Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

Campaigners have launched a legal challenge against the government's energy policy planning regime, arguing that it fails to adequately account for the UK's obligations under the Paris Agreement. The Heathrow judgment hung on the government's national policy statement on airports. Our legal challenge seeks to change that," he added.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year. Background.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2021

Japan has ended years of speculation over the fate of radioactive wastewater stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant since the 2011 disaster. The main source of radioactive contamination is the residual nuclear fuel from the three nuclear reactors which overheated during the 2011 disaster.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them. BP did not respond to multiple requests for comment on whether the company still donates to the group.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

But since making that commitment in 2019, the party has been criticised for dramatically weakening key climate policies. It’s frankly outrageous that in 2024, oil and gas lobbyists can quite freely cosy up to politicians, hand them fat stacks of cash, and see a favourable change in policy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

It recognizes that these costs could hit the financial bottom line as a result of new government policies, environmental activism, consumer demand or a growing scarcity of raw materials. The valuing-nature goal builds on work that began in 2011 in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

But subsidiary utility Commonwealth Edison’s involvement in a bribery scandal has complicated this and other key policy efforts in its home state. “These new policies and oversight will ensure this will not happen again.” “We have taken robust actions to address these [issues]," Crane said.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

The company also brings the benefit of extensive local operational and environmental data to help shape and inform optimal project design, having successfully installed, operated and monitored multiple floating tidal projects on the neighbouring EMEC site since 2011.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Cox is running to be London Mayor in May for Nigel Farage’s right-wing party Reform UK, which calls for the UK’s net zero policies to be “scrapped”, and is funded by climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cited it when watering-down some net zero policies in September.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. The workings of the 2011 Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2020

To mark a year since the UK's 2050 net zero emissions target was written into UK law we gathered the views of a raft of industry experts to debate the technologies, investment and policy needed to reach net zero, and the role business will play. In the 2011 report, we were also pessimistic about the heavy role coal would still play.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 19, 2024

The International Energy Agency states that “Colombia has emerged as a leader in clean-energy-transition policy making and is an inspiring example of a fossil-fuel-producing country committed to climate action, based on a long-term decarbonization pathway and a policy of energy and economic diversification and a just transition.”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Contributors to the report – drawn from the rail, road, shipping and aviation sectors – agreed there is “urgent need for a co-ordinated policy framework” that reviews “how transport provision interacts today and how these interrelationships should be improved to provide a truly interconnected transport system.”. per cent per year. ”

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2011, the International Energy Agency forecast that biofuels could make up 27 percent of global transportation fuels by 2050. Hydrogen was not even included in the major policy to drive renewables demand in the transport sector. Hydrogen was not added until the policy was redrawn in 2018 to target 32 percent by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”. The NZSG has extensive ties to the GWPF.

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Politics Climate change Global warming Policy 84

Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

The reality of climate change came home for Dr. Samantha Ahdoot one summer day in 2011 when her son was 9 years old. She is the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newly updated policy statement on climate change, which appeared earlier this year. There was a heat wave. Dr. Ahdoot made good on that vow.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 27, 2020

The Panelists include: Bruce Lourie, Ivey Foundation Bruce is president of the Ivey Foundation, an Adjunct Professor at the School of Policy Studies, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Finance, both at Queen’s University, and visiting lecturer at the University of Oxford Social Finance Programme. She is based in Toronto.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

From 2011-2020 , 95 GW of U.S. coal-fired capacity closed, and another 25 GW is slated to close by 2025, cutting national coal capacity a third from its 314 GW peak in 2011. Mike O'Boyle is director of electricity policy at Energy Innovation, a think tank. As of 2018, two-thirds of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Truss’s position on climate policy has deep roots in the libertarian movement. Her election was welcomed by Mark Littlewood, director of the influential anti-regulation think-tank the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), which has a record of opposing climate policies and received funding from oil giant BP for decades.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This may be in terms of technology, technical expertise, policy support, funding, communications. Moreover, survey results can play a vital role in shaping Singapore’s future endeavours, including policy-making and national infrastructure development planning. What other kind of support is needed to advance geothermal in Singapore?

