Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

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%. Image: InterAlia.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This case is “truly historic,” said Sébastien Duyck, senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law. In 2017, damaging wildfires in Portugal, made worse by climate change, killed more than 100 people and sparked the youths to file the lawsuit, which began in 2020.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 10, 2022

In a new survey of UK and US IoT adopters as a follow on to an earlier 2017 investigation, the Alliance has found that while fears over security remain a top challenge and improving security is a top IT priority, over the period these have become less of a concern, dropping by over 30%.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

It highlights a key speech given by then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove in 2017, which saw him position Brexit as a "once in a lifetime opportunity" to enhance the UK's environmental governance and protections, particularly in areas such as fishing, farming, water quality, and air pollution.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 15, 2020

megawatts in size — will automatically qualify for the feed-in tariff, a briefing note from law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe said. “Following the Fukushima incident, Japan has been seeking to diversify its energy mix,” said Amy Parsons, communications and events director at industry body Ocean Energy Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Elsewhere, a 2017 paper in the South African Journal on Human Rights identified SLAPPs as an emerging obstacle to public interest environmental litigation in the country. Europe is another problem area. When [people and organizations] are forced to spend money and time in courts, this discourages them from activism,” she says.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In October of this year, the captain of that supply ship, Giuseppe Sotgiu, paid a heavy price for his decision: an Italian judge sentenced him to a year in prison for violating humanitarian law. Rising seas, desertification, famine — all of it will drive the desperate to places like Europe and the U.S.,

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The study, which is under peer review in the scientific journal Lancet Planetary Health, is based on surveys of 10,000 children and people aged 16-25 in 10 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australasia and was carried out by academics from institutions in Europe and North America.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Retroactive policy changes and laws to prevent self-consumption decimated the sector in 2013. developed the first major unsubsidized solar project in Europe with its 175-megawatt Don Rodrigo array, setting a framework which many projects will now attempt to replicate. Massive interconnection queues.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2024

Equinor has a majority stake in the Rosebank North Sea oil field, which has been dubbed a “carbon bomb” by environmental law charity ClientEarth. The company runs UnHerd, a publication founded in 2017 to give a platform to marginalised views. It also says that it powers one million homes in Europe via renewable offshore wind.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

In the run-up to the election, climate campaigners had warned that neither Macron nor Le Pen's policies would put Europe's second largest economy on track to achieving net zero emisisons. Macron beat Le Pen with a lower margin than in 2017, with the far-right candidate setting a record for her party with 41.46 per cent of the vote.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Law firm claims individual drivers could receive as much as £10,000 in damages, but German parent company Daimler has promised to "vigorously defend" itself against any group action. Daimler instituted a voluntary recall of three million of its diesel vehicles manufactured to Euro 5 and Euro 6 emissions standards in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The task force was established by the state’s House of Representatives last November to explore prospects for shipping regionally produced shale gas to Europe in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. LNG companies shipped to Europe at soaring premiums. Texas and Louisiana produced record amounts of shale gas last year, which U.S.

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

Restore, Restory, Restord, On a dreary wet Brussels day in 2017, I walked from the city hotel over to the COST offices for the inaugural meeting of our COST RESTORE ‘action’. We are currently embarking on a series of RESTORE READY events across Europe – Paris, Madrid, Belgrade, Malmo and Sabden are still open for registration.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The assessment, published last week, reveals that the volume of waste produced in England remained largely the same in the five years since the government introduced its 2013 Waste Prevention Programme policy, with overall waste in England at the close of 2017 "at similar levels" to those five years earlier.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Billions of dollars in incentives such as the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law have spurred the creation of a so-called Battery Belt across the southeastern US, all fuel to fire an anticipated spike in electric vehicle demand. Former Tesla CTO and co-founder JB Straubel launched Redwood in 2017.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 26, 2021

Street artists even created Europe’s first smog-eating mural on a seven-story building in Rome. A study published in 2017 in Environmental Science: Nano concluded that while photocatalytic paints effectively decompose some pollutants, they unfortunately generate and release different toxic compounds.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Some of it is converted to liquefied natural gas, or LNG, and shipped overseas to customers in Europe and elsewhere. Credit: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, July 5, 2017 inspection report. The second inspection was opened on May 8, 2017. Citations were issued for the fall hazards.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola's sustainability director for Europe Therese Noordlander talks to BusinessGreen about the drinks giant's mission to drive down emissions and ramp up its recycling efforts. On topics like water scarcity, where we face serious issues in Europe, I'm looking to learn from my colleagues in Africa and Brazil.". Do I feel pressure?

