DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

“We strongly believe not only that this does not constitute greenwashing but rather it is a serious way to face the energy trilemma: energy security, competitiveness, and decarbonization,” because “demand for gas has remained broadly unchanged over the years,” wrote the representative. the spokesperson stated.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent from 2010 levels, by 2030. The key missing ingredient is a lack of political will he said: “Political will to put a price on carbon. Let us open our ears to the multitudes who are demanding change.

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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. I was fortunate to interview Jacobson for an Energy Boom story in 2010 about the real cost comparison between coal and wind power. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 6, 2021

Over the past 25 years, despite numerous instances of political unrest, famine, and recession, the global workforce has seen significant improvements in the number of people living in global poverty. The period of 2010-2018 saw a 2.0% per capita GDP growth rate, which declined to 1.5% in 2019 pre pandemic. COVID-19 and SDG 8.

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Business Green

MAY 9, 2022

It calculates that closing down coal plants and building gas power plants to replace them would cost $235 per tonne of CO2 emitted on average, in addition to locking in long-term demand for fossil gas, which further risks saddling investors with stranded assets and consumers with high bills.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

Confidence in Europe and the UK's ability build a net zero energy system in little over a decade continues to build among investors, engineers, and energy policy wonks - even if it remains to be seen whether political decision makers are willing to deliver the policy frameworks necessary to turbocharge the roll out of clean technologies.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

The Biden administration’s infrastructure plan, which continues to wind its way through the political process, includes billions of dollars for power grid investments and the creation of a new Grid Authority to oversee power infrastructure upgrades. Here are three priorities to ensure the grid is resilient as the climate gets chaotic. .

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Yet the material itself did feel fairly stale, taking 2010 as its benchmark year while looking forward to 2050. Later in her Katowice speech, Thunberg said simply that “Until you start focusing on what needs to be done rather than what is politically possible, there is no hope.” But first of all, does it pass the Thunberg test?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 28, 2019

PG&E, however, stands accused by California’s political leaders of squandering on shareholder dividends the money it could have spent on inspecting and reinforcing its transmission lines, sectionalizing its distribution circuits , and otherwise preventing its system from causing the fires that drove it into bankruptcy in January.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

But political action will determine whether it actually does. It galvanised an unprecedented global youth and activist movement demanding action compatible with the 1.5? track is feasible but would require halving global emissions by 2030 compared to 2010 and reaching net zero emissions by mid-century. this century.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

He was basically demanding that they start to talk about climate change on TV,” Davies said. A few years later, I interviewed someone who attended the event and he said, ‘We all knew it was real, but it was too political to talk about on TV.’”. The backlash [from deniers] was intense. Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

According to the Financial Times , Sunak Sunak is set to argue that with the UK's petrol and diesel car phase out date in place and demand for electric vehicles growing there is a case for ending the fuel duty freeze.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

per cent on 2010 levels by the end of the decade, putting the chances of limiting average temperature rise to 1.5C we are destroying consensus and many countries would demand a reopening of the negotiations," he told the BBC. by the end of the century far out of reach. warming trajectory. warming trajectory. But while 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The government demanded “next to nothing of North Sea oil and gas firms” through the Transition Deal, said Khan. The Helmsley website says that it provides “communications, government relations, thought leadership and political risk to companies on the front line of the energy transition.” “The

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The report - Green Tax Road Map for the Future - details how the government faces both significant fiscal risks as fossil fuel demand falls, and a delicate balancing act to ensure new taxes on emerging clean technologies do not undermine the net zero transition.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

These findings demand regulatory action under federal environmental laws including the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, because these activities are concentrated in an area with high numbers of imperiled species,” the study states. Mountaintop removal mine site above Route 23 in Pike County, Kentucky, in 2010.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

Strong political will is needed to make affordable, clean, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all a reality by 2030," said UNECE executive secretary Olga Algayerova. "As French citizens' assembly slams government climate plan.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

