DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2023

The First Nations LNG Alliance has been funded for years by the B.C. government, according to documents newly reviewed by DeSmog, despite provincial leaders repeatedly claiming to have one of the world’s most ambitious climate plans. The First Nations LNG Alliance has been funded for years by the B.C. Source: B.C.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

In 2015, the Conservative government blocked both onshore wind and solar from accessing the CFD program, the U.K.'s Once the preceding renewable obligation scheme closed to large-scale solar in 2015 and wind the year after, all available backing for the technologies ended. built 4 gigawatts of solar in 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2024

conservative magazine National Review. A year earlier, in 2017, Matthews encouraged his Twitter followers to watch a video from former UKIP London Assembly Member David Kurten entitled “Why Islamophobia is a silly made up word”. percent of the vote in the 2015 general election. Britain Has Persecuted Him”.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2020

The renewable energy division did not give GE CEO Larry Culp much help last year as he looks to turn around the struggling American industrial giant. All of GE’s other industrial segments turned a profit last year, including the long-struggling Power division. GE Renewable Energy’s revenues rose 7 percent last year to $15.3

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Scientists have recently confirmed that 2023 was the hottest year on record, driven by human-caused climate change and the El Niño weather event, where warmer surface waters in the East Pacific Ocean release additional heat into the atmosphere. Steve has never discussed environmental policy with him.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Abbott, who was originally appointed to the Board of Trade in September 2020, is one of only four advisers reappointed by Badenoch, who has relaunched the board to focus on exports following her appointment as business and trade secretary earlier this year. The GWPF has gained a number of high profile directors over the last year.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2018, two years after announcing the financing deal, UKPF revealed it had become a supplier to KFC in Kazakhstan. as clients.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The metrics reviewed here use the finalized data from the Power Plant Operations Report for 2019 — the most recent year for which a full set of storage data is available. In recent years, utility-scale battery capacity has grown rapidly as costs have decreased. Pumped-storage hydroelectric facilities in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 22, 2020

while Spain’s bumper year of installations in 2019 is going through its first springtime boost. while Spain’s bumper year of installations in 2019 is going through its first springtime boost. gigawatts, set in May last year. This time around, the effect is more pronounced. The previous record was 9.55

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is considering whether to call in for review Cumbria Council's controversial approval for new coal mine. The mine had been approved more than a year earlier, but development was delayed after the High Court granted permission to a local campaign group to pursue a judicial review.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

The review process requires businesses to set ambitious targets for their direct Scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as indirect emissions produced through their value chains, which are known as Scope 3 emissions. Since its launch in 2015, SBTi has grown to cover nearly 20 per cent of the global economy. The organisation says that 1.5C-aligned

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

At present, Climate TRACE said it was likely that over one billion additional tonnes CO2 per year - more than the annual emissions of the 100 lowest-ranking emitting countries combined - may have gone uncounted by countries that are not required to report their oil and gas emissions regularly.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Getting ISO’ed is a big deal, and I’m proud to have helped lead the charge at Nextracker to achieve certification for ISO 9001:2015. Our ISO 9001:2015 accreditation is confirmation of our demonstrated and ongoing commitment to reliability, quality assurance, the environment, and safety. Nextracker engineering team in ISO 9001 meeting.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2021

Last year, it committed to selling its multimillion-pound investments in oil and gas companies, after years of student campaigning, and more recently it launched an ambitious Sustainability Strategy. The ICT generally provided the bare minimum of information, and more was only obtained after we requested internal reviews.

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Fairsnape

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Sharing this FutuREstorative review from the Urban Design Group. Much has changed since the idea for FutureRestorative was conceived back in 2015. What have we achieved in 6 years? This book aims to provoke a new way of thinking among those involved in design and development. This book marks an important milestone in doing that.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

At present, Climate TRACE said it was likely that over one billion additional tonnes CO2 per year — more than the annual emissions of the 100 lowest-ranking emitting countries combined — may have gone uncounted by countries that aren't required to report their oil and gas emissions regularly.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 16, 2021

Solar Market Insight 2020 Year-in-Review report, released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie. For the second year in a row, solar led all technologies in new electric-generating capacity added, accounting for 43%. According to Wood Mackenzie’s 10-year forecast, the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO.

