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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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

Former colleagues and friends have paid tribute to former Conservative frontbencher Peter Ainsworth, who played an integral role in pushing conservation and climate action into the political mainstream. Will be hugely missed, love & condolences to his family #RIP. — Gregory Barker (@GregBarkerUK) April 7, 2021. Awful loss.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

They held banners with the phrase “The climate needs you” and giant alarm clocks to emphasise the urgency of tackling climate change. The action was organised by The Climate Coalition, a group of civil society organisations pushing for greater action on climate change. target alive is closing.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May said the UK has “confounded the pessimists” by taking action on climate change while growing the economy. May went on to say government action on climate change is popular, including among voters in the “Red Wall” seats the Conservatives won from Labour in 2019. A Unifying Issue’. Chequered Record.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

Campaigners said that they were “saddened” by the recent appointments to the GWPF, an organisation founded by climate science denier and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Nigel Lawson in 2009 to combat what it described as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to address climate change. False Debate’.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Climate finance commitments must be met, net zero targets enhanced, and the Paris Agreement finalised, developing countries warn. In a position paper published this week, the Least Developed Countries (LDC) group have set out their key negotiating demands ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

That now is the time to get serious about adaptation and preparedness; because, as the world’s leading climate scientists admitted in droves with clear and honourable pain this month, our hopes for preventing or sufficiently mitigating dangerous climate change must now be admitted to have been dashed. Words are deeds.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

In a joint letter , the scientists say that they are “consistently faced with a major and needless challenge” of having to correct false information and rebut the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to downplay the severity of climate change. August 18, 2009. By comparison, it spent $500 million on advertising between 2009 and 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He currently serves as a director of the Conservative Party Foundation – the party’s multi-million pound endowment fund, created under his watch in 2009 to manage “legacy funds to support the long-term finance” of the party. There is no evidence that Deltic or Spencer used political contacts to secure the licences.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. Cole’s journey was tragically cut short in 2009 before he could see the full impact of his life’s work unfold. Fighting for Justice.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

But it has been instrumental in an array of oil industry campaigns meant to sow doubt about climate change , attack climate scientists, and play up the benefits of fossil fuels. . Last year, a House committee held hearings in which members of Congress questioned oil executives on their role in peddling climate disinformation.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

Lord Wharton has been criticised for holding a position of authority in higher education – representing a group of people that see climate change as a defining political issue – while holding a paid role with a company that supports the fossil fuel industry. Climate change will disproportionately affect young people.

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 24, 2020

A recent Pew Research Center poll found overwhelming bipartisan support for accelerating the transition to a renewable energy economy, with 79 percent of Americans from across the political spectrum saying the government should prioritize the development of wind and solar power over fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

A 2022 report described how such rhetoric results in “public misperception of climate risks”, polarises public opinion and delays effective policy. Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay told DeSmog: “Nigel Lawson is the climate denier-in-chief. Climate Denial Founder.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

“What we are trying to do as a fund is define what climate change entrepreneurship needs to look like,” Karthik Chandrasekar, the founder of early stage cleantech venture capital firm Sangam, said in an interview at his office early last year. Above it all lies a blanket of yellowish smog.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

EY's Steve Varley sets out his expectations and hopes for the pivotal climate talks that kick off on Sunday. Another COP is coming - the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference. degrees and avoid putting the lives of millions of people at risk from heatwaves, poverty and mass migration caused by the climate crisis.

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GreenBiz

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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Keele University lecturer in media and culture Pawas Bisht assesses recent climate action campaigns launched by the likes of The Sun and the Daily Express. Britain's right-wing tabloids have historically not been champions of action on climate change and other environmental issues. Dec 2009 vs today pic.twitter.com/eEohLzX60P.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious. But the connection between climate change and drought is not as straightforward as it seems. One problem with linking drought and climate change is that there is little agreement on what drought actually is. “No degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Celsius (2.2

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

million campaign Edelman carried out on behalf of the United Arab Emirates from 2007 to 2009. billion in support provided since 2009. In Europe, agriculture and farming has become a political battleground, with vested interests seeking to stifle green reforms. We analyzed hundreds of pages of documents filed with the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In the 2009 Budget , the then Chancellor Alistair Darling had announced that fuel duty would increase by two pence per litre on 1 September of that year, and by one pence per litre in real terms each year from 2010 to 2013. Chris Sherrington is head of environmental policy and economics at Eunomia Research & Consulting.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“This is a turning point for the industry — communications agencies who work for oil and gas clients are knowingly accelerating the global climate emergency, and their legal risks will accelerate, too,” said Duncan Meisel, executive director of Clean Creatives. climate talks due to open in Dubai in November.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an important new report about how dire the consequences of climate change are becoming , and how fast we need to move to avoid the worst. So, to go even further, companies need to also consider who they support for political office.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 1997. Secretary of State John Kerry.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The 90-year-old man, the oldest person to go to space, said humans can’t continue “burying our heads in the sand” about climate change, and that “we’re at a tipping point.”. A half-century later, ex-NASA astronaut José Hernández said that the view aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 2009 turned him into “an instant treehugger.”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The UK is among a host of wealthier nations which have yet to stump up their "fair share" of funding to help developing countries decarbonise their economies and contend with the worsening impacts of climate change, despite a long-held pledge that they would collectively provide $100bn a year in climate funding by 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

Green also provided a link to a 2009 Maclean’s article about a Supreme Court of Canada decision that determined it was unconstitutional for a British Columbia transit agency to refuse advertising from the Canadian Federation of Students or the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation.

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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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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. Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science?

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Through participation in the CLC, corporations will both advance their sustainability goals and take a leadership role at the forefront of a new industry as the world seeks to rapidly decarbonize in response to climate change. Mitigating the impacts of climate change is essential. President of Fraunhofer USA.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Why get political now? We don’t write about politics much at GreenBiz (although I’m sure regular Energy Weeklyians have a sense of my personal politics). . Scientists agree that the next decade will be critical to addressing climate change and avoiding the worst of its economic impacts and human toll. .

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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

JULY 12, 2023

Freund said that it was important for policymakers to interact with lobbyists in “any healthy democracy”, but that “wherever there could be an influence of money on politics, the bare minimum is to make it transparent and give voters the possibility to hold decision makers accountable.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The cumulative impact of all the newly submitted national climate plans fell far short of meeting the 1.5C goal established by the Paris Agreement, after all, and developed nations failed to meet their $100bn climate target - set in 2009 for 2020 - ahead of the conference.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

In addition, China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Zhao Yingmin, gave an interview with Chinese state media overnight that further ramped up calls on industrialised nations to deliver an increase in climate finance.

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