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 Overall, the group gave the government's draft climate law a score of 3.7 out of 10, calling on lawmakers to table amendments to strengthen the bill.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

That is the hypothesis advanced in a new report published today by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The report also predicts disputes over what constitutes 'renewable energy' or 'green' investment.

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Grist

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When did you both realize that the conventional wisdom about the framers of Colorado River law using bad data was incorrect? People were not as invested in the future as they were in the present. It was much easier to divide up a larger pie politically than it was to deal with reality. Was there an “aha” moment?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

From 2002 to 2012 Coco was President and COO of Taos, a Gartner global top 20 leader in IT cloud professional and managed services. Her work has been featured by NACD, Corporate Secretary, Pensions and Investment, CQ Roll Call, Marketwatch, Ethical Boardroom, GreenBiz, Huffington Post, Environmental Leader and Responsible Investor.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Other studies, like one published in 2012 in GBC Bioenergy , directly challenge the idea that wood pellets are renewable energy because forests can be replanted. Their reliance on the energy source to meet stringent emissions targets is now heavily political — and hard to correct — despite the growing scientific evidence against it. .

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

While utilities can’t earn a profit on some of the costs of doing business — such as fossil gas purchases and employee payroll — regulatory rules do allow them to earn a return on capital investments, like pipes and meters. Dye oversaw the accuracy of NW Natural’s more than 700,000 meters from 2000 until 2012. A Sidelined Solution.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. This souring of relationships was particularly disastrous given that many saw California’s original climate law as an explicit effort to advance environmental justice.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

The frustration for Danker and many others is that the government has repeatedly stressed its commitment to green growth and has spent the last few years mulling a wide array of policies that would serve to mobilise much needed green investment. The UK government protests that it's increased its green investment," he said.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 She came to the co-op from International Flavors & Fragrances in 2012 as supply chain and operations executive vice president and became COO several years later. million in Neighborhood Grants. One in five is Black.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2021

But in keeping with the seriousness of the Covid-era the next month looks set to be dominated by an intensifying and hugely important political row over the future of both the British economy and the planet itself. But such an effort has not materialised.

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Other studies, like one published in 2012 in GBC Bioenergy , directly challenge the idea that wood pellets are renewable energy because forests can be replanted. Their reliance on the energy source to meet stringent emissions targets is now heavily political — and hard to correct — despite the growing scientific evidence against it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Over the course of his three-decade career at Microsoft, the law school graduate has made a name for himself through a string of diplomatic successes as he helped settle disputes with some of the firm's biggest competitors and bring to a close long-running antitrust battles with US government and the European Commission.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

She joined college students, financial experts, faith leaders, and then-New York City Public Advocate Letitia James in front of the New York Stock Exchange to demand that the city’s five public pension funds factor the financial risks of climate change into their investment decisions. trillion in cash and investments.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 She came to the co-op from International Flavors & Fragrances in 2012 as supply chain and operations executive vice president and became COO several years later. million in Neighborhood Grants. One in five is Black.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. degrees Celsius.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

During globalisation, private investment was highly encouraged for profit and the role of government was defined as a coordinator and welfare provider. 47 in 2012. Wagle) The government is seeking investment from the international community but there is self interest within communities. Creative Philanthropy could be the answer.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. But that’s only true because of the incredible investment the taxpayers of Northwest Ohio have had to make.”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Hayek told Fisher to forget about getting into politics and to engage instead in a “war of ideas.” Suddenly Fisher had a lot of time on his hands and a lot of people wanted to know how the IEA had managed to push UK politics so far to the right and so quickly. conservative politics — are all members).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was previously referred to the parliamentary standards watchdog for failing to declare in debates that his investment firm, Somerset Capital Management, held shares worth around £3 million in mining firms, £2.4 There are question marks over whether he stands to gain financially from any of these policies.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

It’s time to kick toxic fossil fuel interests out of politics once and for all,” Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, told DeSmog. It’s deeply concerning that Downing Street’s doors are open to fracking enthusiasts,” Good Law Project Executive Director Jolyon Maugham told DeSmog. ’ 2022 report into think tanks.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

Al Pacino's epic half time team talk in Any Given Sunday probably seems an odd one to kick off an article on climate politics, but for me it holds some truths. The UK, birthplace of the industrial revolution, has signed it into law. One-half second too slow, too fast, you don't quite catch it.". 2020s draft picks. Marginal gains.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

West Virginia Large and deadly storms, like Superstorm Sandy in 2012, have hastened efforts to bolster infrastructure in the Northeast in preparation for the more severe impacts of climate change. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. Some go even further.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The cabinet still contains four ministers (one of them promoted) who back in 2012 co-wrote a controversial book called Britannia Unchained, which takes a swipe at “government-subsidised green technology”. Anne-Marie Trevelyan – International Trade Secretary. Replaces Liz Truss. Previously BEIS minister.).

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 17, 2021

A new report by the Rocky Mountain Institute shows that Illinois customers paid near market rates for power from Prairie State since it was built in 2012, but the contracts have also saddled them with debt far beyond the norm. And without carbon emissions, it might not need to close under an Illinois energy law. million in the project.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

She became intrigued by her clients’ requests for investments with a triple bottom line — and the very notion that profitability and impact needn’t be mutually exclusive. . When a Nigerian venture capitalist told Liswani it didn't make sense to invest in women, it spurred her on even more. It’s not like being an astronaut," he says.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Those and other provisions in Virginia’s sweeping Clean Economy Act now face political uncertainty, though policy experts predict that much of the 2020 law will be able to withstand a partisan challenge thanks to Democrats’ narrow control of the state Senate. All in play for some political purpose. That would be my prediction.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

After decades of political unrest, a relative emerging peace had emboldened the government to put its oil up for sale. Any internal disputes over resource sharing could spell disaster in Somalia, a politically fractured country recovering from decades of war. The two companies vanished from Mogadishu. Credit: Twitter/Asair Firin.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

In 2012, when Turner was still a state representative, he wrote a letter to the then-chairman of the House State Affairs Committee, raising concerns about PUC rule changes that increased the price caps companies could charge for power to $9,000 per megawatt hour. between 2002 and 2009, when he was governor.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Coos Bay, Oregon, in 2012. In April 2018, Jordan Cove sent $40,000 to a group called Oregonians to Maintain Community Standards, a political arm for a coalition of building trades unions. Val Hoyle, 2012. Within hours of DeFazio making his retirement public, Val Hoyle announced her intention to seek his seat.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. As President Biden observed, the IRA "makes the largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change".

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2020

In 2020 as the entire nation edges toward becoming majority people of color, the word remains deeply embedded in our political discourse and discordance. After all, only 43 percent of white voters chose him in 2008; and only 39 percent went his way in 2012. Obama’s use of “minorities” was noteworthy for its irony.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 24, 2020

Trump is trying to cast himself as the law and order president yet he is not cut out for the part. Trump has made a mockery of the law freeing and protecting his friends. have lost another two crucial years to political inaction". We have got to vote like we did in 2008 and 2012. The Don is steeped in criminality.

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