Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

The government's 'green Brexit' plans have been taking further shape this week, with confirmation the long-awaited post-Brexit environmental watchdog is set to begin its work this summer and fresh calls from independent advisors for Ministers to ensure climate and environmental issues are made "integral" to the UK's trading policy.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) filed its latest accounts on 18 January, showing an income of £280,000 for the year ending 30 September 2023, a drop of £110,000 from the previous year.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Climate Change Committee, the independent body that advises the government on its net zero policies, warned on 30 January that mixed messages, including new fossil fuel projects, have damaged the UK’s international climate standing. A DeSmog investigation found that one in three GB News hosts spread climate denial on air in 2022.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Evaluating regulations, subsidies, pricing mechanisms, and hybrid policies. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. Regulation: The most effective carbon reduction policy option is regulation.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

.” Even the threat of such cases is having a chilling effect on public environmental policy, Boyd has found. The law firm Jones Day frames ISDS climate claims as “an opportunity – if brought in the right forum – for companies exposed to certain climate-related government measures to vindicate their rights.”

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Quite apart from its seemingly frosty reception with global investors, the government’s Growth Plan 2022 policy statement also elicited bafflement from environmental commentators, many of whom seemed dismayed by its apparent “dash for gas”, and volte face on protecting the environment.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 17, 2020

Illinois utility Commonwealth Edison has agreed to pay a $200 million fine in relation to a federal investigation over bribery charges that have cast a shadow over its policy efforts in the state capital. Under a landmark 2011 state law, ComEd has spent $2.6 ComEd is also struggling to justify its $9.53 Roughly half of its annual $2.2

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws. Maximilian Boemke, a partner at the German office of law firm Watson Farley & Williams, thinks that the calculation of the flat-rate lignite compensation will be key to the European Commission’s decision.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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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. ING’s climate policy is miles away from what is necessary to achieve the 1.5°C Credit: Sabrina Bedford. Credit: Ceescamel , CC BY-SA 4.0

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The new lawsuit against BNP Paribas, filed February 23 in the Paris Judicial Court, claims that the French bank is in breach of France’s “duty of vigilance” law. So it still issues bonds for oil and gas companies,” she told DeSmog via email. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A UK-qualified barrister, environmental policy expert, and former journalist and theatre critic, Shine brings huge experience to the role gained during a varied career that has spanned four continents and many sectors including business, law, policy, media, and the arts.

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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. In lower-income countries, there was no real slowdown in emissions between 2016 and 2019 compared with the previous two five-year periods.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 25, 2019

State policy squabbles over small-scale solar contracts have officially gotten ensnared in the ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding for California’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric. They’re asking PG&E to pay those costs or enter into the contracts at the rates they allege the law requires.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In January 2022, the EU introduced world-leading laws to curb on-farm use of antibiotics, an integral component of intensive livestock farming where they are used in large volumes to prevent or treat outbreaks of disease among animals kept in crowded conditions. A review of public website domain names data reveals that meatthefacts.eu

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

New report comes as Greenpeace reveals continued lobbying by soya suppliers against EU's landmark rainforest protection law. They found that resilience dropped during the major droughts of 2005 and 2010, as part of an ongoing decline from the early 2000s to the most recent data in 2016.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 13, 2021

The new laws are a victory for animals and the people who care about them. The laws apply to vertebrates, so pet octopi are out of luck. Dogs have been required to be micro-chipped since 2016, and owners face a hefty £500 fine when found in violation. Some animals could still use a little more help from the law.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Carbon offsets can be generated and used under government-approved frameworks, for example to help industrial emitters who continue to emit carbon pollution meet their compliance obligations under climate policies. Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

A quick glance at the distribution of its global data centers and its wind and solar investments would suggest that policy is being delivered on. Cisco estimates annual average growth in Western European data centers of 17% from 2016 to 2021; it expects the lion’s share to be built in Scandinavia.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Josh Mandelbaum, Senior Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center, was elected to Des Moines City Council in 2017. On Earth Day of 2016, 1000 Friends of Iowa and others began lobbying for the creation of the Citizens Task Force on Sustainability. Des Moines Citizens Task Force on Sustainability.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

2015; Bukvic and Owen 2016). Government officials sometimes assert homeowners have little interest in retreat, but instances exist when far more homeowners have requested assistance relocating than the budget allows (Koslov 2016). 2016) The case for retreat. When storms hit, higher seas push floodwaters further inland.

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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. Before it’s enacted, SB-1173 has to survive what California lawmakers call “suspense,” where the fiscal impacts of the law are considered — and it’s become known in the state as the place where bills “are killed without public debate.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

billion in coal, oil and gas between 2016-2020. JPMorgan financed £230 billion in fossil fuels between 2016 and 2020. A spokesperson for the Department for International Trade said: “The UK’s climate change and environment policies are some of the most ambitious in the world. ‘Concrete Commitments Needed’.

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Business Green

JUNE 20, 2021

In a landmark ruling on 26 May 2021, the District Court ruled in favour of the claimants and found that Royal Dutch Shell owes a duty under Dutch law to take steps to mitigate climate change, and that the human rights of Dutch citizens are relevant to that duty.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

billion tonnes of CO2 each year from 2016-19, compared to the 2011-15 period. Ukraine currently leads the world on cutting carbon emissions over the past five years, with its emissions down an average of four per cent per year since 2015, while the UK sits in second place with an annual decarbonisation rate of 3.6

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A recent study by the RSPB and WWF estimated that an area equivalent to 88 per cent of the UK's total land area was required annually for each year between 2016 and 2018 to satisfy UK demand for beef, leather, cocoa, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber, soy and timber. then stopping deforestation needs to be at the top of their list.".

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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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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. Massachusetts.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2020

Probably, bringing back onshore to the funding table would make no immediate difference to the pipeline, because of a second 'belt and braces' change in planning law for England that was brought in by the government at about the same time as the funding prohibition took place. In other words: that means you, Boris.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. Air emission reform in China More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. Air emission reform in China More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

increase from 2016. This calls for consumer behaviour change, impact innovation in the business sector, policy change and law enforcement by governments. Environmentally friendly policies, and impact entrepreneurship are fundamental to creating waste management solutions and making them scalable. Thailand earned US57.5

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The request comes from nonprofit environmental law organization Earthjustice on behalf of demand response aggregator Voltus. But a string of court cases has since cemented that authority, including the 2016 U.S. FERC’s authority was strengthened by this summer’s decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

This possibility of overshoot was first conceived by scientific models that map out potential pathways for climate policy. degrees, emissions are not going down, and existing policies put the world on track to warm 3 degrees by the end of the century. It was seen as a way to be policy prescriptive,” Cramer said. “As

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