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Under the law all unsold items must be reused, sold, or recycled. In 2018 Burberry promised an end to the burning of unsold stock , after it was revealed the firm destroyed almost £30m worth of goods in 2017. But many analysts believe the practice remains relatively common in parts of the industry.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

“It All Happened Without Any Public Input” Zenith Energy is a Houston-based oil company that operates storage facilities, pipelines, and rail terminals around North America and Europe. The letter argues that the city may have violated the law.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

ii) Plastics Europe – Plastics: The Facts 2018. We want to change the way the world thinks about plastics – not as something to throw away, but as a valuable resource that can be reused over and over without harming our natural world,” concluded Dr Mahon. i) WRAP – Plastics Market Situation Report 2019. (ii) Geyer, J.R.

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Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

According to Chapter 15 of the in 2017 published book Sustainable Asia , Sustainable Societies and Municipal Solid Waste in Southeast Asia by C. According to a statement published by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China in 2019, China is in the process of revising its Solid Waste Law.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Ulf Mark Schneider, CEO since 2017, likes to boost markets in areas he’d like to accelerate. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Europe and Chile. Since 2017, Google has been able to procure enough renewable energy to match 100 percent of its overall electricity consumption on an annual basis. It’s since moved on to committing to purchase power from new wind and solar farms, such as last year’s plans for 1.6

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But then California’s legislature passed a law to subsidize small biomass plants in 2012. Outfits like the Natural Resource Defense Council, for instance, have been campaigning against the practice of clearcutting forests in Southeastern states to make wood pellets for export to biomass plants in Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Federation of Veterinarians of Europe did not respond to a request for comment. The EU’s ambitious Farm to Fork Strategy – a package of commitments designed to make farming in Europe more sustainable – aims to cut farm antibiotic use by 50 percent from 2018 levels by 2030. But we’re not seeing that in most countries.”

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Building Energy Monitoring Medicine Health Agriculture 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

“It may provide something of a roadmap for future cases,” Jennifer Rushlow, dean of the Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment, professor of law, and faculty director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School, told DeSmog. In Norway, a climate lawsuit trial got underway during the same week as the Belgium ruling.

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Fossil fuels Law Government Climate change 102

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Activists fighting deforestation in Indonesia have spoken out against calls from the packaging and fast food industry for paper-based packaging to be recognised as sustainable in EU law. Most paper used in Europe is currently sourced from within the EU. Companies are able to cut down trees because of corruption. They cause huge fires.”

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Melissa Moore, Head of UK Policy at Oceana in Europe, said: “We need an immediate ban on trawling and dredging in all offshore Marine Protected Areas as well as the inshore zone. To continue to license this destructive activity, when we know the damage it causes and that it is illegal under various environmental laws, beggars belief.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed landmark the deal on Christmas Eve as a major victory for the UK, claiming it was worth around £668bn of trade in 2019 terms, while allowing Westminster to "take back control" of the UK's laws, borders, money, and fishing waters. At the very last moment, a compromise of sorts was reached.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 6, 2022

However, the article fails to address the fact that steelmakers in Europe are moving to “green steel”, which uses renewable energy to avoid the need for coking coal. The decision for the mine ultimately rests with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

According to the World Health Organization, more than 200,000 deaths in Europe every year can be attributed to particulate matter alone. Nitrogen dioxide was responsible for around 78,000 deaths in Europe in 2014, according to the European Environment Agency. In 2017 alone, there were about 93,161 vessels in existence.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Del Chiaro has taken these two attributes and poured them into her career of working in public policy to help pass green laws and regulations. Signed into law in 2006, the legislation created a mandate to put 3,000 megawatts of solar on California roofs by the end of 2016. That’s a very legitimate, very real threat.

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