Act for peerages – Peter Lilley and Andrew Tyrie.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Sinclair campaigned against green taxes in senior roles at the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group from 2008 to 2013. In 2016, he blamed high energy prices on solar and wind power, saying on Twitter: “This is how UK climate policy works. Huge investment in renewables etc -> higher profits -> higher prices.”.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

During the 2008 financial crisis, multilateral development banks (MDBs) found ways to relax their normally prudent lending standards, lend generously, and still meet their obligations. We've reached the 'break the glass' moment for development financing.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Political will must be galvanized and renewed as we emerge from the fall-out of Covid-19, and energies refocused on climate change as soon as resource is available. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012. Policy-driven benefits.

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