DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2021

The case dates back to February 2019, when Grande-Synthe, a suburb of Dunkirk in northern France, alongside Oxfam, Greenpeace and the climate campaign group Notre Affaire à Tous, began legal action against the government for not meeting its national, European and international climate commitments.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 24, 2021

This week Connecticut Governor Lamont signed a new law that will require the state to install 1 GW of energy storage by 2030 with milestone requirements every three years: 300 MW by 2024, 600 MW by 2027 and 1 GW by 2030.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” By respecting communities’ ability to thrive in place, and relationships to place, we can reduce pollution and build resilience.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2021

Top law firms come together to explore how lawyers can best support an accelerated transition to net zero emissions. Some of the world's leading law firms have today joined forces to launch a major new initiative designed to boost the ability of the legal profession to support the global net zero transition.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2020

CESA and Stem had originally asked for another $150 million to be drawn from the $613 million “equity-resiliency” budget, which is restricted to a narrowly defined class of customers most threatened by fire-prevention outages. California Sen.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

They used pollution concentrations well below maximum average levels – equating to 40-50% of the limits currently defined by US law as safe for the environment. This pales in comparison with the far higher levels of pollution that occur around the world due to breaches of regulations.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law. Murphy's campaign platform, and the law, included something quite radical at the time: the goal of 600 megawatts of energy storage by 2021 and 2,000 megawatts by 2030. Distribution utility PSE&G serves 2.2

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2023

Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) is testing the use of batteries to provide resiliency in part of its grid that are more constrained. New energy storage project will enhance reliability and help BGE avoid undergrounding upgrades to 10 miles of distribution equipment.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Cities and counties often are required by state law to buy electricity from a regulated investor-owned utility (IOU) and lack the ability to choose their electricity supplier or generation source. Here are four ways local governments are engaging with stakeholders to decarbonize their electricity supply: 1.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

UNEP warns opportunity to use Covid recovery packages to bolster climate resilience is being squandered. The report also highlighted how only a tiny fraction of the $16.7tr of investment mobilised as part of covid stimulus packages had been channelled towards climate resilience projects, despite the significant benefits such work can deliver.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

New renewables projects continued to fuel growth at NextEra Energy in the third quarter of 2019. So far in 2019, more than half of the solar projects added will be paired with storage “as customers are increasingly interested in a near-firm low-cost renewable product," CFO Rebecca Kujawa said. That capacity is up from 11.7

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Under the Act, passed in 2019, most buildings over 25,000 square feet—roughly 50,000 residential and commercial properties across the city—must meet new energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions by 2024, and stricter limits in 2030. This was the first foray for many building owners to understand how much energy they use.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

Dawn Rittenhouse was director of sustainable development for DuPont from 1998 until 2019. The rest will follow : We were in the law library at Dell, watching the horror of the World Trade Center exploding with a plane. Rather, we needed to focus on listening, empathy and building personal, community and business resilience.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

There is also a recognition that present-day delay in action would put the responsibility on the future generations, who will face greater vulnerability and exposure due to reduction in the climate-resilient pathways that we still have a chance to avail (IPCC “climate change report”, 33). PHIL, vol 4, 2012, [link] Accessed 2 June 2019.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 28, 2021

For the first time in nearly a decade, annual installations of energy storage systems fell year-over-year in 2019. This also helped drive the impressive resilience of grid-scale batteries, especially in the United States and China – which installed over 1 GW – followed by Korea and Europe. As previously highlighted, in the U.S.,

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

The study shows Carbon emissions fell by around seven per cent last year compared to 2019 as a result of worldwide lockdown measures and a huge decline in industrial activity and energy demand, amounting to a cut of around 2.6 billion tonnes of CO2.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Defra's decision to delay passage of nature targets into law sparks fierce criticism from campaigners. I was part of the ministerial team that created the 25 Year Environment Plan and prepared the Environment Bill presented to Parliament in 2019," Coffey said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The legislation includes: The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which will spend roughly $370bn on decarbonisation and climate resilience over the next 10 years and is projected to get the US two-thirds of the way to its emissions goals by 2030. That's more money for climate action than all of the renewable-energy tax credits from 2005 to 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Eleven targets are enshrined in law, covering 12 per cent of global emissions. However, CO2 and non-CO2 emissions in 2021 are expected to rise again to a level only slightly lower than the record high in 2019. Gaps in finance are likely to exacerbate gaps in vulnerable nations on climate resilience and mitigation measures.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