However, if the politics of introducing the kind of charging-based Clean Air Zones that are shown to be most effective at driving down air pollution and encouraging people to switch to electric vehicles and other cleaner models remains challenging, the case for action to tackle air pollution continues to get more compelling.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Despite the continued CEO efforts and rising customer, employee, investor and political interest, many businesses are struggling to integrate sustainability into the core of their operations. Environmental and social disruptions cause a negative brand reputation (note BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political. And we reached the political tipping point around the two-degree mark. But why are both numbers so important? Another time jump.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

Between 2010 and 2018, the industry announced $200 billion worth of investments in new and expanded petrochemical projects across the country, projects reliant on fracked gas. Should these plans proceed, the petrochemical industry would account for nearly half the growth in oil demand by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

And all of this must happen without excessively raising customer rates, if it’s to avoid political and customer backlash. PG&E must keep up with the state’s ambitious clean energy, environmental and electrification goals.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the “Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality” into its 12th Five Year Plan. Air emission reform in China More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the “Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality” into its 12th Five Year Plan. Air emission reform in China More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

And while the highest levels of milk consumption per person are still concentrated in the Global North, most of the recent increase has occurred in low and middle-income countries where rising affluence has led to greater demand for dairy. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

And, since 2010, many renewable energy sources have become nearly price competitive with their more carbon-intensive alternatives: the cost of offshore wind power has fallen 29 percent; onshore wind by 39 percent; solar power, as much as 82 percent. To this end, the SEC is currently reviewing its 2010 guidance on climate-related disclosures.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

In all, we have screened nearly 800 peer-reviewed reports and case studies from throughout Europe, published since 2010, seeking those that quantified where and how cities had successfully reduced car use. Electric vehicles are necessary, but they're not a panacea.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

If ultimately oil demand falls and Keystone XL isn’t needed, then that’s on the company that owns the pipeline. Let’s ignore for a second whether this is a good political weapon—as in, do you think Putin will pull rethink the war if Europe stops buying Russian gas? In 2010, U.S. That brings me to Russia’s natural gas.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

Setting out his reasoning , Matthews said he "very much welcomed" BP's commitment, but that the Shell announcement "covers all activities and also introduces a new concept of who they supply energy to in key demand sectors that need to commit to net zero". Societal pressure is driving Shell's climate efforts.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

Heatwaves and droughts caused by climate change are expected to be a major driver of looming global food shortages, with the resulting fallout set to ramp up human suffering, political instability and economic inflation from next year, consulting giant McKinsey has warned.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We explain how a sustainable business model will: Create business value , Meet the needs of your customers , Meet investor demand , Attract and engage top talent , Slash business costs , Improve brand reputation , Leverage new opportunities. Hence, creating a sustainable business meets the values and demands of a consumer majority.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

Supply and demand will have equal value and flexibility at all levels will keep costs low. Risk and opportunity of interaction: decisions will increasingly interrelate - electricity and gas; transport and energy; communications and energy - demanding new tools to understand and anticipate positive and negative interactions.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As always, the venture community is eager to participate in the blooming opportunity this demand represents. To stay below the 1.5ºC warming threshold , we have to cut global emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, meaning we have just under a decade. and a growing appetite for the solutions to do something about it.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

The Committee's overarching conclusion is both clear as day and extremely pertinent at the current geopolitical juncture: a net zero energy system is technologically, financially, and politically achievable within the 2035 timeframe, but the government simply cannot afford to waste anymore time in building it.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2020

It's one that the Energy Institute's members right across the UK energy sector - including oil and gas, renewables and the demand side - make again today in the annual Energy Barometer survey report. The Better Buildings Neighbourhood Program introduced by President Obama in 2010 had a four year timeframe and did just that.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

I strongly believe this timely report will help generate the requisite political momentum and contribute to the global biodiversity framework.". It points out that governments failed to meet a previous target - established at the 2010 UN COP conference - to phase out subsidies harmful to biodiversity by 2020.

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