Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

Energy Innovation used the California Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) to identify a “Deeper Decarbonization Scenario” and compare it to modeling for the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) 2022 Draft Scoping Plan. . CARB is currently evaluating climate policies for its 2022 update of the Climate Change Scoping Plan.

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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 call follows mounting pressure from industry over the past year.

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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]. None of this equates with actual action to reduce emissions or tackle inequality, but it’s clearly not fringe anymore (which fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil found out when activist investors forced it to take on sustainability-friendly board members).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Europe’s leading farming lobby group Copa-Cogeca has used the war in Ukraine as a pretext to push back behind the scenes against flagship EU laws to protect nature, DeSmog can reveal. Our current food system is dependent on fossil fuels, fertilizers, and pesticides — it’s a very lucrative business model.”. Privileged Access.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Just before the Glasgow COP26 Climate Summit, Boris Johnson announced his "confirmed ambition" to eliminate all new fossil fuel boilers from the marketplace within 14 years. Before you buy or rent any building (residential or commercial), you must by law be given an Energy Performance Certificate. This is not an easy task.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Most famously, the governor of Florida kept battling one of the world’s most beloved brands, Disney, over the company’s position on state laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Some in the investment community even pushed back on anti-ESG laws — partly because, as one analysis concluded, those state laws could cost taxpayers $708 million.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In addition to an emergency package to offer immediate support to consumers, the best way to do this is to rapidly lower the UK's dependence on volatile fossil fuels. — Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) September 5, 2022.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The move - which would form part of the EU's proposed new climate law to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 across the continent - marks a significant jump from the existing 2030 goal to reduce greenhouse gases by 40 per cent, and would need approval by a majority of the 27 EU Member States as well as the European Parliament to come into force.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

📦 Voidless , a Milan, Italy-based on-demand packaging solutions platform, raised $2m in Seed funding from 360 Capital and CDP Venture Capital. 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.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

The first plant to use the technology has begun construction in Teesside, UK, to be operational in 2022 and able to process 80,000 tonnes of plastic waste per year. tonnes of plastic packaging – the second highest per capita in the world.[iv] i] Sites are planned in Germany, the US and Asia. iii] The UK alone produces 2.4m

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. Mattel seeks for all products and packaging to comprise recycled or recyclable materials by 2030, and in June it brought sugarcane-plastic toddler stacking rings to market.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

In addition to fossil fuel-based building blocks like ethylene and propylene, this ubiquitous material is made from a dizzying amalgam of more than 16,000 chemicals — colorants, flame retardants, stabilizers, lubricants, plasticizers, and other substances, many of whose exact functions, structures, and toxicity are poorly understood.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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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. “The Inflation Reduction Act is the infusion of funding we need to push the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

More about hydrogen Dutch data centre saves on diesel with new hydrogen fuel cells Are hydrogen heating solutions an option for decarbonising residential heating in Ireland? 2022 trends to shape global CCUS and green hydrogen markets. due to its high cost, while the remaining 95% is produced using fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

Fossil fuel interests spent millions of dollars in an effort to influence Colorado’s recent legislative session, a DeSmog analysis shows — and environmental advocates say the campaign helped to scuttle a raft of clean air bills. In Colorado, emissions from fossil fuel extraction and processing are a major contributor.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2022, the EU took a significant step towards curbing excessive use of antibiotics by banning farmers from giving the drugs to large groups of healthy animals – seeking to achieve further reductions in the use of antibiotics, which has fallen by 53 percent from 2011 to 2022, according to official data covering 25 European countries.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

— Kwasi Kwarteng (@KwasiKwarteng) July 7, 2022. Sunak was also widely regarded as an opponent of green spending plans during his time at the Treasury, having repeatedly blocked calls for more investment in energy efficiency schemes and stymied proposals for a multi-billion pound post-Covid green stimulus package.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

Those initial waves of investment have enabled plans to build three production plants in the US and UK as the company works to deliver on a landmark order of 10,000 vans for package delivery giant UPS, and start production and trials for its zero emission "smart" bus, which is due to emerge later this year.

