GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 2, 2020

However, this newly configured system is likely to face severe disruption from wider political developments such as Brexit’s impact on EU funding," the report said. AW-Energy was founded in 2003, and CorPower has been around since 2009. “Today, the U.K. From valley of death to slope of enlightenment.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The scientist also responded to questions from his lawyer about “ Climategate ,” a 2009 global media frenzy touched off by the release of hacked emails from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia, not long before that year’s United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen. The post In D.C.

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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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Charged

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The deal is expected to be the largest industrial project in Georgia history, surpassing the 4,400-worker Kia complex that opened in West Point in 2009. We expect Rivian to work the political levers to try to change this state of affairs (as Tesla has been doing in Texas for years, so far without success ).

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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

Lawson founded the GWPF in 2009 and remains its honorary president, since stepping down as chair in January 2019. He is also on the board of the think tank’s political arm, the Global Warming Policy Forum, which since 2021 has campaigned as Net Zero Watch. Climate Denial Founder.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Students for Liberty has received over $1 million in funding since 2009 from the philanthropic organisations of Charles Koch, who co-owns the US-conglomerate Koch Industries , which trades heavily in oil and gas. Consumer Choice Center was founded in 2017 by the libertarian advocacy group Students for Liberty.

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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

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

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.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

The recent report feels a far cry from the one produced after the first official beaver reintroduction trial, which ran in Knapdale, Scotland from 2009-2014. political support, and it may be that they will spread by themselves. Instead, there’s recognition of concern and examples of rapid action that can deal with problems.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Stephen Fitzpatrick founded OVO Energy in 2009 with a stated mission to make to make energy 'cheaper, greener and simpler' for everyone. VIDEO: Founder and CEO of UK's second largest energy supplier talks to Lucy Siegle about consumer behaviour change, new subscription models for home energy, and zero carbon aviation.

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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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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

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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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Despite making the climate finance pledge back in Copenhagen in 2009, richer countries have collectively failed to make good on their climate finance goals. Jope said climate change posed a major threat to Unilever's future and as such urgent action was needed from political and business leaders alike to tackle escalating climate risks.

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Low Impact

JANUARY 24, 2021

As long as that’s the case, money will gravitate towards stored wealth, because money attracts money and gives access to the political system. Chapter 2 – Trouble: economic, political and ecological problems caused by the money system. About the author: Dave Darby lived at Redfield community from 1996 to 2009.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Is it like Gordon Brown's emergency G20 London Summit in 2009, a desperate and only partially successful attempt to rebuild a more resilient global economic system out of the wreckage of a financial crisis? Huge quantities of political, financial, and emotional capital have been invested to get this far. And it matters.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This plan was taken on by two bodies, the non-profit Desertec Foundation and the Dii industrial initiative, in 2009. As far back as 2003, an organization called Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation hatched a plan to produce renewable energy in the Sahara for export to European markets.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Since its foundation in 2009, Iluméxico has installed more than 20,000 solar home kits serving around 90,000 people in the states of Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guerrero, Nayarit, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí and Yucatán. For these families, solar is an important source of energy, she said.

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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

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. She added: “And, crucially for today’s politicians, that includes voters in ‘Red Wall’ seats. There is no constituency in this country for trashing the environment.”.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole’s journey was tragically cut short in 2009 before he could see the full impact of his life’s work unfold. Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work.

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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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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Europe’s unprecedented price and supply crisis means making smart energy savings and securing affordable energy for consumers will remain a key political priority in 2023. The deployment of smart meters has been mandated by EU legislation since 2009 but progress has been slow in many Member States.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 30, 2020

A 2019 study in the journal Nature documented a trend toward more rapidly intensifying hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean between 1982 and 2009, and according to their model global warming is likely the cause. MIT hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel has also warned that we can expect more rapid intensification as the planet warms.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 30, 2020

A 2019 study in the journal Nature documented a trend toward more rapidly intensifying hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean between 1982 and 2009, and according to their model global warming is likely the cause. MIT hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel has also warned that we can expect more rapid intensification as the planet warms.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The report, which was funded by the Zurich Flood Insurance Alliance, looked at the level of climate finance so far committed by 23 developed nations which signed up to the $100bn a year goal in 2009. It concluded the UK was one of 20 countries which are still not paying their 'fair share' towards the collective target.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Dec 2009 vs today pic.twitter.com/eEohLzX60P. In the long term, it may help to gradually shift some established conservative political orthodoxies that have prevented climate action. This idea of active intervention from the state in the market in favour of a green economy is a significant shift in conservative political values.

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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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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

I should hold my own hand up here as I was involved in this policy back in 2009-10. Meanwhile, such policies have historically been politically extremely difficult; the coalition government tried to force households to upgrade energy measures when having other home improvement works done. The scheme failed.

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

She grew up in Oildale — a town in a major oil-producing region in California’s Central Valley — and previously served as policy and political director for the California Environmental Justice Alliance. Signage from a mass mobilization at the Chevron Oil Refinery in Richmond on August 15, 2009. Sponsored Article. Close Authorship.

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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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