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 17, 2020

Illinois utility Commonwealth Edison has agreed to pay a $200 million fine in relation to a federal investigation over bribery charges that have cast a shadow over its policy efforts in the state capital. Under a landmark 2011 state law, ComEd has spent $2.6 ComEd is also struggling to justify its $9.53 Roughly half of its annual $2.2

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts. Courtice said Shine would be "an outstanding director" of CISL.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This marked a policy reversal, as President Emmanuel Macron had promised four years ago to move away from nuclear power and close 12 nuclear reactors. There are admittedly still a lot of headwinds for the industry in the wake of previous nuclear disasters like Chernobyl in 1986 and the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

From 2006 until the board was disbanded in 2016, those tax records reveal, the foundation gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in charitable donations annually to Canadian think tanks with long records of questioning the science of climate change and attacking government policies that could address the crisis. They in turn belong to a U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But storage's trajectory differs from the early growth dynamics of solar power in a crucial respect: It transcends the geographic boundaries, dictated by sunshine and policy, that constrained solar's rise. said Daniel Finn-Foley, energy storage director at Wood Mackenzie, speaking Tuesday at GTM's Energy Storage Summit in Denver.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The non-residential market — encompassing community and distributed commercial solar — continues to struggle along, hindered by unfavorable policy changes in key state markets like California, Massachusetts and Minnesota.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The articles have all been critical of current policies to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions and ensure the transition to renewable energy. The UK’s Climate Change Committee, which advises the government on measures to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, estimates that the combined policies will cost less than 1 percent of GDP.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 17, 2020

We set out to answer those questions for ourselves recently by examining the investment vehicles available to individual investors in both public and private markets and tracking the returns from 2011 to the present. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% annual total returns. total annual returns.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We set out to answer those questions for ourselves recently by examining the investment vehicles available to individual investors in both public and private markets and tracking the returns from 2011 to the present. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% annual total returns. total annual returns.

Investment 52

Investment Global warming Innovation North America 52

E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We set out to answer those questions for ourselves recently by examining the investment vehicles available to individual investors in both public and private markets and tracking the returns from 2011 to the present. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% annual total returns. total annual returns.

Investment 52

Investment Global warming Innovation North America 52

Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The study analysed the major trends in hydrogen technologies from 2011 to 2020, measured in terms of international patent families (IPFs), each of which represents a high-value invention for which patent applications have been filed at two or more patent offices worldwide.

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Patents Europe Hydrogen Carbon 41

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Back in 2011, the UK was hovering at just 12% renewable generation, but energy policy and an appetite for change is rapidly accelerating our developments. This latest data set tangibly demonstrates that prioritisation policy has an enormous impact.”. The greatest successes.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Despite the numerous residential fertilizer ordinances passed since 2011, water quality, harmful algal blooms, and seagrass loss, which has resulted in mass deaths of the threatened Florida manatee, have continued to worsen.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

Boeing and Alder also announced that they are to use their new joint venture to advance policies to expedite the transition to renewable energy sources across the aviation industry and accelerate SAF production to meet growing demand from the global aerospace market. "As It expects to complete its first production plant in 2024.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Land has reportedly tripled since 2011 to 8.4 The report suggests this increase is partly driven by policy shifts, including a move towards renewable energy. Though well-intended, these policies fail in sufficiently assessing the carbon impacts of biofuels," it notes.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

The EU will miss its climate goals if lawmakers fail to introduce policies that stimulate the market, it warns, calculating that electric vehicles (EVs) will reach an 85 per cent market share, and e-vans just 83 per cent, without "strong additional policies". The EU can set an end date in 2035 in the certainty that the market is ready.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts. Courtice said Shine would be "an outstanding director" of CISL.

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Sustainability Policy Law Europe 65