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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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. While the GWPF is a registered charity, and is in theory bound by Charity Commission rules limiting “political activity”, Net Zero Watch is a private company.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

For any company operating in or with significant supply chain exposure to China, building an understanding of the national and local regulatory landscape and best practices related to VOC mitigation recently has become a vital step to reducing the risk of business interruption arising from environmental enforcement that began in 2016.

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TechCrunch: Climate

AUGUST 18, 2023

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, the bank has financed more than $430 billion worth of fossil fuel projects, according to the most recent Banking on Climate Chaos report , far exceeding its peers. Let’s get this out of the way: JPMorgan Chase doesn’t have the best reputation in the climate sector. Just in the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

After the UK left the EU in 2016, the UK government began devising its own replacement trading emissions scheme, which the Policy Exchange report sought to influence. Internal BP emails reveal that the British oil company’s bosses were initially alarmed that the CLC had commissioned the report and sought a meeting with the council’s founder.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” Michael Shermer speaking at the 2016 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Nevada. As for politics, I am liberal, while Dr. Peterson is conservative,” he said.

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Sustainability Consulting

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

With that mindset, in 2016, Esposito formed an initiative to address not just the city’s waste management strategies, but to improve the city’s image of being dirty and litter-strewn. Esposito details some of the financial, political, and strategic hurdles he’s faced as well as where the city is headed.

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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. magnitude earthquake in 2016 in the Pidie Jaya Regency, Aceh Province of Indonedia. . Delfina Grinspan. Wed, 04/07/2021 - 01:30. In the aftermath of the 6.5 Shutterstock.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Join us at 11am PT/2pm ET on November 23 as some of Canada’s leading climate think tanks offer informed insight on the most politically salient issue of the year. Trevor Melanson , Clean Energy Canada Trevor is Clean Energy Canada’s communications director and has been with the organization since 2016.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Such systems also imply an ideal combination of political framework regulations (such as extended producer responsibility, deposit return schemes, and so on) and technical processes for waste handling. The rest should remain in a mixed waste stream which can be most efficiently separated into reusable materials for further recycling.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

“I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels to come here today,” Camila Telles told the audience of political activists, business executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum, an annual conservative gathering in Brazil sponsored by the Atlas Network. IEE also participates directly in Brazilian politics, Brun says.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In terms of physical assets, a political decision from the Danish government will further trim the oil and gas infrastructure under Ørsted’s management and sharpen its clean-energy focus. According to a political decision from 2016, all of these assets are to be divested to the Danish [transmission system operator] Energinet.

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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. She added: “And, crucially for today’s politicians, that includes voters in ‘Red Wall’ seats.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 20, 2023

has a long history of pioneering climate policies that are eventually adopted nationally or by other provinces, and with its pre-existing EV advantage, population density, abundant clean electricity, and political environment (B.C.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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. The question is, politically, what do countries do about this at COP28?”

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Trevor is Clean Energy Canada’s communications director and has been with the organization since 2016. He leads Abacus Data’s team of research consultants and strategists, delivering strategic advice and research design expertise to some of Canada’s leading corporations, advocacy groups, and political leaders.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

offshore wind market has changed dramatically since 2016, when the Block Island Wind Farm became the first project to cross the finish line off the coast of Rhode Island. The follow-up project is scheduled to enter construction in 2024 using the largest wind turbine ever released commercially, Siemens Gamesa’s new 14MW model.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

But Kocher, an Engie veteran who took the CEO job in 2016, has not exactly been sitting on her hands when it comes to the energy transition. An open letter of support was published in a French business newspaper earlier this week and signed by figures across the business and political worlds, including the major of Paris, Anne Hidalgo.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

As of 2016, estimates of global emissions of plastic to the world’s lakes, rivers and oceans ranged from 9 to 23 million metric tons per year, with a similar amount emitted onto land yearly. “The world promotes technological solutions for recycling and to remove plastic from the environment.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s hard to make planting trees political, one reason this climate mitigation strategy has received rare bipartisan support for the past two decades. In a 2016 study, Seattle determined 28 percent of the city is covered in trees, close to its 2037 goal of 30 percent. 4 things corporations should know about urban forestry projects.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The appointment comes as senior Conservative Party figures continue to embrace anti-climate politics. The Legatum Group, which has employed Stroud both directly and indirectly since 2016, is one of the largest shareholders in GB News, which frequently attacks climate science and policies.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Bartley, who is the Green Party's longest-serving leader, said he was "immensely grateful for the opportunity to put the climate emergency front and centre on the political agenda", but that quitting the role would allow more time to spend with his family and provide his successors time to prepare for the next General Election.

