DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Due to the environmental harms associated with the use of these agrochemicals, the EU has made limiting their use a key plank among the measures included in its “Green Deal” — a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets.

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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. This is the largest climate funding package Congress has ever passed. Funding the use of low-carbon materials in the built environment and in public infrastructure projects.

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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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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Pressure increases on President Moon Jae-In to put 2050 net zero target in law and raise country's Paris climate ambitions. In July, however, President Moon announced a near-$70bn green and digital technology investment package as part of its Covid-19 recovery plans aimed at creating 660,000 new jobs by 2025.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico's new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs. Myisha Majumder.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says. Most recently, Barudin led a tribal task force with the nonprofit group Vote Solar to support New Mexico’s new law enabling tribes and pueblos to access community solar programs.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . percent of its GDP.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The long-awaited document contained few surprises, but the plans did put President Xi Jinping's pledge to deliver a 'carbon neutral' economy by 2060 on a formal footing. It reflects Beijing's mistrust of the US ability to fulfill its carbon and finance targets. Biden administration hails latest US climate infrastructure plans.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Roy Cooper on Wednesday signed into law a bipartisan mandate that will require the state to reduce carbon emissions by 70% by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050. The Carbon Plan" will then be reviewed every two years and may be adjusted. The bill took effect on the day it was signed into law -- Oct.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

based insurer to achieve carbon neutrality in 2016. . When he offered her a job leading the company’s global sustainable packaging initiative, she jumped at it. One current focus: The organization is seeking ways to scale collective impact to redefine food packaging. Jesse Klein. Jennifer Ballen, 28 . Meg Wilcox.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Research from WWF, for example, has found 46 per cent of the UK's carbon footprint is generated overseas by goods produced to satisfy UK consumption. The four packages of sanctions have hit hard and limited the Kremlin's political and economic options. We are seeing tangible results.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It’s a necessary component to carbon neutrality by 2050. We want those carbon-free electrons’. But the wind farm is in the PJM regional transmission organization and likely to serve neighboring Virginia — which last year passed a law requiring 5.2 gigawatts of offshore wind and all electricity to be carbon-free by 2045.

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