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Grist

APRIL 29, 2022

That’s according to the latest edition of The World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Review , which found that millions of trees were removed in 2021, potentially putting global climate goals at risk. “We’re Last year, the world lost an estimated 3.75 It may be Arbor Day, but it’s generally a tough time to be a tree lover.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 21, 2024

Now, nearly two years later, the final rules have been the focus of a number of legal challenges in the first days since adoption. [2] Now, nearly two years later, the final rules have been the focus of a number of legal challenges in the first days since adoption. [2] Davies , Sarah E. Fortt , and Betty M.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2021

Lead Researcher Sean Buchan told DeSmog: “This year sees the most important UN climate summit since the Paris Agreement in 2015. Last year, DeSmog revealed a Facebook page called Eco Central, linked to a number of pro-Brexit Conservative MPs, had been running paid adverts claiming climate change was a “hoax”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Javid's resignations makes him the shortest serving Chancellor in half a century, having led the Treasury for less than seven months since Boris Johnson first became Prime Minister last year. However, the Treasury could also anger environmentalists at the upcoming Budget with its plans to review Air Passenger Duty.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

When Science-based Targets (SBTs) first emerged in 2015, I must admit I was slightly cynical. Various reviews found that many companies weren’t making explicit how much of a Net Zero target would be met by direct carbon reductions and how much by offsetting. 43% (or whatever) never felt like a hill to die on.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

The recognition comes after Ricoh reviewed its Group Environmental Goals under its 20th Mid-Term Management Plan, which formally kicks off next month. Through this revision, the company would reach its 30 per cent reduction in 2022, eight years earlier than originally planned," Ricoh said.

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Grist

MARCH 4, 2021

A new report shows how differently people talk about climate change from how they did 10 years ago. Climate change began to outpace global warming around 2015 , and the newly popular climate crisis might someday catch up if current trends continue. Big news: Global warming is over. Just the phrase itself, though.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2021

Since 2015, increasing electricity demand has outpaced growth in clean electricity output and driven a net increase in fossil fuel generation and related emissions, they warn - a trend that may regain traction as the global economy re-opens in the wake of the pandemic. However, despite huge economic disruption demand still fell by just 0.1

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Charged

JULY 3, 2020

In 2015, French conglomerate the Bolloré Group opened an all-EV car-sharing service called BlueIndy in Indianapolis. The company said 11,000 members took 180,000 rides over the course of four years. BlueIndy users reached by the local news outlet IndyStar gave the service mixed reviews.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Grand Prix” awards went to Grey, which has worked for BP and Indian Oil in the last two years, and EssenceMediacom, which has represented Shell since at least 1995, according to Clean Creatives. Those agencies included M&C Saatchi, Wunderman Thompson (now part of VML ), Iris Worldwide, and the media group Dentsu. Credit: Sam Whitham.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2020

NatWest Group have made large reductions in its own operational carbon footprint and have reduced emissions by 61 per cent between 2015 and 2019. Reduce our energy consumption 40 per cent by 2025 against its 2015 baseline ( EP100 ). The 2020 year in review. The 2020 year in review.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The northeast Atlantic mackerel population has been declining since 2015, which is concerning," warned Charlotte Coombes, Good Fish Guide manager at MCS. Elsewhere in the latest Food Fish Guide, which reviewed 186 species, European eel and Celtic cod have remained on the red-rated ‘Fish to Avoid' list.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

A proposed coal mine project in Cumbria that was controversially greenlit by the government last year is set to undergo further scrunity, after the County Council revealed it would no longer rely on a previous decision made in support of the project. million tonnes of metallurgical coal annually for 50 years.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

While this year’s hefty Rocky Mountain snowpack helped alleviate the impacts of the last 23 years of drought, one good snow year isn’t enough to bail the Colorado River out of long-term drought. Image credit: Solar AquaGrid In arid river basins around the globe, substantial water supply is lost through evaporation.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A University of Victoria economics professor who has spent years questioning whether global warming is “a real thing” is doing research supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the Canadian government. Van Kooten has spent years denying that human activities are warming the planet.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Since 2015, Google’s Sunnyvale campus has hosted the event and served as the Marquee Sponsor. Please review videos from past years to get a sense of topics people cover. At WCS Talks, both women and men from a variety of sectors share their perspectives and challenge our assumptions. Get Notified When Tickets Go On Sale.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Hinkley Point C has a 35-year contract for difference (CFD) with the U.K. A review of that 2012 deal by the national spending watchdog called it “high-cost and risky.” in recent years. In 2015, a budget forecast handed over to EU officials put the IRR at 11.4 after costs soared by as much as £2.9

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

Government department publishes sobering assessment of lack progress to date against objectives of 25 Year Environment Plan. per cent between 2015/2016 and 2020/2021, and raw material consumption rose by 10.3 per cent between 2015/2016 and 2020/2021, and raw material consumption rose by 10.3 per cent between 2011 and 2016.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

A rich body of research examines the psychologies of how individuals and communities perceive and respond to climate change information, but peer-reviewed publications about the impacts of climate change on mental health are just emerging. Timescale is another key variable in making causal attributions.

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