Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

According to Christoph Töpfer, policy and scientific officer for the German Environment Agency, the differences between the two could be divided into two types: where the European version goes further; and where they are trying to say the same thing but use different language or concepts.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

Nearly every UK financial services firm is expected to have a 'green' offering within a year, but cost is still seen as a "critical" barrier, according to research by law firm TLT in partnership with FinTech Futures. This article first appeared at Investment Week.

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Demand Government Law Climate change 59

Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 6, 2023

three climate policy packages since 2021. BIL “the backbone” : The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), aka Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law in November 2021, and is the “backbone,” providing much of the infrastructure these technologies need to scale at speed. Total funding: $1.2T

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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. A total of 18 states are said to back a call for a reassessment of pesticide laws. The lobbyists will continue working behind the scenes. Their agenda?

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Regulatory policy adviser at EFMA Dominik Hatiar added: "In the context of the EU Green Deal and Recovery Plan, we see the proposed CSR Directive as a key enabler for taxonomy-aligned sustainable investments and look forward to the first disclosures becoming available on 1 January 2024.".

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

Under the policy, renewable natural gas is used to reduce emissions from existing natural gas-fueled vehicle fleets such as transit buses, trucks, vans and other multi-passenger vehicles. Oregon and British Columbia have a similar low-carbon fuel standard and Washington state just passed a law creating one.).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In an article for the Guardian , Rees-Mogg insisted he is in favour of an "intelligent" approach to achieving net zero emissions "in which green energy will play the biggest role".

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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

JUNE 10, 2022

Even more important to BlocPower - which specialises in clean energy retrofits - is Local Law 97. Passed in 2019, the law requires existing buildings over 25,000 square feet to start lowering emissions in 2024 and to reach a reduction of 40 percent by 2030 and 80 percent by 2050. This article first appeared at GreenBiz.com.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MAY 14, 2021

In short, an astute and up-to-date environmental plan that takes into account state renewal energy policies is not only a good business practice, but more so, often the difference between a winning and losing competitive cannabis licensing application.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MAY 14, 2021

In short, an astute and up-to-date environmental plan that takes into account state renewal energy policies is not only a good business practice, but more so, often the difference between a winning and losing competitive cannabis licensing application.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 52

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There were “important signals” in the final text, noted University of Cambridge Professor of Climate Change Policy Laura Diaz Anadon, including support for a loss and damage financing fund for developing nations, and this seemed to be the talking point that hogged the headlines. None of that detail was agreed at all.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The transition of oil and gas to deep geothermal is one that requires radical transformation of paradigms, business models, and policies. This is the proposal made by the author of this guest article, Henning von Zanthier. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. Tipping points are expected to occur in the 2030s when the 1.5-degree

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Europe Fossil fuels Climate change Politics 105

Charged

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The provision that’s gotten the most press is a redesign of the federal EV tax credit—that’s only natural, because it’s the policy that’s most likely to directly affect the average consumer, and because politicians love to talk about tax breaks. For example, would batteries produced in the US by a Chinese company fall foul of the law?

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

EPA then worked with the state of California and NHTSA, which sets fuel economy standards—in the mid-1970s, President Ford established the law that NHTSA is using to improve fuel economy, and the basis was not climate change, but energy security. We used our existing laws to set standards that were complementary. Margo Oge: Yes, yes.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The pledge also calls on international banks to include nuclear in energy lending policies to help finance project-killing infrastructure expenditures.   Summa Equity , a Stockholm, Sweden-based impact investor, closed an Article 9 continuation fund for NG Group, a leading Nordic provider of circular solutions and environmental services.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

My biggest article of the year is generally the last one; it’s an attempt to synthesize and summarize big themes in sustainability. Elections matter (a lot), and so does policy. The biggest policy win on climate was the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the U.S. [Happy New Year all!

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Charged

JANUARY 18, 2022

However, government programs are always complex, and they tend to undergo major revisions between the proposal and policy stages. To help us sort out how the new policies are likely to unfold, we turned to Margo Oge, former Director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality and author of the book Driving the Future.

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Transportation Climate change Investment Packaging 116

Andrew Winston

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The big stories of 2023 included the “anti-ESG” movement’s silencing effect on many companies; the explosion of clean tech; new reporting laws that are pressuring companies to measure and do more; and most oddly, the annual global climate meeting held in the United Arab Emirates, a petro-state. So, what will 2024 look like?

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