DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

From 2006 until the board was disbanded in 2016, those tax records reveal, the foundation gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in charitable donations annually to Canadian think tanks with long records of questioning the science of climate change and attacking government policies that could address the crisis.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 26, 2021

Senior Associate, Policy | The Ad Hoc Group | Washington, DC. SENIOR ASSOCIATE, POLICY. We are experts at the intersection of policy and business with a mission to help scale the technology businesses needed to build a more sustainable future. an energy efficiency software company that sold to Oracle in 2016.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

There is public policy to enact and implement. Most companies have been woefully silent on climate policy. Quite the opposite: Most companies have stood by as the current administration dismantled existing climate policies, which must now be pieced back together. And getting back to where we were in 2016 is only the beginning.

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GreenBiz

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. More than a decade ago, national policies laid the groundwork for reducing air emissions in China. Air emission reform in China.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When approached for comment, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) distanced itself from the discussions, saying they were “independent of government” and had “not been part of our policy-making process”. “No for the climate compatibility checkpoint?. “?Discussions Discussions ?on

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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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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The recent interest and commitment to water pledges has diverted scarce resources and funds from actions such as watershed conservation and protection, reuse, technology innovation and adoption, public policy innovation, etc. We believe improving water-related policies is the ultimate prize, and we need to start taking action, now.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 7, 2021

magnitude earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia, in 2016, disaster managers were able to able to identify which communities were at greatest risk due to rapid access to data. Indeed, there are big payoffs for both civil society and governments that implement open data policies. Delfina Grinspan. Wed, 04/07/2021 - 01:30. Enhanced monitoring.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

In April, daily emissions fell by as much as 17 percent , and total 2020 emissions may be 7-11 percent lower than 2019 (as projected by the Energy Policy Simulator , and a new opinion piece in Nature by Hanna et al., Figure 2 Mean survey results of recovery policy archetypes (2008-2020) aggregated using relativity-adjusted scores.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Together with the publication of the Environmental Principles policy statement, the building blocks of the UK's new environmental governance regime has been set. Delivering policy and environmental schemes will be key to drive business and public investment in nature and maximise economic benefits and job creation in environmental sectors.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Update to fossil fuel financing policy sees firm enact new rules on tar sands and coal, but leaves controversial oil and gas financing policy intact In a major update to its fossil fuel financing rules announced this morning, Barclays has said it will tighten lending criteria for coal power and end financing of oil sands exploration and production.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

She was previously Director of Policy and Strategy for the BC Greens, as well as an independent consultant, providing policy advice and strategic planning services to non-profit organizations and governments. He is also an adjunct research professor in Carleton’s School of Public Policy and Administration.

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The City Fix

APRIL 23, 2024

At the 43rd session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2016, the Panel decided to include a Special Report on Climate Change and Cities in the IPCC’s seventh assessment cycle. This achievement marked a.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Data shows the green economy grew by over $60 billion per year between 2013 and 2016.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Current planning policies allow for the building of new ‘affordable’ housing costing anything up to 80% of market value. Local authorities have not replaced social housing at the rate properties have been sold under the Right to Buy policy, leading to a chronic shortage of housing for people who need it most.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

A 2016 report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) highlighted that between 2008 and 2013, air pollution levels in urban areas increased by eight per cent, and spotlighted the need to support the introduction of vital actions aimed at combating this public health emergency. 2016 Jan; 8(1): E31–E40. [ii]Royal Thorac Dis.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

IEMA research shows that leading businesses recognise real benefits from embedding and developing sustainability approach (see IEMA’s document “Beyond the Perfect Storm” , published 2016).

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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Charles McAllister, Director of policy at UK Onshore Oil and Gas, told the Daily Mail that firms were preparing to offer people a 25% cut in their energy bills in return for supporting drilling operations. In August there were signs that fracking firms might attempt to secure consent by approaching individual households with inducements.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Meanwhile, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ( IPBES ) has warned that biodiversity is declining in every global region. The exposure draft responds to these pressures, building on the latest authoritative insights and extensively revamping the 2016 Standard ( GRI 304 ).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , a director of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has been reappointed by the government as an adviser to the prestigious Board of Trade. The GWPF has gained a number of high profile directors over the last year.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Now the alliance is launching a hunger strike to demand that the victims of a 2016 environmental disaster in central Vietnam caused by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics Group, be compensated for their losses, that the polluted area be restored, and that those who have been jailed for protesting be released.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The order caps a lengthy and contentious battle over DTE’s long-range IRP, which it and Consumers were required to develop for the first time under Michigan’s comprehensive 2016 energy law. A PSC administrative law judge ruled in December that this was a violation of the 2016 state law that set up the IRP process.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 7, 2023

The Clean Fuel Regulations set increasingly stringent requirements on fuel producers and importers to reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels such as gasoline and diesel with the eventual goal of decreasing the carbon intensity by approximately 15% (below 2016 levels) by 2030. Why is the policy needed? billion in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Policy Exchange received $30,000 from the oil and gas supermajor ExxonMobil in 2017.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

billion in 2016, while Google acquired Nest for $3.2 But that deal fell apart amid the larger unraveling of the would-be renewables supermajor in March 2016. Sunrun said it could cut redundant costs by consolidating business divisions such as accounting and policy, and reducing similar spending on technology, among other areas.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May, who was UK Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019, was speaking last night at an event hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), which represents more than 100 Tory MPs who back policies to cut emissions and protect nature. In her speech, May called on Conservatives to unite ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It is the most robust analysis of where greenhouse gas emissions are headed under current policies — and where they need to be headed to limit warming. The report’s findings are particularly significant this year because countries are set to conduct the first-ever “global stocktake” since the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2016.

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 19, 2021

The company’s Autopilot system, which is considerably less than a fully autonomous driving technology, has been at the center of at least three fatal accidents involving Tesla vehicles since 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A report from Rainforest Action Network found that Barclays was the European Union’s largest funder of oil and gas projects between 2016 and 2022. Overall, the new energy policy enables Barclays to retain significant discretion over its continued support of oil & gas expansion activities that are incompatible with 1.5C

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A coherent policy response that catalyses action to deliver emissions reductions across all sectors is required. Between 2012 and 2016, peak coal phase-out years, the UK achieved an annual average rate of decarbonisation of 6.9%. A more coherent and more ambitious policy response is required across all sectors of the economy.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 2, 2024

Founded in 2016, Launch Alaska is an Anchorage-based nonprofit focused on accelerating climate tech deployment to decarbonize systems of energy, transportation, and industry. The non-profit offers a Tech Deployment Track, a Deployment Team, and policy and advocacy effort.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The warmest eight years have all been since 2015, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 constituting the top three. Complete streets policies: to fund, plan for, construct, operate, and maintain their streets so they are safe for all users, regardless of age and ability.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Division of phases of the Smith College geothermal project (source: YouTube screenshot / Sustainable Smith) Beth Hooker, the school’s director of sustainability, said that the project has also become a learning opportunity for students to study policy implications of the Inflation Reduction Act.

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