GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Here are five charts illustrating why a growing number of cities and states are turning their attention to fossil fuels in buildings and why the electrification movement is critical to addressing climate change. Most of the Top-Emitting States Have Ambitious Climate Change Goals. billion per year, even as the overall U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

New York City’s Climate Mobilization Act has been lauded as one of the most ambitious and innovative legislative initiatives by a major city to combat climate change. Three New York measures have really impacted energy efficiency: Local Laws 84, 87, and 97. percent from the 2009 baseline of 50.8

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021, when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise to “irrefutably to turn the tide and to begin the fightback against climate change”. million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South, which is already bearing the brunt of climate change effects. . “As Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:45.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

“We have failed to understand in the past that we can’t have tackling climate change as a side issue. It can’t be about one law or policy, it has to be put at the heart of all policy,” she said. Every strategy and every plan from every government must be consistent with tackling climate change.”.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The connections with oil and gas lobbyists, the researchers say, undercut the highly public positions the companies have taken on addressing climate change. There is no ‘separate’ when the climate crisis will affect almost every issue before a state legislature — health care, infrastructure, taxes, and the whole economy,” he said.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

In his response to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres noted that, “Had we been further advanced in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, we could better face this challenge.” ” Background on Earth Day.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Scottish government has been accused of failing to follow up its world leading climate goals with a credible strategy setting out how it plans to achieve its ambitious emissions targets. The plan must detail how each of Scotland's ambitious milestones will be achieved," it added.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2020

As he appeals to the UK government for a bailout in the wake of the enormous impact of Covid-19 on the airline industry, unsurprisingly his past public comments calling against British Airways' bailout in 2009 have come back to haunt him. Surely if he didn't believe in bailouts then, he shouldn't now?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The latest River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) for England provides a legally-binding framework and updated package of environmental objectives to tackle water pollution from water companies, the agriculture sector, climate change, and population growth, according to the EA.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. World leaders attending the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year are expected to discuss how to operationalize Article 6 going forward. based solutions to climate change.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

However, it wasn’t until I finished Howard Law, fresh out of courses on environmental justice, clean air, and climate change that I saw how I could articulate my passion through my work. I had to grapple with my love for my city at the same time as I witnessed the compounding effects of of an oil-based economy.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2021

Green Business Bureau has been focused on creating a sustainable business world since its founding in 2009. In 2009, a very small percentage of companies were green businesses, mostly led by founders who were huge advocates of saving the planet from climate change. A look back at the history of Green Business Bureau.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) recently published its annual review of government's progress towards creating a net zero economy by 2050. Display Energy Certificates (DECs) have been a legal requirement for public buildings since 2009. This would highlight good and poor performance and serve as a driver for improvement.

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Rinexii

JANUARY 22, 2021

This would become the first official pandemic plan, only to be reshaped again in 2009. Climate change awareness also began decades ago. Although it might seem like climate change has only been acted on in the past few years, countries were concerned back in the 1970s. A similar problem.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

Sometimes described as the 'lungs of the planet', the Amazon is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and is also a major store of carbon, which is released into the atmosphere when the rainforest is burned, further exacerbating climate change. At least three, spanning more than 26 sq km, were linked to illegal deforestation.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

And it was essentially a dead stock for over a decade – between 2009 and 2019. As oil fracking took over and the fight against climate change took the backseat, so did many renewable energy firms. state securities laws or pursuant to an exemption therefrom.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. But as our climate changes, the effect of altering weather patterns on public health has also been the subject of considerable study, and increasingly, media attention.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This happened within the context of a broader, ongoing debate over the collective adherence of state commissions to narrow interpretations of economic and legal principles, which critics claim are “exercising a chokehold on meaningful climate progress.”.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. But seven years on, researchers, regulators and activists are still arguing about how California’s most famous climate policy has affected its most vulnerable residents — and how to do better.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

C above pre-industrial levels , recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change”. It was at COP21, where the Paris Agreement , the most important climate pact to date, was enshrined. It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., Another time jump.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But then California’s legislature passed a law to subsidize small biomass plants in 2012. Treating the trees in our forests like they are sticks of coal is one of the biggest threats to climate change mitigation that’s out there right now,” said Chad Hanson, a lawyer and forest ecologist who directs the John Muir Project.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 15, 2021

Solar — though it had already been around for decades — was so nascent that Wood Mackenzie (formerly GTM Research) doesn’t even have granular installation data prior to 2009. installations grew from about 1 gigawatt in 2009 to an expected 100 gigawatts in the first quarter of this year. Cumulative U.S.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Businesses leaders urge EU committees to champion Nature Restoration Law An alliance of 12 major business networks is this week urging key European Parliament committees to support and strengthen a proposed Nature Restoration Law, which if passed would set out legally binding goals for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To continue to license this destructive activity, when we know the damage it causes and that it is illegal under various environmental laws, beggars belief. We need to protect our marine habitats and in return many will also help protect us from climate change by sequestering and storing carbon.”?.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

This logo marks the biggest difference between the fossil fuel industry’s PR machine and that of animal agriculture: The animal agriculture industry’s efforts to minimize their products’ climate impact are paid for from a pot of public funds to which all beef and pork farmers and ranchers are required to contribute.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The fact that clean energy directly addresses our growing climate crisis makes these jobs all the more attractive. A recent Morning Consult poll found members of Gen Z are most interested in pursuing careers in energy sectors that do not contribute to climate change, namely solar and wind. energy sector, employing nearly 2.4

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With this in mind, this article presents the 20 best climate change and sustainability documentaries. These documentaries exhibit how video storytelling can be used to promote sustainability and climate action. Summarized below are 20 of the best climate change and sustainability documentaries.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Black Elk purchased Freshwater City an oil company called W&T Offshore in late 2009, as part of a larger deal. The well sat unused in 2006 and 2007 — “shut in due to Hurricane Rita,” records show — then was used to inject less than 5,000 barrels of wastewater shortly before the sale to Black Elk in 2009.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A nascent but growing body of research suggests that these sorts of leaks make oil and gas wells significant contributors to climate change — especially if they’re not plugged. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address. Climate action honors that legacy — because climate change is as stark an inequality issue as it gets and requires every bit as much doggedness to address.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

A nascent but growing body of research suggests that these sorts of leaks make oil and gas wells significant contributors to climate change — especially if they’re not plugged. One 2015 law required a special bond to be posted for wells that have been inactive for longer than two years.

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