DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections. million tonnes of greenhouse gases during the same period.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

People around the world are increasingly aware of and impacted by climate change, which is connected unsurprisingly with a parallel uptick in associated mental health stress. But providing supportive services requires a better understanding of climate change’s effects on the mental health of all people. Source: Marazziti et al.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2021

Wed, 06/16/2021 - 01:00. The analysis summarizes human health and environmental impacts associated with over 50 weed killers offered by one or both retailers online and in their stores. Human health. Consumers are increasingly aware of the health risks associated with common products. Caroline Boden. Reputational risk.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 22, 2020

3rd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum. Back by popular demand, join us for the Future of Carbon Policy Forum. We will examine the pivotal role that carbon policy can play in addressing the multiple challenges of economic recovery, public health, transportation, and equity. Register Now. Helen Clarkson. Rajinder Sahota.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

AUGUST 13, 2021

Designed to support city curb policies, increase potential revenue and provide new tools to support zero emissions transportation, Automotus provides real-time curb and street activity data across freight, ride hailing, delivery, passenger vehicles, buses, bikes and pedestrians, while setting up seamless payment for time spent at the curb.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2021

Thu, 01/14/2021 - 01:00. For the last two decades, the European Union has played a leadership role in tackling the risks hazardous chemicals pose to our health and environment. Just as its current policies have inspired imitation, it’s likely that these new policies will drive significant changes in the U.S.

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

She is the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newly updated policy statement on climate change, which appeared earlier this year. The new policy statement’s number one recommendation is that its members “incorporate climate change counseling into clinical practice.” Dr. Ahdoot made good on that vow.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Sustainable marketing works because it promotes the core values that your business and your stakeholders actually value – environmental wellness, human health, resource security, fair trade, social equity, etc. So, in sustainable marketing, like most aspects of life, honesty is the best policy.

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Front And Centered

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The people of Washington state, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color in particular, are facing tremendous challenges as we enter the 2021 legislative session to survive, let alone to thrive. 2021 POLICY PRIORITIES. The post Draft 2021 Legislative Priorities appeared first on Front and Centered.

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Front And Centered

JUNE 11, 2020

Our state is facing a public health and economic crisis at an unprecedented scale. Similarly, many of the solutions needed to recover from the health and economic impacts of COVID-19 will also ease the transition to climate justice. The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health crisis, it’s an environmental justice crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It also urges the leaders at COP26 to agree on a new UN-backed treaty that would exclude fossil fuel companies’ involvement in climate policy making, following the example of the World Health Organisation-backed Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Corporate Capture’.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

Fri, 03/12/2021 - 01:30. The analysis, which looked at more than 3,500 fiscal policies across the world's 50 largest economies, finds that just 2.5 billion to the scheme before moving to introduce a new budget for 2021/22 of just $448 million. The (not so) green recovery: New report warns world is failing to 'build back better'.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

In 2021, the Government and water regulators in England and Wales – Ofwat and the Environment Agency – set out an ambitious programme of reforms driving water companies to give greater attention to innovation, collaboration and communication. Lila Thompson, chief executive at British Water. Five year trends analysis.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Mon, 02/15/2021 - 02:00. Ojiambo said businesses cannot avoid discussing social issues such as the right to employment, health and safety in the workplace because they play a role in shaping access to those rights. . There’s a big gap between aspiration, policy and action," she said. . Angely Mercado. An urgent priority.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The researchers used mandatory annual vehicle inspections – the MOT tests familiar to all in the UK – of all 65 million used vehicles on British roads between 2005 and 2021 to compare the pollution and emissions intensity of vehicles exported to those scrapped, destroyed, or driven in the UK. Exported vehicles were also 3.3

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

"Our current food system is a double edged sword - shaped by decades of the 'cheaper food' paradigm, aimed at producing more food, quickly and cheaply without taking into account the hidden costs to biodiversity and its life-supporting services - and to our own health," argues Susan Gardner, director of UNEP's ecosystems division.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Evidence shows these policies are working; as of August 2021, 95% of heavy-duty vehicles operating in London are compliant with more stringent LEZ standards introduced in March 2021. The emissions from vehicles on London streets have been the target for policy actions to reduce their impacts on air quality and health.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

The government has been accused by the forestry industry of a "total policy failure" on tree planting, in the wake of fresh figures which show it is less than halfway to hitting an annual tree planting target it established more than two years ago. This is a total policy failure in both economic and environmental terms," Goodall said.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