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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. Supplier codes of conduct are of special importance if your company sources products and services from countries with lax enforcement laws and policies, and poorer labor and human rights laws.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Today, just weeks after his promotion to the second most powerful job in the country, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the government's Budget for the coming year and beyond, outlining a multi-billion pound package of spending across the green economy, as well as new tax measures covering the energy sector, plastic packaging, and red diesel fuel.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

Those initial waves of investment have enabled plans to build three production plants in the US and UK as the company works to deliver on a landmark order of 10,000 vans for package delivery giant UPS, and start production and trials for its zero emission "smart" bus, which is due to emerge later this year.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. Mattel seeks for all products and packaging to comprise recycled or recyclable materials by 2030, and in June it brought sugarcane-plastic toddler stacking rings to market.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 20, 2022

It’s been about six weeks since the 2022 legislative session came to a close and we now have a clear picture of what passed, what didn’t, and what work there is left to do in our work to change the rules of our state to advance a Just Transition to Climate and Environmental Justice. Front and Centered Core Priorities.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure law was passed , the administration hailed the bill’s $4.7 billion package to cap orphaned oil and gas wells as a move to tackle “super-polluting methane emissions,” saying it will combat the climate crisis and create jobs. Who Writes the Bills That Become Law?

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

The move will be seen as something of a blow to hopes that governments would prioritise green stimulus measures in their coronavirus recovery packages. The subsidies are now set to be extended until 2022, while tax breaks will remain in place for two years. Citi tightens fossil fuel lending policies. warming trajectory.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

And there were new climate laws in the United States and Europe, which breathed new life to climate action in those countries. As I've done for the past decade , I'm offering a recap of some of the stories and trends from the year just ending, culled from the nearly 1,300 stories published on GreenBiz.com during 2022.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

DE ) via Wikimedia Commons Almost as soon as Last Generation began staging protests, in early 2022, Schläffler began describing them as extremists. In recent years, they’ve packaged it in ways that could be turned into anti-protest legislation. ” Frank Schäffler in Germany’s Bundestag, 2020.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The current Haber Bosch process relies on fossil fuels (~ 70% natural gas, 30% coal) and emits 2.4 Emerging technologies can turn nitrous oxides back into nitrogen, but ammonia needs care and attention to stay clean and keep from lengthening the life of existing fossil fuel assets. of global emissions. 

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2022

Climate campaigners were arrested on Thursday after demonstrating outside Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Manhattan office, where they expressed opposition to the fossil fuel-friendly permitting reforms the New York Democrat agreed to bring to the floor to secure Sen. “Sen. ” WHAT’S HAPPENING?

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2021

However, it remains to be seen if other governments gathering in Glasgow are convinced that the package is ambitious enough to put the US on track to meet Biden's medium term emissions targets and can be passed without further dilution. We just now have to go get that done. I think we're making a lot of progress in that regard.".

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Farmers could face higher taxes or the elimination of irrigation subsidies as early as 2022 if they don’t act to reduce their impact. . Amid that soul searching, one of the largest law partnerships in the world, Baker McKenzie, named its first chief sustainability officer, Alyssa Auberger. Alyssa Auberger, CSO, Baker McKenzie.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

If approved by the EU's 27 member states, the coal ban would mark the first coordinated embargo from the bloc to tackle Russia's fossil fuel exports. 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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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Meanwhile, Tesla manufactures four passenger vehicle models and is still being vague about the details on the Cybertruck and has yet to declare any electric Semi deliveries, save a few dozen for PepsiCo beginning in late 2022. In other updates on global climate talks, Russia will oppose a pre-COP 28 agreement to phase out fossil fuels.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

Let’s break down this shift with 10 big themes that emerged or evolved in 2022. 2022 midterms, climate finally emerged as a real voting issue , with 73% of Americans supporting the IRA. The state of Texas moved to bar state contracts with banks that are reducing investments in fossil fuel companies or gun manufacturers.

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