DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Investor-state dispute settlement” (ISDS) mechanisms allow companies to sue national governments if they believe regulation or unfair competition is impeding their investments. In 2017, a London arbitration tribunal ordered Nigeria to pay $6.6 Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 3, 2024

Unlike other vehicular components that might bear serial numbers or unique identifiers, catalytic converters are generally anonymous once detached, making them difficult for law enforcement to trace back to a specific crime. This step increases the chances of recovery and helps law enforcement trace the part back to a specific crime.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But significant investment and urgent action is required. According to ‘Transport in Scotland: The Road to Net Zero’ – a report published by international law firm Addleshaw Goddard – sector contributors were extremely positive about committing to decarbonising Scotland’s transport sector.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 23, 2024

refiners had a significant demand for crude oil, but they had spent decades investing billions of dollars into processing heavy, sour crude oil. In December 2015 they got their wish when President Obama signed into law a $1.15 As the shale oil boom rapidly expanded U.S. trillion spending bill that contained several energy provisions.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply. Alec Appelbaum. Thu, 07/02/2020 - 01:15. That world was inherently unequal.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Jojo Mehta co-founded Stop Ecocid e in 2017, alongside legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins , to support the recognition and establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court at the Hague. What she realized was that the aspect that protects our rights is actually criminal law.

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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 startup broadcaster has lost £76 million since its launch in 2021 and relies on the resources of Marshall and its other big stakeholder, UAE-based investment firm Legatum, to survive.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

The CPUC has established a multistage oversight regime that could lead to the state revoking PG&E’s license and taking it over if it repeatedly violates safety guidelines or causes more disasters; a law giving the state that authority, SB 350, is moving through the California legislature. But with $4.75

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In 2019, the UK passed a law to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. The Rochdale based vinyl doors manufacturer are ready to reach their ambitious target by investing in clean technology and better energy efficiency. But some companies are setting a trend for aiming to become net zero by the end of 2022.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

Firms no longer permitted to promote petroleum and coal products and services in France under new climate law. Adverts promoting fossil fuel products and services have been banned in France, after a cornerstone of President Emmanuel Macron's green legislative agenda officially came into force yesterday. pic.twitter.com/HH2TjvNr4u.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

Elsewhere, Audi, part of the Volkswagen Group, introduced the " Aluminum Closed Loop " process to one of its sites in 2017, and intends to expand the use of this aluminum recycling process to other sites in the near future. . As a matter of principle, innovations that use a recycled material are certainly capable of patent protection.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And if these funders refuse to stop their polluting investments, the movement aims to hold them accountable through strategies such as direct action and litigation. The new lawsuit against BNP Paribas, filed February 23 in the Paris Judicial Court, claims that the French bank is in breach of France’s “duty of vigilance” law.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

When Chicago-based Invenergy scored $3 billion from global asset manager Blackstone in January, it was one of the largest renewables investments in North American history. In another instance, Goldman Sachs announced it would invest $250 million in Hydrostor’s energy storage projects. and globally. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL).

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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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

Phil Murphy campaigned in 2017 on a clean energy platform that pushed for a 100 percent clean grid by 2050. When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law. The wording of the law fails to specify who is supposed to fulfill it and what specific action is required.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

Wind was the big winner: onshore projects that started construction in 2016 and 2017 will now have five rather than four years to finish projects, while still receiving production tax credit (PTC) benefits. gigawatts in 2022.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Corporate demand for carbon removal and offsetting will establish forests as a major new asset class that could generate $800bn annually for investors by mid-century, according to the UN's Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). million hectares of US forest, according to the report.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Under Italian law, a request for mediation is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit. Eni is continuing to produce methane gas while also making “investments in decarbonization technologies [as well as] renewables, circular economy, projects, biofuels, etc.”, the spokesperson stated. While the U.S. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

A spokesperson told GTM that a final investment decision would be made ahead of construction work beginning in spring 2021. enjoyed a boom period for large-scale solar between 2013 and 2017, rivaling Germany as the hottest market in Europe. has a net-zero target enshrined in law. Despite a reputation for gray skies, the U.K.

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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%. 3) It’s funding big polluters.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

"I am joining the Aldersgate Group to champion the business case for decarbonising the UK economy, improving resource efficiency, and investing in the restoration of nature because we are at a crucial crossroad for our climate and the environment," she said. "As

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

It raises the alarm over a "deeply concerning decline in biodiversity" in England, with available evidence pointing to a 17 per cent reduction in the abundance of priority species from 2013 to 2017 "among other adverse trends".

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

for polluting a Bradford watercourse and breaching environmental law following a successful prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. It revealed that performance across the country had worsened, despite increased enforcement action against water firms found to be breaching environmental law.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

UK pension schemes will soon be required to publicly disclose the risks posed to their savers' investments by climate change and the net zero transition under new rules proposed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) today. The pensions trade body had claimed the proposals went too far in dictating the terms of risk disclosure.

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Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Louise Bedsworth is Director of the Land Use Program at the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) where she also serves as a Senior Advisor to the California China Climate Institute. from UC Berkeley School of Law, a Master of Architecture from University of Virginia, and a B.A. Meet the Elemental Policy Lab Fellows.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In 2017, hurricanes, severe storms, and flooding resulted in deaths, disrupted lives, and over $280 billion in damages (NOAA NCEI 2018). are making investments to recover from these damages and prevent them from escalating in the future. Hino M, Field CB, Mach KJ (2017) Managed retreat as a response to natural hazard risk.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

"Over time, these climate-related financial disclosures will support investment decisions aligned with our transition to net zero, and the increased transparency such disclosures provide will influence the behaviours of companies and their stakeholders," they write. — The Investment Association (@InvAssoc) March 24, 2021.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There are a variety of ways to make a property more sustainable such as using green building materials , following a regular maintenance schedule, upgrading to energy-efficient lighting and appliances , and investing in onsite renewable energy systems (e.g. solar photovoltaic, wind, microhydropower and hybrid systems).

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 21, 2020

2019 bankruptcy, brought about by billions of dollars in damages from wildfires caused by its equipment in 2017 and 2018. The proposed decision from CPUC Administrative Law Judge Peter Allen will be up for a vote by the full commission on May 21.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

To meet the targets laid out in the state’s ambitious new climate change law, RMI analysis estimates that New York will have to decarbonize 1,600 commercial buildings and 67,000 residential units per year between now and 2030. New spending on gas infrastructure tripled from 2009 to 2017, rising to $14.9

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

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. As the study also pointed out, however, these firms invested just 1.7 million views.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B Happy Monday! 

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Campaigners said the aviation-related donations looked like “sweeteners” from a sector that has largely escaped regulation over its climate impacts, and suggested the money would have been better invested in efforts to cut the companies’ emissions. Christopher Harborne and the Rigby Group were contacted for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2021

In an August 2017 cease and desist order for KPMG , the SEC summarized the extent of KPMG’s failure to perform a valid audit of Miller Energy: . “[T]he In August 2017, the SEC charged KPMG with “audit failures” in its work with Miller Energy. SEC and Miller Energy. Auditing firms must fully comprehend the industries of their clients.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

We have targets enshrined in law to tackle the climate emergency, but none, yet, to reverse the crisis facing nature. Public funding for the environment dropped nearly 30 per cent from £641m in 2012/2013 to £456m in 2017/2018, according to the report.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2020

Her work has extended from partnering with global brands like IKEA and Tesla to investing software in 1000s of cleantech startups worldwide. Veena has been interviewed in a number of corporate governance publications around governance for sustainability, including in the Cover Story of the 2017 Fall Edition of C Suite Magazine.

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