DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Policy Exchange has been credited by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for helping to draft laws that have cracked down on climate protests, and has in the past received money from the oil and gas major ExxonMobil. The think tank would go on to author a report in 2019 that proposed tough new policing laws to crackdown on climate protestors.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

Since 2015, Stringer has been a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a group founded to contradict established climate science and advocate against policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions. But it can’t do both,” said Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

As more companies innovate products made using recycled materials, and so the value proposition of using recycled materials transitions into a consumer expectation, innovators may wonder how they can protect their investment in the development of such products.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 3, 2024

Unlike other vehicular components that might bear serial numbers or unique identifiers, catalytic converters are generally anonymous once detached, making them difficult for law enforcement to trace back to a specific crime. This step increases the chances of recovery and helps law enforcement trace the part back to a specific crime.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Neil Record , a millionaire Tory donor and founder of the investment firm Record Financial Group, is chair of Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Lord Moynihan also has substantial oil and gas investments. The GWPF and NZW have a number of political ties.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

The study also found that this greenwashing had disturbingly persistent effects: Presenting accurate data on the companies’ actual investments in renewable energy sources, compared to their claims about it in the ads, did not fully reverse or correct the greenwashed ads’ initial impact. That’s how PR strategies work.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

The UK register of lobbyists shows that since January, the influential CT Group has been representing the Legatum Institute , a think tank funded by the Dubai-based investment firm Legatum Group, which co-owns GB News. global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. By Bill Ireland, Logan Energy. Production costs. Implementing clean hydrogen solutions is not without financial challenges.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2020

Environmental and health and safety law imposes certain duties on site operators which, if not complied with, can result in legal proceedings, fines and reputational damage. Time should be invested ahead of any incident to think these plans out in order to make them as detailed, robust and effective as possible should a spillage occur.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 30, 2024

billion invested in oil and gas companies as of 30 June 2023 via his hedge fund Marshall Wace. The UK government has given £20 billion more in support to fossil fuel producers than their renewable energy peers since 2015. GB News co-owner Paul Marshall had £1.8

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 24, 2023

The company — which now seems to be defunct — made the following claim: “We haven’t broken the Second Law of Thermodynamics or anything. That is a fundamental law of thermodynamics. In fact, more than a decade ago, I addressed essentially the same claims from a British company called Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS).

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

A newly published report by Fossil Free California finds California’s pension fund managers are circulating divestment “misinformation” by exaggerating the costs involved in shedding their fossil fuel investments in documents prepared for state lawmakers. The two pension funds have estimated holdings of $7.4 billion and $4.1

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “Abraham Lincoln spoke of government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ Billionaire Spencer told DeSmog that oil and gas investments make up less than 2 percent of his investment portfolio. Tory peer Lord Michael Farmer has also donated £8.8

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Exhibit A: law firms. According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States "provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it." The study analysed litigation, transactional and lobbying work conducted from 2015 to 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. Eni is continuing to produce methane gas while also making “investments in decarbonization technologies [as well as] renewables, circular economy, projects, biofuels, etc.”, the spokesperson stated. While the U.S. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“Anti-science climate change denialism has become the secret handshake that ushers in the faithful and bars the door to unbelievers,” Jolyon Maugham, executive director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog. GB News’s other major owner is British billionaire Paul Marshall, chairman and chief investment officer of the hedge fund Marshall Wace.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

NextEra continues to invest in natural gas — on Monday the company announced the signing of an agreement for the 50-mile Lowman pipeline in Alabama and discussed plans to acquire the Meade Pipeline Company. gigawatts in 2015 to about 7.3 ” Natural gas challenges, solar growth, Hurricane Dorian recovery costs.

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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. This should include moving to deforestation-free supply chains.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Labour plans to overhaul planning laws, and massively expand the grid to transport electricity in pylons across the country from dozens of new solar and wind farms. McCarthy was the shadow environment and farming secretary from 2015 to 2016, and the shadow minister for green transport from 2020-2021.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2021

Last year, it committed to selling its multimillion-pound investments in oil and gas companies, after years of student campaigning, and more recently it launched an ambitious Sustainability Strategy. There are signs Oxford University is slowly “getting it” when it comes to climate change. million in research grants and £3.7

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

The sustainable business group revealed this morning that the former prime minister has agreed to succeed former Labour MP Joan Walley, who has chaired the influential business group since 2015.

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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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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Some might think a Supreme Court case about the Clean Power Plan – a 2015 rule that never went into effect – is of little concern to American businesses. In early 2022, the Supreme Court will hear West Virginia v. EPA , a case with crucial implications for addressing the climate crisis. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

According to a statement from the DWP, Coffey and Carney's discussion centred on furthering the work of the Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, which was set up in 2015 by the Financial Stability Board - of which Carney is chairman. If that's the case it would set a dangerous precedent and be wholly inappropriate," he added.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2020

in 2015, the progress is slow. Her work has extended from partnering with global brands like IKEA and Tesla to investing software in 1000s of cleantech startups worldwide. Before that, Veena practiced law in India. Veena received a Masters in Law degree from Washington University in St. As of 2018, women held only 20.8%

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Exhibit A: law firms. According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States “provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it.” Will job-seeking law students truly shun firms seen as bad actors?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Exhibit A: law firms. According to a new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability, most of the top 100 law firms in the United States “provide far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it.” Will job-seeking law students truly shun firms seen as bad actors?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Miliband, who had an instrumental role stewarding the UK's Climate Change Act into law as Energy and Climate Change Secretary in 2008, said his priorities for the new brief would be leading Labour's Green New Deal policy platform, including its recent pledge to invest £28bn a year on climate action. "As

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

UK set to become first G20 nation to enshrine mandatory TCFD requirements into law from April 2022 in move that is set to impact 1,300 businesses.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2024

The world’s foremost climate science body, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has said that “immediate and deep emissions reductions” are needed “across all sectors” to limit global warming to 1.5C – the global target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Nestlé has committed to invest $1.2

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 2, 2019

To chase the utility-scale market, the firm has brought in former Coronal Energy President Danny Van Clief, who previously led HelioSage Energy, an originator and developer that Coronal bought in 2015 along with its 320-megawatt (AC) contracted pipeline. onshore renewables.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

He felt the big issue was ensuring water firms invest enough to make sure there are fewer spills, and that they “pay more attention to what is happening in those overflows”. The EA is explicit that there needs to be monitors on these CSOs, and this data must be reported to the EA. No more marking of own homework?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

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. Before that, Veena practiced law in India. Veena received a Masters in Law degree from Washington University in St. Nancy Floyd.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 19, 2019

This goes hand in hand with targeted solar infrastructure investments to directly benefit under-served communities and not displace them. Moreover, thanks to planned solar projects and new state laws encouraging clean energy development, the industry is poised to grow even further. How can we make these jobs more accessible?

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

It can’t be about one law or policy, it has to be put at the heart of all policy,” she said. Currently, the actions and investments of many governments in response to COVID-19 are driving emissions in the opposite direction.”. Governments must prioritize climate action in their efforts to recover from the pandemic, she said. “We

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2024

Progress has been slightly less impressive since 2015, with some studies suggesting Germany has decarbonised fastest among the G20 nations since the signing of the Paris Agreement. Theresa May became the first leader of a major economy to put a net zero target in law. Every Carbon Budget to date has been hit.

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