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Former Australian PM Tony Abbott Joins UK Climate Denial Group

DeSmogBlog

Abbott announced he was “pleased” to join the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which had “consistently injected a note of realism into the climate debate”. As prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015, Abbott’s centre-right Liberal Party was widely seen as hostile to climate policy.

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Liz Truss Hires Anti-Green Aides With Ties to Libertarian Think Tanks

DeSmogBlog

Ruth Porter, who will be Truss’s senior special advisor and ran her election campaign, was communications director from 2010 to 2013 at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an influential anti-regulation think tank with a record of opposing climate policies. BP-Funded Think Tank. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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California Targets Nearly $400M to Fill Gaps in EV Charging Infrastructure

GreenTechMedia

Newsom’s surprise decision last month, amid record-breaking heat waves and wildfires driven by global warming, to set a 2035 deadline for ending sales of new gasoline-fueled vehicles. This week's announcement follows on Gov. That move puts California in the vanguard among U.S. and the Netherlands.

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Realizing the full potential of stakeholder capitalism

GreenBiz

Critics of the stakeholder capitalism model argue they cannot — believing that the quest for such a reconciliation is not just a fundamental limitation, but a potentially insurmountable weakness for addressing today’s global challenges. Indeed, Eugene F. Measuring success. The drive to improve disclosure around such metrics is ongoing.

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The answer to climate-killing cow farts may come from the sea

Grist

But the incident pointed to a serious problem: Ruminant livestock, mostly cattle, account for 30 percent of all global methane emissions, pumping out 3 gigatons of the gas every year in their burps, farts, and manure. The need to rein in methane emissions is especially urgent in Cali­fornia, home to 1.8 million dairy cows.

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Climate Intelligence: The Digital Fabric for Climate Action

Better Ventures

According to recent reports, VCs invested $60B in climate tech between 2013–2019 with an 84% CAGR in capital deployed, with no signs of slowing in 2020 (see below). But now, with global warming knocking on our door, the case for mitigation and adaptation solutions is making more and more financial sense.

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Realizing the full potential of stakeholder capitalism

AGreenLiving

Critics of the stakeholder capitalism model argue they cannot — believing that the quest for such a reconciliation is not just a fundamental limitation, but a potentially insurmountable weakness for addressing today’s global challenges. Indeed, Eugene F. The drive to improve disclosure around such metrics is ongoing.