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GreenTech Gazette

AUGUST 1, 2023

The political momentum surrounding ocean energy has surged in recent years, driven by the EU’s goal of achieving 40 GW of ocean energy by 2050 and the introduction of a new target for innovative renewables in the 2023 EU Renewable Energy Directive.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The wind PTC began phasing down in 2016 for new projects, but the ITC does not start its decline until next year. ” Kiernan acknowledged that the odds of opening the ITC for onshore wind projects looks remote in the current political climate. “End-of-year deals, especially tax extender deals, have happened before," he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A putative ‘Human Swan’, she followed a black swan on a paraglider across 11 countries and 7,000km on a migration survey during winter 2016. Keynote speaker on the night will be Sacha Dench ( www.sachadench.com ), an Australian biologist, conservationist, UN Ambassador and adventurer. MC for the evening will be BBC presenter Amy Irons.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

Current Rebate Launched in South Australian Home Battery Scheme Up to $300 per kWh installed 2018 NSW Interest Free Solar Loans Interest free loans of up to $9,000 to retrofit a battery 2020 ACT Battery Rebate $825 per kW of Sustained Peak Output 2016 Solar Victoria $4,174 per household 2019.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Then, in 2016, he did it again, this time in a solar powered aircraft, becoming the first person ever to do so, and helping raise awareness of climate change and clean technologies along the way. Among his long list of career achievements, he is a doctor, psychiatrist, a UN Goodwill Ambassador, a pilot and environmentalist.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

In a 2016 article for American Thinker , Singer wrote: “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has to provide proof for significant human-caused climate change; yet their climate models have never been validated and are rapidly diverging from actual observations.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

‘Politically-Motivated Climate Deniers’. Amelia Womack, deputy leader of the Green Party, said: “The effort by a small number of politically-motivated climate deniers to discredit first the crystal-clear science of climate change, and now the urgently-needed action to address it is extremely dangerous. Backing Fracking.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In 2016, TransCanada — since renamed TC Energy — sued the U.S. ” Boyd concludes: “This unjust, undemocratic and dysfunctional process has sparked a legitimacy crisis in the international investment regime.” Individual EU member states, including Spain, Germany, and France, have already pledged to quit.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The newspaper – which regularly runs columns attacking climate action – notes Lawson’s pivotal role in the official Brexit campaign, Vote Leave, during the 2016 EU referendum. He is also on the board of the think tank’s political arm, the Global Warming Policy Forum, which since 2021 has campaigned as Net Zero Watch.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Digital news title promises to reflect climate crisis 'across our coverage - from politics to fashion', as Oxford University launches new Climate Journalism Network. And we will not silo climate articles in one section, but reflect it across our coverage - from politics to fashion.".

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

But with a bribery scandal involving Exelon subsidiary Commonwealth Edison eroding its political clout in the state, and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker saying he won’t support the utility’s preferred plan to boost its nuclear plant revenue, it’s unclear whether Exelon will get what it says it needs to keep the plants open.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The newly approved changes will boost those targets dramatically for investor-owned utilities Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power, mandating a 50 percent cut in carbon emissions from 2016 to 2018 average levels by 2032 and a 75 percent cut by 2040. are facing bigger and more devastating wildfires.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 27, 2023

With its pre-existing EV advantage, population density, abundant clean electricity, and political environment (B.C. Air pollution was the cause of over 15,000 premature deaths in 2016, according to Health Canada estimates , with an economic bill of around $120 billion. In terms of benefits, cleaner air is a big one.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the United States, Greenpeace USA faces a lawsuit from pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners for defamation, trespass, and other allegations related to the group’s involvement in the 2016 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline near Standing Rock, North Dakota. A five-week trial in the case is scheduled to begin in July 2024.

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