DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

That even the successes of Extinction Rebellion in 2019 have not translated into policy-change or a saner trajectory. That the hopes invested when we were told for example in 2009 that we had eight years ( 100 months , to be precise) to save the world have definitively not been realised. And the Green Party.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. Both had to wrestle with outside factors that affected emissions, such as the Great Recession and California’s other climate policies.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 24, 2020

Thanks to continuing cost declines, strong demand for renewable power from businesses and residential electricity consumers, and supportive state energy policies, those who know the industry best believe its brightest days are yet to come. What the renewables industry needs right now. Unfortunately, time is not on our side.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

Emeritus Fellow Professor Peter Dobson has defended his decision to accept a position on the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)’s academic advisory council, just weeks after his colleague Professor Peter Edwards joined the organisation as trustee. This could lead to a false equivalence in coverage, he warned. “In

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Consumer Choice Center – a US-based group which has links to the Koch fossil fuel network – has lobbied against green policies in the EU through social media adverts and articles in influential publications without being registered as a lobby group.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Isn’t it true that RGGI GHG reduction stalled during the Great Recession because need for energy declined and there was no political will to reduce the cap which would have been necessary to reduce emissions? Shorter answer. A design review in 2012 led to a 45% reduction in the 2014 cap (from 165 million tons to 91 million tons).

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

South can be traced back to 2009, when wood pellets were touted as a “transition fuel” that could be used to advance the EU's climate goals — a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels, and a 20 percent increase in renewable energy by 2020. “As The rise of the wood pellet industry in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May, who was UK Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019, was speaking last night at an event hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), which represents more than 100 Tory MPs who back policies to cut emissions and protect nature. In her speech, May called on Conservatives to unite ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit.

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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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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. He was also credited with playing a key role at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, intervening to stop the tumultuous talks from collapsing at the 11th hour.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Paid for by the American Petroleum Institute (API) — the nation’s largest oil and gas lobby group — Edelman helped organize 20 rallies in 2009 supposedly led by Energy Citizens to pressure Congress to oppose landmark cap-and-trade legislation that was under consideration. August 18, 2009. Credit: Energy Citizens. (CC CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

The websites artificially created the appearance of grassroots political energy, and shared misleading “news” that downplayed environmental damage from fracking while simultaneously promoting the benefits of pro-drilling policies. FTI remains a major, major contractor to the fossil fuel industry.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

This has moved these issues up the political priority list and bolstered a massive effort to diversify India’s economy away from coal and other polluting technologies and practices. When Raju joined the renewable energy sector in 2009, the amount of solar installed on the grid in India was roughly 3 megawatts.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

Last week, 100 of the world’s poorer countries issued a position paper setting out five key issues which they say are essential for them in the negotiations, including a the delivery of a 2009 promise from richer countries to provide $100bn a year in climate finance support by 2020.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The ad and PR industry cannot continue to be this far out of step with scientific and political reality and expect to avoid backlash.” WPP, Omnicom, Interpublic Group and Publicis Groupe did not respond to a DeSmog request for comment. Al Jaber is now president of COP28, the annual U.N. climate talks due to open in Dubai in November.

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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. Congress; and policy pros serving President Obama. The dual papers now made it easier for policy makers to push the 100% WWS model forward. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Dec 2009 vs today pic.twitter.com/eEohLzX60P. If successful, this kind of storytelling would allow an older and more conservative readership to feel part of the wider environmentalism narrative, and as a result they might even put their weight behind demands for urgently required policy action. The Daily Express.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In the last couple of months the scientific and policy worlds have issued some dire reports. The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C Lobby for aggressive pro-climate policies at all levels of government.

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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). . Rather, I'm here to highlight that candidates who support clean energy policy are also supporting economic, climate and social justice policies. .

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies. Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. Earlier this year, Tice claimed “there is no climate crisis”.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

But this year its mix of good and bad news takes on a particular importance as green businesses face worsening economic headwinds and governments urgently search for the policy levers that can avert an economic catastrophe. per cent in 2009. per cent, up from 12.4 per cent in 2018 and 5.9 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 6, 2021

Its initial success resulted in VEIC winning multiple contract renewals and rebids, including its formal appointment in 2009 as the statewide energy efficiency utility. . Serving as the primary spokesperson for VEIC in order to increase its name recognition, reputation, and business opportunities nationally and to advance public policy.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Business and policy leaders reflect on the major wins from the Glasgow Summit, what needs to happen next, and why COPs could look and feel difficult from now on. 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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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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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Gordon Brown and David Cameron attended the 2009 and 2015 summits, but otherwise it's left to ministers and officials. This week the government published what's billed as the 'largest review' of the UK's foreign, defence, security and development policy since the end of the Cold War. Is all that about to change?

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. Both had to wrestle with outside factors that affected emissions, such as the Great Recession and California’s other climate policies.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

LCPI finds that one third of reductions, approximately 10 million tCO2e, should be expected from current trends and existing policies plus the price-elasticity effect of the fee if I-1631 is enacted. The measure would rely on a robust investment program to achieve the remaining 20 million tCO2e. the fee) and targeted investments.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

South can be traced back to 2009, when wood pellets were touted as a “transition fuel” that could be used to advance the EU’s climate goals — a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels, and a 20 percent increase in renewable energy by 2020. “As The rise of the wood pellet industry in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Alice Bordini Staden, who works on climate finance and policy with National Trust – Europe’s biggest conservation charity – said she thought it was going to go ahead, but likely in a hybrid format. Of course, that’s all assuming it goes ahead, and the UK government haven’t ruled out the possibility of a postponement until Spring 2022.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Lending high-level economic and political credence to that growing public clamour for action, the work of Chris Stark and his small team at the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in driving the issue up the agenda should not be forgotten. Suddenly, barely days into 2020, a new paradigm began to take shape. Building back better.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One of Dye’s complaints alleges that several NW Natural employees manipulated meter test data to obscure the installation of a batch of defective meters in 2009 — which remained in the field for seven years.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Brown, female and on the bus: A personal journey into transportation policy. My political psyche also had formed more. When I entered grad school at Mills College in 2009, I finally decided to get a license. Sahar Shirazi. Tue, 10/27/2020 - 01:30. I got my first passport at 6 months old.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) recently reviewed by DeSmog show that from 2007 to 2009, Edelman carried out a $6.4 Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), any group working for a foreign country to conduct political activity or public relations in the U.S. The campaign paid off: In 2009 IRENA established its headquarters in Masdar City.

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