The government went one step further and in April, set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law: to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. Launched in March this year, the drive to decarbonise industry forms a major part of the UK’s journey to 2050 net zero.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The UK can become the preeminent provider and organiser of capital and financial services to support this global transformation towards global sustainability and resilience. A refreshed Green Finance Strategy is due later this year building on the important 2019 and 2021 reports. Principles-based regulation and common law approaches.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 15, 2024

The Regulated Entities shall build up internal governance system, identify and assess risks and opportunities, evaluate the climate resilience, and disclose relevant information. The authors would like to thank Yuxuan Chen for her contribution to this blog post. [1]

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Reports have suggested the Chancellor Rishi Sunak is looking to spur a "green industrial revolution" in the wake of Covid-19, while the Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said the world must "move towards a greener, cleaner, and more resilient future" after the pandemic.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

As of August 2019, SGIP has funded 8,999 completed projects representing more than 820 megawatts of rated capacity, with an additional 4,772 projects representing more than 260 megawatts of rated capacity in process. What's new. Our most recent action regarding the program adopts several significant changes.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Nick Molho, executive director of the Aldersgate Group, named energy efficiency, ramping up renewables, and making the UK more resilient to climate change as top green business policy priorities for Truss's Prime Ministership, as he insisted net zero would be key to economic growth.

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CleanTech Alliance

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Source: CleanTech Law Partners, August 25, 2019. An incentive carve-out for high-fire-risk areas could boost uptake among customers most likely to want solar-storage systems.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 3, 2019

Climate Action Planning Creating Low Carbon Resilient Communities, an adaptation blueprint for communities, will take place on August 7, 2019 1:15 to 2:45 PM EDT. Seale is Associate Principal, Climate Action and Resiliency Services, based in California. This is an Island Press Webinar Series. Meet the Panelists Tammy L.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And sustainable farms tend to be more resilient to extreme weather events, like droughts and floods. The demand for sustainable agriculture could be on the rise especially because consumer purchases of plant-based food has increased 60% from 2019 to 2021. And in some cases, sustainable agriculture is even being mandated by law.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. In 2019, the BBC reported that it had only 10 years left.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

in 2018 and 2019. There are a number of bills that were passed by the Colorado legislature in 2021 and signed into law by the Governor that will turn money and initiative towards the development of the industry’s workforce. This transition will require a well-trained, clean energy workforce.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Bobuchi Ken-Opurum, of the Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture-Engineering-Construction Management program at Carnegie Mellon University, won the 2020 Business Case Award for her work with the New York City Mayor’s Office of Resiliency. 2019 – Ed Carley. Nathalie Simoes – 2020 winner of the Innovation Award.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

She was addressing the adult members of the 2019 U.N. Leslie Davenport, psychotherapist and author of Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change, advises making time for difficult emotions and “not just rushing to find the ‘happy’ feelings.” Climate Change Summit, her voice shaking with anger.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

o C, according to the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP)Emission Gap Report 2019. It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies. and continue to fall by 7.6% appeared first on Econaur.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 19, 2019

Moreover, thanks to planned solar projects and new state laws encouraging clean energy development, the industry is poised to grow even further. That’s the thrust of the Oregon and Washington Solar Workforce Diversity Report 2019 , released earlier this summer by the Solar Foundation. Why is a diverse solar workforce important?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The body also welcomed the passing of the UK's 2050 net zero target into law last year, as well as the government's plans to build 40GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and bring forward its proposed fossil fuel car phase out to 2035 at the latest. But since commissioning the cable has been fraught with issues.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

How else to explain the environmentally and economically damaging Retained EU Law Bill or the decision to add to the world's surfeit of coal by opening a new mine in Cumbria? As he told Green Alliance in 2019: "The evidence is there in accumulating examples, with force that nobody can deny, and in a way that requires us to take action.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

All nations are requested to show their commitment by promulgating law and policy that promote investments in preserving the climate. In the meantime, a major investment partner of the global economy, the US government, withdrew from the Paris Agreement in 2019.

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