GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

Cleve Hill is targeting completion in 2022, Giles Redpath, CEO of Hive Energy, said in a statement. has a net-zero target enshrined in law. With a target to be able to run a carbon-free grid by 2025, National Grid ESO is very active in this area. Fast-forward to 2020, however, and the U.K. “The problem with U.K.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. In 2022, Eni reported a profit of $14.12

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

As its 2022 report noted: "Outside the formal climate policy processes, climate litigation is an important arena for various actors to confront and interact over how climate change should be governed.". Law and disorder. In the United States, the lack of clear, overarching climate laws has contributed to some cases.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Here are the 6 big themes I drew from the last year, and 6 things to look out for in 2022]. I’ve tried here to touch on big themes and stories from 2021 that seem more lasting, and offer some thoughts on what to look out for in 2022. A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

This comes as major polluters are increasingly deploying digital tactics to detract from negative headlines about their record profits and decades-long contribution to climate change. In 2022, a Harvard University paper found that a “green innovation” narrative was one of the key social media tactics deployed by fossil fuel companies.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2021

The policy brief, dubbed Brexit Implications for UK Decarbonisation Objectives , concludes the ongoing effort to disentangle UK governance from EU laws and regulations is currently hampering efforts to meet the UK's net zero emission goals.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Other recommendations include urgently delivering clear strategies to deliver new carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen projects, setting clear and ambitious targets in the delayed Environment Bill, laying the groundwork for domestic EV battery manufacturing at scale, and aligning the UK's net zero and nature agendas.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The group joined others in criticizing the Farm to Fork strategy, claiming that the policy would negatively impact farmers’ livelihoods and trade. A spokesperson from Fertilizers Europe said “transition to green and low-carbon production cannot be done overnight and will take more than 5-7 years.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The European Parliament is expected to vote on the law in the next 12 months.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII): Adopted in 2021 through the IMO , these measurements build on prior standards and became mandatory beginning Jan 1, 2023. IMO will assign a CII rating, with A being the best, least carbon-intensive and E being the worst, most carbon-intensive.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In addition, the government last week also unveiled its Retained EU Laws Bill, which campaigners fear could see the Habitats Directive rolled back, while reports indicated ministers were seeking to review Nutrient Neutrality rules that aim to tackle water pollution. In 2022 - surely not.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

British biomass giant Drax is lobbying the Californian government to play host to its first ever “carbon negative” power plant outside of the UK, despite concerns about the sustainability of the energy source. BECCS is a controversial technology that captures carbon dioxide from burning organic matter and buries it underground.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Such investors rely on ESG — environmental, social and governance — scores created by ratings agencies to assess a company’s exposure to financial risks associated with issues from its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, to human rights violations in its supply chain, and executive pay. MSCI ranks all five as ‘ESG Leaders’ for carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In December 2022, when a peer-reviewed study estimated that “ nearly 13 percent of childhood asthma cases in the United States can be linked to having a gas stove in the home,” AGA paid the consulting firm Gradient Corporation to criticize the data. This gas industry influence campaign continues to the present day.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Such investors rely on ESG — environmental, social and governance — scores created by ratings agencies to assess a company’s exposure to financial risks associated with issues from its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, to human rights violations in its supply chain, and executive pay. MSCI ranks all five as ‘ESG Leaders’ for carbon emissions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

As the climate fight rumbles on and nature continues its alarming freefall, the case for burning wood to generate low carbon energy, truncating rivers to generate clean power, and growing monoculture forest plantations to offset emissions is becoming more difficult to stand up. Clearly, England's rivers need all the help they can get.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

A 2022 poll conducted by the Onward think tank for ConservativeHome found that Tory voters strongly support net zero, and that “rowing back on environmental commitments risks alienating voters in key marginal seats that will be targets for other parties”. Credit: Telegraph.co.uk Its author said that the UK climate “remains absolutely benign”.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

acquisition is the largest single carbon-management investment since the passage of the IRA and has implications for the carbon capture, utilization, and storage ecosystem. Regulators miss another deadline on deep-sea mining rules, and the US is digging into the carbon removal benefits of regenerative agriculture.