AUGUST 13, 2021

Designed to support city curb policies, increase potential revenue and provide new tools to support zero emissions transportation, Automotus provides real-time curb and street activity data across freight, ride hailing, delivery, passenger vehicles, buses, bikes and pedestrians, while setting up seamless payment for time spent at the curb.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The research underscores a trend that scholars have warned of for decades: climate change presents new and intensified challenges for human health. Experts are urging decision-makers headed to COP27 to center human health in this year’s discussions about climate change mitigation and adaptation. a) and RCP8.5 (b).” As Kristie L.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

In our work deploying first-of-their-kind projects with climate tech entrepreneurs, we hear again and again that policy barriers present constant challenges, regardless of the industry in which they operate. It’s clear that we need to accelerate climate policy innovation with the same urgency and equity lens that we devote to tech innovation.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We also witnessed the emergence of EOS technologies to provide real-time water quality, ecosystem health and flood prediction analytics from satellite data acquisition and analytics companies (such as Gybe , 52 Impact and Cloud to Street ). This past year has framed my view of what the future may hold for 2021 as we build back better.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The project will be led by air quality and public health consultants Enjoy the Air, in partnership with the Sandwell Council, to examine the link between air pollution, behaviour and the cost of air pollution-related healthcare in the Sandwell area. Citizen health and wellbeing are vital to the UK’s New Economy and future prosperity.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Many economic sectors had slowed down or shuttered entirely due to lowered demand and health measures. While the global economic slowdown reduced major drivers of climate change around the world, the true picture of the pandemic’s effect on our planet’s resources and ecological health is somewhat more nuanced. Source:Rume, T.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Investing in the ground beneath our feet could have wide-ranging benefits for the environment, animal and human health – as well as moving closer to Net Zero, according to new research. Governments, however, need to quickly implement ‘regenerative agriculture’ policies to incentivise farmers to take up the challenge, the researchers argue.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Tue, 02/23/2021 - 00:05. During the session, Cecily Joseph, adviser for the Presidio Graduate School Initiative for Equity and Social Justice, highlighted the three major components of sustainability in business today — racial equity, climate change, and health and wellness. Myisha Majumder. during COVID-19 and nearly one-third of U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

The calculation is based on new INRIX data which shows that the average London driver spent 148 hours stuck in traffic during 2021. Public transport, usage was close to pre-pandemic levels for much of the latter half of 2021, according to data from a range of sources, but car use has remained stubbornly high.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

In April, daily emissions fell by as much as 17 percent , and total 2020 emissions may be 7-11 percent lower than 2019 (as projected by the Energy Policy Simulator , and a new opinion piece in Nature by Hanna et al., Figure 2 Mean survey results of recovery policy archetypes (2008-2020) aggregated using relativity-adjusted scores.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

COVID-19, says the group, is at least the sixth global health pandemic since the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918, and although it is believed to have its origins in microbes carried by animals, like all pandemics its emergence has been entirely driven by human activities, says the report released on 29 October.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

These comments, originally made by Moore and echoed by Birtles, have “absolutely no basis in fact”, according to Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. GB News was approached for comment.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Wed, 03/31/2021 - 01:00. Recent analysis using Energy Innovation’s Energy Policy Simulator showed electrification could reduce industrial emissions while growing the economy and creating jobs, and we look forward to exploring viable pathways to industrial electrification at the upcoming VERGE Electrify event. Ali Hasanbeigi.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

The 2021 Land-based Wind Market Report , prepared by the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, found that wind increased its share of the U.S. Wind Energy Capital Expenditures 2021 Land-based Wind Market Report. Considering the health and climate benefits of wind energy makes the economics even better.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Now, using wastewater from the days near the 2021 New Year holiday, researchers in the American Chemicals Society’s Environmental Science & Technology Letters have reported an increased international usage of some synthetic drugs, including eutylone and 3-methylmethcathinone (3-MMC) compared to the previous year.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“It is critical to know when, where and how much methane is emitted from each of its sources in order to prioritize emission reductions,” said Denise Mauzerall , a co-author and core faculty member of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Driving through Douglas County Nevada on 16 July 2021, as smoke from the Tamarack fire in nearby Alpine County becomes visible on the horizon (image credit: loren chipman , CC BY-NC 2.0 The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. The impact is playing out in real time as we watch villages flood and forests burn.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

The World Biogas Summit 2021 will focus on how, in the build up to COP26, anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas can help reduce global methane and other greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. The event takes place on 6 – 8 July. There are cost-effective solutions that can be implemented immediately, and the benefits far outweigh the costs.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The setting of new legal targets is a key part of the Environment Act 2021. The planned targets were intended to drive progress in areas such as river quality by encouraging stronger government policy and providing certainty for business. There were 372,533 sewage discharges in 2021 , polluting our waterways for 2,667,452 hours.

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