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5 Companies Committed to Hitting Net Zero in 2022

The Environmental Blog

In 2019, the UK passed a law to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. To be classed as net zero, a company must achieve a balance between the carbon it emits into the atmosphere and the carbon it removes. Burberry has ambitious plans to not only be carbon neutral by 2022, but be carbon positive by 2040.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

Wood pellets were considered to be renewable energy because replanted forests could recapture carbon lost in the clear cutting and burning process. As more and more science came out about the industry… it became clear that this is not the green and carbon neutral energy it was made out to be,” Zucchino said.

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Bankruptcy Plan Gains Ground, but PG&E Still Facing Possibility of a State Takeover

GreenTechMedia

” It’s also unclear how a state-owned PG&E would fare in meeting the utility’s share of responsibility in meeting California's renewable energy and carbon reduction goals. Gavin Newsom’s demands for greater safety, oversight and accountability.

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Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Are Using British Influencers to go Viral

DeSmogBlog

DeSmog analysed examples of more than 100 influencers being paid to promote fossil fuel firms worldwide since 2017, from the US to Malaysia, in campaigns that have reached billions of people. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018. million views.

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Six reasons the EU isn’t as green as it claims

Low Impact

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. To prove this is possible, the Commission claims that between 1990 and 2017 Europe’s CO2 emissions decreased by 22% while its economy grew by 58%.

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 2)

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

In developing the 2022 Draft Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan), CARB evaluated four scenarios to identify the most viable path to achieve the state’s 2030 interim GHG reduction and GHG neutrality targets. In this second post, we discuss how the Cap-and-Trade Program (the Program) features in the Draft Scoping Plan.

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Transparency Watchdog Calls on EU to Strengthen its Lobbying Rules After DeSmog Investigation

DeSmogBlog

The findings come at a time of increased scrutiny of failings in EU transparency laws, following allegations in December that MEPs had been bribed by Qatar, Mauritania, and Morocco. The group has claimed that EU plans to become carbon neutral by 2050 would have disastrous economic consequences.

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