Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

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Sustainability 52

Sustainability Education Law Politics 52

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. pence per litre for both petrol and diesel. Since then, there has been no increase in the nominal level of fuel duty.

Pollution 76

Pollution Politics Transportation Waste 76

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

“I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels to come here today,” Camila Telles told the audience of political activists, business executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum, an annual conservative gathering in Brazil sponsored by the Atlas Network. IEE also participates directly in Brazilian politics, Brun says.

Politics 87

Politics Organic Government Policy 87

Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It estimates that between 2010 and 2019 the average value of nature-dependent exports worldwide - inflated to 2019 values - amounted to $7.4tr, but that much of this value was tied up in non-renewable resources such as climate-damaging fossil fuels or minerals, metals, and ores.

Fossil fuels 69

Fossil fuels Politics Seafood Agriculture 69

ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 9, 2024

The Association was registered in Kenya by the Registrar of Societies in 2010 to encourage, facilitate, and promote the coordination of activities related to local and worldwide research, development, and application of geothermal resources. It is a non-political, non-governmental, and non-profit organization.

Geothermal power 52

Geothermal power Africa Organic Politics 52

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. Notably, he was the only member of the shadow cabinet to vote against the war in Iraq in 2003. Awful loss.

Politics 95

Politics Climate change Policy Health 95

Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Prior to her election as a councillor in 2018, Billington had already spent a wide-ranging career in green politics and journalism, starting out at the BBC where she worked as a reporter on Radio 4's Today programme, as well as for Radio 1's Newsbeat , BBC News 24 and the Politics Show.

Climate change 49

Climate change Politics Government Energy 49

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

While it now stands a little higher than when Kocher first took over, it remains sharply down from its pre-transition levels in 2010. An open letter of support was published in a French business newspaper earlier this week and signed by figures across the business and political worlds, including the major of Paris, Anne Hidalgo.

Fossil fuels 130

Fossil fuels Africa Politics Government 130

DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2024

Let’s unpack this important question by first dispelling some cherished myths of Alberta politics. I recall trying to explain this ideological aversion to maximizing public resource revenue when I visited Norway in 2010 to research a series on their oil industry. trillion at current prices. Where did all the money go?

Natural gas 74

Natural gas Government Education Politics 74

Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The cost of new solar projects declined globally by 88 per cent between 2010 and 2021, while onshore wind fell by 68 per cent. With the global winds powering a shift to renewable energy, it’s high time for all political leaders to shed any outdated ideas about renewables. And both B.C.

Hydropower 105

Hydropower Natural gas Demand Fossil fuels 105

DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2022

Founded in 2010, its board of directors and advisors come from some of the top legal, lobbying and financial firms in Canada. This might seem like an odd pairing, because Netflix by some measures is one of the most politically liberal tech companies, and MLI is arguably one of Canada’s most rightwing think tanks.

Politics 98

Politics Government Carbon-neutral Climate change 98

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The appointment comes as senior Conservative Party figures continue to embrace anti-climate politics. ARC and Legatum Philippa Stroud was made a life peer by then prime minister David Cameron (now foreign secretary) in 2015, after failing to win a parliamentary seat in 2010.

Global warming 145

Global warming Climate change Fossil fuels Policy 145

DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

By far the most politically contentious aspect of the new emissions budgets involves Ireland’s livestock-dominated agriculture sector, which currently accounts for 37.5 After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile.

Agriculture 88

Agriculture Methane Politics Transportation 88

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The billionaire financier is a former party treasurer and raised an estimated £70 million for the Tories between 2006 and 2010. There is no evidence that Deltic or Spencer used political contacts to secure the licences.

Fossil fuels 140

Fossil fuels Policy Africa Law 140

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

My son was born in 2010, which means his life is going to play out over the 21st century. I started getting concerned about it — and I started to be concerned in particular with climate communication — because my background is in literary analysis research into how language has political effects, how it creates political dispositions.

Climate change 92

Climate change Fossil fuels Politics Organic 92

Mosaic

AUGUST 1, 2023

Billy has been working to fight climate change for two decades as an activist, political influencer, author and entrepreneur. ” Parish co-founded Mosaic in 2010 as a crowdfunding platform for community-scale solar projects.

Sustainability 40

Sustainability Batteries Politics Climate change 40

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Bradley testified that when Congress held hearings in 2010 pertaining to the hockey stick graph as well as the materials in the email hack, it was a way to “tangle us up in demands for documents,” and was “clearly aimed at making us three prominent scientists look as though we’d done something wrong.” The post In D.C.

Climate change 142

Climate change Global warming Fossil fuels Methane 142

The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Since 2010, renewable electricity output has grown by 500% , coal has been almost phased out , and electric vehicle sales have soared. I worked with Cameron in 2013, and while some will find this surprising, he really did care about the climate. Many of Cameron’s policies are ones to be proud of.

Recycling 51

Recycling Recycling Policy Electric vehicle 51

GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Indianapolis cited an October report by Rocky Mountain Institute that found that clean energy portfolios declined in cost by 80 percent since 2010, are lower-cost than new gas plants and are projected to undercut the operating costs of existing gas plants within 10 to 20 years. Policy & Politics. Contributors. Lacey Shaver.

