Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

The UK boasts one of the world's best records on decarbonisation since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, yet progress still remains far below the scale of emissions cuts required by countries every year if the world is to reach its climate goals and avoid the most catastrophic impacts of a warming planet. Average annual cuts of just 0.16

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2015, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling — subsequently upheld on appeal — in a climate lawsuit brought by Urgenda and Dutch citizens against the national government. A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Some say the UK space sector is thriving, and it has attracted 17% of global investment in space since 2015, second only to the US, according to a recent UK Space Agency PwC report. John Worthy, a space expert at European law firm, Fieldfisher, gave his analysis of the ‘next steps’ proposed by the government.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a letter addressed to ING CEO Steven van Rijswijk and the first step in litigation, Milieudefensie says it believes the bank is in breach of its “duty of care” obligation under Dutch law. Since that agreement’s adoption in December 2015, ING has issued 83.2 billion Euros in bonds to the fossil fuel industry, Milieudefensie says.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. A 2021 report by the Business and Human Rights Resource Center found that between January 2015 and May 2021, business actors brought 355 SLAPPs globally against human rights and environmental activists and groups. While the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The government needs to dramatically step up efforts to reverse biodiversity loss, and trading or investing in commodities that drive deforestation should be made illegal, MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) have demanded today. Biodiversity has a major role to play in helping to achieve net zero emissions," he said.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Sun Tribe wants to serve that demand with more larger-scale projects than it has built in the past. It passed the Grid Transformation and Security Act in 2018, which called for more demand-side management, energy storage and renewables. onshore renewables.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

A land area nearly as big as the whole of England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland combined is required annually to satisfy the UK's demand for just seven commodities, according to new findings published by WWF and RSBP.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

Even though demand growth for both of these commodities has been robust over the past decade, prices have plunged. Despite strong demand growth for its products, the prices of oil and natural gas have fallen by more than 50% in recent years. This slowdown had a negative impact on fossil fuel demand. To curb its losses, Klaip?da

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Globally, the number of climate-change-related lawsuits has more than doubled since 2015. But that began to change with the #Exxonknew investigation in 2015 and actions like the divestment movement, which was “unique,” Franta said, because “it focused specifically on the fossil fuel industry as the origin of the problem.”.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2021

The new rules are expected to pass into law in the spring of 2021, and likely to begin to be applied to new building plans starting in the spring of 2022. He expects larger solar installers in the country and other construction contractors to meet the demand. Building regulations in the U.K.

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Grist

MARCH 2, 2021

The volatility of the oil market hasn’t helped: Price fluctuations and a long-term market slump caused a spike in bankruptcies in 2019, and sagging demand due to the pandemic accelerated the pace. Last year alone, 31 companies worth more than $50 billion filed for bankruptcy in Texas, bringing with them a wave of well abandonments. “It’s

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The pandemic has reminded us of our subjection to natural laws," he said. An expanded Heathrow would allow the UK to "compete for trade and win against our rivals in France and Germany" once demand for air travel recovers after the coronavirus crisis has subsided, the spokesperson added.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. Since the EU-wide lifting of milk quotas in 2015, Ireland’s dairy sector has expanded rapidly , adding around half a million cows. Irish Agriculture.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), with growing demand for beef in particular swallowing up land - sometimes illegally - for grazing and cultivating soy for cattle feed, and often at the expense of tropical forest. Meat and dairy account for around 14.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

First, developers proposed a series of coal train projects in the early 2010s, as domestic coal demand went into decline but was soaring overseas. Then, when the Obama administration lifted the ban on crude oil exports in 2015, new oil export projects were in vogue. However, regional gas demand is set to shrink, not grow.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Earlier this month, France’s constitutional court upheld a law cutting palm oil from the country’s list of approved biofuels and eliminating associated tax exemptions. Driven by demand thanks to the U.S. These conflicting priorities, as well as demand in countries like China and India, ensure that the industry will continue to develop.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The lawsuit, filed Thursday by UK-based environmental law organization ClientEarth, contends that Shell’s strategy to address climate change and manage the energy transition fails to align with the objectives of the Paris Agreement and leaves the company in a vulnerable position as society shifts away from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Satellite data crunched by SkyTruth reveal how much of the land in Appalachia has been directly affected by surface mining from 1985 to 2015 (in yellow). The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. Mountaintop removal has slowed since its heyday about a decade ago, but never stopped.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A recent study estimated that food systems were responsible for one third of global greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2015. With people returning to their busy lifestyles after the pandemic, there is high demand for snacks on the go. That makes the industry one of the biggest global emitters.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

