Smart Energy International

JULY 26, 2022

ABeam Consulting reports that the business environment for electricity retailers in Japan is changing dramatically due to the need to introduce renewable energy in order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 as well as the rising cost of procuring electricity in response to soaring fossil fuel prices globally. Have you read?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a letter addressed to ING CEO Steven van Rijswijk and the first step in litigation, Milieudefensie says it believes the bank is in breach of its “duty of care” obligation under Dutch law. By ING’s own measure, it is responsible for 61 megatonnes of financed emissions in 2022. billion to the sector. LNG may be even higher.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update for public review and comment. Our first post on this topic discusses CARB’s ultimate selection of the third scenario, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045 instead of 2035, as the best among the four.

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T Rex Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

lawmakers recognized the difficulty of this balancing act for clean energy and in August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law. This bill will extend those clean energy tax credits to projects that begin construction between January 1, 2022, and January 1, 2025.

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T Rex Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

lawmakers recognized the difficulty of this balancing act for clean energy and in August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law. This bill will extend those clean energy tax credits to projects that begin construction between January 1, 2022, and January 1, 2025.

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Front And Centered

JUNE 7, 2023

Yesterday, the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) ordered Puget Sound Energy (PSE) to make changes that comply with a 2019 state law charting an equitable and carbon-free energy future for Washington. The UTC approved Avista’s CEIP in June 2022. Pacific Power’s CEIP is still under review.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

These definitions, coupled with new anti-greenwashing laws , are meant to help suss out bad actors. Environment Program's Emissions Gap Report 2022. "We While companies should be trying to phase out carbon to achieve these net-zero commitments, Sick noted that life doesn't work without carbon.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan) for public review and comment. Latham & Watkins’ first post in this series discusses CARB’s Proposed Scenario to achieve the state’s GHG targets, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Fee levels are still being considered as the Authority engages with ship owners about how the new system would work in practice, but charges are likely to incorporate several factors such as operational efficiency of ships and the use of zero carbon or carbon neutral fuels. Greece climate law aims to ditch lignite coal by 2028.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The campaigning organisations claim that BNP Paribas - Europe's biggest bank and a major global investor in fossil fuels - has failed to comply with France's duty of vigilance law, which demands large companies take appropriate measures to protect human rights and the environment across their value chains. compared to the pre-industrial era".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But now Europe is poised to enact laws that would not only recognise the harms of chemical-intensive agriculture, but also to ensure that synthetic pesticide and fertiliser use is significantly reduced. Industry has lobbied hard to ensure these targets don’t become law.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan) for public review and comment. Our first post in this series discusses CARB’s Proposed Scenario to achieve the state’s GHG targets, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045. By Joshua T.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 18, 2022

18, 2022 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, today announced the addition of four new members to its board of directors, Gilda A. from Lewis and Clark Law School, where she was a member of the Law Review, and a B.A. Somerville, Mass., Thakar holds a J.D.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Likewise, European campaigners fear that the continent’s scramble to replace Russian pipeline gas with imported LNG will undermine a European Union target to slash carbon emissions 55 percent from 1990 levels by 2030, and lock countries such as Germany and Poland into dependence on imported fossil fuels for decades. “As

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

The findings come at a time of increased scrutiny of failings in EU transparency laws, following allegations in December that MEPs had been bribed by Qatar, Mauritania, and Morocco. The group has claimed that EU plans to become carbon neutral by 2050 would have disastrous economic consequences.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

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. percent of their annual capital expenditures in low carbon technologies between 2010 and 2018. The claim of ‘carbon neutral’ engine oil is ludicrous,” said Professor Trencher.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. The oil-heavy delegations raise questions about the government’s intentions in Glasgow.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2022

The streaming company responsible for the blockbuster climate movie “Don’t Look Up” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence plans to slash or offset all of its corporate greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2022, a goal known as net-zero. The Macdonald Laurier Institute is a relatively new think tank.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Climate Act requires that the scoping plan “inform the state energy planning board’s adoption of a state energy plan,” and the State’s energy law requires that all state entities must make “any energy-related action[s] or decision[s] … reasonably consistent with the. The Council must then issue its final Scoping Plan by the end of 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

In January 2021, representatives from the clean energy sector sent a joint letter welcoming the criteria recommended by the TEG and stating that “the inclusion of power generation with a carbon intensity above this limit would not only deviate from science, but would also harm the EU’s decarbonisation trajectory and its 2050 net-zero objectives.”.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

It paves the way for a new Taxonomy Regulation which, due to come into force from 2022, will set out the framework and environmental objectives for the Taxonomy, while also establishing new legal obligations for financial firms, large companies, the EU and its member states.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A spokesperson for Cefic said the group supported the European Green Deal and that the European chemical industry was “uniquely positioned at the heart of European manufacturing to contribute to realizing a climate neutral society.” Currently, Sumitomo’s weedkiller is used in vineyards and orchards in over 15 European Member States.

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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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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to the Rainforest Action Network , banks provided $669bn of finance to O&G projects in 2022, of which Barclays was responsible for $16.5bn, the most of any UK bank. The EU announced its goals to cut emissions by 90% by 2040 as a stepping stone to its carbon neutrality goal in 2050.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

Our energy systems will be increasingly decarbonized and distributed, with variable and firm low-carbon energy sources gaining increasing market share. But agriculture can also be a carbon sink, where carbon is stored (sequestered) in both crops and soil. ” * * *. CIRCULAR ECONOMY. California goals.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

Now is the time for the fashion industry to take a fresh look at what they're telling customers and make any changes needed to comply with the law," she said. More broadly, it will be scrutinising any vague, unsubstantiated claims and assertions around 'carbon neutrality', she said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Enshrining goal to plant 30,000 trees each year by 2025 in law could help catalyse wider action on woodland, petition argues. That's why we've launched a petition to call on the UK government to set a tree planting target in law, and act now to deliver on the urgent need to tackle the climate crisis.".

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This arresting visual captures the sentiments of opponents of a plan to develop the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project under the lake. billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

One key goal is for Costa Rica to be recognised as a leader in establishing a carbon-neutral future. The Costa Rican government launched its first National Adaptation Plan (NAP) in 2022. Reducing deforestation also serves to lower the country’s carbon footprint , mitigating climate change. million per year.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

Not to mention President Biden also signed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 , putting about $67 billion toward zero-carbon industries and climate research. Drought response investments that can help advance technologies that can replenish water without generating carbon emissions. airports can accommodate electrified aviation.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature. The industry claims that forests that are felled sustainably — for construction, say, or for burning to produce electricity in utility-scale power plants — can provide jobs and energy, stimulate the economy, and even reduce society’s net carbon emissions.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Australia's biggest polluters to face binding 2030 carbon targets. The proposed law would impact 215 of Australia's biggest polluters, which are currently responsible for 28 per cent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. million in 2022. EU wind installations up by a third in 2022.

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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. County officials worked directly with the developer to obtain information, and no neutral intermediaries were involved.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This week, the California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposed decision meant to boost action on these fronts, including earmarking up to $350 million for utility “clean substation microgrid” proposals in the 2021-2022 timeframe. Image credit: Enchanted Rock). Microgrid regulations and revenues: a work in progress.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

Meanwhile, the English and Welsh teams were among a handful of 2022 Qatar World Cup competitors forced to withdraw plans to wear armbands in support of the LGBTQ+ community in protest of the host nation's discriminatory laws. The pressure on football is only going to mount. Progress is slow, but things are changing.

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