DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The GWPF is a member of the Tufton Street network – an interconnected hub of think tanks and pressure groups that lobby against state action, including in the realm of climate change. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

Greener UK - a coalition of 13 green groups set up in 2016 to campaign for a post-Brexit Britain governed by robust environmental standards and protections - today released its final major assessment of the government's progress since the pivotal EU membership referendum in 2016. In short, it means a green Brexit.".

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Household appliance manufacturer Whirlpool Corporation has vowed to achieve net zero emissions across its plants and operations by 2030, arguing that tackling climate change is core to its brand mission to "improve life at home".

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

billion respectively in fossil fuel investments that would need to be divested if the law went into effect. The drought and heat have been made far worse by climate change and the burning of fossil fuels. Extraordinary sums of money, invested on behalf of California’s public employees and teachers, are on the line.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. And you’re right. It’s basic science.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Offsets offer a carbon polluter (like the operator of a steel plant) an additional option to comply with government rules that limit carbon pollution. How offsets are created and the extent to which they are used dictates their effectiveness at reducing pollution. WHAT ARE OFFSETS?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. Taylor, a retired general contractor, was driven to form the community group in 2016 after learning that the U.S. A few days later, RISE St. John and the Sierra Club.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

In his response to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres noted that, “Had we been further advanced in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, we could better face this challenge.” ” Background on Earth Day.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Analysis of data from campaign group BankTrack finds that eight of the banks represented at the summit have continued to finance highly polluting coal, oil and gas through commercial and investment banking in the five years since the Paris Agreement was reached to pursue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5C. Concrete Commitments Needed’.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The online event on 4 May, which included a keynote speech from Canada’s Infrastructure and Communities Minister, was organised by the British High Commission in Canada and the Canada Climate Law Initiative (CCLI) to mark six months to the COP26 conference in Glasgow.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

The government and Ofwat have announced plans to approve 31 schemes proposed by water companies designed to tackle water pollution and increase the country's resilience to drought, amid growing pressure on both the government and the water sector over the country's record on water quality and sewages discharges.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

In order to reverse climate change and secure sustainable gains, each of us must be in favour of the former rather than the latter. increase from 2016. The sustainability of this growth is however compromised by overfishing and rising ocean pollution. Daily human activities contribute to pollution globally.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The activist is one of two hundred plaintiffs suing Italy for taking insufficient action to fight climate change. If successful, their lawsuit could spur Italy to make major cuts in climate pollution by 2030. Italy’s current climate plan is to reduce emissions by around 55 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change. The United States government has done little to curb this potent pollution, which makes up 36 percent of the country’s methane emissions. million dairy cows.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Campaigners said the revelation was a “slap in the face” for those suffering the effects of climate change in the South Pacific, where the archipelago is located. Rather, he said, their proposal “built on the waiver that already exists” within the IMO’s International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. including: Pollen from changing growing seasons. [xx]

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience. The Climate Impact of Meat. Meat Industry Playbook.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Abstract: There is a growing recognition among businesses, policymakers, and the general public regarding the economic and societal risks of climate change. This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

How do they contribute to our overall goal of slashing emissions, countering climate change, and ensuring that the environment and communities thrive together? Water scarcity and quality on the upstream side, and water use and cleanup on the downstream side, will deteriorate in the face of climate change. Hawaii goals.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This dataset mapped the density of green roof and wall infrastructure across New York City in 2016. For instance, in 2019 the state passed a new law named the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , which raised the 2030 target from 50% of electricity generated by renewables to 70%. followed by Boston and Seattle).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Chancery Law Project is bringing together all sections of the legal profession to try and drill climate action into contracts, regulation and national laws. As awareness of climate change and its impacts grows, a question frequently asked by many is: what can I do to help?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

The costliest disaster in Canadian history took place in May 2016, when a vicious wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, forcing roughly 90,000 people to evacuate a city at the heart of Alberta’s oil sands industry. The 2016 blaze left ‘total destruction’ in its wake. We’re already seeing measurable climate change.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

From 2016 to 2019, the plant pumped an average of over 22 million pounds of sulfur dioxide, which can cause lung disease, coughing, and eye irritation, into the air each year. spoke about Port Arthur, climate change, and Oxbow’s air pollution in front of the Biden White House in October 2021. John Beard, Jr.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Working under group CEO Roberto Marquez, João Paulo Ferreira’s Latin America CEO position has overseen the heart of the original business since 2016. Elsa Wenzel.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

Piles of plastic waste, not a single English river clean enough to swim in, insects facing population collapse, land mismanagement leading to fires and floods , air pollution harming children's health - barely a week goes by without more dire ecological news. Never before in living memory has the future of the natural world faced such crisis.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 6, 2022

In April, however, Zahawi won plaudits from the environmental sector for launching a new “Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy” to make schools greener, including a new Natural History GCSE exam, while in his previous brief as education secretary. Steve Barclay (Health Secretary, Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster).

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

Scientists were just beginning to grasp the gravity of climate change. Both sectors offered various incentive programs without triggering claims of “destructive competition” that is prohibited by law. Another problem for Duke: The law requires it to conserve electricity, not energy in general. Musser questioned.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

Since the Brexit referendum in June 2016 the process of exiting the European Union has been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride. It also paves the way for continued close cooperation on a host of key issues, including climate change, energy, and security. Climate change. Firstly, the good news.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With this in mind, this article presents the 20 best climate change and sustainability documentaries. These documentaries exhibit how video storytelling can be used to promote sustainability and climate action. Summarized below are 20 of the best climate change and sustainability documentaries.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

This idea that we are going to burn more fossil fuels to solve climate change is ridiculous,” Tracey Saxby, a marine scientist with My Sea to Sky, a B.C.-based By investing in LNG now, we are going to be locking in climate pollution for 25 to 40 years.”. s climate goals. “We November 2016. November 2016.

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