Energy 475

Energy Energy Government Policy 475

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2022

Doug Parr, policy director for Greenpeace UK, told DeSmog: “We’ve long known that the oil and gas industry has strong connections right at the top of politics and this appears to extend to the Russian industry as well. Moral Imperative’. He previously chaired the company, which is backed by Russian oligarch Alexander Djaparidze. .

Fossil fuels 79

Fossil fuels Politics Energy Energy 79

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It also decried "the trivialities and the gimmicks which now dominate the political scene". We've had arbitrary targets - '10GW of 'good quality' CHP by 2010'. Probably the Net Zero target, which is why it has had such an impact on the political and environmental debate. New Labour in particular was seen as target-obsessed.

Politics 49

Politics Health Policy Pollution 49

Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2021

With net zero and COP26 so high up the political and media agenda, the progress of the Environment Bill through parliament has become a bit of a backwater. Sometimes, this is because the target is arbitrary, set to signify a political position or intent, but never sufficiently backed up by policy.

Policy 36

Policy Pollution Health Politics 36

Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Experts said another driver is the shifting political climate and increased public pressure on institutions to invest their assets sustainably. According to IRENA, among newly commissioned projects, the global weighted average levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of utility-scale solar PV fell by 85% between 2010 and 2020.

Fossil fuels 112

Fossil fuels Investment Policy Energy 112

Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We received a political leaflet with a cartoon of enormous flies and other insects crawling over a bin alongside a list of diseases spread by rats (the same party later implemented two-weekly collections when they took control of the Council).

Sustainability 59

Sustainability Climate change Waste Waste 59

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

Newsom the political cover to declare to voters that a more robust system of accountability is in place.” While Newsom has lifted his opposition to the financing portion of PG&E’s plan to emerge from bankruptcy, other disputes between the utility and state government remain. “It also gives Gov.

Demand 130

Demand Government Politics Policy 130

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Their presence caused the usual mix of delight and anger, and in 2010 Scottish Natural Heritage planned to remove them. political support, and it may be that they will spread by themselves. Save the Free Beavers of the Tay” Facebook group. the Scottish government granted beavers full legal protection in 2019. Beavers look to be ?on

Politics 147

Politics Health Pollution Government 147

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Si2’s data reveal that proponents were filing resolutions as far back as 2010 on issues that have risen to stark prominence in 2020 as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest over racial inequality have rippled through the business world. Policy & Politics. Shareholder Activism. Sponsored Article.

Retail 322

Retail Policy Government Organic 322

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Europe has seen an exponential increase in the amount of SLAPPs filed over the past decade — largely claims of defamation — filed by wealthy businesspeople, government officials or leading political parties, and corporations, according to the Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE).

Law 81

Law Fossil fuels Methane Politics 81

Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

The world may be on the cusp of a global pandemic, but the scale of the climate crisis presents a greater long term threat and political and business leaders should not be "diverted away from climate action" as they seek to contain the worsening outbreak.

Climate change 76

Climate change South America Global warming Asia 76

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

Stephen Davies, an academic who has worked in educational outreach roles at the IEA since 2010, appeared several times in Climate The Movie: The Cold Truth – a new film directed by climate science denier Martin Durkin. The IEA has extensive influence in politics and the media. The IEA also received a £21,000 grant from U.S.

Fossil fuels 130

Fossil fuels Climate change Education Law 130

The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

In July 2020, the number of fires in the Amazon rose by more than 55% compared to the average for that month in the 2010-2019 period. Indeed, according to the INPE, thousands of wildfires have been burning on a monthly basis for the past two years straight, with the number of fires reaching well past the danger zone. Source: INPE/BBC .

Climate change 195

Climate change Education Agriculture Global warming 195

Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Yesterday's 'Green Day' package offered the good, the bad, and the ugly of the UK's climate policy programme It was way back in 2010 that the outgoing Labour Treasury Minister Liam Byrne wrote his infamous letter declaring that "I'm afraid there is no money". That is not to say there is not good news here.

Packaging 100

Packaging Policy Government Investment 100

GreenBiz

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. Policy & Politics. Air emission reform in China. Contributors. Christopher Hazen. Chemicals & Toxics. Sponsored Article.

Energy Monitor 408

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 408

Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

From Canada to France , Australia to South Africa - imposing a pure carbon tax is fraught with compromises and political revolt, neither of which allow for a carbon tax high enough to achieve much of anything, let alone net zero. International experience suggests we must tread carefully. Gilet Jaunes a l'Angleterre, anyone?

Carbon 75

Carbon Agriculture Aviation Innovation 75

Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

He has also had stints as a Transport Minister and Health Minister, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Climate Change from 2010 to 2011. But great news for political opponents.". Freeman previously served as a BEIS Minister until July this year and the implosion of Boris Johnson's government.

Government 36

Government Politics Climate change Transportation 36

Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

Applications opened yesterday for the position - effectively the political figurehead of the CCC - which requires three days' work per month for a five year term, with remuneration set at £1,000 a day. Writing on Twitter, CEO of the CCC Chris Stark said: "This is a public appointment for one of the best roles in public life.

Climate change 36

Climate change Government Politics Policy 36

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

company in 2010, and Australian concentrated solar power (CSP) technology developer Ausra was sold to French energy giant Areva the same year. Observers feel it would be politically challenging to ax the body. Both have been commercialized around the world — just not by Australian companies.

Business Energy Monitoring 130

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 130