Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Transportation Carbon-neutral 52

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Exxon completes an “Atmospheric CO2 Scoping Study,” which concludes that reducing fossil fuel use through efficiency and renewable energy is the only foreseeable option. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point. One of them is called “Energy in Depth.”

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Fossil fuels Global warming Building Energy Monitoring Climate change 96

Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The problem of global warming crosses geopolitical lines and boundaries, and thus must be addressed by humanity as a whole. Singapore to Regulate E-Waste Last year, Greentech Challenge reported that global electronic waste was set to grow by a worrying 33% in 2017.

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Climate change Government Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 50

Green Market Oracle

MAY 14, 2020

These concerns were reiterated in a 2019 report from Zurich that reviewed the risks to infrastructure and the need for businesses to prepare for rising sea levels associated with global warming. More recent guidance on integrating sustainability into procurement can also be found in the ISO 20400:2017 document.

Climate change 98

Climate change Resilience Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

Both of these global retail giants sell food, clothing and an array of other products. They are some of the final brick-and-mortar businesses still thriving and standing up to ecommerce-only retailers such as Amazon. Walmart, as the world's largest retailer, has made it clear that it does have the power to influence.

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Energy Monitor Retail Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 45

CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

We’ve made great progress driving down emissions across our own business, including meeting our industry-leading methane intensity target of 0.2 Whether natural gas can play a constructive role in the energy transition depends on aggressive measures to reduce emissions that include methane,” said Fred Krupp, EDF president. “BP

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 40

Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Governments and energy companies should look beyond carbon dioxide and ensure their climate plans include drastic action to reduce the methane emissions from fossil fuel operations, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned today.

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Fossil fuels Methane Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 63

Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

degree C above preindustrial norms (World Meteorological Organization [WMO], 2017). As explained by Julio Friedmann, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy, "We have to create an industry the size of the oil and gas industry that runs in reverse.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Climate change Building Energy Monitoring 52

Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C Pull together'.

Building Energy Monitoring 101

Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 101

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

The state leads the country by housing about half of the nation’s total installed solar capacity, according to the latest data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). We really need to work together to build the political power necessary to win. Utilities’] business model is threatened by self-generation.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 40

Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Unless you have good governance, any progress towards goals on healthcare, education, infrastructure, clean energy is going to be fragmentary, short-lived and quite volatile - Matthew Jenkins, Transparency International. Power corrupts. The hope is that the plea to "recover better" can gain traction. The fear is that it won't.

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Business Energy Monitoring Law Energy Monitor Government 85

Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

In addition, solvents used in the process often can be collected after usage and re-used continuously. "We There may also be new job creation [and] businesses around the collection, sorting and processing of post-consumer textile waste for large-scale recycling.". We make it possible to make clothes out of clothes again.

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Fashion Recycling Recycling Investment 79

Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If a widespread power outage hit Phoenix during a heat wave and lasted for days, it could kill thousands and send half the city to the emergency room, according to a recent study. In 2017, Mora and colleagues found that 30 percent of the world’s population was already exposed to potentially deadly heat for 20 days or more each year.

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Climate change Cooling Health Solar Energy Monitor 104