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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. The European Commission launched its Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulations in November 2022. They cause huge fires.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2015, the NPPC, which claims only 3 percent of pig farmers as members, joined NCBA in lobbying to repeal a law that went into effect in 2013 allowing beef and pork producers to put “Made in the USA” labels on their product. In 2022, the Beef Checkoff granted $8.1 on how beef is sustainably raised today.”

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Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

For example, New York law requires a 60 percent reduction in emissions in just eight years. Meanwhile, at the national level, the Biden administration has set a bold goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Source: Elmallah and Rand, 2022. To meet these aggressive timetables, U.S. Source: Bingaman et al.,

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 14, 2023

Carbon accounting software attracts $50M and cultivated meat collects $35M. In June 2022, EV manufacturer Electric Last Mile Solutions declared bankruptcy just a year after going public through a SPAC deal. The Biden administration awards the first $1B+ for US DAC hubs and researchers replicate a nuclear fusion breakthrough.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

He is author of several landmark studies of the industry going back to 2012, when he wrote a paper on the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis production. That jibes with a recent United Nations finding that the carbon footprint of indoor cannabis cultivation is "16 to 100 times larger" than that of outdoor cultivation.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

in 2022, which is expected to increase. For instance, in 2022, women earned – on average – 82% of what men earned. Hold unconscious bias training to help employees understand how such biases work and how they can negatively affect team members and team interactions. Why is meeting this initiative important?

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38 North Solutions

AUGUST 17, 2022

On August 17, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 into law, the largest investment in the clean energy transition in the history of the U.S. Now, strategically engaging the Administration and Congress during the implementation phase will ensure positive outcomes and prevent negative ones.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Subsequently, two independent reports suggested that the funds would “face high potential risk for economic disruption from the transition to a low carbon global economy” if they continued to invest in fossil fuel. Divestment Movement’s Roots The climate-focused divestment movement has picked up on past activist successes.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2021

And the negative impacts associated with constructing a pipeline across waterways has caught the attention of the EPA. Lapp also said MVP has not provided adequate detail on the water bodies it will cross, and has not demonstrated that it has done everything feasible to avoid negative impacts.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 20, 2024

Figure 1: Comparison of increase in Washington versus Oregon gasoline prices relative to late 2022, using a weekly Monday tracking of AAA data between January 23, 2023 and March 18, 2024. An average of $53 allowance price in 2023, translates to just under 43 cents per gallon based on the carbon intensity of gasoline). [2]

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 18, 2024

Figure 1: Comparison of increase in Washington versus Oregon gasoline prices relative to late 2022, using a weekly reporting of AAA data between January 23, 2023 and March 18, 2024. An average of $53 allowance price in 2023, translates to just under 43 cents per gallon based on the carbon intensity of gasoline). [1]

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 18, 2024

Figure 1: Comparison of increase in Washington versus Oregon gasoline prices relative to late 2022, using a weekly reporting of AAA data between January 23, 2023 and March 11, 2024. An average of $53 allowance price in 2023, translates to just under 43 cents per gallon based on the carbon intensity of gasoline). [1]

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 17, 2024

Figure 1: Comparison of increase in Washington versus Oregon gasoline prices relative to late 2022, using a weekly reporting of AAA data between January 23, 2023 and March 11, 2024. An average of $53 allowance price in 2023, translates to just under 43 cents per gallon based on the carbon intensity of gasoline).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Overall, it was more positives than negatives. Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy. Here are five trends worth noting.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

The largest carbon capture and storage project in the world has been delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19 Summary - Exxon has postponed development of the ‘LaBarge Carbon Capture and Storage’ project in Wyoming due to Covid-19. It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide.

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