And its ambitions are grand, with a mandate for 100 percent carbon-free energy by 2045 matched by an impressive quiver of policies supporting DER growth, from laws requiring solar on all new homes starting next year to multi-billion dollar EV charging infrastructure investments.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

2015; Bukvic and Owen 2016). Navigating existing property rights as coastlines shift will demand innovations in governance and law across contexts, including situations where land tenure is weak or the territorial integrity of nations may be at stake. Binder SB, Baker CK, Barile JP (2015) Rebuild or relocate?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Durham PA, 2015. It also represented the “systemic ostrich-like refusal” by federal regulators to assess whether there is market demand for gas before approving pipeline projects in the first place, Megan Gibson, an attorney at the Niskanen Center, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C., Jordan Cove is all but dead.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

After the 2008 financial crisis, the 2015 Paris climate agreement and now the Covid-19 pandemic, investors, customers and stakeholders increasingly expect businesses to publish robust non-financial information to help them assess a company's reputation, resilience and sustainability. compliant world.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Members must also report on their progress towards implementing net zero goals set in line with the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Ad Net Zero says it cannot mandate which companies its members can work with since this could breach competition law governing trade associations.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

So, limiting human strain on natural resources is the main area of concern to ensure the earth is able to fulfil increasing food demand by reducing stress on climate. Considering potential risks, the Paris Agreement-2015 is the latest global initiative to keep the increase of the earth’s temperature (global warming) below 1.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

million tonnes of waste by the end of 2019 against a 2015 baseline, it said, including 624,000 tonnes that would not have been prevented if the agreement did not exist. For example, a collaboration between industry and government on reducing food and packaging waste through the Courtauld 2025 Agreement had prevented 2.7 per cent and 13.4

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Clearly, the firm faces an enormous challenge over the coming decades to cater to growing public demand for action against plastic waste, climate change and other environmental concerns. It is an output that would make Coca-Cola responsible for roughly a fifth of the world's annual PET bottle production.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Kurtyka noted that Poland had “done its work” to shift away from Russian gas in recent years, opening its first LNG import terminal on the Baltic Sea coast in 2015. even as EU demand for the fuel declines. Polish environmental groups attribute their government’s enthusiasm for U.S. Credit: Edward Donnelly.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There’s been a 38-fold increase in sustainability-related laws and regulations since 1972. Sustainability-led initiatives help mitigate the risk of non-compliance as these laws and regulations continue to develop. Stakeholder engagement demands training, internal and external collaboration, and certification. Risk Management.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration. Targets for regulation The unique regulatory demands and opacity of local governments, which can insist on short-term, emergency action to reduce emissions, can be a challenge to navigate.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration. Targets for regulation The unique regulatory demands and opacity of local governments, which can insist on short-term, emergency action to reduce emissions, can be a challenge to navigate.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Lawyers from environmental law NGO ClientEarth have this morning accused 17 major global banks of "hypocrisy" as they wrote to the financial institutions to ask them how they squared their climate commitments with support for the firms gearing up to extract tens of millions of barrels of oil from the North Sea. 'Net

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

million tonnes of waste by the end of 2019 against a 2015 baseline, it said, including 624,000 tonnes that would not have been prevented if the agreement did not exist. For example, a collaboration between industry and government on reducing food and packaging waste through the Courtauld 2025 Agreement had prevented 2.7 per cent and 13.4

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

For instance, a DeSmog investigation has revealed that railcars carrying radioactive oilfield waste from Austin Master in Martins Ferry have arrived leaking at a final disposal facility in Utah on multiple occasions between 2015 and 2020. EPA has not replied to questions regarding these requests. “We

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

Suddenly, many of the hardest-won climate battles of recent years - from enshrining net zero targets in law, to halting Cumbrian coal mines and shelving Cambo oil fields - are all now under threat from government Ministers intent on bolstering the UK's domestic fossil fuel supplies.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

In June 2019, the UK government committed to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, becoming the first major economy to enshrine such a commitment in law. These changes have left companies - many of whom had made substantial investments - frustrated and distrustful.".

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